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A compact collection of short lyric and narrative poems in a range of traditional forms—ballads, rondeaux, triolets, quatrains, odes, and roundels—blending satire, humor, and reflection. Many pieces evoke seafaring and martial scenes, while others focus on city life, love, faith, and social manners. The volume alternates formal experiments and light imitations with original verse, using narrative sketches, ironic commentary, and playful rhyme to probe human folly, courage, and everyday observation.
Most of the verses that follow have been printed before and the author wishes to acknowledge his thanks for permission to reproduce them, to the editors and publishers of The Bookman, Life, The New England Magazine, The National Magazine and the Baltimore Morning Herald. Some are imitations—necessarily weak—of the verse of several men in whose writings he has found a good deal of innocent pleasure. The others, he fears, are more or less original.