The Ladies' Pageant Author:E. V. Lucas THE LADIES' PAGEANT "IN THE BEGINNING-" IN the beginning, when Twashtri came to the creation of woman, he found that he had exhausted his materials in the making of man, and that no solid elements were left. In this dilemma, after profound meditation, he did as follows. He took the rotundity of the moon, and the curves of creepers, and the cling... more »ing of tendrils, and the trembling of grass, and the slenderness of the reed, and the bloom of flowers, and the lightness of leaves, and the tapering of the elephant's trunk, and the glances of deer, and the clustering rows of bees, and the joyous gaiety of sunbeams, and the weeping of clouds, and the fickleness of the winds, and the timidity of the hare, and the vanity of the peacock, and the softness of the parrot's bosom, and the hardness of adamant, and the sweetness of honey, and the cruelty of the tiger, and the warm glow of fire, and the coldness of snow, and the chattering of jays, and the cooing of the kdkila, and the hypocrisy
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; FAGE; "In the Beginning-" F W Bain i; I THE BUDS; Erotion Leigh Hunt 3; The World's Lily Lord Tennyson 3; Louisa W Wordsworth 4; Little Princess Anne Thomas Fuller 4; Little Miss Pope ? 5; Mistress Margaret Hussey John Skelton 6; Mistress Charlotte Pulteney Ambrose Philips 7; Mistress Mary Prideaux William Strode 8 A Young Lady Five Months; Old Wintkrop M Praed 9; Neighbour Nelly Robert B, Brough 11; Marjorie Fleming , Dr John Brown 12; II VIRGINAL; Ianthe W S Landor 17; Lucy John Rusktn 17; A Phantom of Delight W Wordsworth 19; The Maiden of the Lakes Hartley Coleridge 20; Marian George Meredith 20; v; Table of Contents; III THE POETS AND THE IDEAL; page; The Lady of the Sonnets W Shakespeare 22; Ben's Ideal Ben Jonson 23; William Habington ? 23; Campion's Lady Thomas Campion ? 25; "My Dear Mistress"« less