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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Victorian Songs + Lyrics of the Affections and Nature + +Author: Various + +Commentator: Edmund Gosse + +Editor: Edmund H. Garrett + +Illustrator: Edmund H. Garrett + +Release Date: September 28, 2008 [EBook #26715] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VICTORIAN SONGS *** + + + + +Produced by Louise Hope, David Starner and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This +file includes images generously made available by The +Internet Archive.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class = "mynote"> +<p><a name = "start" id = "start">This text</a> uses UTF-8 (unicode) +file encoding. If the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph +appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable +fonts. First, make sure that your browser’s “character set” or “file +encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the +default font.</p> + +<p>All Plates except the Frontispiece were originally printed on +right-hand pages. Some have been shifted slightly to fall between poems. +The List of Illustrations shows their original location (facing page). +Spacing of contractions such as <b>I ’ve</b> follows the original.</p> + +<p class = "center"> +<a href = "#contents">Contents</a><br> +<a href = "#first_lines">Index of First Lines</a><br> +<a href = "#illus">List of Illustrations</a><br> +<a href = "#intro">Introduction</a><br> +<a href = "#page1">Victorian Songs</a></p> + +</div> + +<div class = "page"> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/cover.jpg" width = "406" height = "604" +alt = "Victorian Songs" title = "Victorian Songs"></p> + +</div> + +<div class = "page"> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/halftitle1.png" width = "262" height = "39" +alt = "Victorian Songs" title = "Victorian Songs"></p> + +<p class = "rightside sans"> +“‘Let some one sing to vs, lightlier move<br> +The minvtes fledged with mvsic’.”</p> + +<p class = "right sans">TENNYSON</p> + +<p class = "right"> +<img src = "images/tinyrose.png" width = "17" height = "17" +alt = "tiny rose"> </p> + +</div> + +<div class = "prelim"> +<!-- until maintext --> + +<!-- png 003 --> +<p class = "illustration plate"> +<a name = "frontis" id = "frontis"> </a> +<img src = "images/plate_frontis.jpg" width = "365" height = "531" +alt = "Frontispiece: Sweet and Low, Sweet and Low" +title = "Frontispiece: Sweet and Low, Sweet and Low"> +</p> + + +<div class = "page"> +<!-- intro 03 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<a name = "titlepage" id = "titlepage"> </a> +<img src = "images/titlepage.jpg" width = "356" height = "671" +alt = "(text link below)"></p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class = "center"> +<a class = "red" href = "#titletext">— Title Page Text —</a></p> + +</div> + + +<div class = "page"> + +<!-- intro 04 --> + +<p class = "center"> +<i>Copyright, 1895.</i><br> +<span class = "smallcaps">By Edmund H. Garrett.</span></p> + +<p> <br> </p> + +<p class = "center"> +<b>University Press:</b><br> +<span class = "smallcaps"> +John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.</span></p> + +</div> + + +<div class = "page"> +<p class = "mynote"> +Some editions of the book have a two-page Editor’s Note before the +Contents, acknowledging the “publishers and authors who have given +permission for the use of many of the songs included in this volume”. +It has been omitted from this e-text.</p> +</div> + +<span class = "pagenum">vii</span> +<a name = "page_vii" id = "page_vii"> </a> +<!-- png 006 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<a name = "contents" id = "contents"> </a> +<img src = "images/pic_vii.png" width = "241" height = "303" +alt = "Contents" title = "Contents"></p> + +<div class = "verse header"> +<p>Where are the songs I used to know? </p> + +<p class = "stanza right"> +<span class = "smallcaps">Christina Rossetti.</span></p> +</div> + +<table class = "toc" summary = "table of contents"> +<tr class = "author"> +<td>AÏDÉ, HAMILTON (1830).</td> +<td class = "number smallcaps">page</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Remember or Forget</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page3">3</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Oh, Let Me Dream</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page6">6</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Love, the Pilgrim</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page7">7</a></td> +</tr> + + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM (1824-1889).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Lovely Mary Donnelly</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page9">9</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page13">13</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Serenade</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page14">14</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Across the Sea</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page16">16</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN (1832).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Serenade</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page18">18</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">A Love Song of Henri Quatre</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page20">20</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2"> +<span class = "pagenum">viii</span> +<a name = "page_viii" id = "page_viii"> </a> +<!-- png 007 --> +ASHE, THOMAS (1836-1889).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">No and Yes</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page22">22</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">At Altenahr</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page23">23</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Marit</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page24">24</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">AUSTIN, ALFRED (1835).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">A Night in June</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page26">26</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">BEDDOES, THOMAS LOVELL (1803-1849).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Dream-Pedlary</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page30">30</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Song from the Ship</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page33">33</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page34">34</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page35">35</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Song, by Two Voices</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page36">36</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page38">38</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">BENNETT, WILLIAM COX (1820).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Cradle Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page39">39</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">My Roses blossom the Whole Year Round</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page41">41</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Cradle Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page42">42</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">BOURDILLON, F. W. (1852).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Love’s Meinie</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page43">43</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Night has a Thousand Eyes</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page44">44</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">A Lost Voice</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page45">45</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">BUCHANAN, ROBERT (1841).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Serenade</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page46">46</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page48">48</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">COLLINS, MORTIMER (1827-1876).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">To F. C.</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page49">49</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">A Game of Chess</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page50">50</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Multum in Parvo</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page52">52</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Violets at Home</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page53">53</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">My Thrush</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page54">54</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2"> +<span class = "pagenum">ix</span> +<a name = "page_ix" id = "page_ix"> </a> +<!-- png 008 --> +CRAIK, DINAH MARIA MULOCK (1826-1887).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Too Late</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page56">56</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">A Silly Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page58">58</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">DARLEY, GEORGE (1795-1846).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">May Day</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page60">60</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">I ’ve been Roaming</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page62">62</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Sylvia’s Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page63">63</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Serenade</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page64">64</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">DE TABLEY, LORD (1835).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">A Winter Sketch</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page66">66</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Second Madrigal</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page69">69</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">DE VERE, AUBREY (1788-1846).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page70">70</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page72">72</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page74">74</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">DICKENS, CHARLES (1812-1870).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Ivy Green</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page75">75</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">DOBSON, AUSTIN (1840).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Ladies of St. James’s</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page77">77</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Milkmaid</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page81">81</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">DOMETT, ALFRED (1811-1887).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">A Glee for Winter</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page84">84</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">A Kiss</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page86">86</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">DUFFERIN, LADY (1807-1867).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page88">88</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Lament of the Irish Emigrant</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page90">90</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">FIELD, MICHAEL.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Winds To-day are Large and Free</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page94">94</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Let us Wreathe the Mighty Cup</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page96">96</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Where Winds abound</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page97">97</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2"> +<span class = "pagenum">x</span> +<a name = "page_x" id = "page_x"> </a> +<!-- png 009 --> +GALE, NORMAN (1862).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">A Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page98">98</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page99">99</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">GOSSE, EDMUND (1849).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Song for the Lute</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page101">101</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">HOOD, THOMAS (1798-1845).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Ballad</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page102">102</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page104">104</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">I Remember, I Remember</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page106">106</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Ballad</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page108">108</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page110">110</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2"><p>HOUGHTON, LORD (RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES) +(1809-1885).</p></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Brookside</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page111">111</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Venetian Serenade</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page113">113</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">From Love and Nature</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page115">115</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">INGELOW, JEAN (1830).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Long White Seam</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page116">116</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Love</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page118">118</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Sweet is Childhood</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page120">120</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">KINGSLEY, CHARLES (1819-1875).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Airly Beacon</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page121">121</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Sands of Dee</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page122">122</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Three Fishers went Sailing</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page124">124</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">A Farewell</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page126">126</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE (1775-1864).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Rose Aylmer</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page127">127</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Rubies</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page128">128</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Fault is not Mine</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page129">129</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Under the Lindens</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page130">130</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps"> +<span class = "pagenum">xi</span> +<a name = "page_xi" id = "page_xi"> </a> +<!-- png 010 --> +Sixteen</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page131">131</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Ianthe</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page132">132</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">One Lovely Name</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page133">133</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Forsaken</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page133">133</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">LOCKER-LAMPSON, FREDERICK (1821-1895).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">A Garden Lyric</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page134">134</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Cuckoo</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page137">137</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Gertrude’s Necklace</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page139">139</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">LOVER, SAMUEL (1797-1868).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Angel’s Whisper</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page141">141</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">What will you do, Love?</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page143">143</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">MACKAY, CHARLES (1814-1889).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">I Love my Love</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page145">145</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">O Ye Tears!</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page147">147</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">MAHONEY, FRANCIS (1805-1866).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Bells of Shandon</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page149">149</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">MASSEY, GERALD (1828).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page153">153</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">O’SHAUGHNESSY, ARTHUR (1844-1881).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">A Love Symphony</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page156">156</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">I made Another Garden</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page158">158</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE (1825-1864).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Lost Chord</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page160">160</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Sent to Heaven</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page162">162</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">PROCTER, B. W. (BARRY CORNWALL) (1787-1874).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Poet’s Song to his Wife</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page165">165</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">A Petition to Time</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page167">167</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">A Bacchanalian Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page168">168</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps"> +<span class = "pagenum">xii</span> +<a name = "page_xii" id = "page_xii"> </a> +<!-- png 011 --> +She was not Fair nor Full of Grace</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page170">170</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Sea-King</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page172">172</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">A Serenade</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page174">174</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">King Death</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page176">176</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Sit Down, Sad Soul</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page178">178</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">A Drinking Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page180">180</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Peace! What do Tears Avail?</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page182">182</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Sea</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page184">184</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA G. (1830-1895).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page186">186</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page188">188</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page189">189</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Three Seasons</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page190">190</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL (1828-1882).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">A Little While</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page191">191</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Sudden Light</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page193">193</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Three Shadows</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page194">194</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">SCOTT, WILLIAM BELL (1812-1890).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Parting and Meeting Again</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page196">196</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">SKIPSEY, JOSEPH (1832).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">A Merry Bee</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page198">198</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Songstress</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page199">199</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Violet and the Rose</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page200">200</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">STERRY, J. ASHBY.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Regrets</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page201">201</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Daisy’s Dimples</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page203">203</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">A Lover’s Lullaby</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page204">204</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2"> +<span class = "pagenum">xiii</span> +<a name = "page_xiii" id = "page_xiii"> </a> +<!-- png 012 --> +SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES (1837).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">A Match</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page205">205</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Rondel</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page208">208</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page209">209</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">TENNYSON, ALFRED (1809-1892).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Bugle Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page210">210</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Break, Break, Break</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page212">212</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Tears, Idle Tears</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page213">213</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Sweet and Low</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page215">215</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Turn, Fortune, Turn thy Wheel</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page216">216</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Vivien’s Song</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page217">217</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE (1811-1863).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">At the Church Gate</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page218">218</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Mahogany Tree</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page220">220</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "author"> +<td colspan = "2">THORNBURY, GEORGE WALTER (1828-1876).</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Dayrise and Sunset</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page223">223</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Three Troopers</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page225">225</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The Cuckoo</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page228">228</a></td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class = "illustration tail"> +<img src = "images/tail_xiii.png" width = "122" height = "116" +alt = "decoration"> +</p> + + +<a name = "page_xiv" id = "page_xiv"> </a> +<!-- png 013 --> + +<span class = "pagenum">xv</span> +<a name = "page_xv" id = "page_xv"> </a> +<!-- png 014 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<a name = "first_lines" id = "first_lines"> </a> +<img src = "images/pic_xv.png" width = "343" height = "274" +alt = "An Index to First Lines" title = "An Index to First Lines"></p> + +<div class = "verse header"> +<p>Listen—Songs thou ’lt hear</p> +<p>Through the wide world ringing.</p> + +<p class = "stanza right"> +<span class = "smallcaps">Barry Cornwall.</span></p> +</div> + +<table class = "lines" summary = "list of first lines"> +<tr> +<td></td> +<td></td> +<td class = "number smallcaps">page</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><p>A baby was sleeping</p></td> +<td><i>Samuel Lover</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page141">141</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“A cup for hope!” she said</p></td> +<td><p><i>Christina G. Rossetti</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page190">190</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>A golden bee a-cometh</p></td> +<td><i>Joseph Skipsey</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page198">198</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>A little shadow makes the sunrise sad</p></td> +<td><i>Mortimer Collins</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page52">52</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>A little while a little love</p></td> +<td><p><i>Dante Gabriel Rossetti</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page191">191</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>A thousand voices fill my ears</p></td> +<td><i>F. W. Bourdillon</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page45">45</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Across the grass I see her pass</p></td> +<td><i>Austin Dobson</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page81">81</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ah, what avails the sceptered race!</p></td> +<td><i>Walter Savage Landor</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page127">127</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Airly Beacon, Airly Beacon</p></td> +<td><i>Charles Kingsley</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page121">121</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>All glorious as the Rainbow’s birth</p></td> +<td><i>Gerald Massey</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page153">153</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>All through the sultry hours of June</p></td> +<td><i>Mortimer Collins</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page54">54</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Along the garden ways just now</p></td> +<td><i>Arthur O’Shaughnessy</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page156">156</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Although I enter not</p></td> +<td><p><i>William Makepeace Thackeray</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page218">218</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>As Gertrude skipt from babe to girl</p></td> +<td><p><i>Frederick Locker-Lampson</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page139">139</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>As I came round the harbor buoy</p></td> +<td><i>Jean Ingelow</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page116">116</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Awake!—The starry midnight Hour</p></td> +<td><p><i>B. W. Procter</i> (<i>Barry Cornwall</i>)</p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page174">174</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Awake thee, my Lady-love!</p></td> +<td><i>George Darley</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page64">64</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "letter"> +<td> +<span class = "pagenum">xvi</span> +<a name = "page_xvi" id = "page_xvi"> </a> +<!-- png 015 --> +<p>Back flies my soul to other years</p></td> +<td><i>Joseph Skipsey</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page199">199</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Break, break, break</p></td> +<td><i>Alfred Tennyson</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page212">212</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "letter"> +<td><p>Came, on a Sabbath noon, my sweet</p></td> +<td><i>Thomas Ashe</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page23">23</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Christmas is here</p></td> +<td><p><i>William Makepeace Thackeray</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page220">220</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Come, rosy Day!</p></td> +<td><i>Sir Edwin Arnold</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page20">20</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Come sing, Come sing, of the great Sea-King</p></td> +<td><p><i>B. W. Procter</i> (<i>Barry Cornwall</i>)</p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page172">172</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Could ye come back to me, Douglas, Douglas</p></td> +<td><p><i>Dinah Maria Mulock Craik</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page56">56</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "letter"> +<td><p>Drink, and fill the night with mirth!</p></td> +<td><p><i>B. W. Procter</i> (<i>Barry Cornwall</i>)</p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page180">180</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "letter"> +<td><p>Every day a Pilgrim, blindfold</p></td> +<td><i>Hamilton Aïdé</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page7">7</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "letter"> +<td><p>Fast falls the snow, O lady mine</p></td> +<td><i>Mortimer Collins</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page49">49</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>First the fine, faint, dreamy motion</p></td> +<td><i>Norman Gale</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page98">98</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "letter"> +<td><p>Hence, rude Winter! crabbed old fellow</p></td> +<td><i>Alfred Domett</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page84">84</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>How many Summers, love</p></td> +<td><p><i>B. W. Procter</i> (<i>Barry Cornwall</i>)</p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page165">165</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>How many times do I love thee, dear?</p></td> +<td><p><i>Thomas Lovell Beddoes</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page38">38</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "letter"> +<td><p>I bring a garland for your head</p></td> +<td><i>Edmund Gosse</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page101">101</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>I had a Message to send her</p></td> +<td><p><i>Adelaide Anne Procter</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page162">162</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>I have been here before</p></td> +<td><p><i>Dante Gabriel Rossetti</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page193">193</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>I leaned out of window, I smelt the white clover</p></td> +<td><i>Jean Ingelow</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page118">118</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>I looked and saw your eyes</p></td> +<td><p><i>Dante Gabriel Rossetti</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page194">194</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>I made another garden, yea</p></td> +<td><i>Arthur O’Shaughnessy</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page158">158</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>I remember, I remember</p></td> +<td><i>Thomas Hood</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page106">106</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>I sat beside the streamlet</p></td> +<td><i>Hamilton Aïdé</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page3">3</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>I wandered by the brook-side</p></td> +<td><i>Lord Houghton</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page111">111</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>I walked in the lonesome evening</p></td> +<td><i>William Allingham</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page16">16</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>If I could choose my paradise</p></td> +<td><i>Thomas Ashe</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page22">22</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>If love were what the rose is</p></td> +<td><p><i>Algernon Charles Swinburne</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page205">205</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>If there were dreams to sell</p></td> +<td><p><i>Thomas Lovell Beddoes</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page30">30</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>I ’m sitting on the stile, Mary</p></td> +<td><i>Lady Dufferin</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page90">90</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>In Clementina’s artless mien</p></td> +<td><i>Walter Savage Landor</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page131">131</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours</p></td> +<td><i>Alfred Tennyson</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page217">217</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Into the Devil tavern</p></td> +<td><p><i>George Walter Thornbury</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page225">225</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>It was not in the winter</p></td> +<td><i>Thomas Hood</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page102">102</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>I ’ve been roaming! I ’ve been roaming!</p></td> +<td><i>George Darley</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page62">62</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "letter"> +<td> +<span class = "pagenum">xvii</span> +<a name = "page_xvii" id = "page_xvii"> </a> +<!-- png 016 --> +<p>King Death was a rare old fellow!</p></td> +<td><p><i>B. W. Procter</i> (<i>Barry Cornwall</i>)</p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page176">176</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Kissing her hair I sat against her feet.</p></td> +<td><p><i>Algernon Charles Swinburne</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page208">208</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "letter"> +<td><p>Lady! in this night of June</p></td> +<td><i>Alfred Austin</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page26">26</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Last time I parted from my Dear</p></td> +<td><i>William Bell Scott</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page196">196</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Let us wreathe the mighty cup</p></td> +<td><i>Michael Field</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page96">96</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Little dimples so sweet and soft</p></td> +<td><i>J. Ashby Sterry</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page203">203</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lullaby! O lullaby!</p></td> +<td><i>William Cox Bennett</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page42">42</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lute! breathe thy lowest in my Lady’s ear</p></td> +<td><i>Sir Edwin Arnold</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page18">18</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "letter"> +<td><p>Mirror your sweet eyes in mine, love</p></td> +<td><i>J. Ashby Sterry</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page204">204</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mother, I can not mind my wheel</p></td> +<td><i>Walter Savage Landor</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page133">133</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>My fairest child, I have no song to give you</p></td> +<td><i>Charles Kingsley</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page126">126</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>My goblet’s golden lips are dry</p></td> +<td><p><i>Thomas Lovell Beddoes</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page34">34</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>My love, on a fair May morning</p></td> +<td><i>Thomas Ashe</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page24">24</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>My roses blossom the whole year round</p></td> +<td><i>William Cox Bennett</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page41">41</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "letter"> +<td><p>O for the look of those pure gray eyes</p></td> +<td><i>J. Ashby Sterry</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page201">201</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>O happy buds of violet!</p></td> +<td><i>Mortimer Collins</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page53">53</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“O Heart, my heart!” she said, and heard</p></td> +<td><p><i>Dinah Maria Mulock Craik</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page58">58</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>O lady, leave thy silken thread</p></td> +<td><i>Thomas Hood</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page104">104</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>O lips that mine have grown into</p></td> +<td><p><i>Algernon Charles Swinburne</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page209">209</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>O Love is like the roses</p></td> +<td><i>Robert Buchanan</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page48">48</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>O May, thou art a merry time</p></td> +<td><i>George Darley</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page60">60</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>O roses for the flush of youth</p></td> +<td><p><i>Christina G. Rossetti</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page188">188</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>O spirit of the Summertime!</p></td> +<td><i>William Allingham</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page13">13</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>O ye tears! O ye tears! that have long refused to flow</p></td> +<td><i>Charles Mackay</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page147">147</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Often I have heard it said</p></td> +<td><i>Walter Savage Landor</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page128">128</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green</p></td> +<td><i>Charles Dickens</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page75">75</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Oh, hearing sleep, and sleeping hear</p></td> +<td><i>William Allingham</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page14">14</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Oh! let me dream of happy days gone by</p></td> +<td><i>Hamilton Aïdé</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page6">6</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Oh, lovely Mary Donnelly, my joy, my only best!</p></td> +<td><i>William Allingham</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page9">9</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“Oh, Mary, go and call the cattle home”</p></td> +<td><i>Charles Kingsley</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page122">122</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>One lovely name adorns my song</p></td> +<td><i>Walter Savage Landor</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page133">133</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "letter"> +<td><p>Peace! what can tears avail?</p></td> +<td><p><i>B. W. Procter</i> (<i>Barry Cornwall</i>)</p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page182">182</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "letter"> +<td><p>Seated one day at the Organ</p></td> +<td><p><i>Adelaide Anne Procter</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page160">160</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Seek not the tree of silkiest bark</p></td> +<td><i>Aubrey de Vere</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page72">72</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td> +<span class = "pagenum">xviii</span> +<a name = "page_xviii" id = "page_xviii"> </a> +<!-- png 017 --> +<p>She was not fair, nor full of grace</p></td> +<td><p><i>B. W. Procter</i> (<i>Barry Cornwall</i>)</p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page170">170</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>She ’s up and gone, the graceless Girl</p></td> +<td><i>Thomas Hood</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page108">108</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Sing!—Who sings</p></td> +<td><p><i>B. W. Procter</i> (<i>Barry Cornwall</i>)</p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page168">168</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Sit down, sad soul, and count</p></td> +<td><p><i>B. W. Procter</i> (<i>Barry Cornwall</i>)</p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page178">178</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Sleep sweet, belovëd one, sleep sweet!</p></td> +<td><i>Robert Buchanan</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page46">46</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Sleep! the bird is in its nest</p></td> +<td><i>William Cox Bennett</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page39">39</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Softly, O midnight Hours!</p></td> +<td><i>Audrey de Vere</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page70">70</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Strew not earth with empty stars</p></td> +<td><p><i>Thomas Lovell Beddoes</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page35">35</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Sweet and low, sweet and low</p></td> +<td><i>Alfred Tennyson</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page215">215</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Sweet is childhood—childhood ’s over</p></td> +<td><i>Jean Ingelow</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page120">120</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Sweet mouth! O let me take</p></td> +<td><i>Alfred Domett</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page86">86</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "letter"> +<td><p>Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean</p></td> +<td><i>Alfred Tennyson</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page213">213</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Terrace and lawn are white with frost</p></td> +<td><i>Mortimer Collins</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page50">50</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Thank Heaven, Ianthe, once again</p></td> +<td><i>Walter Savage Landor</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page132">132</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The fault is not mine if I love you too much</p></td> +<td><i>Walter Savage Landor</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page129">129</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The ladies of St. James’s</p></td> +<td><i>Austin Dobson</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page77">77</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The night has a thousand eyes</p></td> +<td><i>F. W. Bourdillon</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page44">44</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The Sea! the Sea! the open Sea!</p></td> +<td><p><i>B. W. Procter</i> (<i>Barry Cornwall</i>)</p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page184">184</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The splendour falls on castle walls</p></td> +<td><i>Alfred Tennyson</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page210">210</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The stars are with the voyager</p></td> +<td><i>Thomas Hood</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page110">110</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The streams that wind amid the hills</p></td> +<td><i>George Darley</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page63">63</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The Sun came through the frosty mist</p></td> +<td><i>Lord Houghton</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page115">115</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The Violet invited my kiss</p></td> +<td><i>Joseph Skipsey</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page200">200</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>There is no summer ere the swallows come.</p></td> +<td><i>F. W. Bourdillon</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page43">43</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Three fishers went sailing away to the West</p></td> +<td><i>Charles Kingsley</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page124">124</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>To sea, to sea! the calm is o’er</p></td> +<td><p><i>Thomas Lovell Beddoes</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page33">33</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Touch us gently, Time!</p></td> +<td><p><i>B. W. Procter</i> (<i>Barry Cornwall</i>)</p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page167">167</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel and lower the proud!</p></td> +<td><i>Alfred Tennyson</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page216">216</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Two doves upon the selfsame branch</p></td> +<td><p><i>Christina G. Rossetti</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page189">189</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "letter"> +<td><p>Under the lindens lately sat</p></td> +<td><i>Walter Savage Landor</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page130">130</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr class = "letter"> +<td><p>Wait but a little while</p></td> +<td><i>Norman Gale</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page99">99</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>We have loiter’d and laugh’d in the flowery croft</p></td> +<td><p><i>Frederick Locker-Lampson</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page134">134</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>We heard it calling, clear and low</p></td> +<td><p><i>Frederick Locker-Lampson</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page137">137</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>What is the meaning of the song</p></td> +<td><i>Charles Mackay</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page145">145</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>“What will you do, love, when I am going”</p></td> +<td><i>Samuel Lover</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page143">143</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>When a warm and scented steam</p></td> +<td><p><i>George Walter Thornbury</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page228">228</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>When along the light ripple the far serenade</p></td> +<td><i>Lord Houghton</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page113">113</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td> +<span class = "pagenum">xix</span> +<a name = "page_xix" id = "page_xix"> </a> +<!-- png 018 --> +<p>When another’s voice thou hearest</p></td> +<td><i>Lady Dufferin</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page88">88</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>When I am dead, my dearest</p></td> +<td><p><i>Christina G. Rossetti</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page186">186</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>When I was young, I said to Sorrow</p></td> +<td><i>Aubrey de Vere</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page74">74</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>When Spring casts all her swallows forth</p></td> +<td><p><i>George Walter Thornbury</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page223">223</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>When the snow begins to feather</p></td> +<td><i>Lord de Tabley</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page66">66</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Where winds abound</p></td> +<td><i>Michael Field</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page97">97</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Who is the baby, that doth lie</p></td> +<td><p><i>Thomas Lovell Beddoes</i></p></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page36">36</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Winds to-day are large and free</p></td> +<td><i>Michael Field</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page94">94</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>With deep affection</p></td> +<td><i>Francis Mahoney</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page149">149</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Woo thy lass while May is here</p></td> +<td><i>Lord de Tabley</i></td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#page69">69</a></td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class = "illustration tail"> +<img src = "images/tail_xix.png" width = "128" height = "115" +alt = "decoration"> +</p> + + +<a name = "page_xx" id = "page_xx"> </a> +<!-- png 019 --> + +<span class = "pagenum">xxi</span> +<a name = "page_xxi" id = "page_xxi"> </a> +<!-- png 020 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<a name = "illus" id = "illus"> </a> +<img src = "images/pic_xxi.png" width = "392" height = "389" +alt = "List of Illustrations" title = "List of Illustrations"></p> + +<div class = "verse header"> +<p>Their songs wake singing echoes in my land.</p> + +<p class = "stanza right"> +<span class = "smallcaps">Christina Rossetti.</span></p> +</div> + +<table class = "toc" summary = "list of illustrations"> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Sweet and low, sweet and low</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#frontis"><i>Frontispiece</i></a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">“Oh! let me dream of happy days gone by”</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#plate6">6</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Across the Sea</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#plate16">16</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">“My love on a fair May morning”</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#plate24">24</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Song in the Garden</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#plate38">38</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">The night has a thousand eyes</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#plate44">44</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps"> +<span class = "pagenum">xxii</span> +<a name = "page_xxii" id = "page_xxii"> </a> +<!-- png 021 --> +A Game of Chess</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#plate50">50</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">“I ’ve been roaming, I ’ve been roaming”</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#plate62">62</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">“A maid I know,—and March winds blow”</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#plate82">82</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">“That bright May morning long ago”</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#plate90">90</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">“I remember, I remember”</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#plate106">106</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">I wandered by the brook-side</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#plate112">112</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">“Three fishers went sailing away to the West”</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#plate124">124</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Ianthe</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#plate132">132</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Gertrude’s Necklace</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#plate140">140</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">“She turned back at the last to wait”</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#plate158">158</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">King Death</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#plate176">176</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">“I looked and saw your eyes”</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#plate194">194</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">Break, Break, Break</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#plate212">212</a></td> +</tr><!-- extra plate in Little Brown edn --> + +<tr> +<td class = "smallcaps">“When Spring casts all her swallows forth”</td> +<td class = "number"><a href = "#plate224">224</a></td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class = "illustration tail"> +<img src = "images/tail_xxii.png" width = "127" height = "123" +alt = "decoration"> +</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum">xxiii</span> +<a name = "page_xxiii" id = "page_xxiii"> </a> +<!-- png 022 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<a name = "intro" id = "intro"> </a> +<img src = "images/pic_xxiii.png" width = "403" height = "319" +alt = "Introduction" title = "Introduction"></p> + +<div class = "verse header"> +<p>The writer of prose, by intelligence taught,</p> +<p>Says the thing that will please, in the way that he ought.</p> + +<p class = "stanza right"> +<span class = "smallcaps">Frederick Locker-Lampson.</span></p> +</div> + +<div class = "intro"> + +<p><span class = "firstletter">N</span><span class = "firstword">o</span> +species of poetry is more ancient than the lyrical, and yet none shows +so little sign of having outlived the requirements of human passion. The +world may grow tired of epics and of tragedies, but each generation, as +it sees the hawthorns blossom and the freshness of girlhood expand, +<span class = "pagenum">xxiv</span> +<a name = "page_xxiv" id = "page_xxiv"> </a> +<!-- png 023 --> +is seized with a pang which nothing but the spasm of verse will relieve. +Each youth imagines that spring-tide and love are wonders which he is +the first of human beings to appreciate, and he burns to alleviate his +emotion in rhyme. Historians exaggerate, perhaps, the function of music +in awakening and guiding the exercise of lyrical poetry. The lyric +exists, they tell us, as an accompaniment to the lyre; and without the +mechanical harmony the spoken song is an artifice. Quite as plausibly +might it be avowed that music was but added to verse to concentrate and +emphasize its rapture, to add poignancy and volume to its expression. +But the truth is that these two arts, though sometimes happily allied, +are, and always have been, independent. When verse has been innocent +enough to lean on music, we may be likely to find that music also has +been of the simplest order, and that the pair of them, like two +delicious children, have tottered and swayed together down the flowery +meadows of experience. When either poetry or music is adult, the +presence of each is a distraction +<span class = "pagenum">xxv</span> +<a name = "page_xxv" id = "page_xxv"> </a> +<!-- png 024 --> +to the other, and each prefers, in the elaborate ages, to stand alone, +since the mystery of the one confounds the complexity of the other. Most +poets hate music; few musicians comprehend the nature of poetry; and the +combination of these arts has probably, in all ages, been contrived, not +for the satisfaction of artists, but for the convenience of their +public.</p> + +<p>This divorce between poetry and music has been more frankly accepted +in the present century than ever before, and is nowadays scarcely +opposed in serious criticism. If music were a necessary ornament of +lyrical verse, the latter would nowadays scarcely exist; but we hear +less and less of the poets devotion (save in a purely conventional +sense) to the lute and the pipe. What we call the Victorian lyric is +absolutely independent of any such aid. It may be that certain songs of +Tennyson and Christina Rossetti have been with great popularity “set,” +as it is called, “to music.” So far as the latter is in itself +successful, it stultifies the former; and we admit at last that the idea +of one art aiding another in this +<span class = "pagenum">xxvi</span> +<a name = "page_xxvi" id = "page_xxvi"> </a> +<!-- png 025 --> +combination is absolutely fictitious. The beauty—even the beauty +of sound—conveyed by the ear in such lyrics as “Break, break, +break,” or “When I am dead, my dearest,” is obscured, is exchanged for +another and a rival species of beauty, by the most exquisite musical +setting that a composer can invent.</p> + +<p>The age which has been the first to accept this condition, then, +should be rich in frankly lyrical poetry; and this we find to be the +case with the Victorian period. At no time has a greater mass of this +species of verse been produced, not even in the combined Elizabethan and +Jacobean age. But when we come to consider the quality of this later +harvest of song, we observe in it a far less homogeneous character. We +can take a piece of verse, and decide at sight that it must be +Elizabethan, or of the age of the Pléiade in France, or of a particular +period in Italy. Even an ode of our own eighteenth century is hardly to +be confounded with a fragment from any other school. The great Georgian +age introduced a wide variety into English poetry; and yet we have but +to examine the +<span class = "pagenum">xxvii</span> +<a name = "page_xxvii" id = "page_xxvii"> </a> +<!-- png 026 --> +selected jewels strung into so exquisite a carcanet by Mr. Palgrave in +his “Golden Treasury” to notice with surprise how close a family +likeness exists between the contributions of Shelley, Wordsworth, Keats, +and Byron. The distinctions of style, of course, are very great; but the +general character of the diction, the imagery, even of the rhythm, is +more or less identical. The stamp of the same age is upon +them,—they are hall-marked 1820.</p> + +<p>It is perhaps too early to decide that this will never be the case +with the Victorian lyrics. While we live in an age we see the +distinction of its parts, rather than their co-relation. It is said that +the Japanese Government once sent over a Commission to report upon the +art of Europe; and that, having visited the exhibitions of London, +Paris, Florence, and Berlin, the Commissioners confessed that the works +of the European painters all looked so exactly alike that it was +difficult to distinguish one from another. The Japanese eye, trained in +absolutely opposed conventions, could not tell the difference between a +Watts and a Fortuny, a Théodore Rousseau +<span class = "pagenum">xxviii</span> +<a name = "page_xxviii" id = "page_xxviii"> </a> +<!-- png 027 --> +and a Henry Moore. So it is quite possible, it is even probable, that +future critics may see a close similarity where we see nothing but +divergence between the various productions of the Victorian age. Yet we +can judge but what we discern; and certainly to the critical eye to-day +it is the absence of a central tendency, the chaotic cultivation of all +contrivable varieties of style, which most strikingly seems to +distinguish the times we live in.</p> + +<p>We use the word “Victorian” in literature to distinguish what was +written after the decline of that age of which Walter Scott, Coleridge, +and Wordsworth were the survivors. It is well to recollect, however, +that Tennyson, who is the Victorian writer par excellence, had published +the most individual and characteristic of his lyrics long before the +Queen ascended the throne, and that Elizabeth Barrett, Henry Taylor, +William Barnes, and others were by this date of mature age. It is +difficult to remind ourselves, who have lived in the radiance of that +august figure, that some of the most beautiful of Tennyson’s +<span class = "pagenum">xxix</span> +<a name = "page_xxix" id = "page_xxix"> </a> +<!-- png 028 --> +lyrics, such as “Mariana” and “The Dying Swan” are now separated from us +by as long a period of years as divided them from Dr. Johnson and the +author of “Night Thoughts.” The reflection is of value only as warning +us of the extraordinary length of the epoch we still call “Victorian.” +It covers, not a mere generation, but much more than half a century. +During this length of time a complete revolution in literary taste might +have been expected to take place. This has not occurred, and the cause +may very well be the extreme license permitted to the poets to adopt +whatever style they pleased. Where all the doors stand wide open, there +is no object in escaping; where there is but one door, and that one +barred, it is human nature to fret for some violent means of evasion. +How divine have been the methods of the Victorian lyrists may easily be +exemplified:—</p> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p>“Quoth tongue of neither maid nor wife</p> +<p class = "inset1">To heart of neither wife nor maid,</p> +<p>Lead we not here a jolly life</p> +<p class = "inset1">Betwixt the shine and shade?</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">xxx</span> +<a name = "page_xxx" id = "page_xxx"> </a> +<!-- png 029 --> + +<p class = "stanza"> +“Quoth heart of neither maid nor wife</p> +<p class = "inset1">To tongue of neither wife nor maid,</p> +<p>Thou wagg’st, but I am worn with strife,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And feel like flowers that fade.”</p> +</div> + +<p>That is a masterpiece, but so is this:—</p> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p>“Nay, but you who do not love her,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Is she not pure gold, my mistress?</p> +<p>Holds earth aught—speak truth—above her?</p> +<p class = "inset1">Aught like this tress, see, and this tress,</p> +<p>And this last fairest tress of all,</p> +<p>—So fair, see, ere I let it fall?</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +“Because, you spend your lives in praisings,</p> +<p class = "inset1">To praise, you search the wide world over:</p> +<p>Then why not witness, calmly gazing,</p> +<p class = "inset1">If earth holds aught—speak truth—above +her?</p> +<p>Above this tress, and this I touch,</p> +<p>But cannot praise, I love so much!”</p> +</div> + +<p>And so is this:—</p> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p>“Under the wide and starry sky,</p> +<p>Dig the grave and let me lie.</p> +<p>Glad did I live and gladly die,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And I laid me down with a will.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">xxxi</span> +<a name = "page_xxxi" id = "page_xxxi"> </a> +<!-- png 030 --> + +<p class = "stanza"> +“This be the verse yon grave for me:</p> +<p>Here he lies where he longed to be;</p> +<p>Home is the sailor, home from sea,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And the hunter home from the hill.”</p> +</div> + +<p>But who would believe that the writers of these were +contemporaries?</p> + +<p>If we examine more closely the forms which lyric poetry has taken +since 1830, we shall find that certain influences at work in the minds +of our leading writers have led to the widest divergence in the +character of lyrical verse. It will be well, perhaps, to consider in +turn the leading classes of that work. It was not to be expected that in +an age of such complexity and self-consciousness as ours, the pure song, +the simple trill of bird-like melody, should often or prominently be +heard. As civilization spreads, it ceases to be possible, or at least it +becomes less and less usual, that simple emotion should express itself +with absolute naïveté. Perhaps Burns was the latest poet in these +islands whose passion warbled forth in perfectly artless strains; and he +had the advantage of using a dialect still unsubdued and +<span class = "pagenum">xxxii</span> +<a name = "page_xxxii" id = "page_xxxii"> </a> +<!-- png 031 --> +unvulgarized. Artlessness nowadays must be the result of the most +exquisitely finished art; if not, it is apt to be insipid, if not +positively squalid and fusty. The obvious uses of simple words have been +exhausted; we cannot, save by infinite pains and the exercise of a happy +genius, recover the old spontaneous air, the effect of an inevitable +arrangement of the only possible words.</p> + +<p>This beautiful direct simplicity, however, was not infrequently +secured by Tennyson, and scarcely less often by Christina Rossetti, both +of whom have left behind them jets of pure emotional melody which +compare to advantage with the most perfect specimens of Greek and +Elizabethan song. Tennyson did not very often essay this class of +writing, but when he did, he rarely failed; his songs combine, with +extreme naturalness and something of a familiar sweetness, a felicity of +workmanship hardly to be excelled. In her best songs, Miss Rossetti is +scarcely, if at all, his inferior; but her judgment was far less sure, +and she was more ready to look with complacency on her failures. The +songs of Mr. Aubrey de +<span class = "pagenum">xxxiii</span> +<a name = "page_xxxiii" id = "page_xxxiii"> </a> +<!-- png 032 --> +Vere are not well enough known; they are sometimes singularly charming. +Other poets have once or twice succeeded in catching this clear natural +treble,—the living linnet once captured in the elm, as Tusitala +puts it; but this has not been a gift largely enjoyed by our Victorian +poets.</p> + +<p>The richer and more elaborate forms of lyric, on the contrary, have +exactly suited this curious and learned age of ours. The species of +verse which, originally Italian or French, have now so abundantly and so +admirably been practised in England that we can no longer think of them +as exotic, having found so many exponents in the Victorian period that +they are pre-eminently characteristic of it. “Scorn not the Sonnet,” +said Wordsworth to his contemporaries; but the lesson has not been +needed in the second half of the century. The sonnet is the most solid +and unsingable of the sections of lyrical poetry; it is difficult to +think of it as chanted to a musical accompaniment. It is used with great +distinction by writers to whom skill in the lighter divisions +<span class = "pagenum">xxxiv</span> +<a name = "page_xxxiv" id = "page_xxxiv"> </a> +<!-- png 033 --> +of poetry has been denied, and there are poets, such as Bowles and +Charles Tennyson-Turner, who live by their sonnets alone. The practice +of the sonnet has been so extended that all sense of monotony has been +lost. A sonnet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning differs from one by D. +G. Rossetti or by Matthew Arnold to such excess as to make it difficult +for us to realize that the form in each case is absolutely +identical.</p> + +<p>With the sonnet might be mentioned the lighter forms of elaborate +exotic verse; but to these a word shall be given later on. More closely +allied to the sonnet are those rich and somewhat fantastic +stanza-measures in which Rossetti delighted. Those in which Keats and +the Italians have each their part have been greatly used by the +Victorian poets. They lend themselves to a melancholy magnificence, to +pomp of movement and gorgeousness of color; the very sight of them gives +the page the look of an ancient blazoned window. Poems of this class are +“The Stream’s Secret” and the choruses in “Love is enough.” They satisfy +the appetite of our time for subtle and +<span class = "pagenum">xxxv</span> +<a name = "page_xxxv" id = "page_xxxv"> </a> +<!-- png 034 --> +vague analysis of emotion, for what appeals to the spirit through the +senses; but here, again, in different hands, the “thing,” the metrical +instrument, takes wholly diverse characters, and we seek in vain for a +formula that can include Robert Browning and Gabriel Rossetti, William +Barnes and Arthur Hugh Clough.</p> + +<p>From this highly elaborated and extended species of lyric the +transition is easy to the Ode. In the Victorian age, the ode, in its +full Pindaric sense, has not been very frequently used. We have +specimens by Mr. Swinburne in which the Dorian laws are closely adhered +to. But the ode, in a more or less irregular form, whether pæan or +threnody, has been the instrument of several of our leading lyrists. The +genius of Mr. Swinburne, even to a greater degree than that of Shelley, +is essentially dithyrambic, and is never happier than when it spreads +its wings as wide as those of the wild swan, and soars upon the very +breast of tempest. In these flights Mr. Swinburne attains to a volume of +sonorous melody such as no other poet, perhaps, of the world +<span class = "pagenum">xxxvi</span> +<a name = "page_xxxvi" id = "page_xxxvi"> </a> +<!-- png 035 --> +has reached, and we may say to him, as he has shouted to the Mater +Triumphalis:—</p> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p>“Darkness to daylight shall lift up thy pæan,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Hill to hill thunder, vale cry back to vale,</p> +<p>With wind-notes as of eagles Æschylean,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And Sappho singing in the nightingale.”</p> +</div> + +<p>Nothing could mark more picturesquely the wide diversity permitted in +Victorian lyric than to turn from the sonorous and tumultuous odes of +Mr. Swinburne to those of Mr. Patmore, in which stateliness of +contemplation and a peculiar austerity of tenderness find their +expression in odes of iambic cadence, the melody of which depends, not +in their headlong torrent of sound, but in the cunning variation of +catalectic pause. A similar form has been adopted by Lord De Tabley for +many of his gorgeous studies of antique myth, and by Tennyson for his +“Death of the Duke of Wellington.” It is an error to call these iambic +odes “irregular,” although they do not follow the classic rules with +strophe, antistrophe, and epode. The enchanting “I have led her +home,” in +<span class = "pagenum">xxxvii</span> +<a name = "page_xxxvii" id = "page_xxxvii"> </a> +<!-- png 036 --> +“Maud,” is an example of this kind of lyric at its highest point of +perfection.</p> + +<p>A branch of lyrical poetry which has been very widely cultivated in +the Victorian age is the philosophical, or gnomic, in which a serious +chain of thought, often illustrated by complex and various imagery, is +held in a casket of melodious verse, elaborately rhymed. Matthew Arnold +was a master of this kind of poetry, which takes its form, through +Wordsworth, from the solemn and so-called “metaphysical” writers of the +seventeenth century. We class this interesting and abundant section of +verse with the lyrical, because we know not by what other name to +describe it; yet it has obviously as little as possible of the singing +ecstasy about it. It neither pours its heart out in a rapture, nor wails +forth its despair. It has as little of the nightingale’s rich melancholy +as of the lark’s delirium. It hardly sings, but, with infinite decorum +and sobriety, speaks its melodious message to mankind. This sort of +philosophical poetry is really critical; its function is to analyze and +describe; and it approaches, +<span class = "pagenum">xxxviii</span> +<a name = "page_xxxviii" id = "page_xxxviii"> </a> +<!-- png 037 --> +save for the enchantment of its form, nearer to prose than do the other +sections of the art. It is, however, just this species of poetry which +has particularly appealed to the age in which we live; and how naturally +it does so may be seen in the welcome extended to the polished and +serene compositions of Mr. William Watson.</p> + +<p>Almost a creation, or at least a complete conquest, of the Victorian +age is the humorous lyric in its more delicate developments. If the past +can point to Prior and to Praed, we can boast, in their various +departments, of Calverly, of Locker-Lampson, of Mr. Andrew Lang, of Mr. +W. S. Gilbert. The comic muse, indeed, has marvellously extended +her blandishments during the last two generations, and has discovered +methods of trivial elegance which were quite unknown to our forefathers. +Here must certainly be said a word in favor of those French forms of +verse, all essentially lyrical, such as the ballad, the rondel, the +triolet, which have been used so abundantly as to become quite a +<span class = "pagenum">xxxix</span> +<a name = "page_xxxix" id = "page_xxxix"> </a> +<!-- png 038 --> +feature in our lighter literature. These are not, or are but rarely, +fitted to bear the burden of high emotion; but their precision, and the +deftness which their use demands fit them exceedingly well for the more +distinguished kind of persiflage. No one has kept these delicate +butterflies in flight with the agile movement of his fan so admirably as +Mr. Austin Dobson, that neatest of magicians.</p> + +<p>Those who write hastily of Victorian lyrical poetry are apt to find +fault with its lack of spontaneity. It is true that we cannot pretend to +discover on a greensward so often crossed and re-crossed as the poetic +language of England many morning dewdrops still glistening on the +grasses. We have to pay the penalty of our experience in a certain lack +of innocence. The artless graces of a child seem mincing affectations in +a grown-up woman. But the poetry of this age has amply made up for any +lack of innocence by its sumptuous fulness, its variety, its magnificent +accomplishment, its felicitous response to a multitude of moods and +apprehensions. +<span class = "pagenum">xl</span> +<a name = "page_xl" id = "page_xl"> </a> +<!-- png 039 --> +It has struck out no new field for itself; it still remains where the +romantic revolution of 1798 placed it; its aims are not other than were +those of Coleridge and of Keats. But within that defined sphere it has +developed a surprising activity. It has occupied the attention and +become the facile instrument of men of the greatest genius, writers of +whom any age and any language might be proud. It has been tender and +fiery, severe and voluminous, gorgeous and marmoreal, in turns. It has +translated into words feelings so subtle, so transitory, moods so +fragile and intangible, that the rough hand of prose would but have +crushed them. And this, surely, indicates the great gift of Victorian +lyrical poetry to the race. During a time of extreme mental and moral +restlessness, a time of speculation and evolution, when all illusions +are tested, all conventions overthrown, when the harder elements of life +have been brought violently to the front, and where there is a +temptation for the emancipated mind roughly to reject what is not +material and obvious, this art has preserved intact the +<span class = "pagenum">xli</span> +<a name = "page_xli" id = "page_xli"> </a> +<!-- png 040 --> +lovelier delusions of the spirit, all that is vague and incorporeal and +illusory. So that for Victorian Lyric generally no better final +definition can be given than is supplied by Mr. Robert Bridges in a +little poem of incomparable beauty, which may fitly bring this essay to +a close:—</p> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p>“I have loved flowers that fade,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Within whose magic tents</p> +<p>Rich hues have marriage made</p> +<p class = "inset1">With sweet immemorial scents:</p> +<p>A joy of love at sight,—</p> +<p>A honeymoon delight,</p> +<p>That ages in an hour:—</p> +<p>My song be like a flower.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +“I have loved airs that die</p> +<p class = "inset1">Before their charm is writ</p> +<p>Upon the liquid sky</p> +<p class = "inset1">Trembling to welcome it.</p> +<p>Notes that with pulse of fire</p> +<p>Proclaim the spirit’s desire,</p> +<p>Then die, and are nowhere:—</p> +<p>My song be like an air.”</p> +</div> + +<p class = "rightside"> +<span class = "smallcaps">Edmund Gosse.</span></p> + +</div> <!-- end div intro --> + +<a name = "page_xlii" id = "page_xlii"> </a> +<!-- png 041 --> + +</div> <!-- end div prelim --> + + +<div class = "maintext"> + +<span class = "pagenum">1</span> +<a name = "page1" id = "page1"> </a> +<!-- png 042 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/halftitle2.png" width = "260" height = "39" +alt = "Victorian Songs" title = "Victorian Songs"></p> + +<p class = "right sans"> +“Short swallow-flights of song”</p> + +<p class = "right sans"> +TENNYSON</p> + +<p class = "right"> +<img src = "images/tinyrose.png" width = "17" height = "17" +alt = "tiny rose"> + +<img src = "images/tinyrose.png" width = "17" height = "17" +alt = "tiny rose"></p> + + +<a name = "page2" id = "page2"> </a> +<!-- png 043 --> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">3</span> +<a name = "page3" id = "page3"> </a> +<!-- png 044 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head003.png" width = "376" height = "199" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>HAMILTON AÏDÉ.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1830.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>REMEMBER OR FORGET.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<h5>I.</h5> + +<p class = "dropcap">I</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> sat</span> beside the streamlet,</p> +<p class = "inset1">I watched the water flow,</p> +<p>As we together watched it</p> +<p class = "inset1">One little year ago;</p> +<p>The soft rain pattered on the leaves,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The April grass was wet,</p> +<p>Ah! folly to remember;—</p> +<p class = "inset1">’T is wiser to forget.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">4</span> +<a name = "page4" id = "page4"> </a> +<!-- png 045 --> +<h5>II.</h5> + +<p>The nightingales made vocal</p> +<p class = "inset1">June’s palace paved with gold;</p> +<p>I watched the rose you gave me</p> +<p class = "inset1">Its warm red heart unfold;</p> +<p>But breath of rose and bird’s song</p> +<p class = "inset1">Were fraught with wild regret.</p> +<p>’T is madness to remember;</p> +<p class = "inset1">’T were wisdom to forget.</p> + +<h5>III.</h5> + +<p>I stood among the gold corn,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Alas! no more, I knew,</p> +<p>To gather gleaner’s measure</p> +<p class = "inset1">Of the love that fell from you.</p> +<p>For me, no gracious harvest—</p> +<p class = "inset1">Would God we ne’er had met!</p> +<p>’T is hard, Love, to remember, but</p> +<p class = "inset1">’T is harder to forget.</p> + +<h5>IV.</h5> + +<p>The streamlet now is frozen,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The nightingales are fled,</p> +<span class = "pagenum">5</span> +<a name = "page5" id = "page5"> </a> +<!-- png 046 --> +<p>The cornfields are deserted,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And every rose is dead.</p> +<p>I sit beside my lonely fire,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And pray for wisdom yet—</p> +<p>For calmness to remember</p> +<p class = "inset1">Or courage to forget.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail005.png" width = "127" height = "96" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">6</span> +<a name = "page6" id = "page6"> </a> +<!-- png 047 --> +<h4>OH, LET ME DREAM.<br> +<span class = "subhead">FROM “A NINE DAYS’ WONDER.”</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">O</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">h!</span> +let me dream of happy days gone by,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Forgetting sorrows that have come between,</p> +<p>As sunlight gilds some distant summit high,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And leaves the valleys dark that intervene.</p> +<p>The phantoms of remorse that haunt</p> +<p class = "inset1">The soul, are laid beneath that spell;</p> +<p>As, in the music of a chaunt</p> +<p class = "inset1">Is lost the tolling of a bell.</p> +<p class = "inset2">Oh! let me dream of happy days gone by, etc.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +In youth, we plucked full many a flower that died,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Dropped on the pathway, as we danced along;</p> +<p>And now, we cherish each poor leaflet dried</p> +<p class = "inset1">In pages which to that dear past belong.</p> +<p>With sad crushed hearts they yet retain</p> +<p class = "inset1">Some semblance of their glories fled;</p> +<p>Like us, whose lineaments remain,</p> +<p class = "inset1">When all the fires of life are dead.</p> +<p class = "inset6">Oh! let me dream, etc.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + + +<!-- png 048 --> + +<p class = "illustration plate"> +<a name = "plate6" id = "plate6"> </a> +<img src = "images/plate_opp6.jpg" width = "366" height = "536" +alt = "“Oh! let me dream of happy days gone by”" +title = "“Oh! let me dream of happy days gone by”"> +</p> + +<!-- png 049 --> + + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">7</span> +<a name = "page7" id = "page7"> </a> +<!-- png 050 --> +<h4>LOVE, THE PILGRIM.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +SUGGESTED BY A SKETCH BY E. BURNE-JONES.</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">E</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">very</span> +day a Pilgrim, blindfold,</p> +<p class = "inset1">When the night and morning meet,</p> +<p>Entereth the slumbering city,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Stealeth down the silent street;</p> +<p>Lingereth round some battered doorway,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Leaves unblest some portal grand,</p> +<p>And the walls, where sleep the children,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Toucheth, with his warm young hand.</p> +<p class = "inset2">Love is passing! Love is passing!—</p> +<p class = "inset3">Passing while ye lie asleep:</p> +<p class = "inset2">In your blessèd dreams, O children,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Give him all your hearts to keep!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Blindfold is this Pilgrim, Maiden.</p> +<p class = "inset1">Though to-day he touched thy door,</p> +<p>He may pass it by to-morrow—</p> +<p class = "inset1">—Pass it—to return no more.</p> +<span class = "pagenum">8</span> +<a name = "page8" id = "page8"> </a> +<!-- png 051 --> +<p>Let us then with prayers entreat him,—</p> +<p class = "inset1">Youth! her heart, whose coldness grieves,</p> +<p>May one morn by Love be softened;</p> +<p class = "inset1">Prize the treasure that he leaves.</p> +<p class = "inset2">Love is passing! Love is passing!</p> +<p class = "inset3">All, with hearts to hope and pray,</p> +<p class = "inset2">Bid this pilgrim touch the lintels</p> +<p class = "inset3">Of your doorways every day.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail008.png" width = "125" height = "95" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">9</span> +<a name = "page9" id = "page9"> </a> +<!-- png 052 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head009.png" width = "381" height = "150" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>WILLIAM ALLINGHAM.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1824-1889.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>LOVELY MARY DONNELLY.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">O</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">h,</span> +lovely Mary Donnelly, my joy, my only best!</p> +<p>If fifty girls were round you, I ’d hardly see the rest;</p> +<p>Be what it may the time o’ day, the place be where it will,</p> +<p>Sweet looks o’ Mary Donnelly, they bloom before me still.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Her eyes like mountain water that ’s flowing on a rock,</p> +<p>How clear they are, how dark they are! they give me many a shock;</p> +<p>Red rowans warm in sunshine and wetted with a show’r,</p> +<p>Could ne’er express the charming lip that has me in its pow’r.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">10</span> +<a name = "page10" id = "page10"> </a> +<!-- png 053 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +Her nose is straight and handsome, her eyebrows lifted up,</p> +<p>Her chin is very neat and pert, and smooth like a china cup,</p> +<p>Her hair ’s the brag of Ireland, so weighty and so fine;</p> +<p>It ’s rolling down upon her neck, and gathered in a twine.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +The dance o’ last Whit-Monday night exceeded all before,</p> +<p>No pretty girl for miles about was missing from the floor;</p> +<p>But Mary kept the belt o’ love, and O but she was gay!</p> +<p>She danced a jig, she sung a song, that took my heart away.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +When she stood up for dancing, her steps were so complete</p> +<p>The music nearly kill’d itself to listen to her feet;</p> +<p>The fiddler moaned his blindness, he heard her so much praised,</p> +<p>But bless’d his luck to not be deaf when once her voice she raised.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">11</span> +<a name = "page11" id = "page11"> </a> +<!-- png 054 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +And evermore I ’m whistling or lilting what you sung,</p> +<p>Your smile is always in my heart, your name beside my tongue;</p> +<p>But you ’ve as many sweethearts as you ’d count on both your hands,</p> +<p>And for myself there ’s not a thumb or little finger stands.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +’T is you ’re the flower o’ womankind in country or in town;</p> +<p>The higher I exalt you, the lower I ’m cast down.</p> +<p>If some great lord should come this way, and see your beauty bright,</p> +<p>And you to be his lady, I ’d own it was but right.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +O might we live together in a lofty palace hall,</p> +<p>Where joyful music rises, and where scarlet curtains fall!</p> +<p>O might we live together in a cottage mean and small,</p> +<p>With sods o’ grass the only roof, and mud the only wall!</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">12</span> +<a name = "page12" id = "page12"> </a> +<!-- png 055 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +O lovely Mary Donnelly, your beauty ’s my distress.</p> +<p>It ’s far too beauteous to be mine, but I ’ll never wish it less.</p> +<p>The proudest place would fit your face, and I am poor and low;</p> +<p>But blessings be about you, dear, wherever you may go!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail012.png" width = "127" height = "57" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">13</span> +<a name = "page13" id = "page13"> </a> +<!-- png 056 --> +<h4>SONG.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">O</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> spirit</span> +of the Summertime!</p> +<p class = "inset1">Bring back the roses to the dells;</p> +<p>The swallow from her distant clime,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The honey-bee from drowsy cells.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Bring back the friendship of the sun;</p> +<p class = "inset1">The gilded evenings, calm and late,</p> +<p>When merry children homeward run,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And peeping stars bid lovers wait.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Bring back the singing; and the scent</p> +<p class = "inset1">Of meadowlands at dewy prime;—</p> +<p>Oh, bring again my heart’s content,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Thou Spirit of the Summertime!</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">14</span> +<a name = "page14" id = "page14"> </a> +<!-- png 057 --> +<h4>SERENADE.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">O</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">h,</span> +hearing sleep, and sleeping hear,</p> +<p>The while we dare to call thee dear,</p> +<p>So may thy dreams be good, altho’</p> +<p>The loving power thou dost not know.</p> +<p>As music parts the silence,—lo!</p> +<p>Through heaven the stars begin to peep,</p> +<p class = "inset1">To comfort us that darkling pine</p> +<p class = "inset1">Because those fairer lights of thine</p> +<p>Have set into the Sea of Sleep.</p> +<p>Yet closèd still thine eyelids keep;</p> +<p>And may our voices through the sphere</p> +<p class = "inset1">Of Dreamland all as softly rise</p> +<p>As through these shadowy rural dells,</p> +<p>Where bashful Echo somewhere dwells,</p> +<p>And touch thy spirit to as soft replies.</p> +<p>May peace from gentle guardian skies,</p> +<p>Till watches of the dark are worn,</p> +<p>Surround thy bed, and joyous morn</p> +<span class = "pagenum">15</span> +<a name = "page15" id = "page15"> </a> +<!-- png 058 --> +<p class = "inset1">Makes all the chamber rosy bright!</p> +<p>Good-night!—From far-off fields is borne</p> +<p>The drowsy Echo’s faint ‘Good-night,’—</p> +<p class = "inset1">Good-night! Good-night!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail015.png" width = "126" height = "52" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + + +<!-- png 060 --> + +<p class = "illustration plate"> +<a name = "plate16" id = "plate16"> </a> +<img src = "images/plate_opp16.jpg" width = "365" height = "564" +alt = "Across the Sea" title = "Across the Sea"> +</p> + +<!-- png 061 --> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">16</span> +<a name = "page16" id = "page16"> </a> +<!-- png 059 --> +<h4>ACROSS THE SEA.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">I</p> +<p class = "inset1"><span class = "firstword"> walked</span> +in the lonesome evening,</p> +<p class = "inset2">And who so sad as I,</p> +<p class = "inset1">When I saw the young men and maidens</p> +<p class = "inset2">Merrily passing by.</p> +<p class = "inset3">To thee, my Love, to thee—</p> +<p class = "inset3">So fain would I come to thee!</p> +<p>While the ripples fold upon sands of gold,</p> +<p class = "inset3">And I look across the sea.</p> + +<p class = "inset1 stanza"> +I stretch out my hands; who will clasp them?</p> +<p class = "inset2">I call,—thou repliest no word.</p> +<p class = "inset1">Oh, why should heart-longing be weaker</p> +<p class = "inset2">Than the waving wings of a bird!</p> +<p class = "inset3">To thee, my Love, to thee—</p> +<p class = "inset3">So fain would I come to thee!</p> +<p>For the tide ’s at rest from east to west,</p> +<p class = "inset3">And I look across the sea.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">17</span> +<a name = "page17" id = "page17"> </a> +<!-- png 062 --> + +<p class = "inset1 stanza"> +There ’s joy in the hopeful morning,</p> +<p class = "inset2">There ’s peace in the parting day,</p> +<p class = "inset1">There ’s sorrow with every lover</p> +<p class = "inset2">Whose true love is far away.</p> +<p class = "inset3">To thee, my Love, to thee—</p> +<p class = "inset3">So fain would I come to thee!</p> +<p>And the water ’s bright in a still moonlight,</p> +<p class = "inset3">As I look across the sea.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail017.png" width = "127" height = "66" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">18</span> +<a name = "page18" id = "page18"> </a> +<!-- png 063 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head018.png" width = "377" height = "171" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>SIR EDWIN ARNOLD.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1832.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>SERENADE.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">L</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ute!</span> +breathe thy lowest in my Lady’s ear,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Sing while she sleeps, “Ah! belle dame, aimez-vous?”</p> +<p>Till, dreaming still, she dream that I am here,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And wake to find it, as my love is, true;</p> +<p>Then, when she listens in her warm white nest,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Say in slow music,—softer, tenderer yet,</p> +<p>That lute-strings quiver when their tone ’s at rest,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And my heart trembles when my lips are set.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Stars! if my sweet love still a-dreaming lies,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Shine through the roses for a lover’s sake</p> +<p>And send your silver to her lidded eyes,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Kissing them very gently till she wake;</p> +<span class = "pagenum">19</span> +<a name = "page19" id = "page19"> </a> +<!-- png 064 --> +<p>Then while she wonders at the lay and light,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Tell her, though morning endeth star and song,</p> +<p>That ye live still, when no star glitters bright,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And my love lasteth, though it finds no tongue.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail019.png" width = "117" height = "64" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">20</span> +<a name = "page20" id = "page20"> </a> +<!-- png 065 --> +<h4>A LOVE SONG OF HENRI QUATRE.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap3">C</p> +<p class = "inset3"><span class = "firstword">ome,</span> +rosy Day!</p> +<p class = "inset3">Come quick—I pray—</p> +<p>I am so glad when I thee see!</p> +<p class = "inset3">Because my Fair,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Who is so dear,</p> +<p>Is rosy-red and white like thee.</p> + +<p class = "inset3 stanza"> +She lives, I think,</p> +<p class = "inset3">On heavenly drink</p> +<p>Dawn-dew, which Hebe pours for her;</p> +<p class = "inset3">Else—when I sip</p> +<p class = "inset3">At her soft lip</p> +<p>How smells it of ambrosia?</p> + +<p class = "inset3 stanza"> +She is so fair</p> +<p class = "inset3">None can compare;</p> +<p>And, oh, her slender waist divine!</p> +<p class = "inset3">Her sparkling eyes</p> +<p class = "inset3">Set in the skies</p> +<p>The morning stars would far outshine!</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">21</span> +<a name = "page21" id = "page21"> </a> +<!-- png 066 --> +<p class = "inset3 stanza"> +Only to hear</p> +<p class = "inset3">Her voice so clear</p> +<p>The village gathers in the street;</p> +<p class = "inset3">And Tityrus,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Grown one of us,</p> +<p>Leaves piping on his flute so sweet.</p> + +<p class = "inset3 stanza"> +The Graces three,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Where’er she be,</p> +<p>Call all the Loves to flutter nigh;</p> +<p class = "inset3">And what she ’ll say,—</p> +<p class = "inset3">Speak when she may,—</p> +<p>Is full of sense and majesty!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail021.png" width = "121" height = "86" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">22</span> +<a name = "page22" id = "page22"> </a> +<!-- png 067 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head022.png" width = "379" height = "163" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>THOMAS ASHE.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1836-1889.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>NO AND YES.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">I</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">f</span> +I could choose my paradise,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And please myself with choice of bliss,</p> +<p>Then I would have your soft blue eyes</p> +<p class = "inset1">And rosy little mouth to kiss!</p> +<p>Your lips, as smooth and tender, child,</p> +<p>As rose-leaves in a coppice wild.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +If fate bade choose some sweet unrest,</p> +<p class = "inset1">To weave my troubled life a snare,</p> +<p>Then I would say “her maiden breast</p> +<p class = "inset1">And golden ripple of her hair;”</p> +<p>And weep amid those tresses, child,</p> +<p>Contented to be thus beguiled.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">23</span> +<a name = "page23" id = "page23"> </a> +<!-- png 068 --> +<h4>AT ALTENAHR.</h4> + +<p class = "dates">1872.</p> + +<h5><i>Meet we no angels, Pansie?</i></h5> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">C</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ame,</span> +on a Sabbath noon, my sweet,</p> +<p class = "inset1">In white, to find her lover;</p> +<p>The grass grew proud beneath her feet,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The green elm-leaves above her:—</p> +<p class = "inset2">Meet we no angels, Pansie?</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +She said, “We meet no angels now;”</p> +<p class = "inset1">And soft lights streamed upon her;</p> +<p>And with white hand she touched a bough;</p> +<p class = "inset1">She did it that great honour:—</p> +<p class = "inset2">What! meet no angels, Pansie?</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +O sweet brown hat, brown hair, brown eyes</p> +<p class = "inset1">Down-dropped brown eyes so tender!</p> +<p>Then what said I?—Gallant replies</p> +<p class = "inset1">Seem flattery, and offend her:—</p> +<p class = "inset2">But,—meet no angels, Pansie?</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + + +<!-- png 070 --> +<p class = "illustration plate"> +<a name = "plate24" id = "plate24"> </a> +<img src = "images/plate_opp24.jpg" width = "374" height = "531" +alt = "“My love on a fair May morning”" +title = "“My love on a fair May morning”"> +</p> +<!-- png 071 --> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">24</span> +<a name = "page24" id = "page24"> </a> +<!-- png 069 --> +<h4>MARIT.<br> +<span class = "subhead">1869-70.</span></h4> + +<h5><i>C’est un songe que d’y penser.</i></h5> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">M</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">y</span> +love, on a fair May morning,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Would weave a garland of May:</p> +<p>The dew hung frore, as her foot tripped o’er</p> +<p class = "inset1">The grass at dawn of the day;</p> +<p>On leaf and stalk, in each green wood-walk,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Till the sun should charm it away.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Green as a leaf her kirtle,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Her bodice red as a rose:</p> +<p>Her white bare feet went softly and sweet</p> +<p class = "inset1">By roots where the violet grows;</p> +<p>Where speedwells azure as heaven,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Their sleepy eyes half close.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +O’er arms as fair as the lilies</p> +<p class = "inset1">No sleeve my love drew on:</p> +<p>She found a bower of the wildrose flower,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And for her breast culled one:</p> +<p>And I laugh and know her breasts will grow</p> +<p class = "inset1">Or ever a year be gone.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">25</span> +<a name = "page25" id = "page25"> </a> +<!-- png 072 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +O sweet dream, wrought of a dear fore-thought,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Of a golden time to fall!</p> +<p>She seemed to sing, in her wandering,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Till doves in the elm-tops tall</p> +<p>Grew mute to hear; as her song rang clear</p> +<p class = "inset1">How love is the lord of all.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail025.png" width = "124" height = "78" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">26</span> +<a name = "page26" id = "page26"> </a> +<!-- png 073 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head026.png" width = "375" height = "167" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>ALFRED AUSTIN.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1835.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>A NIGHT IN JUNE.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">L</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ady!</span> +in this night of June,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Fair like thee and holy,</p> +<p>Art thou gazing at the moon</p> +<p class = "inset1">That is rising slowly?</p> +<p class = "inset2">I am gazing on her now:</p> +<p class = "inset2">Something tells me, so art thou.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Night hath been when thou and I</p> +<p class = "inset1">Side by side were sitting,</p> +<p>Watching o’er the moonlit sky</p> +<p class = "inset1">Fleecy cloudlets flitting.</p> +<p class = "inset2">Close our hands were linkèd then;</p> +<p class = "inset2">When will they be linked again?</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">27</span> +<a name = "page27" id = "page27"> </a> +<!-- png 074 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +What to me the starlight still,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Or the moonbeams’ splendour,</p> +<p>If I do not feel the thrill</p> +<p class = "inset1">Of thy fingers slender?</p> +<p class = "inset2">Summer nights in vain are clear,</p> +<p class = "inset2">If thy footstep be not near.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Roses slumbering in their sheaths</p> +<p class = "inset1">O’er my threshold clamber,</p> +<p>And the honeysuckle wreathes</p> +<p class = "inset1">Its translucent amber</p> +<p class = "inset2">Round the gables of my home:</p> +<p class = "inset2">How is it thou dost not come?</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +If thou camest, rose on rose</p> +<p class = "inset1">From its sleep would waken;</p> +<p>From each flower and leaf that blows</p> +<p class = "inset1">Spices would be shaken;</p> +<p class = "inset2">Floating down from star and tree,</p> +<p class = "inset2">Dreamy perfumes welcome thee.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">28</span> +<a name = "page28" id = "page28"> </a> +<!-- png 075 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +I would lead thee where the leaves</p> +<p class = "inset1">In the moon-rays glisten;</p> +<p>And, where shadows fall in sheaves,</p> +<p class = "inset1">We would lean and listen</p> +<p class = "inset2">For the song of that sweet bird</p> +<p class = "inset2">That in April nights is heard.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +And when weary lids would close,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And thy head was drooping,</p> +<p>Then, like dew that steeps the rose,</p> +<p class = "inset1">O’er thy languor stooping,</p> +<p class = "inset2">I would, till I woke a sigh,</p> +<p class = "inset2">Kiss thy sweet lips silently.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I would give thee all I own,</p> +<p class = "inset1">All thou hast would borrow,</p> +<p>I from thee would keep alone</p> +<p class = "inset1">Fear and doubt and sorrow.</p> +<p class = "inset2">All of tender that is mine</p> +<p class = "inset2">Should most tenderly be thine.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">29</span> +<a name = "page29" id = "page29"> </a> +<!-- png 076 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +Moonlight! into other skies,</p> +<p class = "inset1">I beseech thee wander.</p> +<p>Cruel thus to mock mine eyes,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Idle, thus to squander</p> +<p class = "inset2">Love’s own light on this dark spot;—</p> +<p class = "inset2">For my lady cometh not!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail019.png" width = "117" height = "64" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">30</span> +<a name = "page30" id = "page30"> </a> +<!-- png 077 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head030.png" width = "376" height = "174" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1803-1849.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>DREAM-PEDLARY.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> + +<h5>I.</h5> + +<p class = "dropcap">I</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">f</span> +there were dreams to sell,</p> +<p class = "inset1">What would you buy?</p> +<p>Some cost a passing bell;</p> +<p class = "inset1">Some a light sigh,</p> +<p>That shakes from Life’s fresh crown</p> +<p>Only a rose-leaf down.</p> +<p>If there were dreams to sell,</p> +<p>Merry and sad to tell,</p> +<p>And the crier rung the bell,</p> +<p class = "inset1">What would you buy?</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">31</span> +<a name = "page31" id = "page31"> </a> +<!-- png 078 --> +<h5>II.</h5> + +<p>A cottage lone and still,</p> +<p class = "inset1">With bowers nigh,</p> +<p>Shadowy, my woes to still,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Until I die.</p> +<p>Such pearl from Life’s fresh crown</p> +<p>Fain would I shake me down.</p> +<p>Were dreams to have at will,</p> +<p>This would best heal my ill,</p> +<p class = "inset1">This would I buy.</p> + +<h5>III.</h5> + +<p>But there were dreams to sell</p> +<p class = "inset1">Ill didst thou buy;</p> +<p>Life is a dream, they tell,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Waking, to die.</p> +<p>Dreaming a dream to prize,</p> +<p>Is wishing ghosts to rise;</p> +<p class = "inset1">And, if I had the spell</p> +<p class = "inset1">To call the buried well,</p> +<p class = "inset2">Which one would I?</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">32</span> +<a name = "page32" id = "page32"> </a> +<!-- png 079 --> +<h5>IV.</h5> + +<p>If there are ghosts to raise,</p> +<p class = "inset1">What shall I call,</p> +<p>Out of hell’s murky haze,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Heaven’s blue pall?</p> +<p>Raise my loved long-lost boy</p> +<p>To lead me to his joy.—</p> +<p class = "inset1">There are no ghosts to raise;</p> +<p class = "inset1">Out of death lead no ways;</p> +<p class = "inset2">Vain is the call.</p> + +<h5>V.</h5> + +<p>Know’st thou not ghosts to sue</p> +<p class = "inset1">No love thou hast.</p> +<p>Else lie, as I will do,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And breathe thy last.</p> +<p>So out of Life’s fresh crown</p> +<p>Fall like a rose-leaf down.</p> +<p class = "inset1">Thus are the ghosts to woo;</p> +<p class = "inset1">Thus are all dreams made true,</p> +<p class = "inset2">Ever to last!</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">33</span> +<a name = "page33" id = "page33"> </a> +<!-- png 080 --> +<h4>SONG FROM THE SHIP.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +FROM “DEATH’S JEST-BOOK.”</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">T</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">o</span> +sea, to sea! the calm is o’er;</p> +<p class = "inset1">The wanton water leaps in sport,</p> +<p>And rattles down the pebbly shore;</p> +<p class = "inset1">The dolphin wheels, the sea-cows snort,</p> +<p>And unseen Mermaids’ pearly song</p> +<p>Comes bubbling up, the weeds among.</p> +<p class = "inset1">Fling broad the sail, dip deep the oar:</p> +<p class = "inset1">To sea, to sea! the calm is o’er.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +To sea, to sea! Our wide-winged bark</p> +<p class = "inset1">Shall billowy cleave its sunny way,</p> +<p>And with its shadow, fleet and dark,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Break the caved Tritons’ azure day,</p> +<p>Like mighty eagle soaring light</p> +<p>O’er antelopes on Alpine height.</p> +<p class = "inset1">The anchor heaves, the ship swings free,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">34</span> +<a name = "page34" id = "page34"> </a> +<!-- png 081 --> +<h4>SONG.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">M</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">y</span> +goblet’s golden lips are dry,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And, as the rose doth pine</p> +<p class = "inset1">For dew, so doth for wine +<!-- pity “tea” doesn’t rhyme --></p> +<p class = "inset2">My goblet’s cup;</p> +<p>Rain, O! rain, or it will die;</p> +<p class = "inset2">Rain, fill it up!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Arise, and get thee wings to-night,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Ætna! and let run o’er</p> +<p class = "inset1">Thy wines, a hill no more,</p> +<p class = "inset2">But darkly frown</p> +<p>A cloud, where eagles dare not soar,</p> +<p class = "inset2">Dropping rain down.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">35</span> +<a name = "page35" id = "page35"> </a> +<!-- png 082 --> +<h4>SONG.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +FROM “THE SECOND BROTHER.”</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">S</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">trew</span> +not earth with empty stars,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Strew it not with roses,</p> +<p>Nor feathers from the crest of Mars,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Nor summer’s idle posies.</p> +<p>’T is not the primrose-sandalled moon,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Nor cold and silent morn,</p> +<p>Nor he that climbs the dusty noon,</p> +<p>Nor mower war with scythe that drops,</p> +<p>Stuck with helmed and turbaned tops</p> +<p class = "inset1">Of enemies new shorn.</p> +<p>Ye cups, ye lyres, ye trumpets know,</p> +<p>Pour your music, let it flow,</p> +<p>’T is Bacchus’ son who walks below.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">36</span> +<a name = "page36" id = "page36"> </a> +<!-- png 083 --> +<h4>SONG, BY TWO VOICES.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +FROM “THE BRIDES’ TRAGEDY.”</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> + +<h5>FIRST VOICE.</h5> + +<p class = "dropcap">W</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ho</span> +is the baby, that doth lie</p> +<p>Beneath the silken canopy</p> +<p>Of thy blue eye?</p> + +<h5>SECOND.</h5> + +<p>It is young Sorrow, laid asleep</p> +<p>In the crystal deep.</p> + +<h5>BOTH.</h5> + +<p>Let us sing his lullaby,</p> +<p>Heigho! a sob and a sigh.</p> + +<h5>FIRST VOICE.</h5> + +<p>What sound is that, so soft, so clear,</p> +<p>Harmonious as a bubbled tear</p> +<p>Bursting, we hear?</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">37</span> +<a name = "page37" id = "page37"> </a> +<!-- png 084 --> +<h5>SECOND.</h5> + +<p>It is young Sorrow, slumber breaking,</p> +<p>Suddenly awaking.</p> + +<h5>BOTH.</h5> + +<p>Let us sing his lullaby,</p> +<p>Heigho! a sob and a sigh.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail037.png" width = "127" height = "79" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">38</span> +<a name = "page38" id = "page38"> </a> +<!-- png 085 --> +<h4>SONG.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +FROM “TORRISMOND.”</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">H</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ow</span> +many times do I love thee, dear?</p> +<p class = "inset1">Tell me how many thoughts there be</p> +<p class = "inset2">In the atmosphere</p> +<p class = "inset2">Of a new-fall’n year,</p> +<p>Whose white and sable hours appear</p> +<p class = "inset1">The latest flake of Eternity:—</p> +<p>So many times do I love thee, dear.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +How many times do I love again?</p> +<p class = "inset1">Tell me how many beads there are</p> +<p class = "inset2">In a silver chain</p> +<p class = "inset2">Of evening rain,</p> +<p>Unravelled from the tumbling main,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And threading the eye of a yellow star:—</p> +<p>So many times do I love again.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + +<!-- png 086 --> + +<p class = "illustration plate"> +<a name = "plate38" id = "plate38"> </a> +<img src = "images/plate_opp38.jpg" width = "341" height = "488" +alt = "Song in the Garden" title = "Song in the Garden"> +</p> +<!-- png 087 --> + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">39</span> +<a name = "page39" id = "page39"> </a> +<!-- png 088 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head039.png" width = "372" height = "158" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>WILLIAM COX BENNETT.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1820</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>CRADLE SONG.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">S</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">leep!</span> +the bird is in its nest;</p> +<p>Sleep! the bee is hushed in rest;</p> +<p>Sleep! rocked on thy mother’s breast!</p> +<p class = "inset4">Lullaby!</p> +<p>To thy mother’s fond heart pressed,</p> +<p class = "inset4">Lullaby!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Sleep! the waning daylight dies;</p> +<p>Sleep! the stars dream in the skies;</p> +<p>Daisies long have closed their eyes;</p> +<p class = "inset4">Lullaby!</p> +<p>Calm, how calm on all things lies!</p> +<p class = "inset4">Lullaby!</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">40</span> +<a name = "page40" id = "page40"> </a> +<!-- png 089 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +Sleep then, sleep! my heart’s delight!</p> +<p>Sleep! and through the darksome night</p> +<p>Round thy bed God’s angels bright</p> +<p class = "inset4">Lullaby!</p> +<p>Guard thee till I come with light!</p> +<p class = "inset4">Lullaby!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail040.png" width = "126" height = "74" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">41</span> +<a name = "page41" id = "page41"> </a> +<!-- png 090 --> +<h4>MY ROSES BLOSSOM THE WHOLE YEAR ROUND.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">M</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">y</span> +roses blossom the whole year round;</p> +<p>For, O they grow on enchanted ground;</p> +<p class = "inset2">Divine is the earth</p> +<p class = "inset2">Where they spring to birth;</p> +<p>On dimpling cheeks with love and mirth,</p> +<p class = "inset3">They ’re found</p> +<p class = "inset2">They ’re ever found.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +My lilies no change of seasons heed;</p> +<p>Nor shelter from storms or frosts they need;</p> +<p class = "inset2">For, O they grow</p> +<p class = "inset2">On a neck of snow,</p> +<p>Nor all the wintry blasts that blow</p> +<p class = "inset3">They heed,</p> +<p class = "inset2">They ever heed.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">42</span> +<a name = "page42" id = "page42"> </a> +<!-- png 091 --> +<h4>CRADLE SONG.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">L</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ullaby!</span> +O lullaby!</p> +<p>Baby, hush that little cry!</p> +<p class = "inset3">Light is dying,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Bats are flying,</p> +<p>Bees to-day with work have done;</p> +<p>So, till comes the morrow’s sun,</p> +<p>Let sleep kiss those bright eyes dry!</p> +<p class = "inset3">Lullaby! O lullaby!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Lullaby! O lullaby!</p> +<p>Hushed are all things far and nigh;</p> +<p class = "inset3">Flowers are closing,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Birds reposing,</p> +<p>All sweet things with life have done;</p> +<p>Sweet, till dawns the morning sun,</p> +<p>Sleep then kiss those blue eyes dry!</p> +<p class = "inset3">Lullaby! O lullaby!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail042.png" width = "125" height = "54" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">43</span> +<a name = "page43" id = "page43"> </a> +<!-- png 092 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head043.png" width = "377" height = "167" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>F. W. BOURDILLON.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1852.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>LOVE’S MEINIE.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">T</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">here</span> +is no summer ere the swallows come,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Nor Love appears,</p> +<p>Till Hope, Love’s light-winged herald, lifts the gloom</p> +<p class = "inset3">Of years.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +There is no summer left when swallows fly,</p> +<p class = "inset3">And Love at last,</p> +<p>When hopes which filled its heaven droop and die,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Is past.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">44</span> +<a name = "page44" id = "page44"> </a> +<!-- png 093 --> +<h4>THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">T</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">he</span> +night has a thousand eyes,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And the day but one;</p> +<p>Yet the light of the bright world dies</p> +<p class = "inset1">With the dying sun.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +The mind has a thousand eyes,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And the heart but one;</p> +<p>Yet the light of a whole life dies</p> +<p class = "inset1">When love is done.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail015.png" width = "126" height = "52" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<!-- png 094 --> + +<p class = "illustration plate"> +<a name = "plate44" id = "plate44"> </a> +<img src = "images/plate_opp44.jpg" width = "369" height = "527" +alt = "The night has a thousand eyes" +title = "The night has a thousand eyes"> +</p> + +<!-- png 095 --> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">45</span> +<a name = "page45" id = "page45"> </a> +<!-- png 096 --> +<h4>A LOST VOICE.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">A</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> thousand</span> +voices fill my ears</p> +<p class = "inset1">All day until the light grows pale;</p> +<p>But silence falls when night-time nears,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And where art thou, sweet nightingale?</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Was that thine echo, faint and far?</p> +<p class = "inset1">Nay, all is hushed as heaven above;</p> +<p>In earth no voice, in heaven no star,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And in my heart no dream of love.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail045.png" width = "125" height = "73" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">46</span> +<a name = "page46" id = "page46"> </a> +<!-- png 097 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head046.png" width = "376" height = "157" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>ROBERT BUCHANAN.</h3> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>SERENADE.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">S</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">leep</span> +sweet, belovëd one, sleep sweet!</p> +<p class = "inset1">Without here night is growing,</p> +<p>The dead leaf falls, the dark boughs meet,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And a chill wind is blowing.</p> +<p>Strange shapes are stirring in the night,</p> +<p class = "inset1">To the deep breezes wailing,</p> +<p>And slow, with wistful gleams of light,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The storm-tost moon is sailing.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Sleep sweet, belovëd one, sleep sweet!</p> +<p class = "inset1">Fold thy white hands, my blossom!</p> +<p>Thy warm limbs in thy lily sheet,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Thy hands upon thy bosom.</p> +<span class = "pagenum">47</span> +<a name = "page47" id = "page47"> </a> +<!-- png 098 --> +<p>Though evil thoughts may walk the dark,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Not one shall near thy chamber;</p> +<p>But shapes divine shall pause to mark,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Singing to lutes of amber.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Sleep sweet, belovëd one, sleep sweet!</p> +<p class = "inset1">Though, on thy bosom creeping,</p> +<p>Strange hands are laid, to feel the beat</p> +<p class = "inset1">Of thy soft heart in sleeping.</p> +<p>The brother angels, Sleep and Death,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Stop by thy couch and eye thee;</p> +<p>And Sleep stoops down to drink thy breath,</p> +<p class = "inset1">While Death goes softly by thee!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail047.png" width = "123" height = "64" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">48</span> +<a name = "page48" id = "page48"> </a> +<!-- png 099 --> +<h4>SONG.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +FROM “LOVE IN WINTER.”</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap"><span class = "quotes">“</span>O</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> Love</span> +is like the roses,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And every rose shall fall,</p> +<p>For sure as summer closes</p> +<p class = "inset1">They perish one and all.</p> +<p>Then love, while leaves are on the tree,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And birds sing in the bowers:</p> +<p>When winter comes, too late ’t will be</p> +<p class = "inset1">To pluck the happy flowers.”</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +“O Love is like the roses,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Love comes, and Love must flee!</p> +<p>Before the summer closes</p> +<p class = "inset1">Love’s rapture and Love’s glee!”</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail012.png" width = "127" height = "57" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">49</span> +<a name = "page49" id = "page49"> </a> +<!-- png 100 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head049.png" width = "377" height = "107" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>MORTIMER COLLINS.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1827-1876.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>TO F. C.</h4> + +<h5 class = "smallcaps">20th February 1875.</h5> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">F</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ast</span> +falls the snow, O lady mine,</p> +<p>Sprinkling the lawn with crystals fine,</p> +<p>But by the gods we won’t repine</p> +<p class = "inset3">While we ’re together,</p> +<p>We ’ll chat and rhyme and kiss and dine,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Defying weather.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +So stir the fire and pour the wine,</p> +<p>And let those sea-green eyes divine</p> +<p>Pour their love-madness into mine:</p> +<p class = "inset3">I don’t care whether</p> +<p>’T is snow or sun or rain or shine</p> +<p class = "inset3">If we ’re together.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + + +<!-- png 102 --> + +<p class = "illustration plate"> +<a name = "plate50" id = "plate50"> </a> +<img src = "images/plate_opp50.jpg" width = "373" height = "525" +alt = "A Game of Chess" title = "A Game of Chess"> +</p> + +<!-- png 103 --> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">50</span> +<a name = "page50" id = "page50"> </a> +<!-- png 101 --> +<h4>A GAME OF CHESS.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">T</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">errace</span> +and lawn are white with frost,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Whose fretwork flowers upon the panes—</p> +<p>A mocking dream of summer, lost</p> +<p class = "inset3">’Mid winter’s icy chains.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +White-hot, indoors, the great logs gleam,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Veiled by a flickering flame of blue:</p> +<p>I see my love as in a dream—</p> +<p class = "inset3">Her eyes are azure, too.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +She puts her hair behind her ears</p> +<p class = "inset1">(Each little ear so like a shell),</p> +<p>Touches her ivory Queen, and fears</p> +<p class = "inset3">She is not playing well.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +For me, I think of nothing less:</p> +<p class = "inset1">I think how those pure pearls become her—</p> +<p>And which is sweetest, winter chess</p> +<p class = "inset3">Or garden strolls in summer.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">51</span> +<a name = "page51" id = "page51"> </a> +<!-- png 104 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +O linger, frost, upon the pane!</p> +<p class = "inset1">O faint blue flame, still softly rise!</p> +<p>O, dear one, thus with me remain,</p> +<p class = "inset3">That I may watch thine eyes!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail025.png" width = "124" height = "78" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">52</span> +<a name = "page52" id = "page52"> </a> +<!-- png 105 --> +<h4>MULTUM IN PARVO.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">A</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> little</span> +shadow makes the sunrise sad,</p> +<p class = "inset1">A little trouble checks the race of joy,</p> +<p>A little agony may drive men mad,</p> +<p class = "inset1">A little madness may the soul destroy:</p> +<p class = "inset3">Such is the world’s annoy.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Ay, and the rose is but a little flower</p> +<p class = "inset1">Which the red Queen of all the garden is:</p> +<p>And Love, which lasteth but a little hour,</p> +<p class = "inset1">A moment’s rapture and a moment’s kiss,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Is what no man would miss.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">53</span> +<a name = "page53" id = "page53"> </a> +<!-- png 106 --> +<h4>VIOLETS AT HOME.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> + +<h5>I.</h5> + +<p class = "dropcap">O</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> happy</span> +buds of violet!</p> +<p class = "inset1">I give thee to my sweet, and she</p> +<p>Puts them where something sweeter yet</p> +<p class = "inset4">Must always be.</p> + +<h5>II.</h5> + +<p>White violets find whiter rest:</p> +<p class = "inset1">For fairest flowers how fair a fate!</p> +<p>For me remain, O fragrant breast!</p> +<p class = "inset4">Inviolate.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">54</span> +<a name = "page54" id = "page54"> </a> +<!-- png 107 --> +<h4>MY THRUSH.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">A</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ll</span> +through the sultry hours of June,</p> +<p>From morning blithe to golden noon,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And till the star of evening climbs</p> +<p>The gray-blue East, a world too soon,</p> +<p class = "inset1">There sings a Thrush amid the limes.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +God’s poet, hid in foliage green,</p> +<p>Sings endless songs, himself unseen;</p> +<p class = "inset1">Right seldom come his silent times.</p> +<p>Linger, ye summer hours serene!</p> +<p class = "inset1">Sing on, dear Thrush, amid the limes.</p> + +<p class = "dots">·······</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +May I not dream God sends thee there,</p> +<p>Thou mellow angel of the air,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Even to rebuke my earthlier rhymes</p> +<p>With music’s soul, all praise and prayer?</p> +<p class = "inset1">Is that thy lesson in the limes?</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">55</span> +<a name = "page55" id = "page55"> </a> +<!-- png 108 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +Closer to God art thou than I:</p> +<p>His minstrel thou, whose brown wings fly</p> +<p class = "inset1">Through silent æther’s sunnier climes.</p> +<p>Ah, never may thy music die!</p> +<p class = "inset1">Sing on, dear Thrush, amid the limes!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail055.png" width = "128" height = "68" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">56</span> +<a name = "page56" id = "page56"> </a> +<!-- png 109 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head056.png" width = "373" height = "119" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1826-1887.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>TOO LATE.</h4> + +<h5><i>“Dowglas, Dowglas, tendir and treu.”</i></h5> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">C</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ould</span> +ye come back to me, Douglas, Douglas,</p> +<p class = "inset1">In the old likeness that I knew,</p> +<p>I would be so faithful, so loving, Douglas,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Douglas, Douglas, tender and true.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Never a scornful word should grieve ye,</p> +<p class = "inset1">I ’d smile on ye sweet as the angels do;—</p> +<p>Sweet as your smile on me shone ever,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Douglas, Douglas, tender and true.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +O to call back the days that are not!</p> +<p class = "inset1">My eyes were blinded, your words were few:</p> +<p>Do you know the truth now up in heaven,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Douglas, Douglas, tender and true?</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">57</span> +<a name = "page57" id = "page57"> </a> +<!-- png 110 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +I never was worthy of you, Douglas;</p> +<p class = "inset1">Not half worthy the like of you:</p> +<p>Now all men beside seem to me like shadows—</p> +<p class = "inset1">I love <i>you</i>, Douglas, tender and true.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Stretch out your hand to me, Douglas, Douglas,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Drop forgiveness from heaven like dew;</p> +<p>As I lay my heart on your dead heart, Douglas,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Douglas, Douglas, tender and true.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail057.png" width = "68" height = "41" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">58</span> +<a name = "page58" id = "page58"> </a> +<!-- png 111 --> +<h4>A SILLY SONG.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap"><span class = "quotes">“</span>O</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> heart,</span> +my heart!” she said, and heard</p> +<p class = "inset3">His mate the blackbird calling,</p> +<p>While through the sheen of the garden green</p> +<p class = "inset3">May rain was softly falling,—</p> +<p class = "inset3">Aye softly, softly falling.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +The buttercups across the field</p> +<p class = "inset3">Made sunshine rifts of splendour:</p> +<p>The round snow-bud of the thorn in the wood</p> +<p class = "inset3">Peeped through its leafage tender,</p> +<p class = "inset3">As the rain came softly falling.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +“O heart, my heart!” she said and smiled,</p> +<p class = "inset3">“There ’s not a tree of the valley,</p> +<p>Or a leaf I wis which the rain’s soft kiss</p> +<p class = "inset3">Freshens in yonder alley,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Where the drops keep ever falling,—</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">59</span> +<a name = "page59" id = "page59"> </a> +<!-- png 112 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +“There ’s not a foolish flower i’ the grass,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Or bird through the woodland calling,</p> +<p>So glad again of the coming rain</p> +<p class = "inset3">As I of these tears now falling,—</p> +<p class = "inset3">These happy tears down falling.”</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail059.png" width = "126" height = "73" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">60</span> +<a name = "page60" id = "page60"> </a> +<!-- png 113 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head060.png" width = "376" height = "123" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>GEORGE DARLEY.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1795-1846.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>MAY DAY.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +<span class = "smallcaps">From “Sylvia”</span>: +<i>Act III. Scene ii</i>.</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">O</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> may,</span> +thou art a merry time,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Sing hi! the hawthorn pink and pale!</p> +<p>When hedge-pipes they begin to chime,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And summer-flowers to sow the dale.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +When lasses and their lovers meet</p> +<p class = "inset1">Beneath the early village-thorn,</p> +<p>And to the sound of tabor sweet</p> +<p class = "inset1">Bid welcome to the Maying-morn!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +O May, thou art a merry time,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Sing hi! the hawthorn pink and pale!</p> +<p>When hedge-pipes they begin to chime,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And summer-flowers to sow the dale.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">61</span> +<a name = "page61" id = "page61"> </a> +<!-- png 114 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +When grey-beards and their gossips come</p> +<p class = "inset1">With crutch in hand our sports to see,</p> +<p>And both go tottering, tattling home,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Topful of wine as well as glee!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +O May, thou art a merry time,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Sing hi! the hawthorn pink and pale!</p> +<p>When hedge-pipes they begin to chime,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And summer-flowers to sow the dale.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +But Youth was aye the time for bliss,</p> +<p class = "inset1">So taste it, Shepherds! while ye may:</p> +<p>For who can tell that joy like this</p> +<p class = "inset1">Will come another holiday?</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +O May, thou art a merry time,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Sing hi! the hawthorn pink and pale!</p> +<p>When hedge-pipes they begin to chime,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And summer-flowers to sow the dale.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">62</span> +<a name = "page62" id = "page62"> </a> +<!-- png 115 --> +<h4>I’VE BEEN ROAMING.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +FROM “LILIAN OF THE VALE.”</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">I</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> ’ve</span> +been roaming! I ’ve been roaming!</p> +<p class = "inset1">Where the meadow dew is sweet,</p> +<p>And like a queen I ’m coming</p> +<p class = "inset1">With its pearls upon my feet.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I ’ve been roaming! I ’ve been roaming!</p> +<p class = "inset1">O’er red rose and lily fair,</p> +<p>And like a sylph I ’m coming</p> +<p class = "inset1">With their blossoms in my hair.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I ’ve been roaming! I ’ve been roaming!</p> +<p class = "inset1">Where the honeysuckle creeps,</p> +<p>And like a bee I ’m coming</p> +<p class = "inset1">With its kisses on my lips.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I ’ve been roaming! I ’ve been roaming!</p> +<p class = "inset1">Over hill and over plain,</p> +<p>And like a bird I ’m coming</p> +<p class = "inset1">To my bower back again!</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + + +<!-- png 116 --> + +<p class = "illustration plate"> +<a name = "plate62" id = "plate62"> </a> +<img src = "images/plate_opp62.jpg" width = "365" height = "530" +alt = "“I ’ve been roaming, I ’ve been roaming”" +title = "“I ’ve been roaming, I ’ve been roaming”"> +</p> +<!-- png 117 --> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">63</span> +<a name = "page63" id = "page63"> </a> +<!-- png 118 --> +<h4>SYLVIA’S SONG.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">T</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">he</span> +streams that wind amid the hills</p> +<p class = "inset1">And lost in pleasure slowly roam,</p> +<p>While their deep joy the valley fills,—</p> +<p class = "inset1">Even these will leave their mountain home;</p> +<p class = "inset2">So may it, Love! with others be,</p> +<p class = "inset2">But I will never wend from thee.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +The leaf forsakes the parent spray,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The blossom quits the stem as fast;</p> +<p>The rose-enamour’d bird will stray</p> +<p class = "inset1">And leave his eglantine at last:</p> +<p class = "inset2">So may it, Love! with others be,</p> +<p class = "inset2">But I will never wend from thee.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">64</span> +<a name = "page64" id = "page64"> </a> +<!-- png 119 --> +<h4>SERENADE.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +<span class = "smallcaps">From “Sylvia”:</span> +<i>Act IV. Scene <ins class = "correction" title = "error for ‘i’?">I.</ins></i></span></h4> + +<h5 class = "smallcaps">Romanzo sings:</h5> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">A</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">wake</span> +thee, my Lady-love!</p> +<p class = "inset1">Wake thee, and rise!</p> +<p>The sun through the bower peeps</p> +<p class = "inset1">Into thine eyes!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Behold how the early lark</p> +<p class = "inset1">Springs from the corn!</p> +<p>Hark, hark how the flower-bird</p> +<p class = "inset1">Winds her wee horn!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +The swallow’s glad shriek is heard</p> +<p class = "inset1">All through the air!</p> +<p>The stock-dove is murmuring</p> +<p class = "inset1">Loud as she dare!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Apollo’s winged bugleman</p> +<p class = "inset1">Cannot contain,</p> +<p>But peals his loud trumpet-call</p> +<p class = "inset1">Once and again!</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">65</span> +<a name = "page65" id = "page65"> </a> +<!-- png 120 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +Then wake thee, my Lady-love,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Bird of my bower!</p> +<p>The sweetest and sleepiest</p> +<p class = "inset1">Bird at this hour!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail065.png" width = "187" height = "77" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">66</span> +<a name = "page66" id = "page66"> </a> +<!-- png 121 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head066.png" width = "376" height = "164" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>LORD DE TABLEY.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1835.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>A WINTER SKETCH.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">W</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">hen</span> +the snow begins to feather,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And the woods begin to roar</p> +<p>Clashing angry boughs together,</p> +<p class = "inset1">As the breakers grind the shore</p> +<p>Nature then a bankrupt goes,</p> +<p>Full of wreck and full of woes.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +When the swan for warmer forelands</p> +<p class = "inset1">Leaves the sea-firth’s icebound edge,</p> +<p>When the gray geese from the morelands</p> +<p class = "inset1">Cleave the clouds in noisy wedge,</p> +<p>Woodlands stand in frozen chains,</p> +<p>Hung with ropes of solid rains.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">67</span> +<a name = "page67" id = "page67"> </a> +<!-- png 122 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +Shepherds creep to byre and haven,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Sheep in drifts are nipped and numb;</p> +<p>Some belated rook or raven</p> +<p class = "inset1">Rocks upon a sign-post dumb;</p> +<p>Mere-waves, solid as a clod,</p> +<p>Roar with skaters, thunder-shod.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +All the roofs and chimneys rumble;</p> +<p class = "inset1">Roads are ridged with slush and sleet;</p> +<p>Down the orchard apples tumble;</p> +<p class = "inset1">Ploughboys stamp their frosty feet;</p> +<p>Millers, jolted down the lanes,</p> +<p>Hardly feel for cold their reins.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Snipes are calling from the trenches,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Frozen half and half at flow;</p> +<p>In the porches servant wenches</p> +<p class = "inset1">Work with shovels at the snow;</p> +<p>Rusty blackbirds, weak of wing,</p> +<p>Clean forget they once could sing.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Dogs and boys fetch down the cattle,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Deep in mire and powdered pale;</p> +<span class = "pagenum">68</span> +<a name = "page68" id = "page68"> </a> +<!-- png 123 --> +<p>Spinning-wheels commence to rattle;</p> +<p class = "inset1">Landlords spice the smoking ale.</p> +<p>Hail, white winter, lady fine,</p> +<p>In a cup of elder wine!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail068.png" width = "123" height = "83" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">69</span> +<a name = "page69" id = "page69"> </a> +<!-- png 124 --> +<h4>THE SECOND MADRIGAL.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">W</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">oo</span> +thy lass while May is here;</p> +<p class = "inset1">Winter vows are colder.</p> +<p>Have thy kiss when lips are near;</p> +<p class = "inset1">To-morrow you are older.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Think, if clear the throstle sing,</p> +<p class = "inset1">A month his note will thicken;</p> +<p>A throat of gold in a golden spring</p> +<p class = "inset1">At the edge of the snow will sicken.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Take thy cup and take thy girl,</p> +<p class = "inset1">While they come for asking;</p> +<p>In thy heyday melt the pearl</p> +<p class = "inset1">At the love-ray basking.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Ale is good for careless bards,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Wine for wayworn sinners.</p> +<p>They who hold the strongest cards</p> +<p class = "inset1">Rise from life as winners.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">70</span> +<a name = "page70" id = "page70"> </a> +<!-- png 125 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head070.png" width = "376" height = "171" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>AUBREY DE VERE.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1788-1846.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>SONG.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> + +<h5>I.</h5> + +<p class = "dropcap4">S</p> +<p class = "inset2"><span class = "firstword">oftly,</span> +O midnight Hours!</p> +<p class = "inset2">Move softly o’er the bowers</p> +<p>Where lies in happy sleep a girl so fair!</p> +<p class = "inset2">For ye have power, men say,</p> +<p class = "inset2">Our hearts in sleep to sway,</p> +<p>And cage cold fancies in a moonlight snare.</p> +<p class = "inset2">Round ivory neck and arm</p> +<p class = "inset2">Enclasp a separate charm:</p> +<p>Hang o’er her poised; but breathe nor sigh nor prayer:</p> +<p class = "inset2">Silently ye may smile,</p> +<p class = "inset2">But hold your breath the while,</p> +<p>And let the wind sweep back your cloudy hair!</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">71</span> +<a name = "page71" id = "page71"> </a> +<!-- png 126 --> +<h5>II.</h5> + +<p class = "inset2">Bend down your glittering urns</p> +<p class = "inset2">Ere yet the dawn returns,</p> +<p>And star with dew the lawn her feet shall tread;</p> +<p class = "inset2">Upon the air rain balm;</p> +<p class = "inset2">Bid all the woods be calm;</p> +<p>Ambrosial dreams with healthful slumbers wed.</p> +<p class = "inset2">That so the Maiden may</p> +<p class = "inset2">With smiles your care repay</p> +<p>When from her couch she lifts her golden head;</p> +<p class = "inset2">Waking with earliest birds,</p> +<p class = "inset2">Ere yet the misty herds</p> +<p>Leave warm ’mid the grey grass their dusky bed.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail071.png" width = "125" height = "73" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">72</span> +<a name = "page72" id = "page72"> </a> +<!-- png 127 --> +<h4>SONG.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">S</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">eek</span> +not the tree of silkiest bark</p> +<p class = "inset1">And balmiest bud,</p> +<p>To carve her name—while yet ’t is dark—</p> +<p class = "inset1">Upon the wood!</p> +<p>The world is full of noble tasks</p> +<p class = "inset1">And wreaths hard-won:</p> +<p>Each work demands strong hearts, strong hands,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Till day is done.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Sing not that violet-veinèd skin,</p> +<p class = "inset1">That cheek’s pale roses;</p> +<p>The lily of that form wherein</p> +<p class = "inset1">Her soul reposes!</p> +<p>Forth to the fight, true man, true knight!</p> +<p class = "inset1">The clash of arms</p> +<p>Shall more prevail than whispered tale</p> +<p class = "inset1">To win her charms.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">73</span> +<a name = "page73" id = "page73"> </a> +<!-- png 128 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +The warrior for the True, the Right,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Fights in Love’s name:</p> +<p>The love that lures thee from that fight</p> +<p class = "inset1">Lures thee to shame.</p> +<p>That love which lifts the heart, yet leaves</p> +<p class = "inset1">The spirit free,—</p> +<p>That love, or none, is fit for one,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Man-shaped like thee.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail037.png" width = "127" height = "79" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">74</span> +<a name = "page74" id = "page74"> </a> +<!-- png 129 --> +<h4>SONG.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> + +<h5>I.</h5> + +<p class = "dropcap">W</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">hen</span> +I was young, I said to Sorrow,</p> +<p class = "inset1">“Come, and I will play with thee:”—</p> +<p class = "inset2">He is near me now all day;</p> +<p class = "inset2">And at night returns to say,</p> +<p>“I will come again to-morrow,</p> +<p class = "inset1">I will come and stay with thee.”</p> + +<h5>II.</h5> + +<p>Through the woods we walk together;</p> +<p class = "inset1">His soft footsteps rustle nigh me;</p> +<p class = "inset2">To shield an unregarded head,</p> +<p class = "inset2">He hath built a winter shed;</p> +<p>And all night in rainy weather,</p> +<p class = "inset1">I hear his gentle breathings by me.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">75</span> +<a name = "page75" id = "page75"> </a> +<!-- png 130 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head075.png" width = "372" height = "138" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>CHARLES DICKENS.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1812-1870.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>THE IVY GREEN.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">O</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">h,</span> +a dainty plant is the Ivy green,</p> +<p>That creepeth o’er ruins old!</p> +<p>Of right choice food are his meals I ween,</p> +<p>In his cell so lone and cold.</p> +<p>The wall must be crumbled, the stone decayed,</p> +<p>To pleasure his dainty whim:</p> +<p>And the mouldering dust that years have made</p> +<p>Is a merry meal for him.</p> +<p class = "inset2">Creeping where no life is seen,</p> +<p class = "inset2">A rare old plant is the Ivy green.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Fast he stealeth on, though he wears no wings,</p> +<p>And a staunch old heart has he.</p> +<p>How closely he twineth, how tight he clings,</p> +<p>To his friend, the huge Oak tree!</p> +<span class = "pagenum">76</span> +<a name = "page76" id = "page76"> </a> +<!-- png 131 --> +<p>And slily he traileth along the ground,</p> +<p>And his leaves he gently waves,</p> +<p>As he joyously hugs and crawleth round</p> +<p>The rich mould of dead men’s graves.</p> +<p class = "inset2">Creeping where grim death has been,</p> +<p class = "inset2">A rare old plant is the Ivy green.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Whole ages have fled, and their works decayed,</p> +<p>And nations have scattered been;</p> +<p>But the stout old Ivy shall never fade</p> +<p>From its hale and hearty green.</p> +<p>The brave old plant in its lonely days</p> +<p>Shall fatten upon the past:</p> +<p>For the stateliest building man can raise</p> +<p>Is the Ivy’s food at last.</p> +<p class = "inset2">Creeping on, where time has been,</p> +<p class = "inset2">A rare old plant is the Ivy green.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">77</span> +<a name = "page77" id = "page77"> </a> +<!-- png 132 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head077.png" width = "371" height = "170" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>AUSTIN DOBSON.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1840.</p> + +<h4>THE LADIES OF ST. JAMES’S.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +A PROPER NEW BALLAD OF THE COUNTRY AND THE TOWN.</span></h4> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">T</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">he</span> +ladies of St. James’s</p> +<p class = "inset1">Go swinging to the play;</p> +<p>Their footmen run before them,</p> +<p class = "inset1">With a “Stand by! Clear the way!”</p> +<p>But Phyllida, my Phyllida!</p> +<p class = "inset1">She takes her buckled shoon,</p> +<p>When we go out a-courting</p> +<p class = "inset1">Beneath the harvest moon.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +The ladies of St. James’s</p> +<p class = "inset1">Wear satin on their backs;</p> +<p>They sit all night at <i>Ombre</i>,</p> +<p class = "inset1">With candles all of wax:</p> +<span class = "pagenum">78</span> +<a name = "page78" id = "page78"> </a> +<!-- png 133 --> +<p>But Phyllida, my Phyllida!</p> +<p class = "inset1">She dons her russet gown,</p> +<p>And runs to gather May dew</p> +<p class = "inset1">Before the world is down.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +The ladies of St. James’s</p> +<p class = "inset1">They are so fine and fair,</p> +<p>You ’d think a box of essences</p> +<p class = "inset1">Was broken in the air:</p> +<p>But Phyllida, my Phyllida!</p> +<p class = "inset1">The breath of heath and furze,</p> +<p>When breezes blow at morning,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Is scarce so fresh as hers.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +The ladies of St. James’s</p> +<p class = "inset1">They ’re painted to the eyes;</p> +<p>Their white it stays forever,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Their red it never dies:</p> +<p>But Phyllida, my Phyllida!</p> +<p class = "inset1">Her color comes and goes;</p> +<p>It trembles to a lily,</p> +<p class = "inset1">It wavers to a rose.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">79</span> +<a name = "page79" id = "page79"> </a> +<!-- png 134 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +The ladies of St. James’s,</p> +<p class = "inset1">With “Mercy!” and with “Lud!”</p> +<p>They season all their speeches</p> +<p class = "inset1">(They come of noble blood):</p> +<p>But Phyllida, my Phyllida!</p> +<p class = "inset1">Her shy and simple words</p> +<p>Are sweet as, after rain-drops,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The music of the birds.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +The ladies of St. James’s,</p> +<p class = "inset1">They have their fits and freaks;</p> +<p>They smile on you—for seconds,</p> +<p class = "inset1">They frown on you—for weeks:</p> +<p>But Phyllida, my Phyllida!</p> +<p class = "inset1">Come either storm or shine,</p> +<p>From Shrovetide unto Shrovetide</p> +<p class = "inset1">Is always true—and mine.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +My Phyllida, my Phyllida!</p> +<p class = "inset1">I care not though they heap</p> +<p>The hearts of all St. James’s,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And give me all to keep;</p> +<span class = "pagenum">80</span> +<a name = "page80" id = "page80"> </a> +<!-- png 135 --> +<p>I care not whose the beauties</p> +<p class = "inset1">Of all the world may be,</p> +<p>For Phyllida—for Phyllida</p> +<p class = "inset1">Is all the world to me!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail055.png" width = "128" height = "68" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<!-- png 138 --> + +<p class = "illustration plate"> +<a name = "plate82" id = "plate82"> </a> +<img src = "images/plate_opp82.jpg" width = "367" height = "525" +alt = "“A maid I know,--and March winds blow”" +title = "“A maid I know,--and March winds blow”"> +</p> + +<!-- png 139 --> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">81</span> +<a name = "page81" id = "page81"> </a> +<!-- png 136 --> +<h4>THE MILKMAID.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +A NEW SONG TO AN OLD TUNE.</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">A</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">cross</span> +the grass I see her pass;</p> +<p class = "inset1">She comes with tripping pace,—</p> +<p>A maid I know,—and March winds blow</p> +<p class = "inset1">Her hair across her face;—</p> +<p class = "inset2">With a hey, Dolly! ho, Dolly!</p> +<p class = "inset3">Dolly shall be mine,</p> +<p class = "inset2">Before the spray is white with May,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Or blooms the eglantine.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +The March winds blow. I watch her go:</p> +<p class = "inset1">Her eye is brown and clear;</p> +<p>Her cheek is brown and soft as down</p> +<p class = "inset1">(To those who see it near!)—</p> +<p class = "inset2">With a hey, Dolly! ho, Dolly!</p> +<p class = "inset3">Dolly shall be mine,</p> +<p class = "inset2">Before the spray is white with May,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Or blooms the eglantine.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">82</span> +<a name = "page82" id = "page82"> </a> +<!-- png 137 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +What has she not that they have got,—</p> +<p class = "inset1">The dames that walk in silk!</p> +<p>If she undo her ’kerchief blue,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Her neck is white as milk.</p> +<p class = "inset2">With a hey, Dolly! ho, Dolly!</p> +<p class = "inset3">Dolly shall be mine,</p> +<p class = "inset2">Before the spray is white with May,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Or blooms the eglantine.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Let those who will be proud and chill!</p> +<p class = "inset1">For me, from June to June,</p> +<p>My Dolly’s words are sweet as curds,—</p> +<p class = "inset1">Her laugh is like a tune;—</p> +<p class = "inset2">With a hey, Dolly! ho, Dolly!</p> +<p class = "inset3">Dolly shall be mine,</p> +<p class = "inset2">Before the spray is white with May,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Or blooms the eglantine.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Break, break to hear, O crocus-spear!</p> +<p class = "inset1">O tall Lent-lilies, flame!</p> +<p>There ’ll be a bride at Easter-tide,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And Dolly is her name.</p> +<span class = "pagenum">83</span> +<a name = "page83" id = "page83"> </a> +<!-- png 140 --> +<p class = "inset2">With a hey, Dolly! ho, Dolly!</p> +<p class = "inset3">Dolly shall be mine,</p> +<p class = "inset2">Before the spray is white with May,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Or blooms the eglantine.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail083.png" width = "127" height = "78" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">84</span> +<a name = "page84" id = "page84"> </a> +<!-- png 141 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head084.png" width = "374" height = "139" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>ALFRED DOMETT.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1811-1887.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>A GLEE FOR WINTER.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">H</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ence,</span> +rude Winter! crabbed old fellow,</p> +<p>Never merry, never mellow!</p> +<p>Well-a-day! in rain and snow</p> +<p>What will keep one’s heart aglow?</p> +<p>Groups of kinsmen, old and young,</p> +<p>Oldest they old friends among!</p> +<p>Groups of friends, so old and true,</p> +<p>That they seem our kinsmen too!</p> +<p>These all merry all together,</p> +<p>Charm away chill Winter weather!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +What will kill this dull old fellow?</p> +<p>Ale that ’s bright, and wine that ’s mellow!</p> +<p>Dear old songs for ever new;</p> +<p>Some true love, and laughter too;</p> +<span class = "pagenum">85</span> +<a name = "page85" id = "page85"> </a> +<!-- png 142 --> +<p>Pleasant wit, and harmless fun,</p> +<p>And a dance when day is done!</p> +<p>Music—friends so true and tried—</p> +<p>Whispered love by warm fireside—</p> +<p>Mirth at all times all together—</p> +<p>Make sweet May of Winter weather!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail045.png" width = "125" height = "73" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">86</span> +<a name = "page86" id = "page86"> </a> +<!-- png 143 --> + +<h4>A KISS.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +SAPPHO TO PHAON.</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> + +<h5>I.</h5> + +<p class = "dropcap">S</p> +<p class = "inset1"><span class = "firstword">weet</span> +mouth! O let me take</p> +<p>One draught from that delicious cup!</p> +<p>The hot Sahara-thirst to slake</p> +<p class = "inset3">That burns me up!</p> + +<h5>II.</h5> + +<p class = "inset1">Sweet breath!—all flowers that are,</p> +<p>Within that darling frame must bloom;</p> +<p>My heart revives so at the rare</p> +<p class = "inset3">Divine perfume!</p> + +<h5>III.</h5> + +<p class = "inset1">—Nay, ’t is a dear deceit,</p> +<p>A drunkard’s cup that mouth of thine;</p> +<p>Sure poison-flowers are breathing, sweet,</p> +<p class = "inset3">That fragrance fine!</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">87</span> +<a name = "page87" id = "page87"> </a> +<!-- png 144 --> +<h5>IV.</h5> + +<p class = "inset1">I drank—the drink betrayed me</p> +<p>Into a madder, fiercer fever;</p> +<p>The scent of those love-blossoms made me</p> +<p class = "inset3">More faint than ever!</p> + +<h5>V.</h5> + +<p class = "inset1">Yet though quick death it were</p> +<p>That rich heart-vintage I must drain,</p> +<p>And quaff that hidden garden’s air,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Again—again!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail040.png" width = "126" height = "74" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">88</span> +<a name = "page88" id = "page88"> </a> +<!-- png 145 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head088.png" width = "374" height = "140" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>LADY DUFFERIN.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1807-1867.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>SONG.<a class = "tag" name = "tagA" id = "tagA" href = "#noteA">*</a></h4> + +<h5 class = "smallcaps">April 30, 1833.</h5> + +<div class = "verse"> + +<h5>I.</h5> + +<p class = "dropcap">W</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">hen</span> +another’s voice thou hearest,</p> +<p class = "inset1">With a sad and gentle tone,</p> +<p>Let its sound but waken, dearest,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Memory of <i>my</i> love alone!</p> +<p>When in stranger lands thou meetest</p> +<p class = "inset1">Warm, true hearts, which welcome thee,</p> +<p>Let each friendly look thou greetest</p> +<p class = "inset1">Seem a message, Love, from <i>me</i>!</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">89</span> +<a name = "page89" id = "page89"> </a> +<!-- png 146 --> +<h5>II.</h5> + +<p>When night’s quiet sky is o’er thee,</p> +<p class = "inset1">When the pale stars dimly burn,</p> +<p>Dream that <i>one</i> is watching for thee,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Who but lives for thy return!</p> +<p>Wheresoe’er thy steps are roving,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Night or day, by land or sea,</p> +<p>Think of her, whose life of loving</p> +<p class = "inset1">Is but one long thought of thee!</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<p class = "illustration tail"> +<img src = "images/tail042.png" width = "125" height = "54" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a name = "noteA" id = "noteA" href = "#tagA">* </a> +These lines were written to the author’s husband, then at sea, in 1833, +and set to music by herself.</p> + +<!-- png 148 --> + +<p class = "illustration plate"> +<a name = "plate90" id = "plate90"> </a> +<img src = "images/plate_opp90.jpg" width = "370" height = "530" +alt = "“That bright May morning long ago”" +title = "“That bright May morning long ago”"> +</p> +<!-- png 149 --> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">90</span> +<a name = "page90" id = "page90"> </a> +<!-- png 147 --> +<h4>LAMENT OF THE IRISH EMIGRANT.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">I</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> ’m</span> +sitting on the stile, Mary,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Where we sat, side by side,</p> +<p>That bright May morning long ago</p> +<p class = "inset1">When first you were my bride.</p> +<p>The corn was springing fresh and green,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The lark sang loud and high,</p> +<p>The red was on your lip, Mary,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The love-light in your eye.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +The place is little changed, Mary,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The day is bright as then,</p> +<p>The lark’s loud song is in my ear,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The corn is green again;</p> +<p>But I miss the soft clasp of your hand,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Your breath warm on my cheek,</p> +<p>And I still keep list’ning for the words</p> +<p class = "inset1">You never more may speak.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">91</span> +<a name = "page91" id = "page91"> </a> +<!-- png 150 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +’T is but a step down yonder lane,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The little Church stands near—</p> +<p>The Church where we were wed, Mary,—</p> +<p class = "inset1">I see the spire from here;</p> +<p>But the graveyard lies between, Mary,—</p> +<p class = "inset1">My step might break your rest,—</p> +<p>Where you, my darling, lie asleep</p> +<p class = "inset1">With your baby on your breast.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I ’m very lonely now, Mary,—</p> +<p class = "inset1">The poor make no new friends;—</p> +<p>But, oh! they love the better still</p> +<p class = "inset1">The few our Father sends.</p> +<p>And you were all I had, Mary,</p> +<p class = "inset1">My blessing and my pride;</p> +<p>There ’s nothing left to care for now</p> +<p class = "inset1">Since my poor Mary died.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Yours was the good brave heart, Mary,</p> +<p class = "inset1">That still kept hoping on,</p> +<p>When trust in God had left my soul,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And half my strength was gone.</p> +<span class = "pagenum">92</span> +<a name = "page92" id = "page92"> </a> +<!-- png 151 --> +<p>There was comfort ever on your lip,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And the kind look on your brow.</p> +<p>I bless you, Mary, for that same,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Though you can’t hear me now.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I thank you for the patient smile</p> +<p class = "inset1">When your heart was fit to break;</p> +<p>When the hunger pain was gnawing there</p> +<p class = "inset1">You hid it for my sake.</p> +<p>I bless you for the pleasant word</p> +<p class = "inset1">When your heart was sad and sore.</p> +<p>Oh! I ’m thankful you are gone, Mary,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Where grief can’t reach you more!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I ’m bidding you a long farewell,</p> +<p class = "inset1">My Mary—kind and true!</p> +<p>But I ’ll not forget you, darling,</p> +<p class = "inset1">In the land I ’m going to.</p> +<p>They say there ’s bread and work for all,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And the sun shines always there;</p> +<p>But I ’ll not forget old Ireland,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Were it fifty times as fair.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">93</span> +<a name = "page93" id = "page93"> </a> +<!-- png 152 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +And when amid those grand old woods</p> +<p class = "inset1">I sit and shut my eyes,</p> +<p>My heart will travel back again</p> +<p class = "inset1">To where my Mary lies;</p> +<p>I ’ll think I see the little stile</p> +<p class = "inset1">Where we sat, side by side,—</p> +<p>And the springing corn and bright May morn,</p> +<p class = "inset1">When first you were my bride.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail021.png" width = "121" height = "86" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">94</span> +<a name = "page94" id = "page94"> </a> +<!-- png 153 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head094.png" width = "375" height = "145" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>MICHAEL FIELD.</h3> + +<h4>WINDS TO-DAY ARE LARGE AND FREE.</h4> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">W</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">inds</span> +to-day are large and free,</p> +<p>Winds to-day are westerly;</p> +<p>From the land they seem to blow</p> +<p>Whence the sap begins to flow</p> +<p>And the dimpled light to spread,</p> +<p>From the country of the dead.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Ah, it is a wild, sweet land</p> +<p>Where the coming May is planned,</p> +<p>Where such influences throb</p> +<p>As our frosts can never rob</p> +<p>Of their triumph, when they bound</p> +<p>Through the tree and from the ground.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">95</span> +<a name = "page95" id = "page95"> </a> +<!-- png 154 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +Great within me is my soul,</p> +<p>Great to journey to its goal,</p> +<p>To the country of the dead;</p> +<p>For the cornel-tips are red,</p> +<p>And a passion rich in strife</p> +<p>Drives me toward the home of life.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Oh, to keep the spring with them</p> +<p>Who have flushed the cornel-stem,</p> +<p>Who imagine at its source</p> +<p>All the year’s delicious course,</p> +<p>Then express by wind and light</p> +<p>Something of their rapture’s height!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail047.png" width = "123" height = "64" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">96</span> +<a name = "page96" id = "page96"> </a> +<!-- png 155 --> +<h4>LET US WREATHE THE MIGHTY CUP.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">L</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">et</span> +us wreathe the mighty cup,</p> +<p>Then with song we ’ll lift it up,</p> +<p>And, before we drain the glow</p> +<p>Of the juice that foams below</p> +<p>Flowers and cool leaves round the brim,</p> +<p>Let us swell the praise of him</p> +<p>Who is tyrant of the heart,</p> +<p>Cupid with his flaming dart!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Pride before his face is bowed,</p> +<p>Strength and heedless beauty cowed;</p> +<p>Underneath his fatal wings</p> +<p>Bend discrowned the heads of kings;</p> +<p>Maidens blanch beneath his eye</p> +<p>And its laughing mastery;</p> +<p>Through each land his arrows sound,</p> +<p>By his fetters all are bound.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">97</span> +<a name = "page97" id = "page97"> </a> +<!-- png 156 --> +<h4>WHERE WINDS ABOUND.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">W</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">here</span> +winds abound,</p> +<p>And fields are hilly,</p> +<p>Shy daffadilly</p> +<p>Looks down on the ground.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Rose cones of larch</p> +<p>Are just beginning;</p> +<p>Though oaks are spinning</p> +<p>No oak-leaves in March.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Spring ’s at the core,</p> +<p>The boughs are sappy:</p> +<p>Good to be happy</p> +<p>So long, long before!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail019.png" width = "117" height = "64" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">98</span> +<a name = "page98" id = "page98"> </a> +<!-- png 157 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head098.png" width = "375" height = "161" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>NORMAN GALE.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1862.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>A SONG.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">F</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">irst</span> +the fine, faint, dreamy motion</p> +<p class = "inset1">Of the tender blood</p> +<p>Circling in the veins of children—</p> +<p class = "inset1">This is Life, the bud.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Next the fresh, advancing beauty</p> +<p class = "inset1">Growing from the gloom,</p> +<p>Waking eyes and fuller bosom—</p> +<p class = "inset1">This is Life, the bloom.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Then the pain that follows after,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Grievous to be borne,</p> +<p>Pricking, steeped in subtle poison—</p> +<p class = "inset1">This is Love, the thorn.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">99</span> +<a name = "page99" id = "page99"> </a> +<!-- png 158 --> +<h4>SONG.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">W</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ait</span> +but a little while—</p> +<p class = "inset1">The bird will bring</p> +<p>A heart in tune for melodies</p> +<p class = "inset1">Unto the spring,</p> +<p>Till he who ’s in the cedar there</p> +<p>Is moved to trill a song so rare,</p> +<p>And pipe her fair.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Wait but a little while—</p> +<p class = "inset1">The bud will break;</p> +<p>The inner rose will ope and glow</p> +<p class = "inset1">For summer’s sake;</p> +<p>Fond bees will lodge within her breast</p> +<p>Till she herself is plucked and prest</p> +<p>Where I would rest.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Wait but a little while—</p> +<p class = "inset1">The maid will grow</p> +<span class = "pagenum">100</span> +<a name = "page100" id = "page100"> </a> +<!-- png 159 --> +<p>Gracious with lips and hands to thee,</p> +<p class = "inset1">With breast of snow.</p> +<p>To-day Love ’s mute, but time hath sown</p> +<p>A soul in her to match thine own,</p> +<p>Though yet ungrown.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail100.png" width = "127" height = "74" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">101</span> +<a name = "page101" id = "page101"> </a> +<!-- png 160 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head049.png" width = "377" height = "107" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>EDMUND GOSSE.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1849.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>SONG FOR THE LUTE.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">I</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> bring</span> +a garland for your head</p> +<p class = "inset1">Of blossoms fresh and fair;</p> +<p>My own hands wound their white and red</p> +<p class = "inset1">To ring about your hair:</p> +<p>Here is a lily, here a rose,</p> +<p>A warm narcissus that scarce blows,</p> +<p>And fairer blossoms no man knows.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +So crowned and chapleted with flowers,</p> +<p class = "inset1">I pray you be not proud;</p> +<p>For after brief and summer hours</p> +<p class = "inset1">Comes autumn with a shroud;—</p> +<p>Though fragrant as a flower you lie,</p> +<p>You and your garland, bye and bye,</p> +<p>Will fade and wither up and die.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">102</span> +<a name = "page102" id = "page102"> </a> +<!-- png 161 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head102.png" width = "375" height = "177" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>THOMAS HOOD.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1798-1845.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>BALLAD.</h4> + +<h5>I.</h5> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">I</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">t</span> +was not in the winter</p> +<p>Our loving lot was cast;</p> +<p>It was the time of roses,—</p> +<p>We plucked them as we passed;</p> + +<h5>II.</h5> + +<p>That churlish season never frowned</p> +<p>On early lovers yet:—</p> +<p>Oh, no—the world was newly crowned</p> +<p>With flowers when first we met!</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">103</span> +<a name = "page103" id = "page103"> </a> +<!-- png 162 --> +<h5>III.</h5> + +<p>’T was twilight, and I bade you go,</p> +<p>But still you held me fast;</p> +<p>It was the time of roses,—</p> +<p>We plucked them as we passed.—</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail025.png" width = "124" height = "78" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">104</span> +<a name = "page104" id = "page104"> </a> +<!-- png 163 --> +<h4>SONG.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">O</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> Lady,</span> +leave thy silken thread</p> +<p class = "inset1">And flowery tapestrie:</p> +<p>There ’s living roses on the bush,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And blossoms on the tree;</p> +<p>Stoop where thou wilt, thy careless hand</p> +<p class = "inset1">Some random bud will meet;</p> +<p>Thou canst not tread, but thou wilt find</p> +<p class = "inset1">The daisy at thy feet.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +’T is like the birthday of the world,</p> +<p class = "inset1">When earth was born in bloom;</p> +<p>The light is made of many dyes,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The air is all perfume;</p> +<p>There ’s crimson buds, and white and blue—</p> +<p class = "inset1">The very rainbow showers</p> +<p>Have turned to blossoms where they fell,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And sown the earth with flowers.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">105</span> +<a name = "page105" id = "page105"> </a> +<!-- png 164 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +There ’s fairy tulips in the east,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The garden of the sun;</p> +<p>The very streams reflect the hues,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And blossom as they run:</p> +<p>While Morn opes like a crimson rose,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Still wet with pearly showers;</p> +<p>Then, Lady, leave the silken thread</p> +<p class = "inset1">Thou twinest into flowers!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail015.png" width = "126" height = "52" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<!-- png 166 --> + +<p class = "illustration plate"> +<a name = "plate106" id = "plate106"> </a> +<img src = "images/plate_opp106.jpg" width = "369" height = "549" +alt = "“I remember, I remember”" title = "“I remember, I remember”"> +</p> +<!-- png 167 --> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">106</span> +<a name = "page106" id = "page106"> </a> +<!-- png 165 --> +<h4>I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">I</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> remember,</span> +I remember,</p> +<p>The house where I was born,</p> +<p>The little window where the sun</p> +<p>Came peeping in at morn;</p> +<p>He never came a wink too soon,</p> +<p>Nor brought too long a day,</p> +<p>But now, I often wish the night</p> +<p>Had borne my breath away!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I remember, I remember,</p> +<p>The roses, red and white,</p> +<p>The vi’lets, and the lily-cups,</p> +<p>Those flowers made of light!</p> +<p>The lilacs where the robin built,</p> +<p>And where my brother set</p> +<p>The laburnum on his birthday,—</p> +<p>The tree is living yet!</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">107</span> +<a name = "page107" id = "page107"> </a> +<!-- png 168 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +I remember, I remember</p> +<p>Where I was used to swing,</p> +<p>And thought the air must rush as fresh</p> +<p>To swallows on the wing;</p> +<p>My spirit flew in feathers then,</p> +<p>That is so heavy now,</p> +<p>And summer pools could hardly cool</p> +<p>The fever on my brow!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I remember, I remember</p> +<p>The fir trees dark and high;</p> +<p>I used to think their slender tops</p> +<p>Were close against the sky:</p> +<p>It was a childish ignorance,</p> +<p>But now ’t is little joy</p> +<p>To know I ’m farther off from heav’n</p> +<p>Than when I was a boy.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">108</span> +<a name = "page108" id = "page108"> </a> +<!-- png 169 --> +<h4>BALLAD.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">S</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">he</span> +’s up and gone, the graceless Girl!</p> +<p class = "inset1">And robbed my failing years;</p> +<p>My blood before was thin and cold</p> +<p class = "inset1">But now ’t is turned to tears;—</p> +<p>My shadow falls upon my grave,</p> +<p> So near the brink I stand,</p> +<p>She might have stayed a little yet,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And led me by the hand!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Ay, call her on the barren moor,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And call her on the hill,</p> +<p>’T is nothing but the heron’s cry,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And plover’s answer shrill;</p> +<p>My child is flown on wilder wings,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Than they have ever spread,</p> +<p>And I may even walk a waste</p> +<p class = "inset1">That widened when she fled.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">109</span> +<a name = "page109" id = "page109"> </a> +<!-- png 170 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +Full many a thankless child has been,</p> +<p class = "inset1">But never one like mine;</p> +<p>Her meat was served on plates of gold,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Her drink was rosy wine;</p> +<p>But now she ’ll share the robin’s food,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And sup the common rill,</p> +<p>Before her feet will turn again</p> +<p class = "inset1">To meet her father’s will!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail109.png" width = "131" height = "82" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">110</span> +<a name = "page110" id = "page110"> </a> +<!-- png 171 --> +<h4>SONG.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> + +<h5>I.</h5> + +<p class = "dropcap">T</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">he</span> +stars are with the voyager</p> +<p class = "inset1">Wherever he may sail;</p> +<p>The moon is constant to her time;</p> +<p class = "inset1">The sun will never fail;</p> +<p>But follow, follow round the world,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The green earth and the sea;</p> +<p>So love is with the lover’s heart,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Wherever he may be.</p> + +<h5>II.</h5> + +<p>Wherever he may be, the stars</p> +<p class = "inset1">Must daily lose their light;</p> +<p>The moon will veil her in the shade;</p> +<p class = "inset1">The sun will set at night.</p> +<p>The sun may set, but constant love</p> +<p class = "inset1">Will shine when he ’s away;</p> +<p>So that dull night is never night,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And day is brighter day.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">111</span> +<a name = "page111" id = "page111"> </a> +<!-- png 172 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head111.png" width = "382" height = "138" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES<br> +(LORD HOUGHTON).</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1809-1885.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>THE BROOKSIDE.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">I</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> wandered</span> +by the brook-side,</p> +<p class = "inset1">I wandered by the mill,—</p> +<p>I could not hear the brook flow,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The noisy wheel was still;</p> +<p>There was no burr of grasshopper,</p> +<p class = "inset1">No chirp of any bird,</p> +<p>But the beating of my own heart</p> +<p class = "inset1">Was all the sound I heard.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I sat beside the elm-tree,</p> +<p class = "inset1">I watched the long, long, shade,</p> +<p>And as it grew still longer,</p> +<p class = "inset1">I did not feel afraid;</p> +<span class = "pagenum">112</span> +<a name = "page112" id = "page112"> </a> +<!-- png 173 --> +<p>For I listened for a footfall,</p> +<p class = "inset1">I listened for a word,—</p> +<p>But the beating of my own heart</p> +<p class = "inset1">Was all the sound I heard.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +He came not,—no, he came not,—</p> +<p class = "inset1">The night came on alone,—</p> +<p>The little stars sat one by one,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Each on his golden throne;</p> +<p>The evening air passed by my cheek,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The leaves above were stirred,—</p> +<p>But the beating of my own heart</p> +<p class = "inset1">Was all the sound I heard.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Fast silent tears were flowing,</p> +<p class = "inset1">When something stood behind,—</p> +<p>A hand was on my shoulder,</p> +<p class = "inset1">I knew its touch was kind:</p> +<p>It drew me nearer—nearer,—</p> +<p class = "inset1">We did not speak one word,</p> +<p>For the beating of our own hearts</p> +<p class = "inset1">Was all the sound we heard.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<!-- png 174 --> + +<p class = "illustration plate"> +<a name = "plate112" id = "plate112"> </a> +<img src = "images/plate_opp112.jpg" width = "374" height = "552" +alt = "I wandered by the brook-side" +title = "I wandered by the brook-side"> +</p> +<!-- png 175 --> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">113</span> +<a name = "page113" id = "page113"> </a> +<!-- png 176 --> +<h4>THE VENETIAN SERENADE.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">W</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">hen</span> +along the light ripple the far serenade</p> +<p>Has accosted the ear of each passionate maid,</p> +<p>She may open the window that looks on the stream,—</p> +<p>She may smile on her pillow and blend it in dream;</p> +<p>Half in words, half in music, it pierces the gloom,</p> +<p>“I am coming—Stalì<a class = "tag" name = "tagB" id = "tagB" +href = "#noteB">*</a>—but you know not for whom!</p> +<p class = "inset7">Stalì—not for whom!”</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Now the tones become clearer,—you hear more and more</p> +<p>How the water divided returns on the oar,—</p> +<p>Does the prow of the Gondola strike on the stair?</p> +<p>Do the voices and instruments pause and prepare?</p> +<p>Oh! they faint on the ear as the lamp on the view,</p> +<p>“I am passing—Premì—but I stay not for you!</p> +<p class = "inset7">Premì—not for you!”</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Then return to your couch, you who stifle a tear,</p> +<p>Then awake not, fair sleeper—believe he is here;</p> +<span class = "pagenum">114</span> +<a name = "page114" id = "page114"> </a> +<!-- png 177 --> +<p>For the young and the loving no sorrow endures,</p> +<p>If to-day be another’s,—to-morrow is yours;</p> +<p>May, the next time you listen, your fancy be true,</p> +<p>“I am coming—Sciàr—and for you and to you!</p> +<p class = "inset7">Sciàr—and to you!”</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<p class = "illustration tail"> +<img src = "images/tail114.png" width = "118" height = "95" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a name = "noteB" id = "noteB" href = "#tagB">* </a> +The words here used are the calls of the gondoliers, indicating the +direction they are rowing. “Sciàr” is to stop the boat.</p> + + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">115</span> +<a name = "page115" id = "page115"> </a> +<!-- png 178 --> +<h4>FROM LOVE AND NATURE.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">T</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">he</span> +Sun came through the frosty mist</p> +<p>Most like a dead-white moon;</p> +<p>Thy soothing tones I seemed to list,</p> +<p>As voices in a swoon.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Still as an island stood our ship,</p> +<p>The waters gave no sound,</p> +<p>But when I touched thy quivering lip</p> +<p>I felt the world go round.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +We seemed the only sentient things</p> +<p>Upon that silent sea:</p> +<p>Our hearts the only living springs</p> +<p>Of all that yet could be!</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">116</span> +<a name = "page116" id = "page116"> </a> +<!-- png 179 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head116.png" width = "373" height = "151" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>JEAN INGELOW.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1830.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>THE LONG WHITE SEAM<ins class = "correction" +title = ". missing">. </ins></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">A</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">s</span> +I came round the harbor buoy,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The lights began to gleam,</p> +<p>No wave the land-locked water stirred,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The crags were white as cream;</p> +<p>And I marked my love by candle-light</p> +<p> Sewing her long white seam.</p> +<p class = "inset1"> It ’s aye sewing ashore, my dear,</p> +<p class = "inset2"> Watch and steer at sea,</p> +<p class = "inset1"> It ’s reef and furl, and haul the line,</p> +<p class = "inset2"> Set sail and think of thee.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I climbed to reach her cottage door;</p> +<p class = "inset1">O sweetly my love sings!</p> +<span class = "pagenum">117</span> +<a name = "page117" id = "page117"> </a> +<!-- png 180 --> +<p>Like a shaft of light her voice breaks forth,</p> +<p class = "inset1">My soul to meet it springs</p> +<p>As the shining water leaped of old,</p> +<p class = "inset1">When stirred by angel wings.</p> +<p class = "inset2">Aye longing to list anew,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Awake and in my dream,</p> +<p class = "inset2">But never a song she sang like this,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Sewing her long white seam.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Fair fall the lights, the harbor lights,</p> +<p class = "inset1">That brought me in to thee,</p> +<p>And peace drop down on that low roof</p> +<p class = "inset1">For the sight that I did see,</p> +<p>And the voice, my dear, that rang so clear</p> +<p class = "inset1">All for the love of me.</p> +<p class = "inset2">For O, for O, with brows bent low</p> +<p class = "inset3">By the candle’s flickering gleam,</p> +<p class = "inset2">Her wedding gown it was she wrought,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Sewing the long white seam.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">118</span> +<a name = "page118" id = "page118"> </a> +<!-- png 181 --> +<h4>LOVE.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +FROM “SONGS OF SEVEN.”</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">I</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> leaned</span> +out of window, I smelt the white clover,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Dark, dark was the garden, I saw not the gate;</p> +<p>“Now, if there be footsteps, he comes, my one lover—</p> +<p class = "inset1">Hush, nightingale, hush! O, sweet nightingale, wait</p> +<p class = "inset3">Till I listen and hear</p> +<p class = "inset3">If a step draweth near,</p> +<p class = "inset3">For my love he is late!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +“The skies in the darkness stoop nearer and nearer,</p> +<p class = "inset1">A cluster of stars hangs like fruit in the tree,</p> +<p>The fall of the water comes sweeter, comes clearer:</p> +<p class = "inset1">To what art thou listening, and what dost thou see?</p> +<p class = "inset3">Let the star-clusters grow,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Let the sweet waters flow,</p> +<p class = "inset3">And cross quickly to me.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +“You night moths that hover where honey brims over</p> +<p class = "inset1">From sycamore blossoms, or settle or sleep;</p> +<span class = "pagenum">119</span> +<a name = "page119" id = "page119"> </a> +<!-- png 182 --> +<p>You glowworms, shine out, and the pathway discover</p> +<p class = "inset1">To him that comes darkling along the rough steep.</p> +<p class = "inset3">Ah, my sailor, make haste,</p> +<p class = "inset3">For the time runs to waste,</p> +<p class = "inset3">And my love lieth deep—</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +“Too deep for swift telling; and yet, my one lover,</p> +<p class = "inset1">I ’ve conned thee an answer, it waits thee to-night.”</p> +<p>By the sycamore passed he, and through the white clover,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Then all the sweet speech I had fashioned took flight;</p> +<p class = "inset3">But I ’ll love him more, more</p> +<p class = "inset3">Than e’er wife loved before,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Be the days dark or bright.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail119.png" width = "123" height = "84" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">120</span> +<a name = "page120" id = "page120"> </a> +<!-- png 183 --> +<h4>SWEET IS CHILDHOOD.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">S</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">weet</span> +is childhood—childhood ’s over,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Kiss and part.</p> +<p>Sweet is youth; but youth ’s a rover—</p> +<p class = "inset3">So ’s my heart.</p> +<p>Sweet is rest; but by all showing</p> +<p class = "inset3">Toil is nigh.</p> +<p>We must go. Alas! the going,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Say “good-bye.”</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail120.png" width = "125" height = "73" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">121</span> +<a name = "page121" id = "page121"> </a> +<!-- png 184 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head121.png" width = "377" height = "152" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>CHARLES KINGSLEY.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1819-1875.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>AIRLY BEACON.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">A</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">irly</span> +Beacon, Airly Beacon;</p> +<p class = "inset1">Oh the pleasant sight to see</p> +<p>Shires and towns from Airly Beacon,</p> +<p class = "inset1">While my love climbed up to me!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Airly Beacon, Airly Beacon;</p> +<p class = "inset1">Oh the happy hours we lay</p> +<p>Deep in fern on Airly Beacon,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Courting through the summer’s day!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Airly Beacon, Airly Beacon;</p> +<p class = "inset1">Oh the weary haunt for me,</p> +<p>All alone on Airly Beacon,</p> +<p class = "inset1">With his baby on my knee!</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">122</span> +<a name = "page122" id = "page122"> </a> +<!-- png 185 --> +<h4>THE SANDS OF DEE.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap1"><span class = "quotes">“</span>O</p> +<p class = "inset2"><span class = "firstword">h,</span> +Mary, go and call the cattle home,</p> +<p class = "inset4">And call the cattle home,</p> +<p class = "inset4">And call the cattle home</p> +<p class = "inset2">Across the sands of Dee;”</p> +<p>The western wind was wild and dark with foam,</p> +<p class = "inset2">And all alone went she.</p> + +<p class = "inset2 stanza"> +The western tide crept up along the sand,</p> +<p class = "inset4">And o’er and o’er the sand,</p> +<p class = "inset4">And round and round the sand,</p> +<p class = "inset2">As far as eye could see.</p> +<p>The rolling mist came down and hid the land:</p> +<p class = "inset2">And never home came she.</p> + +<p class = "inset2 stanza"> +“Oh! is it weed, or fish, or floating hair—</p> +<p class = "inset4">A tress of golden hair,</p> +<p class = "inset4">A drownèd maiden’s hair</p> +<p class = "inset2">Above the nets at sea?”</p> +<p>Was never salmon yet that shone so fair</p> +<p class = "inset2">Among the stakes on Dee.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">123</span> +<a name = "page123" id = "page123"> </a> +<!-- png 186 --> +<p class = "inset2 stanza"> +They rowed her in across the rolling foam,</p> +<p class = "inset4">The cruel crawling foam,</p> +<p class = "inset4">The cruel hungry foam,</p> +<p class = "inset2">To her grave beside the sea:</p> +<p>But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home</p> +<p class = "inset2">Across the sands of Dee.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail100.png" width = "127" height = "74" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<!-- png 188 --> + +<p class = "illustration plate"> +<a name = "plate124" id = "plate124"> </a> +<img src = "images/plate_opp124.jpg" width = "370" height = "555" +alt = "“Three fishers went sailing away to the West”" +title = "“Three fishers went sailing away to the West”"> +</p> +<!-- png 189 --> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">124</span> +<a name = "page124" id = "page124"> </a> +<!-- png 187 --> +<h4>THREE FISHERS WENT SAILING.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">T</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">hree</span> +fishers went sailing away to the West,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Away to the West as the sun went down;</p> +<p>Each thought on the woman who loved him the best,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And the children stood watching them out of the town;</p> +<p>For men must work, and women must weep,</p> +<p>And there ’s little to earn, and many to keep,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Though the harbor bar be moaning.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Three wives sat up in the lighthouse tower,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And they trimmed the lamps as the sun went down;</p> +<p>They looked at the squall, and they looked at the shower,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And the night-rack came rolling up ragged and brown.</p> +<p>But men must work, and women must weep,</p> +<p>Though storms be sudden, and waters deep,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And the harbor bar be moaning.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">125</span> +<a name = "page125" id = "page125"> </a> +<!-- png 190 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +Three corpses lay out on the shining sands</p> +<p class = "inset1">In the morning gleam as the tide went down,</p> +<p>And the women are weeping and wringing their hands</p> +<p class = "inset1">For those who will never come home to the town;</p> +<p>For men must work, and women must weep,</p> +<p>And the sooner it ’s over, the sooner to sleep;</p> +<p class = "inset1">And good-bye to the bar and its moaning.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail037.png" width = "127" height = "79" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">126</span> +<a name = "page126" id = "page126"> </a> +<!-- png 191 --> + +<h4>A FAREWELL.<br> +<span class = "subhead smallcaps">To C. E. G.—1856.</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">M</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">y</span> +fairest child, I have no song to give you;</p> +<p class = "inset1">No lark could pipe in skies so dull and gray;</p> +<p>Yet, if you will, one quiet hint I ’ll leave you,</p> +<p class = "inset5">For every day.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I ’ll tell you how to sing a clearer carol</p> +<p class = "inset1">Than lark who hails the dawn of breezy down;</p> +<p>To earn yourself a purer poet’s laurel</p> +<p class = "inset5">Than Shakespeare’s crown.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever;</p> +<p class = "inset1">Do lovely things, not dream them, all day long;</p> +<p>And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever,</p> +<p class = "inset5">One grand sweet song.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">127</span> +<a name = "page127" id = "page127"> </a> +<!-- png 192 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head022.png" width = "379" height = "163" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1775-1864.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>ROSE AYLMER.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">A</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">h,</span> +what avails the sceptered race!</p> +<p class = "inset1">Ah, what the form divine!</p> +<p>What every virtue, every grace!</p> +<p class = "inset1">Rose Aylmer, all were thine.</p> +<p>Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes</p> +<p class = "inset1">May weep, but never see,</p> +<p>A night of memories and of sighs</p> +<p class = "inset1">I consecrate to thee.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">128</span> +<a name = "page128" id = "page128"> </a> +<!-- png 193 --> +<h4>RUBIES.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">O</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ften</span> +I have heard it said</p> +<p>That her lips are ruby-red.</p> +<p>Little heed I what they say,</p> +<p>I have seen as red as they.</p> +<p>Ere she smiled on other men,</p> +<p>Real rubies were they then.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +When she kissed me once in play,</p> +<p>Rubies were less bright than they,</p> +<p>And less bright were those which shone</p> +<p>In the palace of the Sun.</p> +<p>Will they be as bright again?</p> +<p>Not if kissed by other men.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail068.png" width = "123" height = "83" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">129</span> +<a name = "page129" id = "page129"> </a> +<!-- png 194 --> +<h4>THE FAULT IS NOT MINE.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">T</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">he</span> +fault is not mine if I love you too much,</p> +<p class = "inset1">I loved you too little too long,</p> +<p>Such ever your graces, your tenderness such,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And the music the heart gave the tongue.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +A time is now coming when Love must be gone,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Tho’ he never abandoned me yet.</p> +<p>Acknowledge our friendship, our passion disown,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Our follies (ah can you?) forget.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail045.png" width = "125" height = "73" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">130</span> +<a name = "page130" id = "page130"> </a> +<!-- png 195 --> +<h4>UNDER THE LINDENS.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">U</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">nder</span> +the lindens lately sat</p> +<p>A couple, and no more, in chat;</p> +<p>I wondered what they would be at</p> +<p class = "inset6">Under the lindens.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I saw four eyes and four lips meet,</p> +<p>I heard the words, <i>“How sweet! how sweet!”</i></p> +<p>Had then the Faeries given a treat</p> +<p class = "inset6">Under the lindens?</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I pondered long and could not tell</p> +<p>What dainty pleased them both so well:</p> +<p>Bees! bees! was it your hydromel</p> +<p class = "inset6"> Under the lindens?</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail130.png" width = "127" height = "39" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">131</span> +<a name = "page131" id = "page131"> </a> +<!-- png 196 --> +<h4>SIXTEEN.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">I</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">n</span> +Clementina’s artless mien</p> +<p class = "inset1">Lucilla asks me what I see,—</p> +<p>And are the roses of sixteen</p> +<p class = "inset4">Enough for me?</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Lucilla asks, if that be all,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Have I not culled as sweet before?</p> +<p>Ah yes, Lucilla! and their fall</p> +<p class = "inset4">I still deplore.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I now behold another scene,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Where Pleasure beams with heaven’s own light,—</p> +<p>More pure, more constant, more serene,</p> +<p class = "inset4">And not less bright:</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Faith, on whose breast the Loves repose,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Whose chain of flowers no force can sever,</p> +<p>And Modesty, who, when she goes,</p> +<p class = "inset4">Is gone forever!</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">132</span> +<a name = "page132" id = "page132"> </a> +<!-- png 197 --> +<h4>IANTHE.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">T</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">hank</span> +Heaven, Ianthe, once again</p> +<p class = "inset1">Our hands and ardent lips shall meet,</p> +<p>And Pleasure, to assert his reign,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Scatter ten thousand kisses sweet:</p> +<p>Then cease repeating while you mourn,</p> +<p>“I wonder when he will return.”</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Ah wherefore should you so admire</p> +<p class = "inset1">The flowing words that fill my song,</p> +<p>Why call them artless, yet require</p> +<p class = "inset1">“Some promise from that tuneful tongue?”</p> +<p>I doubt if heaven itself could part</p> +<p>A tuneful tongue and tender heart.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail012.png" width = "127" height = "57" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<!-- png 198 --> + +<p class = "illustration plate"> +<a name = "plate132" id = "plate132"> </a> +<img src = "images/plate_opp132.jpg" width = "372" height = "535" +alt = "Ianthe" title = "Ianthe"> +</p> +<!-- png 199 --> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">133</span> +<a name = "page133" id = "page133"> </a> +<!-- png 200 --> +<h4>ONE LOVELY NAME.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">O</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ne</span> +lovely name adorns my song,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And, dwelling in the heart,</p> +<p>For ever falters at the tongue,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And trembles to depart.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>FORSAKEN.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">M</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">other,</span> +I can not mind my wheel;</p> +<p class = "inset1">My fingers ache, my lips are dry;</p> +<p>Oh! if you felt the pain I feel!</p> +<p class = "inset1">But oh, who ever felt as I!</p> +<p>No longer could I doubt him true,</p> +<p class = "inset1">All other men may use deceit;</p> +<p>He always said my eyes were blue,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And often swore my lips were sweet.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">134</span> +<a name = "page134" id = "page134"> </a> +<!-- png 201 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head018.png" width = "377" height = "171" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1821-1895.</p> + +<h4>A GARDEN LYRIC.</h4> + +<div class = "verse header"> +<p>The flow of life is yet a rill</p> +<p class = "inset1">That laughs, and leaps, and glistens;</p> +<p>And still the woodland rings, and still</p> +<p class = "inset1">The old Damœtas listens.</p> +</div> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">W</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">e</span> +have loiter’d and laugh’d in the flowery croft,</p> +<p class = "inset1">We have met under wintry skies;</p> +<p>Her voice is the dearest voice, and soft</p> +<p class = "inset1">Is the light in her gentle eyes;</p> +<p>It is bliss in the silent woods, among</p> +<p class = "inset1">Gay crowds, or in any place</p> +<p>To hear her voice, to gaze on her young</p> +<p class = "inset3">Confiding face.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">135</span> +<a name = "page135" id = "page135"> </a> +<!-- png 202 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +For ever may roses divinely blow,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And wine-dark pansies charm</p> +<p>By the prim box path where I felt the glow</p> +<p class = "inset1">Of her dimpled, trusting arm,</p> +<p>And the sweep of her silk as she turned and smiled</p> +<p class = "inset1">A smile as pure as her pearls;</p> +<p>The breeze was in love with the darling Child,</p> +<p class = "inset3">As it moved her curls.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +She showed me her ferns and woodbine-sprays,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Foxglove and jasmine stars,</p> +<p>A mist of blue in the beds, a blaze</p> +<p class = "inset1">Of red in the celadon jars:</p> +<p>And velvety bees in convolvulus bells,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And roses of bountiful June—</p> +<p>Oh, who would think their summer spells</p> +<p class = "inset3">Could die so soon!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +For a glad song came from the milking shed,</p> +<p class = "inset1">On a wind of the summer south,</p> +<p>And the green was golden above her head,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And a sunbeam kiss’d her mouth;</p> +<span class = "pagenum">136</span> +<a name = "page136" id = "page136"> </a> +<!-- png 203 --> +<p>Sweet were the lips where that sunbeam dwelt;</p> +<p class = "inset1">And the wings of Time were fleet</p> +<p>As I gazed; and neither spoke, for we felt</p> +<p class = "inset3">Life was so sweet!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +And the odorous limes were dim above</p> +<p class = "inset1">As we leant on a drooping bough;</p> +<p>And the darkling air was a breath of love,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And a witching thrush sang “Now!”</p> +<p>For the sun dropt low, and the twilight grew</p> +<p class = "inset1">As we listen’d and sigh’d, and leant;</p> +<p>That day was the sweetest day—and we knew</p> +<p class = "inset3">What the sweetness meant.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail015.png" width = "126" height = "52" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">137</span> +<a name = "page137" id = "page137"> </a> +<!-- png 204 --> +<h4>THE CUCKOO<ins class = "correction" +title = "text has , for .">. </ins></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">W</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">e</span> +heard it calling, clear and low,</p> +<p class = "inset2">That tender April morn; we stood</p> +<p class = "inset2">And listened in the quiet wood,</p> +<p>We heard it, ay, long years ago.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +It came, and with a strange, sweet cry,</p> +<p class = "inset2">A friend, but from a far-off land;</p> +<p class = "inset2">We stood and listened, hand in hand,</p> +<p>And heart to heart, my Love and I.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +In dreamland then we found our joy,</p> +<p class = "inset2">And so it seemed as ’t were the Bird</p> +<p class = "inset2">That Helen in old times had heard</p> +<p>At noon beneath the oaks of Troy.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +O time far off, and yet so near!</p> +<p class = "inset2">It came to her in that hush’d grove,</p> +<p class = "inset2">It warbled while the wooing throve,</p> +<p>It sang the song she loved to hear.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">138</span> +<a name = "page138" id = "page138"> </a> +<!-- png 205 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +And now I hear its voice again,</p> +<p class = "inset2">And still its message is of peace,</p> +<p class = "inset2">It sings of love that will not cease—</p> +<p>For me it never sings in vain.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail025.png" width = "124" height = "78" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">139</span> +<a name = "page139" id = "page139"> </a> +<!-- png 206 --> +<h4>GERTRUDE’S NECKLACE.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">A</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">s</span> +Gertrude skipt from babe to girl,</p> +<p>Her Necklace lengthen’d, pearl by pearl;</p> +<p>Year after year it grew, and grew,</p> +<p>For every birthday gave her two.</p> +<p>Her neck is lovely,—soft and fair,</p> +<p>And now her Necklace glimmers there.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +So cradled, let it fall and rise,</p> +<p>And all her graces symbolize.</p> +<p>Perchance this pearl, without a speck,</p> +<p>Once was as warm on Sappho’s neck;</p> +<p>Where are the happy, twilight pearls</p> +<p>That braided Beatrice’s curls?</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Is Gerty loved? Is Gerty loth?</p> +<p>Or, if she ’s either, is she both?</p> +<p>She ’s fancy free, but sweeter far</p> +<p>Than many plighted maidens are:</p> +<p>Will Gerty smile us all away,</p> +<p>And still be Gerty? Who can say?</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">140</span> +<a name = "page140" id = "page140"> </a> +<!-- png 207 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +But let her wear her Precious Toy,</p> +<p>And I ’ll rejoice to see her joy:</p> +<p>Her bauble ’s only one degree</p> +<p>Less frail, less fugitive than we,</p> +<p>For time, ere long, will snap the skein,</p> +<p>And scatter all her Pearls again.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail021.png" width = "121" height = "86" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<!-- png 208 --> + +<p class = "illustration plate"> +<a name = "plate140" id = "plate140"> </a> +<img src = "images/plate_opp140.jpg" width = "372" height = "520" +alt = "Gertrude’s Necklace" title = "Gertrude’s Necklace"> +</p> +<!-- png 209 --> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">141</span> +<a name = "page141" id = "page141"> </a> +<!-- png 210 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head039.png" width = "372" height = "158" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>SAMUEL LOVER.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1797-1868.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>THE ANGEL’S WHISPER.<a class = "tag" name = "tagC" id = "tagC" href = "#noteC">*</a></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap1">A</p> +<p class = "inset3"><span class = "firstword"> baby</span> +was sleeping,</p> +<p class = "inset3">Its mother was weeping,</p> +<p>For the husband was far on the wild raging Sea;</p> +<p class = "inset3">And the tempest was swelling</p> +<p class = "inset3">Round the fisherman’s dwelling;</p> +<p>And she cried, “Dermot darling, oh come back to me!”</p> + +<p class = "inset3 stanza"> +Her beads while she numbered,</p> +<p class = "inset3">The baby still slumbered,</p> +<p>And smiled in her face as she bended her knee;</p> +<span class = "pagenum">142</span> +<a name = "page142" id = "page142"> </a> +<!-- png 211 --> +<p class = "inset3">“O blest be that warning,</p> +<p class = "inset3">My child thy sleep adorning,</p> +<p>For I know that the angels are whispering with thee!</p> + +<p class = "inset3 stanza"> +“And while they are keeping</p> +<p class = "inset3">Bright watch o’er thy sleeping,</p> +<p>Oh, pray to them softly, my baby, with me!</p> +<p class = "inset3">And say thou wouldst rather</p> +<p class = "inset3">They ’d watch o’er thy father;</p> +<p>For I know that the angels are whispering with thee!”</p> + +<p class = "inset3 stanza"> +The dawn of the morning</p> +<p class = "inset3">Saw Dermot returning,</p> +<p>And the wife wept with joy her babe’s father to see;</p> +<p class = "inset3">And closely caressing</p> +<p class = "inset3">Her child, with a blessing,</p> +<p>Said, “I knew that the angels were whispering with thee!”</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a name = "noteC" id = "noteC" href = "#tagC">* </a> +A superstition of great beauty prevails in Ireland that when a child +smiles in its sleep it is “talking with angels.”</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">143</span> +<a name = "page143" id = "page143"> </a> +<!-- png 212 --> +<h4>WHAT WILL YOU DO, LOVE?</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> + +<h5>I.</h5> + +<p class = "dropcap"><span class = "quotes">“</span>W</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">hat</span> +will you do, love, when I am going</p> +<p>With white sail flowing,</p> +<p class = "inset4">The seas beyond—</p> +<p>What will you do, love, when waves divide us,</p> +<p>And friends may chide us</p> +<p class = "inset4">For being fond?”</p> +<p>“Tho’ waves divide us—and friends be chiding,</p> +<p>In faith abiding,</p> +<p class = "inset4">I ’ll still be true!</p> +<p>And I ’ll pray for thee on the stormy ocean,</p> +<p>In deep devotion—</p> +<p class = "inset4">That ’s what I ’ll do!”</p> + +<h5>II.</h5> + +<p>“What would you do, love, if distant tidings</p> +<p>Thy fond confidings</p> +<p class = "inset4">Should undermine?—</p> +<span class = "pagenum">144</span> +<a name = "page144" id = "page144"> </a> +<!-- png 213 --> +<p>And I abiding ’neath sultry skies,</p> +<p>Should think other eyes</p> +<p class = "inset4">Were as bright as thine?”</p> +<p>“Oh, name it not:—tho’ guilt and shame</p> +<p>Were on thy name</p> +<p class = "inset4">I ’d still be true:</p> +<p>But that heart of thine—should another share it—</p> +<p>I could not bear it!</p> +<p class = "inset4">What would I do?”</p> + +<h5>III.</h5> + +<p>“What would you do, love, when home returning</p> +<p>With hopes high burning,</p> +<p class = "inset4">With wealth for you,</p> +<p>If my bark, which bounded o’er foreign foam,</p> +<p>Should be lost near home—</p> +<p class = "inset4">Ah! what would you do?”—</p> +<p>“So thou wert spared—I ’d bless the morrow,</p> +<p>In want and sorrow,</p> +<p class = "inset4">That left me you;</p> +<p>And I ’d welcome thee from the wasting billow,</p> +<p>This heart thy pillow—</p> +<p class = "inset4">That ’s what I ’d do!”</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">145</span> +<a name = "page145" id = "page145"> </a> +<!-- png 214 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head026.png" width = "375" height = "167" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>CHARLES MACKAY.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1814-1889.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>I LOVE MY LOVE.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> + +<h5>I.</h5> + +<p class = "dropcap">W</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">hat</span> +is the meaning of the song</p> +<p class = "inset1">That rings so clear and loud,</p> +<p>Thou nightingale amid the copse—</p> +<p class = "inset1">Thou lark above the cloud?</p> +<p>What says the song, thou joyous thrush,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Up in the walnut-tree?</p> +<p>“I love my Love, because I know</p> +<p class = "inset1">My Love loves me.”</p> + +<h5>II.</h5> + +<p>What is the meaning of thy thought,</p> +<p class = "inset1">O maiden fair and young?</p> +<span class = "pagenum">146</span> +<a name = "page146" id = "page146"> </a> +<!-- png 215 --> +<p>There is such pleasure in thine eyes,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Such music on thy tongue;</p> +<p>There is such glory on thy face—</p> +<p class = "inset1">What can the meaning be?</p> +<p>“I love my Love, because I know</p> +<p class = "inset1">My Love loves me.”</p> + +<h5>III.</h5> + +<p>O happy words! at Beauty’s feet</p> +<p class = "inset1">We sing them ere our prime;</p> +<p>And when the early summers pass,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And Care comes on with Time,</p> +<p>Still be it ours, in Care’s despite,</p> +<p class = "inset1">To join the chorus free—</p> +<p>“I love my Love, because I know</p> +<p class = "inset1">My Love loves me.”</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">147</span> +<a name = "page147" id = "page147"> </a> +<!-- png 216 --> +<h4>O YE TEARS!</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">O</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> ye</span> +tears! O ye tears! that have long refused to flow,</p> +<p>Ye are welcome to my heart,—thawing, thawing, like the snow;</p> +<p>I feel the hard clod soften, and the early snow-drop spring,</p> +<p>And the healing fountains gush, and the wildernesses sing.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +O ye tears! O ye tears! I am thankful that ye run;</p> +<p>Though ye trickle in the darkness, ye shall glitter in the sun.</p> +<p>The rainbow cannot shine if the rain refuse to fall,</p> +<p>And the eyes that cannot weep are the saddest eyes of all.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +O ye tears! O ye tears! till I felt you on my cheek,</p> +<p>I was selfish in my sorrow, I was stubborn, I was weak.</p> +<span class = "pagenum">148</span> +<a name = "page148" id = "page148"> </a> +<!-- png 217 --> +<p>Ye have given me strength to conquer, and I stand erect and free,</p> +<p>And know that I am human by the light of sympathy.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +O ye tears! O ye tears! ye relieve me of my pain:</p> +<p>The barren rock of pride has been stricken once again;</p> +<p>Like the rock that Moses smote, amid Horeb’s burning sand,</p> +<p>It yields the flowing water to make gladness in the land.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +There is light upon my path, there is sunshine in my heart,</p> +<p>And the leaf and fruit of life shall not utterly depart.</p> +<p>Ye restore to me the freshness and the bloom of long ago—</p> +<p>O ye tears! happy tears! I am thankful that ye flow!</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">149</span> +<a name = "page149" id = "page149"> </a> +<!-- png 218 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head009.png" width = "381" height = "150" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>FRANCIS MAHONEY.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1805-1866.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> +<h4>THE BELLS OF SHANDON.</h4> + +<div class = "verse header"> +<p>Sabbata pango;</p> +<p>Funera plango;</p> +<p>Solemnia clango.</p> + +<p class = "right">—<i>Inscription on an old bell.</i></p> +</div> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">W</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ith</span> +deep affection</p> +<p>And recollection</p> +<p>I often think of</p> +<p class = "inset1">Those Shandon bells,</p> +<p>Whose sounds so wild would,</p> +<p>In the days of childhood,</p> +<p>Fling round my cradle</p> +<p class = "inset1">Their magic spells.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +On this I ponder</p> +<p>Where’er I wander,</p> +<p>And thus grow fonder,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Sweet Cork, of thee,—</p> +<span class = "pagenum">150</span> +<a name = "page150" id = "page150"> </a> +<!-- png 219 --> +<p>With thy bells of Shandon,</p> +<p>That sound so grand on</p> +<p>The pleasant waters</p> +<p class = "inset1">Of the river Lee.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I ’ve heard bells chiming</p> +<p>Full many a clime in,</p> +<p>Tolling sublime in</p> +<p class = "inset1">Cathedral shrine,</p> +<p>While at a glibe rate</p> +<p>Brass tongues would vibrate;</p> +<p>But all their music</p> +<p class = "inset1">Spoke naught like thine.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +For memory, dwelling</p> +<p>On each proud swelling</p> +<p>Of thy belfry, knelling</p> +<p class = "inset1">Its bold notes free,</p> +<p>Made the bells of Shandon</p> +<p>Sound far more grand on</p> +<p>The pleasant waters</p> +<p class = "inset1">Of the river Lee.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">151</span> +<a name = "page151" id = "page151"> </a> +<!-- png 220 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +I ’ve heard bells tolling</p> +<p>Old Adrian’s Mole in,</p> +<p>Their thunder rolling</p> +<p class = "inset1">From the Vatican,—</p> +<p>And cymbals glorious</p> +<p>Swinging uproarious</p> +<p>In the gorgeous turrets</p> +<p class = "inset1">Of Notre Dame;</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +But thy sounds were sweeter</p> +<p>Than the dome of Peter</p> +<p>Flings o’er the Tiber,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Pealing solemnly.</p> +<p>Oh! the bells of Shandon</p> +<p>Sound far more grand on</p> +<p>The pleasant waters</p> +<p class = "inset1">Of the river Lee.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +There ’s a bell in Moscow;</p> +<p>While on tower and kiosk O</p> +<p>In St. Sophia</p> +<p class = "inset1">The Turkman gets,</p> +<span class = "pagenum">152</span> +<a name = "page152" id = "page152"> </a> +<!-- png 221 --> +<p>And loud in air</p> +<p>Calls men to prayer,</p> +<p>From the tapering summit</p> +<p class = "inset1">Of tall minarets.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Such empty phantom</p> +<p>I freely grant them;</p> +<p>But there ’s an anthem</p> +<p class = "inset1">More dear to me,—</p> +<p>’T is the bells of Shandon,</p> +<p>That sound so grand on</p> +<p>The pleasant waters</p> +<p class = "inset1">Of the river Lee.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail017.png" width = "127" height = "66" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">153</span> +<a name = "page153" id = "page153"> </a> +<!-- png 222 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head030.png" width = "376" height = "174" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>GERALD MASSEY.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1828.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>SONG.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">A</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ll</span> +glorious as the Rainbow’s birth,</p> +<p class = "inset1">She came in Spring-tide’s golden hours;</p> +<p>When Heaven went hand-in-hand with Earth,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And May was crowned with buds and flowers!</p> +<p>The mounting devil at my heart</p> +<p class = "inset1">Clomb faintlier as my life did win</p> +<p>The charmèd heaven, she wrought apart,</p> +<p class = "inset1">To wake its slumbering Angel in!</p> +<p>With radiant mien she trod serene,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And passed me smiling by!</p> +<p>O! who that looked could chance but love?</p> +<p class = "inset1">Not I, sweet soul, not I.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">154</span> +<a name = "page154" id = "page154"> </a> +<!-- png 223 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +The dewy eyelids of the Dawn</p> +<p class = "inset1">Ne’er oped such heaven as hers can show:</p> +<p>It seemed her dear eyes might have shone</p> +<p class = "inset1">As jewels in some starry brow.</p> +<p>Her face flashed glory like a shrine,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Or lily-bell with sunburst bright;</p> +<p>Where came and went love-thoughts divine,</p> +<p class = "inset1">As low winds walk the leaves in light:</p> +<p>She wore her beauty with the grace</p> +<p class = "inset1">Of Summer’s star-clad sky;</p> +<p>O! who that looked could help but love?</p> +<p class = "inset1">Not I, sweet soul, not I.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Her budding breasts like fragrant fruit</p> +<p class = "inset1">Of love were ripening to be pressed:</p> +<p>Her voice, that shook my heart’s red root,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Yet might not break a babe’s soft rest!</p> +<p>More liquid than the running brooks,</p> +<p class = "inset1">More vernal than the voice of Spring,</p> +<p>When Nightingales are in their nooks,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And all the leafy thickets ring.</p> +<span class = "pagenum">155</span> +<a name = "page155" id = "page155"> </a> +<!-- png 224 --> +<p>The love she coyly hid at heart</p> +<p class = "inset1">Was shyly conscious in her eye;</p> +<p>O! who that looked could help but love?</p> +<p class = "inset1">Not I, sweet soul, not I.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail037.png" width = "127" height = "79" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">156</span> +<a name = "page156" id = "page156"> </a> +<!-- png 225 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head046.png" width = "376" height = "157" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>ARTHUR O’SHAUGHNESSY.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1844-1881.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>A LOVE SYMPHONY.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">A</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">long</span> +the garden ways just now</p> +<p class = "inset1">I heard the flowers speak;</p> +<p>The white rose told me of your brow,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The red rose of your cheek;</p> +<p>The lily of your bended head,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The bindweed of your hair:</p> +<p>Each looked its loveliest and said</p> +<p class = "inset1">You were more fair.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I went into the wood anon,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And heard the wild birds sing,</p> +<p>How sweet you were; they warbled on,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Piped, trilled the self-same thing.</p> +<span class = "pagenum">157</span> +<a name = "page157" id = "page157"> </a> +<!-- png 226 --> +<p>Thrush, blackbird, linnet, without pause,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The burden did repeat,</p> +<p>And still began again because</p> +<p class = "inset1">You were more sweet.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +And then I went down to the sea,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And heard it murmuring too,</p> +<p>Part of an ancient mystery,</p> +<p class = "inset1">All made of me and you.</p> +<p>How many a thousand years ago</p> +<p class = "inset1">I loved, and you were sweet—</p> +<p>Longer I could not stay, and so</p> +<p class = "inset1">I fled back to your feet.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<!-- png 228 --> + +<p class = "illustration plate"> +<a name = "plate158" id = "plate158"> </a> +<img src = "images/plate_opp158.jpg" width = "369" height = "530" +alt = "“She turned back at the last to wait”" +title = "“She turned back at the last to wait”"> +</p> +<!-- png 229 --> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">158</span> +<a name = "page158" id = "page158"> </a> +<!-- png 227 --> +<h4>I MADE ANOTHER GARDEN.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">I</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> made</span> +another garden, yea,</p> +<p class = "inset1">For my new love;</p> +<p>I left the dead rose where it lay,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And set the new above.</p> +<p>Why did the summer not begin?</p> +<p class = "inset1">Why did my heart not haste?</p> +<p>My old love came and walked therein,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And laid the garden waste.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +She entered with her weary smile,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Just as of old;</p> +<p>She looked around a little while,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And shivered at the cold.</p> +<p>Her passing touch was death to all,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Her passing look a blight;</p> +<p>She made the white rose-petals fall,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And turned the red rose white.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Her pale robe, clinging to the grass,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Seemed like a snake</p> +<p>That bit the grass and ground, alas!</p> +<p class = "inset1">And a sad trail did make.</p> +<span class = "pagenum">159</span> +<a name = "page159" id = "page159"> </a> +<!-- png 230 --> +<p>She went up slowly to the gate;</p> +<p class = "inset1">And there, just as of yore,</p> +<p>She turned back at the last to wait,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And say farewell once more.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail055.png" width = "128" height = "68" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">160</span> +<a name = "page160" id = "page160"> </a> +<!-- png 231 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head075.png" width = "372" height = "138" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1825-1864.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>THE LOST CHORD.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">S</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">eated</span> +one day at the Organ,</p> +<p class = "inset1">I was weary and ill at ease,</p> +<p>And my fingers wandered idly</p> +<p class = "inset1">Over the noisy keys.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I do not know what I was playing,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Or what I was dreaming then;</p> +<p>But I struck one chord of music,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Like the sound of a great Amen.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +It flooded the crimson twilight</p> +<p class = "inset1">Like the close of an Angel’s Psalm,</p> +<p>And it lay on my fevered spirit</p> +<p class = "inset1">With a touch of infinite calm.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">161</span> +<a name = "page161" id = "page161"> </a> +<!-- png 232 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +It quieted pain and sorrow,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Like love overcoming strife;</p> +<p>It seemed the harmonious echo</p> +<p class = "inset1">From our discordant Life.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +It linked all perplexèd meanings</p> +<p class = "inset1">Into one perfect peace,</p> +<p>And trembled away into silence</p> +<p class = "inset1">As if it were loth to cease.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I have sought, but I seek it vainly,</p> +<p class = "inset1">That one lost chord divine,</p> +<p>Which came from the soul of the Organ,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And entered into mine.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +It may be that Death’s bright angel</p> +<p class = "inset1">Will speak in that chord again,—</p> +<p>It may be that only in Heaven</p> +<p class = "inset1">I shall hear that grand Amen.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">162</span> +<a name = "page162" id = "page162"> </a> +<!-- png 233 --> +<h4>SENT TO HEAVEN.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">I</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> had</span> +a Message to send her,</p> +<p class = "inset1">To her whom my soul loved best;</p> +<p>But I had my task to finish,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And she was gone home to rest.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +To rest in the far bright heaven;</p> +<p class = "inset1">Oh, so far away from here,</p> +<p>It was vain to speak to my darling,</p> +<p class = "inset1">For I knew she could not hear!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I had a message to send her,</p> +<p class = "inset1">So tender, and true, and sweet,</p> +<p>I longed for an Angel to bear it,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And lay it down at her feet.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I placed it, one summer evening,</p> +<p class = "inset1">On a Cloudlet’s fleecy breast;</p> +<p>But it faded in golden splendour,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And died in the crimson west.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">163</span> +<a name = "page163" id = "page163"> </a> +<!-- png 234 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +I gave it the Lark next morning,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And I watched it soar and soar;</p> +<p>But its pinions grew faint and weary,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And it fluttered to earth once more.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +To the heart of a Rose I told it;</p> +<p class = "inset1">And the perfume, sweet and rare,</p> +<p>Growing faint on the blue bright ether,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Was lost in the balmy air.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I laid it upon a Censer,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And I saw the incense rise;</p> +<p>But its clouds of rolling silver</p> +<p class = "inset1">Could not reach the far blue skies.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I cried, in my passionate longing:—</p> +<p class = "inset1">“Has the earth no Angel-friend</p> +<p>Who will carry my love the message</p> +<p class = "inset1">That my heart desires to send?”</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Then I heard a strain of music,</p> +<p class = "inset1">So mighty, so pure, so clear,</p> +<p>That my very sorrow was silent,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And my heart stood still to hear.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">164</span> +<a name = "page164" id = "page164"> </a> +<!-- png 235 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +And I felt, in my soul’s deep yearning,</p> +<p class = "inset1">At last the sure answer stir:—</p> +<p>“The music will go up to Heaven,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And carry my thought to her.”</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +It rose in harmonious rushing</p> +<p class = "inset1">Of mingled voices and strings,</p> +<p>And I tenderly laid my message</p> +<p class = "inset1">On the Music’s outspread wings.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I heard it float farther and farther,</p> +<p class = "inset1">In sound more perfect than speech;</p> +<p>Farther than sight can follow,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Farther than soul can reach.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +And I know that at last my message</p> +<p class = "inset1">Has passed through the golden gate:</p> +<p>So my heart is no longer restless,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And I am content to wait.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">165</span> +<a name = "page165" id = "page165"> </a> +<!-- png 236 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head066.png" width = "376" height = "164" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>B. W. PROCTER (BARRY CORNWALL).</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1787-1874.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>THE POET’S SONG TO HIS WIFE.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +SET TO MUSIC BY THE CHEVALIER NEUKOMM.</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">H</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ow</span> +many Summers, love,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Have I been thine?</p> +<p>How many days, thou dove,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Hast thou been mine?</p> +<p>Time, like the wingèd wind</p> +<p class = "inset1">When ’t bends the flowers,</p> +<p>Hath left no mark behind,</p> +<p class = "inset1">To count the hours!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Some weight of thought, though loth,</p> +<p class = "inset1">On thee he leaves;</p> +<p>Some lines of care round both</p> +<p class = "inset1">Perhaps he weaves;</p> +<span class = "pagenum">166</span> +<a name = "page166" id = "page166"> </a> +<!-- png 237 --> +<p>Some fears,—a soft regret</p> +<p class = "inset1">For joys scarce known;</p> +<p>Sweet looks we half forget;—</p> +<p class = "inset1">All else is flown!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Ah! with what thankless heart</p> +<p class = "inset1">I mourn and sing!</p> +<p>Look, where our children start,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Like sudden Spring!</p> +<p>With tongues all sweet and low,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Like a pleasant rhyme,</p> +<p>They tell how much I owe</p> +<p class = "inset1">To thee and Time!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail068.png" width = "123" height = "83" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">167</span> +<a name = "page167" id = "page167"> </a> +<!-- png 238 --> +<h4>A PETITION TO TIME.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +1831.</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">T</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ouch</span> +us gently, Time!</p> +<p class = "inset1">Let us glide adown thy stream</p> +<p>Gently,—as we sometimes glide</p> +<p class = "inset1">Through a quiet dream!</p> +<p>Humble voyagers are We,</p> +<p>Husband, wife, and children three—</p> +<p>(One is lost,—an angel, fled</p> +<p>To the azure overhead!)</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Touch us gently, Time!</p> +<p class = "inset1">We ’ve not proud nor soaring wings:</p> +<p><i>Our</i> ambition, <i>our</i> content</p> +<p class = "inset1">Lies in simple things.</p> +<p>Humble voyagers are We,</p> +<p>O’er Life’s dim unsounded sea,</p> +<p>Seeking only some calm clime:—</p> +<p>Touch us <i>gently</i>, gentle Time!</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">168</span> +<a name = "page168" id = "page168"> </a> +<!-- png 239 --> +<h4>A BACCHANALIAN SONG.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +SET TO MUSIC BY MR. H. PHILLIPS.</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">S</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ing!—</span>Who sings</p> +<p>To her who weareth a hundred rings?</p> +<p class = "inset1">Ah, who is this lady fine?</p> +<p class = "inset1">The <span class = "smallcaps">Vine</span>, boys, +the <span class = "smallcaps">Vine</span>!</p> +<p class = "inset1">The mother of mighty Wine.</p> +<p class = "inset2">A roamer is she</p> +<p class = "inset2">O’er wall and tree,</p> +<p>And sometimes very good company.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Drink!—Who drinks</p> +<p>To her who blusheth and never thinks?</p> +<p class = "inset1">Ah, who is this maid of thine?</p> +<p class = "inset1">The <span class = "smallcaps">Grape</span>, boys, +the <span class = "smallcaps">Grape</span>!</p> +<p class = "inset1">O, never let her escape</p> +<p class = "inset1">Until she be turned to Wine!</p> +<p class = "inset2">For better is she</p> +<p class = "inset2">Than vine can be,</p> +<p>And very, very good company!</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">169</span> +<a name = "page169" id = "page169"> </a> +<!-- png 240 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +Dream!—Who dreams</p> +<p>Of the God that governs a thousand streams?</p> +<p class = "inset1">Ah, who is this Spirit fine?</p> +<p class = "inset1">’T is <span class = "smallcaps">Wine</span>, boys, +’t is <span class = "smallcaps">Wine</span>!</p> +<p class = "inset1">God Bacchus, a friend of mine.</p> +<p class = "inset2">O better is he</p> +<p class = "inset2">Than grape or tree,</p> +<p>And the best of all good company.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail040.png" width = "126" height = "74" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">170</span> +<a name = "page170" id = "page170"> </a> +<!-- png 241 --> +<h4>SHE WAS NOT FAIR NOR FULL OF GRACE.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">S</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">he</span> +was not fair, nor full of grace,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Nor crowned with thought or aught beside;</p> +<p>No wealth had she, of mind or face,</p> +<p class = "inset1">To win our love, or raise our pride:</p> +<p>No lover’s thought her cheek did touch;</p> +<p class = "inset1">No poet’s dream was ’round her thrown;</p> +<p>And yet we miss her—ah, too much,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Now—she hath flown!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +We miss her when the morning calls,</p> +<p class = "inset1">As one that mingled in our mirth;</p> +<p>We miss her when the evening falls,—</p> +<p class = "inset1">A trifle wanted on the earth!</p> +<p>Some fancy small or subtle thought</p> +<p class = "inset1">Is checked ere to its blossom grown;</p> +<p>Some chain is broken that we wrought,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Now—she hath flown!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +No solid good, nor hope defined,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Is marred now she hath sunk in night;</p> +<span class = "pagenum">171</span> +<a name = "page171" id = "page171"> </a> +<!-- png 242 --> +<p>And yet the strong immortal Mind</p> +<p class = "inset1">Is stopped in its triumphant flight!</p> +<p>Stern friend, what power is in a tear,</p> +<p class = "inset1">What strength in one poor thought alone,</p> +<p>When all we know is—“She was here,”</p> +<p class = "inset1">And—“She hath flown!”</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail012.png" width = "127" height = "57" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">172</span> +<a name = "page172" id = "page172"> </a> +<!-- png 243 --> +<h4>THE SEA-KING.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +SET TO MUSIC BY THE CHEVALIER NEUKOMM.</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">C</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ome</span> +sing, Come sing, of the great Sea-King,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And the fame that now hangs o’er him,</p> +<p>Who once did sweep o’er the vanquish’d deep,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And drove the world before him!</p> +<p>His deck was a throne, on the ocean lone,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And the sea was his park of pleasure,</p> +<p>Where he scattered in fear the human deer,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And rested,—when he had leisure!</p> +<p class = "inset5">Come,—shout and sing</p> +<p class = "inset6">Of the great Sea-King,</p> +<p class = "inset5">And ride in the track he rode in!</p> +<p class = "inset6">He sits at the head</p> +<p class = "inset6">Of the mighty dead,</p> +<p class = "inset5">On the red right hand of Odin!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +He sprang, from birth, like a God on earth,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And soared on his victor pinions,</p> +<p>And he traversed the sea, as the eagles flee,</p> +<p class = "inset1">When they gaze on their blue dominions.</p> +<span class = "pagenum">173</span> +<a name = "page173" id = "page173"> </a> +<!-- png 244 --> +<p>His whole earth life was a conquering strife,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And he lived till his beard grew hoary,</p> +<p>And he died at last, by his blood-red mast,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And now—he is lost in glory!</p> +<p class = "inset8">So,—shout and sing, &c.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail100.png" width = "127" height = "74" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">174</span> +<a name = "page174" id = "page174"> </a> +<!-- png 245 --> +<h4>A SERENADE.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +SET TO MUSIC BY THE CHEVALIER NEUKOMM.</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">A</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">wake!—</span>The starry midnight Hour</p> +<p class = "inset1">Hangs charmed, and pauseth in its flight:</p> +<p>In its own sweetness sleeps the flower;</p> +<p class = "inset1">And the doves lie hushed in deep delight!</p> +<p class = "inset3">Awake! Awake!</p> +<p class = "inset3">Look forth, my love, for Love’s sweet sake!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Awake!—Soft dews will soon arise</p> +<p class = "inset1">From daisied mead, and thorny brake;</p> +<p>Then, Sweet, uncloud those eastern eyes,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And like the tender morning break!</p> +<p class = "inset3">Awake! Awake!</p> +<p class = "inset3">Dawn forth, my love, for Love’s sweet sake!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Awake!—Within the musk-rose bower</p> +<p class = "inset1">I watch, pale flower of love, for thee;</p> +<p>Ah, come, and shew the starry Hour</p> +<p class = "inset1">What wealth of love thou hid’st from me!</p> +<p class = "inset3">Awake! Awake!</p> +<p class = "inset3">Shew all thy love, for Love’s sweet sake!</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">175</span> +<a name = "page175" id = "page175"> </a> +<!-- png 246 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +Awake!—Ne’er heed, though listening Night</p> +<p class = "inset1">Steal music from thy silver voice:</p> +<p>Uncloud thy beauty, rare and bright,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And bid the world and me rejoice!</p> +<p class = "inset3">Awake! Awake!</p> +<p class = "inset3">She comes,—at last, for Love’s sweet sake!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail083.png" width = "127" height = "78" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<!-- png 248 --> + +<p class = "illustration plate"> +<a name = "plate176" id = "plate176"> </a> +<img src = "images/plate_opp176.jpg" width = "368" height = "536" +alt = "King Death" title = "King Death"> +</p> +<!-- png 249 --> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">176</span> +<a name = "page176" id = "page176"> </a> +<!-- png 247 --> +<h4>KING DEATH.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +SET TO MUSIC BY THE CHEVALIER NEUKOMM.</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">K</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ing Death</span> +was a rare old fellow!</p> +<p class = "inset1">He sate where no sun could shine;</p> +<p>And he lifted his hand so yellow,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And poured out his coal-black wine.</p> +<p class = "inset6">Hurrah! for the coal-black Wine!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +There came to him many a Maiden,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Whose eyes had forgot to shine;</p> +<p>And Widows, with grief o’erladen,</p> +<p class = "inset1">For a draught of his sleepy wine.</p> +<p class = "inset6">Hurrah! for the coal-black Wine!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +The Scholar left all his learning;</p> +<p class = "inset1">The Poet his fancied woes;</p> +<p>And the Beauty her bloom returning,</p> +<p class = "inset1">As the beads of the black wine rose.</p> +<p class = "inset6">Hurrah! for the coal-black Wine!</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">177</span> +<a name = "page177" id = "page177"> </a> +<!-- png 250 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +All came to the royal old fellow,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Who laughed till his eyes dropped brine,</p> +<p>As he gave them his hand so yellow,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And pledged them in Death’s black wine.</p> +<p class = "inset6">Hurrah!—Hurrah!</p> +<p class = "inset6">Hurrah! for the coal-black Wine!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail045.png" width = "125" height = "73" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">178</span> +<a name = "page178" id = "page178"> </a> +<!-- png 251 --> +<h4>SIT DOWN, SAD SOUL.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">S</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">it</span> +down, sad soul, and count</p> +<p class = "inset1">The moments flying:</p> +<p>Come,—tell the sweet amount</p> +<p class = "inset1">That ’s lost by sighing!</p> +<p>How many smiles?—a score?</p> +<p>Then laugh, and count no more;</p> +<p class = "inset3">For day is dying!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Lie down, sad soul, and sleep,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And no more measure</p> +<p>The flight of Time, nor weep</p> +<p class = "inset1">The loss of leisure;</p> +<p>But here, by this lone stream,</p> +<p>Lie down with us, and dream</p> +<p class = "inset3">Of starry treasure!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +We dream: do thou the same:</p> +<p class = "inset1">We love—for ever:</p> +<span class = "pagenum">179</span> +<a name = "page179" id = "page179"> </a> +<!-- png 252 --> +<p>We laugh; yet few we shame,</p> +<p> The gentle, never.</p> +<p>Stay, then, till Sorrow dies;</p> +<p><i>Then</i>—hope and happy skies</p> +<p class = "inset3">Are thine for ever!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail065.png" width = "187" height = "77" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">180</span> +<a name = "page180" id = "page180"> </a> +<!-- png 253 --> +<h4>A DRINKING SONG.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">D</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">rink,</span> +and fill the night with mirth!</p> +<p class = "inset1">Let us have a mighty measure,</p> +<p>Till we quite forget the earth,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And soar into the world of pleasure.</p> +<p>Drink, and let a health go round,</p> +<p class = "inset1">(’T is the drinker’s noble duty,)</p> +<p>To the eyes that shine and wound,</p> +<p class = "inset1">To the mouths that bud in beauty!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Here ’s to Helen! Why, ah! why</p> +<p class = "inset1">Doth she fly from my pursuing?</p> +<p>Here ’s to Marian, cold and shy!</p> +<p class = "inset1">May she warm before thy wooing!</p> +<p>Here ’s to Janet! I ’ve been e’er,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Boy and man, her staunch defender,</p> +<p>Always sworn that she was fair,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Always <i>known</i> that she was tender!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Fill the deep-mouthed glasses high!</p> +<p class = "inset1">Let them with the champagne tremble,</p> +<span class = "pagenum">181</span> +<a name = "page181" id = "page181"> </a> +<!-- png 254 --> +<p>Like the loose wrack in the sky,</p> +<p class = "inset1">When the four wild winds assemble!</p> +<p>Here ’s to all the love on earth,</p> +<p class = "inset1">(Love, the young man’s, wise man’s treasure!)</p> +<p>Drink, and fill your throats with mirth!</p> +<p class = "inset1">Drink, and drown the world in pleasure!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail109.png" width = "131" height = "82" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">182</span> +<a name = "page182" id = "page182"> </a> +<!-- png 255 --> +<h4>PEACE! WHAT DO TEARS AVAIL?</h4> <!-- sic inconsistency --> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">P</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">eace!</span> +what can tears avail?</p> +<p>She lies all dumb and pale,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And from her eye,</p> +<p>The spirit of lovely life is fading,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And she must die!</p> +<p>Why looks the lover wroth? the friend upbraiding?</p> +<p class = "inset1">Reply, reply!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Hath she not dwelt too long</p> +<p>’Midst pain, and grief, and wrong?</p> +<p class = "inset1">Then, why not die?</p> +<p>Why suffer again her doom of sorrow,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And hopeless lie?</p> +<p>Why nurse the trembling dream until to-morrow?</p> +<p class = "inset1">Reply, reply!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Death! Take her to thine arms,</p> +<p>In all her stainless charms,</p> +<span class = "pagenum">183</span> +<a name = "page183" id = "page183"> </a> +<!-- png 256 --> +<p class = "inset1">And with her fly</p> +<p>To heavenly haunts, where, clad in brightness,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The Angels lie!</p> +<p>Wilt bear her there, O Death! in all her whiteness?</p> +<p class = "inset1">Reply,—reply!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail120.png" width = "125" height = "73" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">184</span> +<a name = "page184" id = "page184"> </a> +<!-- png 257 --> +<h4>THE SEA.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +SET TO MUSIC BY THE CHEVALIER NEUKOMM.</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">T</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">he</span> +Sea! the Sea! the open Sea!</p> +<p>The blue, the fresh, the ever free!</p> +<p>Without a mark, without a bound,</p> +<p>It runneth the earth’s wide regions ’round;</p> +<p>It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies;</p> +<p>Or like a cradled creature lies.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I ’m on the Sea! I ’m on the Sea!</p> +<p>I am where I would ever be;</p> +<p>With the blue above, and the blue below,</p> +<p>And silence wheresoe’er I go;</p> +<p>If a storm should come and awake the deep,</p> +<p>What matter? <i>I</i> shall ride and sleep.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I love (oh! <i>how</i> I love) to ride</p> +<p>On the fierce foaming bursting tide,</p> +<p>When every mad wave drowns the moon,</p> +<p>Or whistles aloft his tempest tune,</p> +<span class = "pagenum">185</span> +<a name = "page185" id = "page185"> </a> +<!-- png 258 --> +<p>And tells how goeth the world below,</p> +<p>And why the south-west blasts do blow.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I never was on the dull tame shore,</p> +<p>But I loved the great Sea more and more,</p> +<p>And backwards flew to her billowy breast,</p> +<p>Like a bird that seeketh its mother’s nest;</p> +<p>And a mother she <i>was</i>, and <i>is</i> to me;</p> +<p>For I was born on the open Sea!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +The waves were white, and red the morn,</p> +<p>In the noisy hour when I was born;</p> +<p>And the whale it whistled, the porpoise rolled,</p> +<p>And the dolphins bared their backs of gold;</p> +<p>And never was heard such an outcry wild</p> +<p>As welcomed to life the Ocean-child!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I ’ve lived since then, in calm and strife,</p> +<p>Full fifty summers a sailor’s life,</p> +<p>With wealth to spend and a power to range,</p> +<p>But never have sought, nor sighed for change;</p> +<p>And Death, whenever he come to me,</p> +<p>Shall come on the wild unbounded Sea!</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">186</span> +<a name = "page186" id = "page186"> </a> +<!-- png 259 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head070.png" width = "376" height = "171" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1830-1895.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>SONG.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">W</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">hen</span> +I am dead, my dearest,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Sing no sad songs for me;</p> +<p>Plant thou no roses at my head,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Nor shady cypress-tree:</p> +<p>Be the green grass above me</p> +<p class = "inset1">With showers and dewdrops wet;</p> +<p>And if thou wilt, remember,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And if thou wilt, forget.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I shall not see the shadows,</p> +<p class = "inset1">I shall not feel the rain;</p> +<p>I shall not hear the nightingale</p> +<p class = "inset1">Sing on, as if in pain:</p> +<span class = "pagenum">187</span> +<a name = "page187" id = "page187"> </a> +<!-- png 260 --> +<p>And dreaming through the twilight</p> +<p class = "inset1">That doth not rise nor set,</p> +<p>Haply I may remember,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And haply may forget.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail059.png" width = "126" height = "73" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">188</span> +<a name = "page188" id = "page188"> </a> +<!-- png 261 --> +<h4>SONG.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">O</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> roses</span> +for the flush of youth,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And laurel for the perfect prime;</p> +<p>But pluck an ivy branch for me</p> +<p class = "inset1">Grown old before my time.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +O violets for the grave of youth,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And bay for those dead in their prime;</p> +<p>Give me the withered leaves I chose</p> +<p class = "inset1">Before in the old time.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail025.png" width = "124" height = "78" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">189</span> +<a name = "page189" id = "page189"> </a> +<!-- png 262 --> +<h4>SONG.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">T</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">wo</span> +doves upon the selfsame branch,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Two lilies on a single stem,</p> +<p>Two butterflies upon one flower:—</p> +<p class = "inset1">O happy they who look on them.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Who look upon them hand in hand</p> +<p class = "inset1">Flushed in the rosy summer light;</p> +<p>Who look upon them hand in hand</p> +<p class = "inset1">And never give a thought to night.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail083.png" width = "127" height = "78" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">190</span> +<a name = "page190" id = "page190"> </a> +<!-- png 263 --> +<h4>THREE SEASONS.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap"><span class = "quotes">“</span>A</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">cup</span> for hope!” she said,</p> +<p>In springtime ere the bloom was old:</p> +<p>The crimson wine was poor and cold</p> +<p class = "inset1">By her mouth’s richer red.</p> + +<p class = "inset1 stanza"> +“A cup for love!” how low,</p> +<p>How soft the words; and all the while</p> +<p>Her blush was rippling with a smile</p> +<p class = "inset1">Like summer after snow.</p> + +<p class = "inset1 stanza"> +“A cup for memory!”</p> +<p>Cold cup that one must drain alone:</p> +<p>While autumn winds are up and moan</p> +<p class = "inset1">Across the barren sea.</p> + +<p class = "inset1 stanza"> +Hope, memory, love:</p> +<p>Hope for fair morn, and love for day,</p> +<p>And memory for the evening gray</p> +<p class = "inset1">And solitary dove.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">191</span> +<a name = "page191" id = "page191"> </a> +<!-- png 264 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head043.png" width = "377" height = "167" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1828-1882.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>A LITTLE WHILE.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">A</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> little</span> +while a little love</p> +<p class = "inset1">The hour yet bears for thee and me</p> +<p class = "inset1">Who have not drawn the veil to see</p> +<p>If still our heaven be lit above.</p> +<p>Thou merely, at the day’s last sigh,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Hast felt thy soul prolong the tone;</p> +<p>And I have heard the night-wind cry</p> +<p class = "inset2">And deemed its speech mine own.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +A little while a little love</p> +<p class = "inset1">The scattering autumn hoards for us</p> +<p class = "inset1">Whose bower is not yet ruinous</p> +<p>Nor quite unleaved our songless grove.</p> +<span class = "pagenum">192</span> +<a name = "page192" id = "page192"> </a> +<!-- png 265 --> +<p>Only across the shaken boughs</p> +<p class = "inset1">We hear the flood-tides seek the sea,</p> +<p>And deep in both our hearts they rouse</p> +<p class = "inset2">One wail for thee and me.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +A little while a little love</p> +<p class = "inset1">May yet be ours who have not said</p> +<p class = "inset1">The word it makes our eyes afraid</p> +<p>To know that each is thinking of.</p> +<p>Not yet the end: be our lips dumb</p> +<p class = "inset1">In smiles a little season yet:</p> +<p>I ’ll tell thee, when the end is come,</p> +<p class = "inset2">How we may best forget.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail045.png" width = "125" height = "73" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">193</span> +<a name = "page193" id = "page193"> </a> +<!-- png 266 --> +<h4>SUDDEN LIGHT.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap3">I</p> +<p class = "inset2"><span class = "firstword"> have</span> +been here before,</p> +<p class = "inset3">But when or how I cannot tell:</p> +<p class = "inset2">I know the grass beyond the door,</p> +<p class = "inset3">The sweet keen smell,</p> +<p>The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.</p> + +<p class = "inset2 stanza"> +You have been mine before,—</p> +<p class = "inset3">How long ago I may not know:</p> +<p class = "inset2">But just when at that swallow’s soar</p> +<p class = "inset3">Your neck turned so,</p> +<p>Some veil did fall,—I knew it all of yore.</p> + +<p class = "inset2 stanza"> +Has this been thus before?</p> +<p class = "inset3">And shall not thus time’s eddying flight</p> +<p class = "inset2">Still with our lives our loves restore</p> +<p class = "inset3">In death’s despite,</p> +<p>And day and night yield one delight once more?</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + + +<!-- png 268 --> + +<p class = "illustration plate"> +<a name = "plate194" id = "plate194"> </a> +<img src = "images/plate_opp194.jpg" width = "372" height = "530" +alt = "“I looked and saw your eyes”" +title = "“I looked and saw your eyes”"> +</p> +<!-- png 269 --> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">194</span> +<a name = "page194" id = "page194"> </a> +<!-- png 267 --> +<h4>THREE SHADOWS.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">I</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> looked</span> +and saw your eyes</p> +<p class = "inset1">In the shadow of your hair,</p> +<p>As a traveller sees the stream</p> +<p class = "inset1">In the shadow of the wood;</p> +<p>And I said, “My faint heart sighs,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Ah me! to linger there,</p> +<p>To drink deep and to dream</p> +<p class = "inset1">In that sweet solitude.”</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +I looked and saw your heart</p> +<p class = "inset1">In the shadow of your eyes,</p> +<p>As a seeker sees the gold</p> +<p class = "inset1">In the shadow of the stream;</p> +<p>And I said, “Ah, me! what art</p> +<p class = "inset1">Should win the immortal prize,</p> +<p>Whose want must make life cold</p> +<p class = "inset1">And Heaven a hollow dream?”</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">195</span> +<a name = "page195" id = "page195"> </a> +<!-- png 270 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +I looked and saw your love</p> +<p class = "inset1">In the shadow of your heart,</p> +<p>As a diver sees the pearl</p> +<p class = "inset1">In the shadow of the sea;</p> +<p>And I murmured, not above</p> +<p class = "inset1">My breath, but all apart,—</p> +<p>“Ah! you can love, true girl,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And is your love for me?”</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail021.png" width = "121" height = "86" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">196</span> +<a name = "page196" id = "page196"> </a> +<!-- png 271 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head088.png" width = "374" height = "140" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>WILLIAM BELL SCOTT.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1812-1890.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>PARTING AND MEETING AGAIN.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">L</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ast</span> +time I parted from my Dear</p> +<p>The linnet sang from the briar-bush,</p> +<p class = "inset4">The throstle from the dell;</p> +<p>The stream too carolled full and clear,</p> +<p>It was the spring-time of the year,</p> +<p>And both the linnet and the thrush</p> +<p class = "inset4">I love them well</p> +<p>Since last I parted from my Dear.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +But when he came again to me</p> +<p>The barley rustled high and low,</p> +<span class = "pagenum">197</span> +<a name = "page197" id = "page197"> </a> +<!-- png 272 --> +<p class = "inset4">Linnet and thrush were still;</p> +<p>Yellowed the apple on the tree,</p> +<p>’T was autumn merry as it could be,</p> +<p>What time the white ships come and go</p> +<p class = "inset4">Under the hill;</p> +<p>They brought him back again to me,</p> +<p>Brought him safely o’er the sea.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail042.png" width = "125" height = "54" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">198</span> +<a name = "page198" id = "page198"> </a> +<!-- png 273 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head039.png" width = "372" height = "158" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>JOSEPH SKIPSEY.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1832</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>A MERRY BEE.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">A</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> golden</span> +bee a-cometh</p> +<p class = "inset1">O’er the mere, glassy mere,</p> +<p>And a merry tale he hummeth</p> +<p class = "inset4">In my ear.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +How he seized and kist a blossom,</p> +<p class = "inset1">From its tree, thorny tree,</p> +<p>Plucked and placed in Annie’s bosom,</p> +<p class = "inset4">Hums the bee!</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">199</span> +<a name = "page199" id = "page199"> </a> +<!-- png 274 --> +<h4>THE SONGSTRESS.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">B</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ack</span> +flies my soul to other years,</p> +<p class = "inset1">When thou that charming lay repeatest,</p> +<p>When smiles were only chased by tears,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Yet sweeter far than smiles the sweetest.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Thy music ends, and where are they?</p> +<p class = "inset1">Those golden times by memory cherished?</p> +<p>O, Syren, sing no more that lay,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Or sing till I like them have perished!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail040.png" width = "126" height = "74" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">200</span> +<a name = "page200" id = "page200"> </a> +<!-- png 275 --> +<h4>THE VIOLET AND THE ROSE.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">T</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">he</span> +Violet invited my kiss,—</p> +<p class = "inset1">I kissed it and called it my bride;</p> +<p>“Was ever one slighted like this?”</p> +<p class = "inset1">Sighed the Rose as it stood by my side.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +My heart ever open to grief,</p> +<p class = "inset1">To comfort the fair one I turned;</p> +<p>“Of fickle ones thou art the chief!”</p> +<p class = "inset1">Frowned the Violet, and pouted and mourned.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Then, to end all disputes, I entwined</p> +<p class = "inset1">The love-stricken blossoms in one;</p> +<p>But that instant their beauty declined,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And I wept for the deed I had done!</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">201</span> +<a name = "page201" id = "page201"> </a> +<!-- png 276 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head201.png" width = "379" height = "136" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>J. ASHBY STERRY.</h3> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>REGRETS.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> + +<h5>I.</h5> + +<p class = "dropcap">O</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> for</span> +the look of those pure grey eyes—</p> +<p class = "inset1">Seeming to plead and speak—</p> +<p>The parted lips and the deep-drawn sighs,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The blush on the kissen cheek!</p> + +<h5>II.</h5> + +<p>O for the tangle of soft brown hair,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Lazily blown by the breeze;</p> +<p>The fleeting hours unshadowed by care,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Shaded by tremulous trees!</p> + +<h5>III.</h5> + +<p>O for the dream of those sunny days,</p> +<p class = "inset1">With their bright unbroken spell,</p> +<p>And the thrilling sweet untutored praise—</p> +<p class = "inset1">From the lips once loved so well!</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">202</span> +<a name = "page202" id = "page202"> </a> +<!-- png 277 --> +<h5>IV.</h5> + +<p>O for the feeling of days agone,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The simple faith and the truth,</p> +<p>The spring of time and life’s rosy dawn—</p> +<p class = "inset1">O for the love and the youth!</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail202.png" width = "129" height = "134" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">203</span> +<a name = "page203" id = "page203"> </a> +<!-- png 278 --> +<h4>DAISY’S DIMPLES.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> + +<h5>I.</h5> + +<p class = "dropcap">L</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">ittle</span> +dimples so sweet and soft,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Love the cheek of my love:</p> +<p>The mark of Cupid’s dainty hand,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Before he wore a glove.</p> + +<h5>II.</h5> + +<p>Laughing dimples of tender love</p> +<p class = "inset1">Smile on my darling’s cheek;</p> +<p>Sweet hallowed spots where kisses lurk,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And play at hide and seek.</p> + +<h5>III.</h5> + +<p>Fain would I hide my kisses there</p> +<p class = "inset1">At morning’s rosy light,</p> +<p>To come and seek them back again</p> +<p class = "inset1">In silver hush of night.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">204</span> +<a name = "page204" id = "page204"> </a> +<!-- png 279 --> +<h4>A LOVER’S LULLABY.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> + +<h5>I.</h5> + +<p class = "dropcap">M</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">irror</span> +your sweet eyes in mine, love,</p> +<p class = "inset1">See how they glitter and shine!</p> +<p>Quick fly such moments divine, love,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Link your lithe fingers in mine!</p> + +<h5>II.</h5> + +<p>Lay your soft cheek against mine, love,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Pillow your head on my breast;</p> +<p>While your brown locks I entwine, love,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Pout your red lips when they ’re prest!</p> + +<h5>III.</h5> + +<p>Mirror your fate, then, in mine, love;</p> +<p class = "inset1">Sorrow and sighing resign:</p> +<p>Life is too short to repine, love,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Link your fair future in mine!</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">205</span> +<a name = "page205" id = "page205"> </a> +<!-- png 280 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head098.png" width = "375" height = "161" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1837.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>A MATCH.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">I</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">f</span> +love were what the rose is,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And I were like the leaf,</p> +<p>Our lives would grow together</p> +<p>In sad or singing weather,</p> +<p>Blown fields or flowerful closes,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Green pleasure or grey grief;</p> +<p>If love were what the rose is,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And I were like the leaf.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +If I were what the words are,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And love were like the tune,</p> +<p>With double sound or single</p> +<p>Delight our lips would mingle,</p> +<span class = "pagenum">206</span> +<a name = "page206" id = "page206"> </a> +<!-- png 281 --> +<p>With kisses glad as birds are</p> +<p class = "inset1">That get sweet rain at noon;</p> +<p>If I were what the words are,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And love were like the tune.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +If you were life, my darling,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And I your love were death,</p> +<p>We ’d shine and snow together</p> +<p>Ere March made sweet the weather</p> +<p>With daffodil and starling</p> +<p class = "inset1">And hours of fruitful breath;</p> +<p>If you were life, my darling,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And I your love were death.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +If you were thrall to sorrow,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And I were page to joy,</p> +<p>We ’d play for lives and seasons</p> +<p>With loving looks and treasons</p> +<p>And tears of night and morrow</p> +<p class = "inset1">And laughs of maid and boy;</p> +<p>If you were thrall to sorrow,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And I were page to joy.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">207</span> +<a name = "page207" id = "page207"> </a> +<!-- png 282 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +If you were April’s lady,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And I were lord in May,</p> +<p>We ’d throw with leaves for hours</p> +<p>And draw for days with flowers,</p> +<p>Till day like night were shady</p> +<p class = "inset1">And night were bright like day;</p> +<p>If you were April’s lady,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And I were lord in May.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +If you were queen of pleasure,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And I were king of pain,</p> +<p>We ’d hunt down love together,</p> +<p>Pluck out his flying-feather,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And teach his feet a measure,</p> +<p>And find his mouth a rein;</p> +<p class = "inset1">If you were queen of pleasure,</p> +<p>And I were king of pain.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">208</span> +<a name = "page208" id = "page208"> </a> +<!-- png 283 --> +<h4>RONDEL.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">K</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">issing</span> +her hair I sat against her feet,</p> +<p>Wove and unwove it, wound and found it sweet;</p> +<p>Made fast therewith her hands, drew down her eyes,</p> +<p>Deep as deep flowers and dreamy like dim skies;</p> +<p>With her own tresses bound and found her fair,</p> +<p class = "inset4">Kissing her hair.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Sleep were no sweeter than her face to me,</p> +<p>Sleep of cold sea-bloom under the cold sea;</p> +<p>What pain could get between my face and hers?</p> +<p>What new sweet thing would love not relish worse?</p> +<p>Unless, perhaps, white death had kissed me there,</p> +<p class = "inset4">Kissing her hair?</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail057.png" width = "68" height = "41" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">209</span> +<a name = "page209" id = "page209"> </a> +<!-- png 284 --> +<h4>SONG.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +FROM “FELISE.”</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">O</p> +<p><span class = "firstword"> lips</span> +that mine have grown into</p> +<p class = "inset1">Like April’s kissing May,</p> +<p>O fervent eyelids letting through</p> +<p>Those eyes the greenest of things blue,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The bluest of things gray,</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +If you were I and I were you,</p> +<p class = "inset1">How could I love you, say?</p> +<p>How could the roseleaf love the rue,</p> +<p>The day love nightfall and her dew,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Though night may love the day?</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">210</span> +<a name = "page210" id = "page210"> </a> +<!-- png 285 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head077.png" width = "371" height = "170" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>ALFRED TENNYSON.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1809-1892.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>THE BUGLE SONG.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +FROM “THE PRINCESS.”</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">T</p> +<p class = "inset2"><span class = "firstword">he</span> +splendour falls on castle walls</p> +<p class = "inset3">And snowy summits old in story:</p> +<p class = "inset2">The long light shakes across the lakes,</p> +<p class = "inset3">And the wild cataract leaps in glory.</p> +<p>Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,</p> +<p>Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.</p> + +<p class = "inset2 stanza"> +O hark, O hear! how thin and clear,</p> +<p class = "inset3">And thinner, clearer, farther going!</p> +<span class = "pagenum">211</span> +<a name = "page211" id = "page211"> </a> +<!-- png 286 --> +<p class = "inset2">O sweet and far from cliff and scar</p> +<p class = "inset3">The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!</p> +<p>Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying:</p> +<p>Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.</p> + +<p class = "inset2 stanza"> +O love, they die in yon rich sky,</p> +<p class = "inset3">They faint on hill or field or river:</p> +<p class = "inset2">Our echoes roll from soul to soul,</p> +<p class = "inset3">And grow for ever and for ever.</p> +<p>Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,</p> +<p>And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail008.png" width = "125" height = "95" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">212</span> +<a name = "page212" id = "page212"> </a> +<!-- png 287 --> +<h4>BREAK, BREAK, BREAK.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">B</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">reak,</span> +break, break,</p> +<p class = "inset1">On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!</p> +<p>And I would that my tongue could utter</p> +<p class = "inset1">The thoughts that arise in me.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +O well for the fisherman’s boy,</p> +<p class = "inset1">That he shouts with his sister at play!</p> +<p>O well for the sailor lad,</p> +<p class = "inset1">That he sings in his boat on the bay!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +And the stately ships go on</p> +<p class = "inset1">To their haven under the hill;</p> +<p>But O for the touch of a vanished hand,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And the sound of a voice that is still!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Break, break, break,</p> +<p class = "inset1">At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!</p> +<p>But the tender grace of a day that is dead</p> +<p class = "inset1">Will never come back to me.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<p class = "illustration plate"> +<a name = "plate212" id = "plate212"> </a> +<img src = "images/plate_opp212.jpg" width = "373" height = "523" +alt = "Break, Break, Break" title = "Break, Break, Break"> +</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">213</span> +<a name = "page213" id = "page213"> </a> +<!-- png 288 --> +<h4>TEARS, IDLE TEARS.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +FROM “THE PRINCESS.”</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">T</p> +<p class = "inset1"><span class = "firstword">ears,</span> +idle tears, I know not what they mean,</p> +<p>Tears from the depth of some divine despair</p> +<p>Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,</p> +<p>In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,</p> +<p>And thinking of the days that are no more.</p> + +<p class = "inset1 stanza"> +Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,</p> +<p>That brings our friends up from the underworld,</p> +<p>Sad as the last which reddens over one</p> +<p>That sinks with all we love below the verge;</p> +<p>So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.</p> + +<p class = "inset1 stanza"> +Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns</p> +<p>The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds</p> +<p>To dying ears, when unto dying eyes</p> +<p>The casement slowly grows a glimmering square;</p> +<p>So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">214</span> +<a name = "page214" id = "page214"> </a> +<!-- png 289 --> +<p class = "inset1 stanza"> +Dear as remembered kisses after death,</p> +<p>And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned</p> +<p>On lips that are for others; deep as love,</p> +<p>Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;</p> +<p>O Death in Life, the days that are no more.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail019.png" width = "117" height = "64" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">215</span> +<a name = "page215" id = "page215"> </a> +<!-- png 290 --> +<h4>SWEET AND LOW.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +FROM “THE PRINCESS.”</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">S</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">weet</span> +and low, sweet and low,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Wind of the western sea,</p> +<p>Low, low, breathe and blow,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Wind of the western sea!</p> +<p>Over the rolling waters go,</p> +<p>Come from the dying moon, and blow,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Blow him again to me;</p> +<p>While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Father will come to thee soon;</p> +<p>Rest, rest, on mother’s breast,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Father will come to thee soon;</p> +<p>Father will come to his babe in the nest,</p> +<p>Silver sails all out of the west</p> +<p class = "inset1">Under the silver moon:</p> +<p>Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">216</span> +<a name = "page216" id = "page216"> </a> +<!-- png 291 --> +<h4>TURN, FORTUNE, TURN THY WHEEL.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +FROM “THE MARRIAGE OF GERAINT.”</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">T</p> +<p class = "inset1"><span class = "firstword">urn,</span> +Fortune, turn thy wheel and lower the proud;</p> +<p>Turn thy wild wheel thro’ sunshine, storm, and cloud;</p> +<p>Thy wheel and thee we neither love nor hate.</p> + +<p class = "inset1 stanza"> +Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel with smile or frown;</p> +<p>With that wild wheel we go not up or down;</p> +<p>Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.</p> + +<p class = "inset1 stanza"> +Smile and we smile, the lords of many lands;</p> +<p>Frown and we smile, the lords of our own hands;</p> +<p>For man is man and master of his fate.</p> + +<p class = "inset1 stanza"> +Turn, turn thy wheel above the staring crowd;</p> +<p>Thy wheel and thou are shadows in the cloud;</p> +<p>Thy wheel and thee we neither love nor hate.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">217</span> +<a name = "page217" id = "page217"> </a> +<!-- png 292 --> +<h4>VIVIEN’S SONG.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +FROM “MERLIN AND VIVIEN.”</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">I</p> +<p class = "inset1"><span class = "firstword">n</span> +Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours,</p> +<p>Faith and unfaith can ne’er be equal powers:</p> +<p>Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all.</p> + +<p class = "inset1 stanza"> +It is the little rift within the lute,</p> +<p>That by and by will make the music mute,</p> +<p>And ever widening slowly silence all.</p> + +<p class = "inset1 stanza"> +The little rift within the lover’s lute</p> +<p>Or little pitted speck in garnered fruit,</p> +<p>That rotting inward slowly moulders all.</p> + +<p class = "inset1 stanza"> +It is not worth the keeping: let it go:</p> +<p>But shall it? answer, darling, answer, no.</p> +<p>And trust me not at all or all in all.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">218</span> +<a name = "page218" id = "page218"> </a> +<!-- png 293 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head049.png" width = "377" height = "107" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1811-1863.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>AT THE CHURCH GATE.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +FROM “PENDENNIS.”</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">A</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">lthough</span> +I enter not,</p> +<p>Yet round about the spot</p> +<p class = "inset1">Ofttimes I hover:</p> +<p>And near the sacred gate,</p> +<p>With longing eyes I wait,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Expectant of her.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +The Minster bell tolls out</p> +<p>Above the city’s rout,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And noise and humming:</p> +<p>They ’ve hushed the Minster bell:</p> +<p>The organ ’gins to swell:</p> +<p class = "inset1">She ’s coming, she ’s coming!</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">219</span> +<a name = "page219" id = "page219"> </a> +<!-- png 294 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +My lady comes at last,</p> +<p>Timid, and stepping fast,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And hastening hither,</p> +<p>With modest eyes downcast:</p> +<p>She comes—she ’s here—she ’s past—</p> +<p class = "inset1">May heaven go with her!</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Kneel, undisturbed, fair saint!</p> +<p>Pour out your praise or plaint</p> +<p class = "inset1">Meekly and duly;</p> +<p>I will not enter there,</p> +<p>To sully your pure prayer</p> +<p class = "inset1">With thoughts unruly.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +But suffer me to pace</p> +<p>Round the forbidden place,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Lingering a minute;</p> +<p>Like outcast spirits who wait</p> +<p>And see through heaven’s gate</p> +<p class = "inset1">Angels within it.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">220</span> +<a name = "page220" id = "page220"> </a> +<!-- png 295 --> +<h4>THE MAHOGANY TREE.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">C</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">hristmas</span> +is here;</p> +<p>Winds whistle shrill,</p> +<p>Icy and chill,</p> +<p>Little care we:</p> +<p>Little we fear</p> +<p>Weather without</p> +<p>Sheltered about</p> +<p>The Mahogany Tree.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Once on the boughs</p> +<p>Birds of rare plume</p> +<p>Sang, in its bloom;</p> +<p>Night-birds are we:</p> +<p>Here we carouse,</p> +<p>Singing like them,</p> +<p>Perched round the stem</p> +<p>Of the jolly old tree.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Here let us sport,</p> +<p>Boys, as we sit;</p> +<span class = "pagenum">221</span> +<a name = "page221" id = "page221"> </a> +<!-- png 296 --> +<p>Laughter and wit</p> +<p>Flashing so free.</p> +<p>Life is but short—</p> +<p>When we are gone,</p> +<p>Let them sing on,</p> +<p>Round the old tree.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Evenings we knew,</p> +<p>Happy as this;</p> +<p>Faces we miss,</p> +<p>Pleasant to see.</p> +<p>Kind hearts and true,</p> +<p>Gentle and just,</p> +<p>Peace to your dust!</p> +<p>We sing round the tree.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Care, like a dun,</p> +<p>Lurks at the gate:</p> +<p>Let the dog wait;</p> +<p>Happy we ’ll be!</p> +<p>Drink, every one;</p> +<p>Pile up the coals,</p> +<p>Fill the red bowls,</p> +<p>Round the old tree.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">222</span> +<a name = "page222" id = "page222"> </a> +<!-- png 297 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +Drain we the cup.—</p> +<p>Friend, art afraid?</p> +<p>Spirits are laid</p> +<p>In the Red Sea.</p> +<p>Mantle it up;</p> +<p>Empty it yet;</p> +<p>Let us forget,</p> +<p>Round the old tree.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Sorrows, begone!</p> +<p>Life and its ills,</p> +<p>Duns and their bills,</p> +<p>Bid we to flee.</p> +<p>Come with the dawn,</p> +<p>Blue-devil sprite,</p> +<p>Leave us to-night,</p> +<p>Round the old tree.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<div class = "author"> + +<span class = "pagenum">223</span> +<a name = "page223" id = "page223"> </a> +<!-- png 298 --> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/head094.png" width = "375" height = "145" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +<h3>GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY.</h3> + +<p class = "dates">1828-1876.</p> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<h4>DAYRISE AND SUNSET.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">W</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">hen</span> +Spring casts all her swallows forth</p> +<p class = "inset1">Into the blue and lambent air,</p> +<p>When lilacs toss their purple plumes</p> +<p class = "inset1">And every cherry-tree grows fair,—</p> +<p>Through fields with morning tints a-glow</p> +<p>I take my rod and singing go.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Where lilies float on broad green leaves</p> +<p class = "inset1">Below the ripples of the mill,</p> +<p>When the white moth is hovering</p> +<p class = "inset1">In the dim sky so hushed and still,</p> +<p>I watch beneath the pollard ash</p> +<p>The greedy trout leap up and splash.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">224</span> +<a name = "page224" id = "page224"> </a> +<!-- png 299 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +Or down where golden water flowers</p> +<p class = "inset1">Are wading in the shallow tide,</p> +<p>While still the dusk is tinged with rose</p> +<p class = "inset1">Like a brown cheek o’erflushed with pride—</p> +<p>I throw the crafty fly and wait;</p> +<p>Watching the big trout eye the bait.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +It is the lover’s twilight-time,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And there ’s a magic in the hour,</p> +<p>But I forget the sweets of love</p> +<p class = "inset1">And all love’s tyranny and power,</p> +<p>And with my feather-hidden steel</p> +<p>Sigh but to fill my woven creel.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Then upward darkling through the copse</p> +<p class = "inset1">I push my eager homeward way,</p> +<p>Through glades of drowsy violets</p> +<p class = "inset1">That never see the golden day.</p> +<p>Yes! while the night comes soft and slow</p> +<p>I take my rod and singing go.</p> +</div> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<!-- png 300 --> + +<p class = "illustration plate"> +<a name = "plate224" id = "plate224"> </a> +<img src = "images/plate_opp224.jpg" width = "373" height = "520" +alt = "“When Spring casts all her swallows forth”" +title = "“When Spring casts all her swallows forth”"> +</p> +<!-- png 301 --> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">225</span> +<a name = "page225" id = "page225"> </a> +<!-- png 302 --> +<h4>THE THREE TROOPERS.<br> +<span class = "subhead"> +DURING THE PROTECTORATE.</span></h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">I</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">nto</span> +the Devil tavern</p> +<p class = "inset1">Three booted troopers strode,</p> +<p>From spur to feather spotted and splashed</p> +<p class = "inset1">With the mud of a winter road.</p> +<p>In each of their cups they dropped a crust,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And stared at the guests with a frown;</p> +<p>Then drew their swords, and roared for a toast,</p> +<p class = "inset1">“God send this Crum-well-down!”</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +A blue smoke rose from their pistol locks,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Their sword blades were still wet;</p> +<p>There were long red smears on their jerkins of buff,</p> +<p class = "inset1">As the table they overset.</p> +<p>Then into their cups they stirred the crusts,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And cursed old London town;</p> +<p>They waved their swords, and drank with a stamp,</p> +<p class = "inset1">“God send this Crum-well-down!”</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">226</span> +<a name = "page226" id = "page226"> </a> +<!-- png 303 --> +<p class = "stanza"> +The ’prentice dropped his can of beer,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The host turned pale as a clout;</p> +<p>The ruby nose of the toping squires</p> +<p class = "inset1">Grew white at the wild men’s shout.</p> +<p>Then into their cups they flung their crusts,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And shewed their teeth with a frown;</p> +<p>They flashed their swords as they gave the toast,</p> +<p class = "inset1">“God send this Crum-well-down!”</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +The gambler dropped his dog’s-ear’d cards,</p> +<p class = "inset1">The waiting-women screamed,</p> +<p>As the light of the fire, like stains of blood,</p> +<p class = "inset1">On the wild men’s sabres gleamed.</p> +<p>Then into their cups they splashed their crusts,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And cursed the fool of a town,</p> +<p>And leapt on the table, and roared a toast,</p> +<p class = "inset1">“God send this Crum-well-down!”</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Till on a sudden fire-bells rang,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And the troopers sprang to horse;</p> +<p>The eldest muttered between his teeth,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Hot curses—deep and coarse.</p> +<span class = "pagenum">227</span> +<a name = "page227" id = "page227"> </a> +<!-- png 304 --> +<p>In their stirrup cups they flung the crusts,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And cried as they spurred through the town,</p> +<p>With their keen swords drawn and their pistols cocked,</p> +<p class = "inset1">“God send this Crum-well-down!”</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +Away they dashed through Temple Bar,</p> +<p class = "inset1">Their red cloaks flowing free,</p> +<p>Their scabbards clashed, each back-piece shone—</p> +<p class = "inset1">None liked to touch the three.</p> +<p>The silver cups that held the crusts</p> +<p class = "inset1">They flung to the startled town,</p> +<p>Shouting again, with a blaze of swords,</p> +<p class = "inset1">“God send this Crum-well-down!”</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail047.png" width = "123" height = "64" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> + +<table summary = "poem"> +<tr><td> + +<span class = "pagenum">228</span> +<a name = "page228" id = "page228"> </a> +<!-- png 305 --> +<h4>THE CUCKOO.</h4> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p class = "dropcap">W</p> +<p><span class = "firstword">hen</span> +a warm and scented steam</p> +<p class = "inset1">Rises from the flowering earth;</p> +<p>When the green leaves are all still,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And the song birds cease their mirth;</p> +<p>In the silence before rain</p> +<p>Comes the cuckoo back again.</p> + +<p class = "stanza"> +When the Spring is all but gone—</p> +<p class = "inset1">Tearful April, laughing May—</p> +<p>When a hush comes on the woods,</p> +<p class = "inset1">And the sunbeams cease to play;</p> +<p>In the silence before rain</p> +<p>Comes the cuckoo back again.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/tail228.png" width = "124" height = "90" +alt = "decoration"></p> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + +</div> <!-- end div maintext --> + +<hr class = "mid"> + +<p class = "center"> +<a class = 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