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CONTENTS.
THOSE EVENING BELLS..
Those evening bells! those evening bells!
SONG.....
Ask me no more where Jove bestows,
HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO
AIX
.....
I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris and he:
YOUTH AND AGE....
ROBERT BROWNING...
COLERIDGE
96
97
100
Verse, a breeze 'mid blossoms straying,
TO MARY......
COWPER
102
The twentieth year is well-nigh past
THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER..
It is the miller's daughter,
THE SHEPHERD'S SON....
The gowan glitters on the sward,
THE LORELEI..
I know not what it presages,
WITHOUT AND WITHIN...
My coachman, in the moonlight there,
SIR PATRICK SPENS.....
The king sits in Dunfermline town,
AN ANGEL IN THE HOUSE.....
How sweet it were, if without feeble fright,
THE MURDERED TRAVELLER
When Spring, to woods and wastes around,
LOVE..
He stood beside a cottage lone,
ANGELS BY THE DOOR....
O! there be angels evermwore,
In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes,
. HOOD
In Summer, when the days were long,
THE DREAM OF EUGENE ARAM ·
'Twas in the prime of summer time,
WHEN STARS ARE IN THE QUIET SKIES...
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
142
150
THE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE....
Come live with me, and be my love,
THE NYMPH'S REPLY..
If that the world and love were young,
TO THE UNSATISFIED.
Why thus longing, thus forever sighing
DIRGE IN CYMBELINE...
To fair Fidele's grassy tomb
THE DIRGE OF IMOGEN....
Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
YORK AND LANCASTER..
If this fair rose offend thy sight,
THE SONG OF THE SHIRT...
With fingers weary and worn,
When the sheep are in the fauld, and the kye come hame,
NAPOLEON AND THE BRITISH SAILOR CAMPBELL
...
178
I love contemplating, apart
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE... TENNYSON
Half a league, half a league,
181
CRADLE SONG...
What is the little one thinking about?
HE STANDETH AT THE DOOR AND KNOCKETH.
In the silent midnight watches,
THE CROOKED FOOTPATH..
Ah, here it is! the sliding rail
VANITAS
I've set my heart upon nothing, you see:
THE FORGING OF THE ANCHOR.
186
Come, see the Dolphin's anchor forged! 'tis at a white heat now:
Sweet in her green dell the flower of beauty slumbers,
POOR JACK.......
. DIBDIN
197
Go patter to lubbers and swabs, d'ye sce,
WE PARTED IN SILENCE...........
We parted in silence, we parted by night,
THE SANDS O' DEE..
"O Mary, go and call the cattle home,
THE RECONCILIATION..
KINGSLEY
• TENNYSON
As through the land at eve we went,
PAGE
200
202
THE GARRET....
BERANGER. (French.) 203
O, it was here that Love his gifts bestowed Mahony's Translation.
I have a son, a little son, a boy just five years old,
TYING HER BONNET UNDER HER CHIN.. PERRY..
ROSALIND'S MADRIGAL..........
..LODGE..
215
217
220
Love in my bosom, like a bee,
VIRTUE..
HERBERT
221
Sweet day! so cool, so calm, so bright,
..KINGSLEY.
222
SONG....
The world goes up, and the world goes down,
WALY, WALY, BUT LOVE BE BONNY. . . . · · ANONYMOUS
223
O waly, waly up the bank,
THE WELCOME.
. DAVIS
225
Come in the evening, or come in the morning;