Leave, O leave me to my sorrows;Here I'll sit and fade away,Till I'm nothing but a spirit,And I lose this form of clay.Then if chance along this forestAny walk in pathless ways,Thro' the gloom he'll see my shadowHear my voi...

A flower was offered to me,Such a flower as May never bore;But I said "I've a pretty rose tree,"And I passed the sweet flower o'er.Then I went to my pretty rose tree,To tend her by day and by night;But my rose turned...

Dear mother, dear mother, the Church is cold;But the Alehouse is healthy, and pleasant, and warm.Besides, I can tell where I am used well;Such usage in heaven will never do well.But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,And...

Can I see another's woe,And not be in sorrow too?Can I see another's grief,And not seek for kind relief?Can I see a falling tear,And not feel my sorrow's share?Can a father see his childWeep, nor be with sorrow filled?...

Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air???That crossed me from sweet things,? The flow of - was it musk??From hidden grapevine springs??Down hill at dusk? I...

Where had I heard this wind beforeChange like this to a deeper roar?What would it take my standing there for,Holding open a restive door,Looking down hill to a frothy shore?Summer was past and the day was past.Sombre clouds in the...

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;And frogs in the pools singing at night,And wild plum trees in tremulous white;Robins will wear their feathery fire,Whistl...

Little Mary Bell had a Fairy in a nut,Long John Brown had the Devil in his gut;Long John Brown lov'd little Mary Bell,And the Fairy drew the Devil into the nutshell.Her Fairy skipp'd out and her Fairy skipp'd in;He laugh'd at the D...

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;When the air does laugh with our merry wit,And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;when the meadows laugh with lively green,And the gr...

Once a dream did weave a shadeO'er my angel-guarded bed,That an emmet lost its wayWhere on grass methought I lay.Troubled, wildered, and forlorn,Dark, benighted, travel-worn,Over many a tangle spray,All heart-broke, I heard...