Soldier, Maiden, and Flower (Eugene Field Poem)
"Sweetheart, take this," a soldier said, "And bid me brave good-by; It may befall we ne'er shall wed, But love ...
"Sweetheart, take this," a soldier said, "And bid me brave good-by; It may befall we ne'er shall wed, But love ...
At Madge, ye hoyden, gossips scofft, Ffor that a romping wench was shee-- "Now marke this rede," they bade her ...
Syn that you, Chloe, to your moder sticken, Maketh all ye yonge bacheloures full sicken; Like as a lyttel deere ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
NO easy matter 'tis to hold, Against its owner's will, the fleece Who troubled by the itching smart Of Cupid's ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
Give me, O indulgent Fate! Give me yet before I die A sweet, but absolute retreat, 'Mongst paths so lost ...
CUPID one day ask'd his Mother, When she meant that he shou'd Wed? You're too Young, my Boy, she said: ...
I. LONELINESS Her Word One ought not to have to care So much as you and I Care when the ...
'A letter from my love to-day! Oh, unexpected, dear appeal!' She struck a happy tear away, And broke the crimson ...
When Stiivoren town was in its prime And queened the Zuyder Zee, Its ships went out to every clime With ...
O Hymen king. Hymen, O Hymen king, what bitter thing is this? what shaft, tearing my heart? what scar, what ...
STEP me now a bridal measure, Work give way to love and leisure, Hearts be free and hearts be gay ...
We -- Bee and I -- live by the quaffing -- 'Tisn't all Hock -- with us -- Life has ...
The World -- stands -- solemner -- to me -- Since I was wed -- to Him -- A modesty ...
Ourselves were wed one summer -- dear -- Your Vision -- was in June -- And when Your little Lifetime ...
'Tis Sunrise -- Little Maid -- Hast Thou No Station in the Day? 'Twas not thy wont, to hinder so ...
On your birthday, today, there is time to reflect On the essence of our intimacy, From a beginning in the ...
THREE summers have gone since the first time we met, love, And still 'tis in vain that I ask thee ...
TO these whom death again did wed This grave 's the second marriage-bed. For though the hand of Fate could ...
I bring ye wine from above, From the vats of the storied sun; For every one of yer love, And ...
I bring ye wine from above, From the vats of the storied sun; For every one of yer love, And ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
The ladye she stood at her lattice high, Wi' her doggie at her feet; Thorough the lattice she can spy ...
What is song's eternity? Come and see. Can it noise and bustle be? Come and see. Praises sung or praises ...
Was ever a maiden so worried? I'll admit I am partial to Jim, For Jimmie has promised to wed me ...
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