In The Firelight (John Hay Poems)
My dear wife sits beside the fire With folded hands and dreaming eyes,Watching the restless flames aspire, And wrapped in thralling memories.I ...
My dear wife sits beside the fire With folded hands and dreaming eyes,Watching the restless flames aspire, And wrapped in thralling memories.I ...
"Thy braes were bonny, Yarrow stream! When first on them I met my lover;Thy braes how dreary, Yarrow stream! When now thy ...
I am not old -- I cannot be old,Though threescore years and tenHave wasted away, like a tale that is ...
Rose o' the World, she came to my bedAnd changed the dreams of my heart and head;For joy of mine ...
I said: "My heart, now let us sing a song For a fair lady on her wedding-day; Some solemn hymn or pretty ...
It's we two, it's we two, it's we two for aye,All the world, and we two, and Heaven be our ...
I saw thee young and beautiful,I saw thee rich and gay,In the first blush of womanhood,Upon thy wedding-day;The church-bells rang,And ...
A FEAST was in a village spread,—It was a wedding-day, they said.The parlour of the inn I found,And saw the ...
TO THEM THAT MOURNLet your tears flow; let your sad sighs have scope;Only take heed they fan, they water Hope.A ...
All the comforts of life in a Tavern are known,'Tis his home who possesses not one of his own;And to ...
I dreamed that same old dream again last night;You know I told you of it once, and more:The sun had ...
All through the Castle of High-bred Ease,Where the chief employment was do-as-you-please,Spread consternation and wild despair.The queen was wringing her ...
But once I saw her, with the auburn hairIn rich profusion, shading her pure cheek,A cheek of beauty, and so ...
When I think of the weary nights and daysOf poor, hard-working folk, alwaysI see, with his head on his bosom ...
Mother says, "Be in no hurry, Marriage oft means care and worry." Auntie says, with manner grave, "Wife is synonym ...
The wind blew all my wedding-day, And my wedding-night was the night of the high wind; And a stable door ...
The Fire at Tranter Sweatley's THEY had long met o' Zundays--her true love and she-- And at junketings, maypoles, and ...
They had long met o' Zundays--her true love and she-- And at junketings, maypoles, and flings; But she bode wi' ...
A FEAST was in a village spread,-- It was a wedding-day, they said. The parlour of the inn I found, ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
I. Where freezing wastes of dazzl'ing Snow O'er LEMAN'S Lake rose, tow'ring; The BARON GOLFRE'S Castle strong Was seen, the ...
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