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Christmass
Christmass
Christmass is come and every hearth
Makes room to give him welcome now
Een want will dry its tears in mirth
And crown …
Braggart
Braggart
With careful step to keep his balance up
He reels on warily along the street,
Slabbering at mouth and with a staggering stoop
Bantry Bay
Bantry Bay
On the eighteenth of October we lay in Bantry Bay,
All ready to set sail, with a fresh and steady gale:
A fortnight and nine days we i…
Bonny Lassie O!
Bonny Lassie O!
O the evening's for the fair, bonny lassie O!
To meet the cooler air and walk an angel there,
With the dark dishevelled hair,
Badger
Badger
The badger grunting on his woodland track
With shaggy hide and sharp nose scrowed with black
Roots in the bushes and the woods, an…
Autumn
Autumn
The thistledown's flying, though the winds are all still,
On the green grass now lying, now mounting the hill,
The spring from the…
An Invite, to Eternity
An Invite, to Eternity
Wilt thou go with me, sweet maid,
Say, maiden, wilt thou go with me
Through the valley-depths of shade,
Of night a…
A World For Love
A World For Love
Oh, the world is all too rude for thee, with much ado and care;
Oh, this world is but a rude world, and hurts a thing so fair;
W…
With A Painted Ribbon
With A Painted Ribbon
LITTLE leaves and flow'rets too,
Scatter we with gentle hand,
Kind young spring-gods to the view,
Sporting …
A vision
A vision
I lost the love of heaven above,
I spurned the lust of earth below,
I felt the sweets of fancied love
And hell itself my only fo…
Winter Journey Over The Hartz Mountain
Winter Journey Over The Hartz Mountain
LIKE the vulture
Who on heavy morning clouds
With gentle wing reposing
Looks for his prey,--
…
When The Fox Dies, His Skin Counts
When The Fox Dies, His Skin Counts
WE young people in the shade
Sat one sultry day;
Cupid came, and "Dies the Fox"
With us sought…
Welcome And Farewell
Welcome And Farewell
QUICK throbb'd my heart: to norse! haste, haste,
And lo! 'twas done with speed of light;
The evening soon the world …
Wedding Night
Wedding Night
Far from the feasting, in the bedroom
Sits loyal Amor and quakes with dread:
What if the guests become too zestful,
Break t…
Valediction
Valediction
I ONCE was fond of fools,
And bid them come each day;
Then each one brought his tools
The carpenter to play; …
Venetian Epigrams I
Venetian Epigrams I
Sarcophagi, urns, were all covered with lifelike scenes,
fauns dancing with girls from a Bacchanalian choir,
paired-off, goat…
Trilogy Of Passion 01 To Werther
Trilogy Of Passion 01 To Werther
ONCE more, then, much-wept shadow, thou dost dare
Boldly to face the day's clear light,
To meet me on fr…
Trilogy Of Passion 03 Atonement
Trilogy Of Passion 03 Atonement
PASSION brings reason--who can pacify
An anguish'd heart whose loss hath been so great?
Where are the hou…
To The Moon
To The Moon
BUSH and vale thou fill'st again
With thy misty ray,
And my spirit's heavy chain
Castest far away.
Thou dost …
To The Husbandman
To The Husbandman
SMOOTHLY and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is cover'd;
Yet will a deeper one, friend, cover thy bones at the last.
To The Chosen One
To The Chosen One
HAND in hand! and lip to lip!
Oh, be faithful, maiden dear!
Fare thee well! thy lover's ship
Past full many a r…
To The Golden Heart That He Wore Around His Neck
To The Golden Heart That He Wore Around His Neck
OH thou token loved of joys now perish'd
That I still wear from my neck suspended,
Art t…
To Mignon
To Mignon
OVER vale and torrent far
Rolls along the sun's bright car.
Ah! he wakens in his course
Mine, as thy deep-seated smart …
To My Friend - Ode II
To My Friend - Ode II
THOU go'st! I murmur--
Go! let me murmur.
Oh, worthy man,
Fly from this land!
Deadly marshes…