Love's Old Sweet Song A sheaf of latter-day love-poems gathered from many sources
Part 10
Birds and Lovers....._Selections from the Poetical Works_ Dawn.....“ “ “ “
COONLEY, LYDIA AVERY:
Love’s Power....._Under the Pines, and Other Verses_
CRANE, WALTER:
Last Night my Lady talked with Me....._Renascence_ Love’s Arrows.....“
CURWEN, HARRY:
A Love Song....._French Love Songs, and Other Poems_
CUSTANCE, OLIVE:
The Parting Hour.
DOBSON, AUSTIN:
The Sundial....._Old World Idylls, and Other Verses_
ELLWANGER, GEORGE H.:
Spring Song.
ELLWANGER, W. D.:
To Jessie’s Dancing Feet....._The Century_
GALE, NORMAN R.:
A Love Song....._Violets_ A Song.....“
GARNETT, RICHARD:
A Nocturne....._Poems_ Violets.....“
GOSSE, EDMUND WILLIAM:
A Year....._On Viol and Flute_ I’ve kissed Thee, Sweetheart....._Firdausi in Exile, and Other Poems_
GRAY, JOHN:
Complaint....._Silverpoints_ Heart’s Demesne.....“
GREENE, G. A.:
In the Evening....._Italian Lyrists of To-day_ When the Leaves Fall.....“ “ “
GREENWELL, DORA:
Qui sait aimer, sait mourir....._Poems_
GULSTON, A. STEPNEY:
Song....._Metempsychosis_
HALL, GERTRUDE:
O Knight, if Thou a Lady hast....._Verses_
HALL, WILLIAM C.:
At Last....._Songs in a Minor Key_
HANKIN, MARY L.:
The Old is Better....._Year by Year_
HENLEY, W. E.:
Ballade of Midsummer Days and Nights....._A Book of Verses_ Oh, gather me the Rose.....“ “
HICKEY, EMILY H.:
Her Dream....._Lyrics and Verse Tales_
HILDRETH, CHARLES LOTIN:
Song....._The Masque of Death, and Other Poems_ The Tryst.....“ “ “ “
HINSHELWOOD, A. ERNEST:
By one Rapt Day....._Through Starlight to Dawn_
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL:
The Dilemma....._Poems_
HORNE, HERBERT P.:
The Measure....._Diversi Colores_
HUNT, HELEN:
Two Truths....._Verses_
IMAGE, SELWYN:
A Prayer....._Poems and Carols_
JENNER, HENRY:
A June Storm....._The Spectator_
KINGSLEY, CHARLES:
Dolcino to Margaret....._Poems_
LAMPMAN, ARCHIBALD:
A Ballade of Waiting....._Among the Millet and Other Poems_ A Forecast.....“ “ “ “
LANG, ANDREW:
An Old Tune....._Ballades and Verses Vain_ Good-bye....._Grass of Parnassus_ Metempsychosis....._Ballades and Lyrics of Old France_
LE GALLIENNE, RICHARD:
A Ballade of Old Sweethearts....._My Ladies’ Sonnets_
LEVY, AMY:
In the Mile End Road....._A London Plane Tree, and Other Poems_
LINTON, W. J.:
Love Afraid....._Poems and Translations_
LOCKER, FREDERICK:
To my Mistress....._London Lyrics_
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH:
It is not always May....._Poetical Works_
LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL:
Auf Wiedersehen....._Poems_
LYALL, SIR ALFRED:
Sequel to “My Queen”....._Verses written in India_
LYTTON, ROBERT, LORD:
If...?....._Marah_ Omens and Oracles.....“
MCCARTHY, JUSTIN HUNTLY:
The Garden of Memory....._Harlequinade_
MACDONALD, GEORGE:
If I were a Monk and thou wert a Nun....._Poems_
MACKAIL, J. W.:
A Ballade of Colours....._Love’s Looking-Glass_
MACKAY, ERIC:
My Amazon....._Love Letters of a Violinist_
MARSTON, PHILIP BOURKE:
Changed Love....._Wind Voices_ Summer’s Return....._Song-Tide, and Other Poems_
MARSTON, WESTLAND:
Mine....._Selected Dramatic Work and Poems_
MARZIALS, THEO.:
Aubade....._The Gallery of Pigeons, and Other Poems_ The Phial and the Philtre.....“ “ “ “
MASSEY, GERALD:
Not I, Sweet Soul, not I....._Love Lyrics_
MEREDITH, GEORGE:
At Dinner she is Hostess....._Modern Love_ Love within the Lover’s Breast.
MONKHOUSE, COSMO:
A Dead March....._Corn and Poppies_
MORRIS, LEWIS:
Fair Star that on the Shoulder of yon Hill....._Gwen_ Thy Shadow, O Tardy Night.....“
MORRIS, WILLIAM:
The First Lyric....._Love is Enough_ The Concluding Lyric.....“ “
MOULTON, LOUISE CHANDLER:
Beside a Bier....._In the Garden of Dreams_ Hereafter.....“ “ “
MURRAY, GEORGE:
Fortunio’s Song....._Verses and Versions_
NESBIT, E. (MRS. HUBERT BLAND):
Splendide Mendax....._Lays and Legends, Second Series_ The Kiss....._Leaves of Life_ The Mill....._Lays and Legends, Second Series_
NICHOLS, J. B. B.:
A Pastoral....._Love in Idleness_ Vigilate Itaque.....“ “
NOBLE, JAMES ASHCROFT:
The Horizon....._Verses of a Prose Writer_
O’CONNOR, JOSEPH:
Shadows....._Poems_
O’SHAUGHNESSY, ARTHUR:
A Farewell....._Music and Moonlight_ Song.....“ “ Supreme Summer.....“ “
PARKER, GILBERT:
As One would stand who saw a Sudden Light....._A Lover’s Diary_
PATMORE, COVENTRY:
Departure....._The Unknown Eros_
PAYNE, JOHN:
Cadences....._Songs of Life and Death_ Chant Royal of the God of Love....._New Poems_ False Spring....._Songs of Life and Death_
PERRY, NORA:
In June....._After the Ball, and Other Poems_
PFEIFFER, EMILY:
A Song of Winter.
PHILLIPS, STEPHEN:
To a Lost Love....._Primavera_
PHILPOT, WILLIAM:
Prince of Painters, come, I pray.
PINKERTON, PERCY C.:
A Lagoon Message....._Galeazzo, and Other Poems_
POLLOCK, WALTER HERRIES:
A Conquest....._New and Old_ The Devout Lover.....“ “
PROBYN, MAY:
Ballade of Lovers....._A Ballade of the Road, and Other Poems_
RAWNSLEY, HARDWICK DRUMMOND:
In a Garden....._Poems, Ballads, and Bucolics_
REESE, LIZETTE WOODWORTH:
A Song for Candlemas....._A Handful of Lavender_
RHYS, ERNEST:
A Dream of Diana....._A London Rose, and Other Rhymes_
RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB:
When She comes Home....._Old-Fashioned Roses_
ROBINSON, A. MARY F. (MADAME JAMES DARMESTETER):
Poplar Leaves....._Lyrics_
ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA G.:
After Death....._Poems_ Somewhere or Other.....“
ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL:
First Love Remembered....._The House of Life_ Love Enthroned.....“ “ Sudden Light.....“ “
SCOLLARD, CLINTON:
A Perfect Day....._The Hills of Song_
SCOTT, CLEMENT:
Rus in Urbe....._Lays and Lyrics_
SHARP, WILLIAM:
Song. The Coming of Love....._The Pagan Review_
SILL, EDWARD ROWLAND:
Recall....._Poems_
SPOFFORD, HARRIET PRESCOTT:
Fantasia....._Poems_ Only a Leaf.....“
STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE:
Song from a Drama....._Poems_
STORY, W. W.:
The Violet....._Poems_
STRANGE, EDWARD FAIRBROTHER:
To my Lady....._Palissy in Prison, and Other Verses_
SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES:
At Parting....._Poems and Ballads, Second Series_ August....._Laus Veneris_ Between the Sunset and the Sea....._Chastelard_ The Oblation....._Songs before Sunrise_
SYMONS, ARTHUR:
On Judge’s Walk....._Silhouettes_
SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON:
Ich hör’ es sogar im Traum....._New and Old_ Oh, when will it be?....._The Spirit Lamp_
TEMPLE, STEPHEN:
Ballade of the Ladyes of Long Syne.
TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD:
Fatima....._Poems_ Now sleeps the Crimson Petal.....“ The Window; or the Songs of the Wrens.....“
THOMAS, EDITH M.:
Valentine....._Lyrics and Sonnets_
THOMPSON, FRANCIS:
Dream Tryst....._Poems_
THOMPSON, MAURICE:
Atalanta....._Songs of Fair Weather_
THOMSON, JAMES:
A Song of Thanksgiving....._Sunday up the River_ Day after Day of this Azure May....._Sunday at Hampstead_
TODHUNTER, JOHN:
The Song of Tristram....._The Second Book of the Rhymers’ Club_
TOMSON, GRAHAM R. (ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON):
Aubade....._A Summer Night, and Other Poems_ Love the Guest....._The Bird Bride_
TURNER, CHARLES TENNYSON:
A Blush at Farewell....._Collected Sonnets_ The Kiss of Betrothal.....“ “ The Parting-Gate.....“ “
TYNAN, KATHERINE:
Irish Love Song....._Irish Love Songs_
TYTLER, C. C. FRASER (MRS. EDWARD LIDDELL):
Good-Night....._Songs in Minor Keys_
VENABLE, WILLIAM H.:
I know ’tis Late, but let Me stay....._Melodies of the Heart_
WALSH, EDWARD:
Cashel of Munster....._Irish Love Songs_
WARREN, JOHN LEICESTER (LORD DE TABLEY):
Daffodils....._Poems, Dramatic and Lyrical_
WATSON, ROSAMUND MARRIOTT (GRAHAM R. TOMSON):
Ave atque Vale....._Vespertilia, and Other Verses_ Epitaph.....“ “ “ “
WATSON, WILLIAM:
A Golden Hour....._Lachrymæ Musarum, and Other Poems_ And These--are These indeed the End?....._Poems_
WATTS, THEODORE: A Dream....._Aylwin_ The First Kiss....._Sonnets_
WHITE, GLEESON:
Sufficiency.
WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF:
Benedicite....._Poems_
WOLLASTON, J. T. BURTON:
My Violet....._Golden Hours_
WRATISLAW, THEODORE:
Asleep....._Orchids_ Swimming Song.....“
YEATS, W. B.:
The Peace of the Rose....._The Countess Kathleen, and Various Legends and Lyrics_
YOUNG, WILLIAM:
The Bridal Pair....._Wishmakers’ Town_ The Triflers.....“ “
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
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A beckoning spirit of gladness seemed afloat, 290
A hundred years from now, dear heart, 24
A little love, of Heaven a little share, 294
All glorious as the Rainbow’s birth, 153
All the phantoms of the future, all the spectres, 136
Alone, alone, thro’ the sunny street, 87
And these--are these indeed the end, 291
Ask nothing more of me, sweet, 251
As one would stand who saw a sudden light, 193
At dinner she is hostess, I am host, 155
A thousand knights have rein’d their steeds, 9
Azure of sky and silver of cloud, 181
Barb’d blossom of the guarded gorse, 207
Because thou wast cold and proud, 306
Beneath the loveliest dream there coils a fear, 292
Between the pansies and the rye, 102
Between the sunset and the sea, 249
Bland air and leagues of immemorial blue, 230
By one rapt day Love doth his harvest mete, 98
Cold blows the wind against the hill, 75
Come, oh, come to me, voice or look, or spirit, 22
Comrades! in vain ye seek to learn, 168
Countess, I see the flying year, 118
“Darling,” he said, “I never meant”, 103
Dawn, with flusht foot upon the mountain tops, 54
Day after day of this azure May, 269
Dear, let me dream of love, 104
Fair star that on the shoulder of yon hill, 160
Far away hangs an apple that ripens on high, 45
Farewell my Youth! for now we needs must part, 286
Fold your arms around me, Sweet, 92
For a day and night, Love sang to us, played, 244
For the man was she made by the Eden tree, 216
From out the past she comes to me, 243
God’s love and peace be with thee, where, 295
Gone!, 262
Has summer come without the rose, 186
Hath any loved you well down there, 183
Herald of peace and joy, 68
Her tears are all thine own! how blest thou art!, 275
How, as a spider’s web is spun, 70
How like her! But ’tis she herself, 116
How many lips have uttered one sweet word--, 96
“I burn my soul away!”, 83
I cannot look upon thy grave, 209
I charge you, O winds of the West, 26
I dared not lead my arm around, 117
I did not dream that Love would stay, 273
I’d send a troop of kisses to entangle, 21
If in thine eyes, 123
If I were a monk, and thou wert a nun, 138
If Love could last, if Love could last, 15
If love were like a thrush’s song, 84
If Michael, leader of God’s host, 304
If only a single Rose is left, 20
If only in dreams may man be fully blest, 293
I found him openly wearing her token, 214
If stars were really watching eyes, 29
If thou canst make the frost be gone, 263
I had never kissed her her whole life long, 166
I have been here before, 229
I know not if moonlight or starlight, 239
I know ’tis late, but let me stay, 281
I marked all kindred Powers the heart finds fair, 228
In after years a twilight ghost shall fill, 167
In and out the osier beds, all along the shallows, 234
In a still room at hush of dawn, 43
In dream I saw Diana pass, Diana as of old, 221
In that old beech-walk, now bestrewn with mast, 277
In that tranced hush when sound sank awed, 148
I question with the amber daffodils, 285
I saw young Love make trial of his bow, 59
I shall not see thee, nay, but I shall know, 113
I sit alone and watch the cinders glare, 81
It is not mine to sing the stately grace, 215
It is over now, she is gone to rest, 279
It was not like your great and gracious ways, 194
It was with doubt and trembling, 5
I’ve kissed thee, sweetheart, in a dream at least, 78
I will not let thee go, 31
I will not say my true love’s eyes, 73
I would wed you dear, without gold or gear, 283
Keen winds of cloud and vaporous drift, 74
Kiss me, and say good-bye, 111
Last night my lady talked with me, 57
Lids closed and pale, with parted lips she lay, 300
Lights Love, the timorous bird, to dwell, 13
Listen, bright lady, thy deep Pansie eyes, 80
Lo! in a dream Love came to me and cried, 310
Long are the hours the sun is above, 33
Love had forgotten and gone to sleep, 3
Love in my heart! oh, heart of me, heart of me!, 233
Love in the heart is as a nightingale, 30
Love is a Fire, 4
Love is enough: ho, ye who seek saving, 163
Love is enough: though the World be a-waning, 162
“Love me, or I am slain!” I cried, and meant, 236
Love within the lover’s breast, 156
Men, women, call thee so and so, 79
My days are full of pleasant memories, 11
My lady has a casket cut, 151
My life its secret and its mystery has, 14
My love and I among the mountains strayed, 176
My Love is a lady fair and free, 143
My love is the flaming sword, to fight through, 268
Nay! if thou must depart, thou shalt depart, 8
No girdle hath weaver or goldsmith wrought, 107
Not now, but later, when the road, 213
Not yet, dear love, not yet: the sun is high, 62
Now, by the blessed Paphian queen, 99
Now lay thee down to sleep, and dream of me, 288
Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white, 260
O birds, ’twas not well done of you!, 203
O brown lark, loving cloud-land best, 53
O heart full of song in the sweet song-weather, 188
Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, 241
Oh, gather me the rose, the rose, 91
Oh, to think, oh, to think as I see her stand there, 72
Oh, when will it be, oh, when will it be, oh, when, 255
Oh, would, oh, would that thou and I, 180
O knight, if thou a lady hast, 85
O Love, Love, Love! O withering might!, 258
O most fair God, O Love both new and old, 199
Once more I walk mid summer days, as one, 147
Passion? not hers who fixed me with pure eyes, 49
Peace in her chamber, wheresoe’er, 227
Play me a march low-toned and slow, 157
Poets are singing, the whole world over, 231
Prince of painters, come, I pray, 211
She went with morning down the wood, 141
Sing on, sing on: half dreaming still, 253
Somewhere or other there must surely be, 226
So sweet, so sweet the roses in their blowing, 205
So you but love me, be it your own way, 133
Such a starved bank of moss, 35
Sullenly fell the rain while under the oak we stood, 105
Sweet as the change from pleasant thoughts, 97
Tell me wher, in what contree, is, 256
That night on Judge’s Walk the wind, 252
The ancient memories buried lie, 196
The breaths of kissing night and day, 265
The broad green rollers lift and glide, 301
The cowslip glowed, the tulip burned, 218
The curtains were half drawn, the floor was swept, 225
The fire is smouldering while the daylight wanes, 55
The lights are out in the street, and a cool wind, 271
The little gate was reached at last, 127
The mavis sang but yesterday, 1
The place again, 124
The rain set early in to-night, 36
There is a certain garden where I know, 137
There is an air for which I would disown, 110
There’s never a rose upon the bush, 220
The restless years that come and go, 178
There were four apples on the bough, 246
The same green hill, the same blue sea, 19
The snow is white on wood and wold, 172
The star of love is trembling in the west, 270
The sun is bright,--the air is clear, 120
The wheel goes round, the wheel goes round, 174
The wind blows down the dusty street, 224
The world goes up and the world goes down, 106
Though the roving bee as lightly, 305
Thou walkest with me as the spirit-light, 28
Thou wilt come back again, but not for me, 126
Through laughing leaves the sunlight comes, 50
Thy shadow, O tardy night, 161
Time with his jealous icy blast, 60
’Tis an old dial, dark with many a stain, 64
Upon that quiet day that lies, 41
Up, up, my heart! up, up, my heart, 39
Vine, vine and eglantine, 261
Waves the soft grass at my feet, 307
We’re all alone, we’re all alone, 237
What days await this woman whose strange feet, 109
What hast thou done to me, 122
What thought is folded in thy leaves, 6
When did the change come, dearest Heart, 145
When fair Hyperion dons his night attire, 149
When God some day shall call my name, 170
When I shall stand before the judgment throne, 86
When lovers’ lips from kissing disunite, 276
When she comes home again! A thousand ways, 223
When spring grows old, and sleepy winds, 267
When the hot wasp hung in the grape last year, 76
When the late leaves lit all the place, 238
When the leaves fall in autumn, and you go, 82
When violets blue begin to blow, 298
Who is it that weeps for the last year’s flowers, 114
With a ripple of leaves and a tinkle of streams, 89
With moon-white hearts that held a gleam, 47
Would God I were the tender apple-blossom, 278
Yes, but the years run circling fleeter, 130
Your carmine flakes of bloom to-night, 42