Love's Old Sweet Song A sheaf of latter-day love-poems gathered from many sources

Part 10

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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