Christmas
For, while the children of the Spring Blush into life, and die; And Summer's joy-birds take light wing When Autumn mists are nigh; And soon the year--a winterling-- With its fall'n leaves doth lie; That ruin gray-- Mirror'd, alway, Deep in the silver stream, Doth summon weird-...
What power can stay the burst of song When throats with ale are mellow? What wight with nieve so stout and strong Dares lift it, jolly freres among, And cry, "Knaves, cease to b...
1. Chapter 1For, while the children of the Spring Blush into life, and die; And Summer's joy-birds take light wing When Autumn mists are nigh; And soon the year--a winterling-- With its fal...
2. Chapter 2Symphonious notes of dulcet plaint Followed the stranger minstrel's chaunt; And, when his sounding harp was dumb, The crowd, with loud applausive hum, Gave hearty guerdon for hi...
3. Chapter 3What fellowship hast thou with times When love-thralled minstrels chaunted rhymes At feast, in feudal hall,-- And peasant churls, a saucy crew, Fantastic o'er their wassail grew...
5. Chapter 5"the lower part of the building" as an explanation for _grunsel_. Lemon, in his "Etymology," spells the word "ground-sill," and then derives the last syllable from "soil." Nothi...