Chapter 1

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Victorian Songs

"'Let some one sing to us, lightlier move The minutes fledged with music'."

TENNYSON

Victorian Songs

Lyrics of the Affections and Nature

Collected and Illustrated by Edmund H Garrett with an Introduction by Edmund Gosse

[Decoration]

Little Brown and Company Boston 1895

_Copyright, 1895._ BY EDMUND H. GARRETT.

University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

[Transcriber's Note:

Some printings of the book have a two-page Editor's Note before the Contents, acknowledging the "publishers and authors who have given permission for the use of many of the songs included in this volume". It has been omitted from this e-text.]

CONTENTS

Where are the songs I used to know?

Christina Rossetti.

AIDE, HAMILTON (1830). Page Remember or Forget 3 Oh, Let Me Dream 6 Love, the Pilgrim 7

ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM (1824-1889). Lovely Mary Donnelly 9 Song 13 Serenade 14 Across the Sea 16

ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN (1832). Serenade 18 A Love Song of Henri Quatre 20

ASHE, THOMAS (1836-1889). No and Yes 22 At Altenahr 23 Marit 24

AUSTIN, ALFRED (1835). A Night in June 26

BEDDOES, THOMAS LOVELL (1803-1849). Dream-Pedlary 30 Song from the Ship 33 Song 34 Song 35 Song, by Two Voices 36 Song 38

BENNETT, WILLIAM COX (1820). Cradle Song 39 My Roses blossom the Whole Year Round 41 Cradle Song 42

BOURDILLON, F. W. (1852). Love's Meinie 43 The Night has a Thousand Eyes 44 A Lost Voice 45

BUCHANAN, ROBERT (1841). Serenade 46 Song 48

COLLINS, MORTIMER (1827-1876). To F. C. 49 A Game of Chess 50 Multum in Parvo 52 Violets at Home 53 My Thrush 54

CRAIK, DINAH MARIA MULOCK (1826-1887). Too Late 56 A Silly Song 58

DARLEY, GEORGE (1795-1846). May Day 60 I 've been Roaming 62 Sylvia's Song 63 Serenade 64

DE TABLEY, LORD (1835). A Winter Sketch 66 The Second Madrigal 69

DE VERE, AUBREY (1788-1846). Song 70 Song 72 Song 74

DICKENS, CHARLES (1812-1870). The Ivy Green 75

DOBSON, AUSTIN (1840). The Ladies of St. James's 77 The Milkmaid 81

DOMETT, ALFRED (1811-1887). A Glee for Winter 84 A Kiss 86

DUFFERIN, LADY (1807-1867). Song 88 Lament of the Irish Emigrant 90

FIELD, MICHAEL. Winds To-day are Large and Free 94 Let us Wreathe the Mighty Cup 96 Where Winds abound 97

GALE, NORMAN (1862). A Song 98 Song 99

GOSSE, EDMUND (1849). Song for the Lute 101

HOOD, THOMAS (1798-1845). Ballad 102 Song 104 I Remember, I Remember 106 Ballad 108 Song 110

HOUGHTON, LORD (RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES) (1809-1885). The Brookside 111 The Venetian Serenade 113 From Love and Nature 115

INGELOW, JEAN (1830). The Long White Seam 116 Love 118 Sweet is Childhood 120

KINGSLEY, CHARLES (1819-1875). Airly Beacon 121 The Sands of Dee 122 Three Fishers went Sailing 124 A Farewell 126

LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE (1775-1864). Rose Aylmer 127 Rubies 128 The Fault is not Mine 129 Under the Lindens 130 Sixteen 131 Ianthe 132 One Lovely Name 133 Forsaken 133

LOCKER-LAMPSON, FREDERICK (1821-1895). A Garden Lyric 134 The Cuckoo 137 Gertrude's Necklace 139

LOVER, SAMUEL (1797-1868). The Angel's Whisper 141 What will you do, Love? 143

MACKAY, CHARLES (1814-1889). I Love my Love 145 O Ye Tears! 147

MAHONEY, FRANCIS (1805-1866). The Bells of Shandon 149

MASSEY, GERALD (1828). Song 153

O'SHAUGHNESSY, ARTHUR (1844-1881). A Love Symphony 156 I made Another Garden 158

PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE (1825-1864). The Lost Chord 160 Sent to Heaven 162

PROCTER, B. W. (BARRY CORNWALL) (1787-1874). The Poet's Song to his Wife 165 A Petition to Time 167 A Bacchanalian Song 168 She was not Fair nor Full of Grace 170 The Sea-King 172 A Serenade 174 King Death 176 Sit Down, Sad Soul 178 A Drinking Song 180 Peace! What do Tears Avail? 182 The Sea 184

ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA G. (1830-1895). Song 186 Song 188 Song 189 Three Seasons 190

ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL (1828-1882). A Little While 191 Sudden Light 193 Three Shadows 194

SCOTT, WILLIAM BELL (1812-1890). Parting and Meeting Again 196

SKIPSEY, JOSEPH (1832). A Merry Bee 198 The Songstress 199 The Violet and the Rose 200

STERRY, J. ASHBY. Regrets 201 Daisy's Dimples 203 A Lover's Lullaby 204

SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES (1837). A Match 205 Rondel 208 Song 209

TENNYSON, ALFRED (1809-1892). The Bugle Song 210 Break, Break, Break 212 Tears, Idle Tears 213 Sweet and Low 215 Turn, Fortune, Turn thy Wheel 216 Vivien's Song 217

THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE (1811-1863). At the Church Gate 218 The Mahogany Tree 220

THORNBURY, GEORGE WALTER (1828-1876). Dayrise and Sunset 223 The Three Troopers 225 The Cuckoo 228

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AN INDEX TO FIRST LINES

Listen--Songs thou 'lt hear Through the wide world ringing.

Barry Cornwall.

Page

A baby was sleeping _Samuel Lover_ 141 "A cup for hope!" she said _Christina G. Rossetti_ 190 A golden bee a-cometh _Joseph Skipsey_ 198 A little shadow makes the sunrise sad _Mortimer Collins_ 52 A little while a little love _Dante Gabriel Rossetti_ 191 A thousand voices fill my ears _F. W. Bourdillon_ 45 Across the grass I see her pass _Austin Dobson_ 81 Ah, what avails the sceptered race! _Walter Savage Landor_ 127 Airly Beacon, Airly Beacon _Charles Kingsley_ 121 All glorious as the Rainbow's birth _Gerald Massey_ 153 All through the sultry hours of June _Mortimer Collins_ 54 Along the garden ways just now _Arthur O'Shaughnessy_ 156 Although I enter not _William Makepeace Thackeray_ 218 As Gertrude skipt from babe to girl _Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 139 As I came round the harbor buoy _Jean Ingelow_ 116 Awake!--The starry midnight Hour _B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 174 Awake thee, my Lady-love! _George Darley_ 64 Back flies my soul to other years _Joseph Skipsey_ 199 Break, break, break _Alfred Tennyson_ 212

Came, on a Sabbath noon, my sweet _Thomas Ashe_ 23 Christmas is here _William Makepeace Thackeray_ 220 Come, rosy Day! _Sir Edwin Arnold_ 20 Come sing, Come sing, of the great Sea-King _B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 172 Could ye come back to me, Douglas, Douglas _Dinah Maria Mulock Craik_ 56

Drink, and fill the night with mirth! _B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 180

Every day a Pilgrim, blindfold _Hamilton Aide_ 7

Fast falls the snow, O lady mine _Mortimer Collins_ 49 First the fine, faint, dreamy motion _Norman Gale_ 98

Hence, rude Winter! crabbed old fellow _Alfred Domett_ 84 How many Summers, love _B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 165 How many times do I love thee, dear? _Thomas Lovell Beddoes_ 38

I bring a garland for your head _Edmund Gosse_ 101 I had a Message to send her _Adelaide Anne Procter_ 162 I have been here before _Dante Gabriel Rossetti_ 193 I leaned out of window, I smelt the white clover _Jean Ingelow_ 118 I looked and saw your eyes _Dante Gabriel Rossetti_ 194 I made another garden, yea _Arthur O'Shaughnessy_ 158 I remember, I remember _Thomas Hood_ 106 I sat beside the streamlet _Hamilton Aide_ 3 I wandered by the brook-side _Lord Houghton_ 111 I walked in the lonesome evening _William Allingham_ 16 If I could choose my paradise _Thomas Ashe_ 22 If love were what the rose is _Algernon Charles Swinburne_ 205 If there were dreams to sell _Thomas Lovell Beddoes_ 30 I 'm sitting on the stile, Mary _Lady Dufferin_ 90 In Clementina's artless mien _Walter Savage Landor_ 131 In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours _Alfred Tennyson_ 217 Into the Devil tavern _George Walter Thornbury_ 225 It was not in the winter _Thomas Hood_ 102 I 've been roaming! I 've been roaming! _George Darley_ 62

King Death was a rare old fellow! _B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 176 Kissing her hair I sat against her feet. _Algernon Charles Swinburne_ 208

Lady! in this night of June _Alfred Austin_ 26 Last time I parted from my Dear _William Bell Scott_ 196 Let us wreathe the mighty cup _Michael Field_ 96 Little dimples so sweet and soft _J. Ashby Sterry_ 203 Lullaby! O lullaby! _William Cox Bennett_ 42 Lute! breathe thy lowest in my Lady's ear _Sir Edwin Arnold_ 18

Mirror your sweet eyes in mine, love _J. Ashby Sterry_ 204 Mother, I can not mind my wheel _Walter Savage Landor_ 133 My fairest child, I have no song to give you _Charles Kingsley_ 126 My goblet's golden lips are dry _Thomas Lovell Beddoes_ 34 My love, on a fair May morning _Thomas Ashe_ 24 My roses blossom the whole year round _William Cox Bennett_ 41

O for the look of those pure gray eyes _J. Ashby Sterry_ 201 O happy buds of violet! _Mortimer Collins_ 53 "O Heart, my heart!" she said, and heard _Dinah Maria Mulock Craik_ 58 O lady, leave thy silken thread _Thomas Hood_ 104 O lips that mine have grown into _Algernon Charles Swinburne_ 209 O Love is like the roses _Robert Buchanan_ 48 O May, thou art a merry time _George Darley_ 60 O roses for the flush of youth _Christina G. Rossetti_ 188 O spirit of the Summertime! _William Allingham_ 13 O ye tears! O ye tears! that have long refused to flow _Charles Mackay_ 147 Often I have heard it said _Walter Savage Landor_ 128 Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green _Charles Dickens_ 75 Oh, hearing sleep, and sleeping hear _William Allingham_ 14 Oh! let me dream of happy days gone by _Hamilton Aide_ 6 Oh, lovely Mary Donnelly, my joy, my only best! _William Allingham_ 9 "Oh, Mary, go and call the cattle home" _Charles Kingsley_ 122 One lovely name adorns my song _Walter Savage Landor_ 133

Peace! what can tears avail? _B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 182

Seated one day at the Organ _Adelaide Anne Procter_ 160 Seek not the tree of silkiest bark _Aubrey de Vere_ 72 She was not fair, nor full of grace _B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 170 She 's up and gone, the graceless Girl _Thomas Hood_ 108 Sing!--Who sings _B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 168 Sit down, sad soul, and count _B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 178 Sleep sweet, beloved one, sleep sweet! _Robert Buchanan_ 46 Sleep! the bird is in its nest _William Cox Bennett_ 39 Softly, O midnight Hours! _Audrey de Vere_ 70 Strew not earth with empty stars _Thomas Lovell Beddoes_ 35 Sweet and low, sweet and low _Alfred Tennyson_ 215 Sweet is childhood--childhood 's over _Jean Ingelow_ 120 Sweet mouth! O let me take _Alfred Domett_ 86

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean _Alfred Tennyson_ 213 Terrace and lawn are white with frost _Mortimer Collins_ 50 Thank Heaven, Ianthe, once again _Walter Savage Landor_ 132 The fault is not mine if I love you too much _Walter Savage Landor_ 129 The ladies of St. James's _Austin Dobson_ 77 The night has a thousand eyes _F. W. Bourdillon_ 44 The Sea! the Sea! the open Sea! _B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 184 The splendour falls on castle walls _Alfred Tennyson_ 210 The stars are with the voyager _Thomas Hood_ 110 The streams that wind amid the hills _George Darley_ 63 The Sun came through the frosty mist _Lord Houghton_ 115 The Violet invited my kiss _Joseph Skipsey_ 200 There is no summer ere the swallows come. _F. W. Bourdillon_ 43 Three fishers went sailing away to the West _Charles Kingsley_ 124 To sea, to sea! the calm is o'er _Thomas Lovell Beddoes_ 33 Touch us gently, Time! _B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 167 Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel and lower the proud! _Alfred Tennyson_ 216 Two doves upon the selfsame branch _Christina G. Rossetti_ 189

Under the lindens lately sat _Walter Savage Landor_ 130