"Whither away, thou little eyeless rover? (Kind Roger's true) Whither away across yon bents and clover, Wet, wet with dew?" "Roger here, Roger there - Roger - O, he sighed,...
A Morn of guilt, an hour of doom - Shocks and tremblings dread; All the city sunk in gloom - Thick darkness overhead. An awful Sufferer straight and stark;...
One morning, oh! so early, my beloved, my beloved, All the birds were singing blithely, as if never they would cease; 'Twas a thrush sang in my garden, "Hear the story, hear the story!"...
Jesus, the Lamb of God, gone forth to heal and bless. Calm lie the desert pools in a fair wilderness; Wind-shaken moves the reed, so moves His voice the soul,...
To bear, to nurse, to rear, To watch, and then to lose: To see my bright ones disappear, Drawn up like morning dews - To bear, to nurse, to rear, To watch, and then to lose:...
My good man - he's an old, old man - And my good man got a fall, To buy me a bargain so fast he ran When he heard the gypsies call: "Buy, buy brushes, Baskets wrought o' rushes....
Though all great deeds were proved but fables fine, Though earth's old story could be told anew, Though the sweet fashions loved of them that sue Were empty as the ruined Delphian shrine -...