My soul, there is a country Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew Nobly, nobly Cape St. Vincent to the North-west died away Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note O blithe new-comer! I have heard Obscurest night involved the sky October's gold is dim-the forests rot O dread was the time, and more dreadful the omen Of all the thoughts of God that are Of Nelson and the North Oft in the stilly night O Goddess, hear these tuneless numbers, wrung Oh faint, delicious, spring-time violet Oh welcome, bat and owlet gray Oh! wherefore come ye forth, in triumph from the North 'O lady, thy lover is dead,' they cried O little feet! that such long years 230 313 366 O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being O Winter, wilt thou never, never go? Philosophy! the great and only heir Proud Maisie is in the wood She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps She was a queen of noble Nature's crowning Softly! she is lying. So now my summer-task is ended, Mary Still young and fine! but what is still in view Sweet Maiden, for so calm a life Sweet order hath its draught of bliss Sweet spring, thou turn'st with all thy goodly train Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day PAGE The twentieth year is well nigh past The voice which I did more esteem The waters are flashing The woods decay, the woods decay and fall The World and Death one day them cross-disguised The world's a bubble, and the life of man There's none should places have in Fame's high court They are all gone into the world of light Thou art returned, great light, to that blest hour To these, whom death again did wed To yield to those I cannot but disdain . 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years Vain world, what is in thee? Victorious men of earth, no more We count the broken lyres that rest We saw and wooed each other's eyes We watched her breathing through the night What Greece, when learning flourished, only knew What is the world? tell, worldling, if thou know it When Britain first at Heaven's command When Faith and Love, which parted from thee never. When first mine eyes did view and mark When Love with unconfined wings When my mother died I was very young When the sheep are in the fauld, and the kye at hame Where, where are now the great reports While that the sun with his beams hot While the dawn on the mountain was misty and gray Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush |