... SELECTED POETRY. THE WALY QUEEN. The waly queen gaecl by ae nicht, eerie fell the gloanun , An’ far owre mony dowie The waly queen gaed roaming ; When owre a lanely birken shaw. Where cushets aft were crying, She glinted through a silvery cloud, An’ heard ...

... SELECTED POETRY JUNE. Soft winds, blight sunshine, showers, For the sweet-scented flowers, Nestling by brookside in the woodlands old ; Birds singing merrily On bush and bower and tree, And sunsets bathing all the hills with gold, Glad June brings back ...

... SELECTED POETRY O, THINK OF ME When on their golden cars the stars are keeping Watch o’er the slumbering sea, And in deep forest-bowers night dews are weeping. 6, think of me. When over May-flowers sunbeams glint and glitter. Chasing the bird and bee ...

... SELECTED POETRY IRIS. (BY BAYABD TAYLOR.) I am born from the womb of the cloud. And the strength of the ardent sun, When the winds have ceased to be loud. And the rivers of rain to light, on sevenfold arch, I swing in the silence of air, While the vapours ...

... ORIGINAL POETRY ON VIEWING PLACID LAKE BY NIGHT. Hail mermaids of the shining lake, Hail fairies of the deep, • i,,, revels make, Ye who your miclnig lll > And noisy vigil keep. Speak ye. Who be Far, bar beneath the nPPj^go^ve.^ W hich aye yon i Mcin ...

... SELECTED POETRY THE BEGGAR JACOB. FROM THE GERMAN OF HERVEGH, BY R. MONCKTON MILNES, 11. P, The vagrant Jacob died last night; And, almost ere the morning rose, They brought six planks, and nail them tight The best of beds for long repose : tenement not ...

... SELECTED POETRY. IN THE WOODLANDS There is music in the woodlands, for the summer days are come. The streamlet’s dreamy murmuring, the insects drowsy hum, The songsters’ merry caroling within the leafy bowers, The bees’ melodious droning, sipping honey ...

... selected poetry THE “GOOD NIGHT” OF THE BIRDS. by MBS SIGOURNEY. It was a Sabbath evening, In Spring’s most glorious time, When tree, and shrub, and early flower. Were in their fragrant prime ; And where the cloudless aim declined, A glow of light serene ...

... SELECTED POETRY. THE ISLE OF SKYE. The beautiful Isles of Greece Full many a bard has sung : The Isles I love best lie far in the West, Where men speak the Gaelic tongue. Ithaca, Cyprus, and Ehodes, Are names to the Muses dear But sweeter still doth ...

... SELECTED POETRY A RIYEK THOUGHT. The banks of the river were lovely and bright, blossoms and boughs met the summer noon-light ; The moss hid the flower, the tree screened the moss. And the willow’s thick tresses fell sleeping across. The cottager’s home ...

... SELECTED POETRY. LAUDERDALE HOUSE, 1672. HIGHGATE CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL, 1872, OPENED BV THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES, JULY BTH. Could but these haunted halls one hour Their ancient guests regain. The careless king, the courtier crowd. Where Sedley ...

... SELECTED POETRY. LINES ON AN UNFORTUNATE, FOUND DEAD IN THE STBEET3 ON A WINTER EVENING, Still is the voice, and the silent dead Retains scarce a mark of the spirit fled. So fair without, but alas ! within The darkness of death and the stains of sin. ...