WHEN I am young again I’ll hoar… Nor deem that inexhaustible it is, Remembering old age comes after th… Joy grows to pain; Nor waste one moment of youth’s ro…

LAURELS, bring laurels, sheaves… Till England’s boughs are bare of… Soon comes the flower more rare, m… Than any laurel this year weaves— The Aloe of the hundredth year

I DO not catch these subtle shade… Your fine distinctions are too fin… This meeting, scheming, longing, t… To me mean love, and only love, yo… In me at least ’tis love, you will…

HEART of my heart, my life and l… If you were lost what should I do… I dare not let you from my sight, Lest Death should fall in love wi… Such countless terrors lie in wait…

1 It’s all for nothing: I’ve… 2 I suppose it ad to be: 3 But oh I never thought it o… 4 Nor e never thought it o… 5 And all for a kiss on your e…

WHEN head and hands and heart al… When Hope with folded wings sinks… When all thy striving fails to dis… From out wrong’s skein the golden… When all thy knowledge seems a mar…

‘It is the skylark come.’ For sha… Robert-a-Cockney is thy name: Robert-a-Field would surely know That skylarks, bless them, never g… * * *

RED roses bright, pink roses and… That bud and blossom and fall; The very sight of my heart’s delig… Is more than worth them all! Is worth far more than the whole s…

LET Summer go To other gardens; here we have no… She smiles and beckons, but we tak… Who love not Summer, but bare bou… Set the snow free

DEAR, do you sigh that your love… Laugh with and play with you, Weep with and pray with you, All his life through? Think, O my heart, if you never h…

WHEN Love, sweet Love, was tang… I clipped his wings, and dressed h… Made him my little joy for little… And fed him when I had a song to… And then I saw how good life’s go…

I WANDERED in the enchanted wo… And as I wandered there, I sang A song I never understood, Though sweet the music rang. I held a lily white and fair,

RING, bells! flags, fly! and let… Its ecstasy. Let the hid heart in… Lift up your name. God bless you… Lady, who have the noblest crown t… That ever woman wore.

THE house is haunted; when the li… Go pattering about it in their pla… I tremble lest the little one shou… The ghosts that haunt the happy ni… And yet I think they only come to…

I HAVEN’T always acted good: I’ve taken things not meant for me… Not other people’s drink and food, But things they never seemed to se… I haven’t done the way I ought