ADIEU, Madame! The moon of May Wanes now above the orchard grey; The white May-blossoms fall like… As Love foretold a month ago— Or was it only yesterday?

OH, what a garden it was, living… Full of enchantments like spices e… There, where you fled and I follo… Yet each glad pulse of me cried to… Roses and lilies and lilies and ro…

So silent is the world to-night The lamp gives silence out like li… The latticed windows open wide Show silence, like the night, outs… The nightingale’s faint song draws…

IMPLORING HER TO BE TRUE MISTRESS of me, mistress of al… And charms that sway men’s hot ung… Receive their tribute—smile at the… I do not ask that you should spare…

THE land of gold was far away, The sea a challenge roared between… I left my throne, my crown, my que… And sailed out of the quiet bay. I met the challenge of the wave,

DAWN in the east, and chill dew… Tears of the new-born day; Dew on the lawn, and blackbirds ca… Music and mild mid-May. The lilac, see, wins back the colo…

What was the spell she wove for me… Life was a common useful thing, An eligible building site To hold a house to shelter me. There were no woodlands whispering…

THROUGH her fair world of bloss… Veiled with her maiden innocence,… Not all the splendour of the waxin… She sees, nor all the colour of th… And yet who knows what finer hues…

Now the sprinkled blackthorn snow Lies along the lover’€™s lane Where last year we used to go– Where we shall not go again. In the hedge the buds are new,

I HEAR the waves to-night Piteously calling, calling Though the light Of the kind moon is falling, Like kisses, on the sea

A wall Gray and tall, And a sky of gray, And a twilight cold; And that is all

Oh, the nights were dark and cold, When my love was gone. And life was hard to hold When my love was gone. I was wise, I never gave

THE spring is here, and the long… Less bitterly cold than awhile ago… Our rags serve their purpose now,… Warmth enough in us to let us slee… The rain that trickles down our wa…

Will you go a-maying, a-maying, a-… Come and be my Queen of May and p… The fields are full of daisy buds… The bird is on the nest, dear, the… ‘If I go with you, if I go a-mayi…

THIS is Christ’s birthday: long… He lay upon His Mother’s knee, Who kissed and blessed Him soft a… God’s gift to her, as you to me. My baby dear, my little one,