The Sonnet King.

"I.         I who have sung of love and lady bright         And mirth and music and the world's delight,          Behold! to-day, I sound a ste"

"I.                     'Tis a legend of a lover,                      'Tis a ballad to be sung,                     In the gloaming, - under c"

"He is a seer. He wears the wedding-ring          Of Art and Nature; and his voice is bold.         He should be quicker than the birds to si"

"A Dirge.     I.         Art thou lonely in thy tomb?         Art thou cold in such a gloom?         Rouse thee, then, and make me room,"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"