He Who Hath Glory Lost, Nor Hath

"I would in that sweet bosom be     (O sweet it is and fair it is!)     Where no rude wind might visit me.     Because of sad austerities     I"

"Rain has fallen all the day.     O come among the laden trees:     The leaves lie thick upon the way     Of memories.     Staying a little by"

"I heard their young hearts crying     Loveward above the glancing oar     And heard the prairie grasses sighing:     No more, return no more!"

"When the shy star goes forth in heaven     All maidenly, disconsolate,     Hear you amid the drowsy even     One who is singing by your gate."

"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"