O Nightingale My Heart

"Put by the sun my joyful soul,     We are for darkness that is whole;     Put by the wine, now for long years     We must be thirsty with salt"

"As I walk the misty hill     All is languid, fogged, and still;     Not a note of any bird     Nor any motion's hint is heard,     Save from s"

"(From 'A Faun's Holiday')     Meanwhile, though nations in distress     Cower at a comet's loveliness     Shaken across the midnight sky;"

"Never am I so alone      As when I walk among the crowd -     Blurred masks of stern or grinning stone,      Unmeaning eyes and voices loud."

"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"