On The Eyes Of Miss A---- H----[1]

"1.     Thy verse is "sad" enough, no doubt:     A devilish deal more sad than witty!     Why we should weep I can't find out,     Unless for thee"

"1. Why should my anxious breast repine, Because my youth is fled? Days of delight may still be mine; Affection is not dead. In tracing back the years"

"1. Well! thou art happy, and I feel That I should thus be happy too; For still my heart regards thy weal Warmly, as it was wont to do. 2. Thy husband'"

"1.     Oh! had my Fate been join'd with thine, [1]     As once this pledge appear'd a token,     These follies had not, then, been mine,     For,"

"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"