The Holy Swan

"Was one night,     And that a night     Without much sleep,     Enough to make me love     All the life long?     From the Japanese of the w"

"In the fifth month,     When orange-trees     Fill all the world with scent,     I think of the sleeve     Of a girl who loved me.     From"

"The great brightness of the burning of the stars,     Little frightened love,     Is like your eyes,     When in the heavy dusk     You questi"

"Lonely rose out-splendouring legions of roses,     How could the nightingales behold you and not sing?     By Rustwell of Georgia (from the Tar"

"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"