The Seasons' Comfort

"I cannot raise my eyelids up from sleep,     But I am visited with thoughts of you;     Slumber has no refreshment half so deep     As the swee"

"When life begins anew,     And Youth, from gathering flowers,     From vague delights, rapt musings, twilight hours,     Turns restless, seekin"

"She is not fair, as some are fair,     Cold as the snow, as sunshine gay:     On her clear brow, come grief what may,     She suffers not too s"

"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"