To Giulia Grisi

"Theres something in a noble boy,     A brave, free-hearted, careless one,     With his unchecked, unbidden joy,     His dread of books and lov"

"!Twas late, and the gay company was gone,     And the light lay soft on the deserted room     From alabaster vases, and a scent     Of orange"

""Sleep, like a lover, woo thee,                         Isabel!     And golden dreams come to thee,                         Like a spell     B"

"She had been told that God made all the stars     That twinkled up in heaven, and now she stood     Watching the coming of the twilight on,"

"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"