Two Poems

"O gentle vision in the dawn:     My spirit over faint cool water glides.     Child of the day,     To thee;     And thou art drawn     By k"

"Here, in this other world, they come and go     With easy dream-like movements to and fro.     They stare through lovely eyes, yet do not seek"

"When the tea is brought at five o'clock,     And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,     The little black cat with bright green eyes"

"This might have been a place for sleep,     But, as from that small hollow there     Hosts of bright thistledown begin     Their dazzling journ"

"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"