Poems

Beranger’s My Last Song Perhaps (January 1814) When, to despoil my native France, With flaming torch and cruel sword And boisterous drums her foeman comes, I […]

By my sweetheart Sweetheart, be my sweetheart When birds are on the wing, When bee and bud and babbling flood Bespeak the birth of spring, Come, […]

Chicago Weather To-day, fair Thisbe, winsome girl! Strays o’er the meads where daisies blow, Or, ling’ring where the brooklets purl, Laves in the cool, refreshing flow. […]

Child and mother O mother-my-love, if you’ll give me your hand, And go where I ask you to wander, I will lead you away to a […]

Christmas hymn Sing, Christmas bells! Say to the earth this is the morn Whereon our Saviour-King is born; Sing to all men,–the bond, the free, The […]

Christmas treasures I count my treasures o’er with care.– The little toy my darling knew, A little sock of faded hue, A little lock of golden […]

Chrystmasse of Olde God rest you, Chrysten gentil men, Wherever you may be,– God rest you all in fielde or hall, Or on ye stormy sea; […]

Cornish Lullaby Out on the mountain over the town, All night long, all night long, The trolls go up and the trolls go down, Bearing their […]

De Amicitiis Though care and strife Elsewhere be rife, Upon my word I do not heed ’em; In bed I lie With books hard by, And […]

Der mann im keller How cool and fair this cellar where My throne a dusky cask is; To do no thing but just to sing And […]