Poems

To a Usurper Aha! a traitor in the camp, A rebel strangely bold,– A lisping, laughing, toddling scamp, Not more than four years old! To think […]

To cinna Cinna, the great Venusian told In songs that will not die How in Augustan days of old Your love did glorify His life and […]

To emma abbott There–let thy hands be folded Awhile in sleep’s repose; The patient hands that wearied not, But earnestly and nobly wrought In charity and […]

To Robin Goodfellow I see you, Maister Bawsy-brown, Through yonder lattice creepin’; You come for cream and to gar me dream, But you dinna find me […]

Twin idols There are two phrases, you must know, So potent (yet so small) That wheresoe’er a man may go He needs none else at all; […]

Two idylls from bion the smyrnean I Once a fowler, young and artless, To the quiet greenwood came; Full of skill was he and heartless In […]

Two valentines I.–TO MISTRESS BARBARA There were three cavaliers, all handsome and true, On Valentine’s day came a maiden to woo, And quoth to your mother: […]

Uhland’s Yonder stands the hillside chapel Mid the evergreens and rocks, All day long it hears the song Of the shepherd to his flocks. Then the […]

Uhland’s There were three cavaliers that went over the Rhine, And gayly they called to the hostess for wine. “And where is thy daughter? We would […]

When i was a boy Up in the attic where I slept When I was a boy, a little boy, In through the lattice the moonlight […]