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2023-12-06ONE FLOWER. WHEN autumn suns are soft, and sea winds moan, And golden fruits make sweet the golden air, In gardens where the apple blossoms were, In t...
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2023-12-06TWILIGHT ON TWEED. THREE crests against the saffron sky, Beyond the purple plain, The dear remembered melody Of Tweed once more again. Wan water from ...
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2023-12-06THE TELL-TALES. ALL in the mirk midnight when I was beside you, Who has seen, who has heard, what was said, what was done? 'Twas the night and the...
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2023-12-06GREEK FOLK SONGS.IANNOULA. ALL the maidens were merry and wed All to lovers so fair to see; The lover I took to my bridal bed He is not long for love ...
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2023-12-06THE SUDDEN BRIDAL. IT was a maid lay sick of love, All for a leman fair; And it was three of her bower-maidens That came to comfort her. The first she...
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2023-12-06THE BRIGAND'S GRAVE. THE moon came up above the hill, The sun went down the sea; Go, maids, and fetch the well-water, But, lad, come here to me. G...
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2023-12-06LOST FOR A ROSE'S SAKE. I LAVED my hands, BY the water side; With the willow leaves My hands I dried. The nightingale sung On the bough of the tre...
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2023-12-06A LADY OF HIGH DEGREE. WILL ye that I should sing Of the love of a goodly thing, Was no vilein's may? 'Tis sung of a knight so free, Under the...
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2023-12-06THE MILK WHITE DOE. IT was a mother and a maid That walked the woods among, And still the maid went slow and sad, And still the mother sung. 'What...
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2023-12-06LE PERE SEVERE. KING LOUIS' DAUGHTER. KING Louis on his bridge is he, He holds his daughter on his knee. She asks a husband at his hand That is no...