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She got him up upon her back,
And carried him to earthen lake.
She buried him before the prime;

She was dead herself ere evensong time.

God send every gentleman,

Down a down!

Such hawks, such hounds, and such a leman

With a down!

(1611)

1147. WEEP YOU NO MORE, SAD FOUNTAINS

WEEP you no more, sad fountains ;

What need you flow so fast?
Look how the snowy mountains
Heaven's sun doth gently waste.
But my sun's heavenly eyes
View not your weeping,
That now lies sleeping
Softly, now softly lies
Sleeping.

1148.

Sleep is a reconciling,

A rest that peace begets;
Doth not the sun rise smiling
When fair at eve he sets ?
Rest you, then, rest, sad eyes,
Melt not in weeping
While she lies sleeping
Softly, now softly lies

Sleeping.

WHEN MOLLY SMILES

WHEN Molly smiles beneath her cow,
I feel my heart-I can't tell how;
When Molly is on Sunday dressed,
On Sundays I can take no rest.

What can I do? on worky days
I leave my work on her to gaze.
What shall I say? At sermons, I
Forget the text when Molly's by.

Good master curate, teach me how
To mind your preaching and my plough:
And if for this you'll raise a spell,
A good fat goose shall thank you well.

1149. THE FAITHLESS LOVER

WHILE that the sun with his beams hot
Scorched the fruits in vale and mountain,
Philon, the shepherd, late forgot,
Sitting beside a crystal fountain

In the shadow of a green oak tree,
Upon his pipe this song played he:
Adieu, Love, adieu, Love, untrue Love!
Untrue Love, untrue Love, adieu Love!
Your mind is light, soon lost for new love.

(1603)

(1732)

So long as I was in your sight

I was your heart, your soul, your treasure;
And evermore you sobbed and sighed,
Burning in flames beyond all measure:
-Three days endured your love to me,
And it was lost in other three!

Adieu, Love, &c.

Another shepherd you did see

To whom your heart was soon enchainèd ;
Full soon your love was leapt from me,
Full soon my place he had obtained.

Soon came a third your love to win,
And we were out and he was in.
Adieu, Love, &c.

Sure you have me passing glad

That you your mind so soon removed
Before that I the leisure had

To choose you for my best beloved:

For all my love was passed and done
Two days before it was begun.
Adieu, Love, adieu, Love, untrue Love!
Untrue Love, untrue Love, adieu Love!
Your mind is light, soon lost for new love.

(1589)

1150. THE BONNY EARL OF MURRAY

YE Highlands, and ye Lawlands,

Oh, where have you been? They have slain the Earl of Murray,

And they laid him on the green.

Now wae to thee, Huntley,

And wherefore did you sae ? I bade you bring him wi' you, But forbad you him to slay.

He was a braw gallant,

And he rid at the ring;
And the bonny Earl of Murray,

Oh, he might have been a King !

He was a braw gallant,

And he play'd at the ba';
And the bonny Earl of Murray
Was the flower amang them a'.
He was a braw gallant,

And he play'd at the glove;
And the bonny Earl of Murray
Oh, he was the Queen's Love!
Oh! lang will his lady

Look o'er the Castle Down, Ere she see the Earl of Murray Come sounding through the town!

(HERD'S Scots Songs: 1769)

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A little learning is a dangerous thing.

A man he was to all the country dear

A man so various that he seemed to be

A mist was driving down the British Channel

A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was

A robin redbreast in a cage

A sight in camp in the daybreak grey and dim.

A sweet attractive kind of grace

A sweet disorder in the dress

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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever

A weary lot is thine, fair maid .

A wet sheet and a flowing sea

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase)
Above yon sombre swell of land

Absence, hear thou my protestation

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared
Ah Ben!

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Campbell 76
Lamb 269

Herrick

Brown

219

31

Spenser 463
Morris 342

Chaucer

92

Hawker 211

Chaucer

92

Coleridge 102

Darley 143
Pope 369
Goldsmith 192
Dryden 163
Longfellow 279
Thomson 502

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Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever

Ah, Chloris! that I now could sit

Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh
Ah, Faustus

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Kingsley 264
Ruskin 397
Byron 67
Coleridge 103
Drummond 160

All along the valley, stream that flashest white.
All in the Downs the fleet was moored

All our praises why should Lords engross
All that I know

All the flowers of the spring

All the world's a stage

All thoughts, all passions, all delights
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom
All ye woods and trees and bowers
Almighty Father! let thy lowly child
Although I enter not

Amarantha, sweet and fair
Amaryllis I did woo.

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Amid the loud ebriety of war

An thou wert my ain thing

And did those feet in ancient time

And quickly arms him for the field

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And thou hast walked about (how strange a story!)

And were they not the happy days

And what if cheerful shouts, at noon

And wilt thou leave me thus

Around the child bend all the three

Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers

As I laye a-thynkynge, a-thynkynge, a-thynkynge
As I was walking all alane

As it fell upon a day

As on my bed at dawn I mused and prayed
As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay
As the flight of a river

As through the land at eve we went
As we rush, as we rush in the train
As you came from the holy land
Ask me no more where Jove bestows

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Tennyson Turner 506

At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still
At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears
Attend, all ye who list to hear our noble England's praise
Ave Maria! blessèd be the hour
Ave Maria! Maiden mild .

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones.
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Away, delights! Go, seek some other dwelling
Aye, but to die, and go we know not where
Aye, tear her tattered ensign down

Balow, my babe! lie still and sleep
Be wise to-day: 'tis madness to defer

Clough 97
Lytton 302
Tennyson 477
Thomson 504
Ralegh 386

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Beat! beat! drums!-Blow! bugles! blow
Beauties, have you seen this toy
Beauty sat bathing by a spring.

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Before my face the picture hangs

Before the urchin well could go.
Behold a silly tender Babe

Southwell 461

Egremont 560

Southwell 461

Behold her, single in the field

Behold the sun, that seemed but now

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Wordsworth 542

Wither 536

Moore 338

Believe me, if all those endearing young charms

Beneath an Indian palm a girl

Beside the ungathered rice he lay

Bid me to live, and I will live

Bird of the wilderness

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Breathes there the man, with soul so dead
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul
Busy, curious, thirsty fly

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But ah, though peace indeed is here.

But are you sure the news is true

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But in the interval here the boiling, pent-up water
But most by numbers judge a poet's song.

But then the thrushes sang

But vain the sword and vain the bow

But who is He, with modest looks
But who the melodies of morn can tell
But Wordsworth's eyes avert their ken
By Logan's streams that rin sae deep
By sucking you the wise, like bees, do grow
By the rude bridge that arched the flood

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Call for the robin-red breast and the wren
Calm on the bosom of thy God.
Calm Soul of all things! make it mine
Calm was the day, and through the trembling air
Can I, who have for others oft compiled
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night
Cease not to learn until thou cease to live.
Charm me asleep, and melt me so
Chaste as the air whither she's fled

Cheer up, my mates, the wind does fairly blow
Child of a day, thou knowest not

Chloris, yourself you so excel

Cold on Canadian hills or Minden's plain

Cold's the wind, and wet's the rain.

Come, all ye feathery people of mid air
Come away, come away, death

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Come back, come back, across the flying foam
Come, Chloe, and give me sweet kisses

Come, dear children, let us away

Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height
Come, Evening, once again, season of peace

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E. B. Browning 32

Blake 24

Wordsworth 543
Beattie 19

Arnold 3

Mayne 322
Vaughan 507
Emerson 176

Webster 522

Hemans 212

Arnold 3

Spenser 463

Sir J. Beaumont 21

Shakespeare 427

Daniel 142
Sylvester 475
Herrick 220

Lovelace 292
Cowley 117
Landor 272
Waller 515
Langhorne 276
Dekker 147

B. W. Procter 383
Shakespeare 417
Clough
Williams 533
Arnold

98

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Tennyson 477

Cowper 124

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