If I should go away, and ne'er return, - If I should find a home beneath a clime That grows the golden orange and the lime And all the fruits the heated tropics burn, - Would you recall the vanished hours, the time, When, in the hope of youth's all…
Although we are so near, we are so far,
As if the seat of [?] did intervene;
I cannot share the glories of thy star,
I cannot dwell where thou [?] queen!
So I the slender thread of life pursue, True as thou art to me, shall I be true.
The old year's dead! The new year's born! The night has passed! Has come the morn! Another link in life's long chain Is rounded out in human pain!
"Ring out the old! Ring in the new!
"Ring out the false! Ring in the true!"
'Tis easier said by far…
I love the wild and wooly West,
Where winds cavort so free;
The effete East has now, at least,
No charms at all for me.
I love the lands that stretch away,
Toward the setting sun;
Where tender feet on bosses fleet,
Are followed with a gun.
I…
Light as the foam on the crest of the billow,
Hurrying over the street,
Spins a fair creature as lithe as the willow,
So dainty and neat.
Many an eye the fair vision will follow,
Heads from the watching will reel,
As she floats on her way with…
If doubting Tom should chance to find
Himself in angel company,
He'd say that he did devils see
And point their horns to prove their kind ------------------ Thy life is blameless, spotless, pure;
'Tis well 'tis so, - 'twere better so
Than…
'Tis many days have breathed their life away Since first we met, old boy; some dark as night, In shadows steeped in woe, which put to flight Those restful dreams of youth, that gentle sway Of Love's sweet spell which made bright havoc play Unhurtful…
I'll win thee yet, my dainty lass,
I'll win thee yet,
Though you may say me nay, my lass,
I'll win thee yet,
While now your head you hold quite high,And steal your heart in vain I try,
I'll win it yet, my pretty lass,
I'll win it yet.
Perhaps…
I've seen thee, flower, laugh in May,
But now confess to see thee bloom
Amid this waste of snow and gloom
It starts strange fancies into play, And as I look to earth, to sky -
A sheet of white, a veil of grey -
I wonder why thou sought'st a…
'Mid night's sweet calm, when day in sleepDoth feel the breadth and lengthened sweepOf Time's grim chase to catch the years,There comes to Earth the chiding fears
That revel in the starry deep
Those thuds of woeful pain that steepThe soul in…
