Produced by Louise Hope, David Starner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This file includes images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) [This e-text comes in two forms: Latin-1 and ASCII-7. Download the one that works best on your text reader. --In the Latin-1 version, names like "Aïdé" and words like "naïveté" have accents, and "æ" is a single letter. If any part of this paragraph displays as garbage, try changing your text reader's "character set" or "file encoding". If that doesn't work, proceed to: --The ASCII-7 or rock-bottom version. All essential text will still be there; it just won't be as pretty. Spacing of contractions such as _I 've_ follows the original.] Victorian Songs "'Let some one sing to us, lightlier move The minutes fledged with music'." TENNYSON [Illustration: Full-page Plate] Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature [Illustration] Collected and Illustrated by Edmund H Garrett with an Introduction by Edmund Gosse [Decoration] Little Brown and Company Boston 1895 _Copyright, 1895._ BY EDMUND H. GARRETT. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A. [Transcriber's Note: Some printings of the book have a two-page Editor's Note before the Contents, acknowledging the "publishers and authors who have given permission for the use of many of the songs included in this volume". It has been omitted from this e-text.] [Illustration] CONTENTS Where are the songs I used to know? Christina Rossetti. AÏDÉ, HAMILTON (1830). Page Remember or Forget 3 Oh, Let Me Dream 6 Love, the Pilgrim 7 ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM (1824-1889). Lovely Mary Donnelly 9 Song 13 Serenade 14 Across the Sea 16 ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN (1832). Serenade 18 A Love Song of Henri Quatre 20 ASHE, THOMAS (1836-1889). No and Yes 22 At Altenahr 23 Marit 24 AUSTIN, ALFRED (1835). A Night in June 26