Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature
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Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature
Ballads, English -- Texts; English poetry -- 19th century
Sweet and low, sweet and low _Frontispiece_
"Oh! let me dream of happy days gone by" 6
Across the Sea 16
"My love on a fair May morning" 24
Song in the Garden 38
The night has a thousand eyes 44
A Game of Chess 50
"I 've been roaming, I 've been roaming" 62
"A maid I know,--and March winds blow" 82
"That bright May morning long ago" 90
"I remember, I remember" 106
I wandered by the brook-side 112
"Three fishers went sailing away to the West" 124
Ianthe 132
Gertrude's Necklace 140
"She turned back at the last to wait" 158
King Death 176
"I looked and saw your eyes" 194
Break, Break, Break 212
"When Spring casts all her swallows forth" 224
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INTRODUCTION
The writer of prose, by intelligence taught,
Says the thing that will please, in the way that he ought.
Frederick Locker-Lampson.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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