Henry Timrod
First Lines
New! And if I ask thee for a kiss,
New! Another year! -- a short one, if it flow
New! Awake upon a couch of pain,
New! Could I reveal the secret joy
New! Do you recall -- I know you do --
New! Draw close the lattice and the door!
New! Hark to the shouting Wind!
New! I saw her, Harry, first, in March; --
New! I should be dumb before thee, feathered sage!
New! I think that next to your sweet eyes,
New! I've been haunted all night, I've been haunted all day
New! If you have seen a richer glow,
New! Is she not lovely! Oh! when, long ago,
New! It is a place whither I've often gone
New! It is time (it was time long ago) I should sever
New! Let the boy have his will! I tell thee, brother,
New! Lily! lady of the garden!
New! My gentle friend! I hold no creed so false
New! Not to win thy favor, maiden, not to steal away thy heart,
New! O Florabel! I know you well!
New! O lady! if, until this hour,
New! Oh! dost thou flatter falsely, Hope, sweet Hope?
New! Shall I desist, twice baffled? Once by land,
New! She came with April blooms and showers;
New! So they are dead! Love! when they passed
New! Somewhere on this earthly planet
New! The stream is flowing from the west:
New! To-day's most trivial act may hold the seed
New! Too long, O Spirit of Storm,
New! When I bade thee adieu, thou rememb'rest the time,
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