Twilight dreams- being poems and pictures of life and nature (1891) (14740541506)

Identifier: twilightdreamsbe00newy (find matches)
Title: Twilight dreams: being poems and pictures of life and nature
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: English poetry
Publisher: New York, Cassell publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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SAILED TO-NIGHT. ^VER the moonlit sea, Far away from Devon and me,My lover has sailed to-night !-And I may lie and weep, 70 Whilst my kindred are fast asleep,Such tears as are kept from sight— Weep, till my eye grows dimUnderneath the reddening rim. For the love I drove away ;Weep with an aching brain,And a heart full of hidden pain, That must never see the day. The love I could not tell Lay deep in my heart as a well. Where I kept my secret hid ;And when he came I know.Though forehead and cheek were aglow, My lip was a closed lid. I could not cry aloud I love you, for, oh, I was proud,As I thought a maid should be ;So when he came to woo. I bound up my roses with rue,—And /low, hes off oer the sea. No wreck eer cast ashore Mid the wind and the waters roar Could be such a wreck as I ;Lost on the reefs of pride.To be lashed by the chafing tide, Of memory till I die. Yet haply, after years, When I have out-wept youthful tears, My love may re-sweep the main :And then if he come to su