Book: Lyrical Tales

• All Alone

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  Ah! wherefore by the Church-yard side,

  175 lines
• The Mistletoe (A Christmas Tale)

  A farmer's wife, both young and gay,
  And fresh as op'ning buds of May;

  111 lines
• The Poor Singing Dame

  Beneath an old wall, that went round an old Castle,
  For many a year, with brown ivy o'erspread;

  64 lines
• Edmund's Wedding

  By the side of the brook, where the willow is waving
  Why sits the wan Youth, in his wedding-suit gay!

  96 lines
• Mistress Gurton's Cat

  Old MISTRESS GURTON had a Cat,
  A Tabby, loveliest of the race,

  135 lines
• The Deserted Cottage

  Who dwelt in yonder lonely Cot,
  Why is it thus forsaken?

  102 lines
• The Lascar

  I.
  "Another day, Ah! me, a day

  314 lines, 2 comments
• The Negro Girl

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  Dark was the dawn, and o'er the deep

  147 lines
• The Widow's Home

  Close on the margin of a brawling brook
  That bathes the low dell's bosom, stands a Cot;

  110 lines
• Poor Marguerite

  Swift, o'er the wild and dreary waste
  A NUT-BROWN GIRL was seen to haste;

  164 lines
• The Shepherd's Dog

  I.
  A Shepherd's Dog there was; and he

  180 lines
• The Granny Grey, a Love Tale

  DAME DOWSON, was a granny grey,
  Who, three score years and ten,

  132 lines
• The Fugitive

  Oft have I seen yon Solitary Man
  Pacing the upland meadow. On his brow

  77 lines
• The Trumpeter, an Old English Tale

  It was in the days of a gay British King
  (In the old fashion'd custom of merry-making)

  112 lines
• The Haunted Beach

  Upon a lonely desart Beach
  Where the white foam was scatter'd,

  81 lines
• The Fortune-Teller, a Gypsy Tale

  LUBIN and KATE, as gossips tell,
  Were Lovers many a day;

  162 lines
• Old Barnard -- A Monkish Tale

  OLD BARNARD was still a lusty hind,
  Though his age was full fourscore;

  119 lines
• The Confessor, a Sanctified Tale

  When SUPERSTITION rul'd the land
  And Priestcraft shackled Reason,

  114 lines
• The Hermit of Mont-Blanc

  High, on the Solitude of Alpine Hills,
  O'er-topping the grand imag'ry of Nature,

  204 lines
• The Alien Boy

  'Twas on a Mountain, near the Western Main
  An ALIEN dwelt. A solitary Hut

  140 lines
• Deborah's Parrot, a Village Tale

  'Twas in a little western town
  An ancient Maiden dwelt:

  160 lines
• Golfre, Gothic Swiss Tale

  I.
  Where freezing wastes of dazzl'ing Snow

  553 lines

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