The poetical remains of William Sidney Walker ... Edited with a memoir of the author by the Rev. J. Moultrie |
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TO CHARLOTTE AMY MAY,
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TO CHARLOTTE AMY MAY,
Daughter of B. H. Kennedy, Born May 14, 1832.
Fair first-born flower of middle May,
With silken leaves as white as day,
And eye of tender blue;
Sweet nursling, born in happy hour,
Where Ida spreads her greenest bower
O'er loving hearts and true:
With silken leaves as white as day,
And eye of tender blue;
Sweet nursling, born in happy hour,
Where Ida spreads her greenest bower
O'er loving hearts and true:
Or art thou, with thy looks and smiles,
And motions, and unconscious wiles,
A playful Ivy rather,
Weaving in many a circlet fine
Thy little tendrils, to entwine
A pair of hearts together?
And motions, and unconscious wiles,
A playful Ivy rather,
Weaving in many a circlet fine
Thy little tendrils, to entwine
A pair of hearts together?
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Thy growth is under kindly skies,
The sunshine of beloved eyes
Is on thee all day long;
And all the airs of joy, that roam
The Eden of that happy home,
Disport thy leaves among.
The sunshine of beloved eyes
Is on thee all day long;
And all the airs of joy, that roam
The Eden of that happy home,
Disport thy leaves among.
A stranger sought that Paradise,
To bathe his parched heart and eyes
In its delicious green;
And when he thinks of that lone bower,
He thinks of thee, Spring's favourite flower,
And May-time's infant Queen.
To bathe his parched heart and eyes
In its delicious green;
And when he thinks of that lone bower,
He thinks of thee, Spring's favourite flower,
And May-time's infant Queen.
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