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Songs and Lyrics

By Joseph Skipsey. Collected and Revised
Skipsey, Joseph

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Songs and Lyrics.
  
Willy to Jinny.
  
O! Sleep.
  
The Lily of the Valley.
  
Annie Lee.
  
Hey Robin.
  
Mary of Crofton.
  
My Merry Bird.
  
“Get up!”
  
The Stars are Twinkling.
  
Annie.
  
Away to the Well.
  
Kit never Went Down.
  
Tho' Master had Gold.
  
Young Fanny.
  
Kit Clark.
  
The Fatal Errand.
  
Her Weary Hand.
  
Mother Wept.
  
My Little Boy.
  
Tit-for-Tat.
  
The Dream.
  
The Star and the Meteor.
  
Dora Dee.
  
The Cold Look.
  
Delightful Babe.
  
See, Essie Goes!
  
Ellerton Willy.
  
Barbara Bell.
  
The Butterfly.
  
The Dewdrop.
  
Polly and Harry.
  
A Lullaby.
  
Alas!
  
The Dreaded Frown.
  
The Brooklet.
  
The Stained Lily.
  
The Violet and the Rose.
  
The Proud One's Doom.
  
The Singer.
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The Magic Glass.
  
To a Startled Bird.
  
The Fair Rower.
  
Rosa Rea.
  
The Outcast Flower.
  
Yes and No.
  
Not as Wont.
  
With Loaded Dice.
  
The Goal.
  
The Lad of Bebside.
  
Meg Goldlocks.
  
Lost at the Fair.
  
The Bridal Gift.
  
The Spell.
  
Love without Hope.
  
The Dance.
  
Lo, a Fairy.
  
The Oracle.
  
The Rose of the Roses.
  
The Lethal Dart.
  
The Time Hath Been.
  
The Elf.
  
Little Anna.
  
Cruel Anna.
  
The Slippers.
  
The Fairies' Adieu.
  
The Minstrel.
  
Daffodil and Daisy.
  
The Moth.
  
The Toast.
  
Two Hazel Eyes.
  
My Shoulder You Pat!
  
What, to Nowhere?
  
The Kitten.
  
The Darling.
  
The Breezelet.
  
The Seaton Terrace Lass.
  
Lotty Hay.
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The Golden Bowl.
  
The Merry Bee.
  
The Wilted Leaf.
  
The Charmer.
  
The Question.
  
The Broken Spell.
  
Ah! canst thou forget?
  
Lo! Never a Man.
  
In the Wild Grove.
  
A Remembrance.
  
No More Roses.
  
The Golden Bird.
  
On Bardon Hill.
  
Stanzas.
  
Lo! the Day.
  
A Golden Lot.
  
Life and Death.
  
The Mysterious Rider.
  
All Night-Long.
  
The Wounded Bird.
  
The Collier Lad.
  
Dolly Dare.
  
The Blackbird.
  
Baloo.
  
The Wind-Bag.
  
The Curtsey.
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The Posy-Gift.
  
The Silent Bird.
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OTHER POEMS.

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36

Alas!

Alas! the woe the high of heart,
Seem pre-ordained to undergo,
While proud ambition hides the smart,
And smiles delude the world below.
Their anguish, like a Sampson blind,
Gropes on in darkness, till at length
It grasps the pillars of the mind,
And dies a victim to its strength.
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