The Golden Treasury of the best songs and lyrical poems in the English Language |
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 | The Golden Treasury |  |
IX
THE PET NAME
I have a name, a little name,
Uncadenced for the ear,
Unhonour'd by ancestral claim,
Unsanctified by prayer and psalm,
The solemn font anear.
Uncadenced for the ear,
Unhonour'd by ancestral claim,
Unsanctified by prayer and psalm,
The solemn font anear.
It never did, to pages wove
For gay romance, belong,
It never dedicate did move
As ‘Sacharissa,’ unto love—
‘Orinda,’ unto song.
For gay romance, belong,
It never dedicate did move
As ‘Sacharissa,’ unto love—
‘Orinda,’ unto song.
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Though I write books, it will be read
Upon the leaves of none,
And afterward, when I am dead,
Will ne'er be graved for sight or tread,
Across my funeral stone.
Upon the leaves of none,
And afterward, when I am dead,
Will ne'er be graved for sight or tread,
Across my funeral stone.
This name, whoever chance to call,
Perhaps your smile, may win;
Nay, do not smile! mine eyelids fall
Over mine eyes, and feel withal
The sudden tears within.
Perhaps your smile, may win;
Nay, do not smile! mine eyelids fall
Over mine eyes, and feel withal
The sudden tears within.
Is there a leaf that greenly grows
Where summer meadows bloom,
But gathereth the winter snows,
And changeth to the hue of those,
If lasting till they come?
Where summer meadows bloom,
But gathereth the winter snows,
And changeth to the hue of those,
If lasting till they come?
Is there a word, or jest, or game,
But time encrusteth round
With sad associate thoughts the same?
And so to me my very name
Assumes a mournful sound.
But time encrusteth round
With sad associate thoughts the same?
And so to me my very name
Assumes a mournful sound.
My brother gave that name to me
When we were children twain;
When names acquired baptismally
Were hard to utter, as to see
That life had any pain.
When we were children twain;
When names acquired baptismally
Were hard to utter, as to see
That life had any pain.
No shade was on us then, save one
Of chestnuts from the hill—
And through the wood our laugh did run
As part thereof! The mirth being done,
He calls me by it still.
Of chestnuts from the hill—
And through the wood our laugh did run
As part thereof! The mirth being done,
He calls me by it still.
Nay, do not smile! I hear in it
What none of you can hear!
The talk upon the willow seat,
The bird and wind that did repeat
Around, our human cheer.
What none of you can hear!
The talk upon the willow seat,
The bird and wind that did repeat
Around, our human cheer.
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I hear the birthday's noisy bliss,
My sisters' woodland glee,—
My father's praise, I did not miss,
When stooping down he cared to kiss
The poet at his knee;—
My sisters' woodland glee,—
My father's praise, I did not miss,
When stooping down he cared to kiss
The poet at his knee;—
And voices, which to name me, aye
Their tenderest tones were keeping!—
To some, I never more can say
An answer, till God wipes away
In heaven, these drops of weeping.
Their tenderest tones were keeping!—
To some, I never more can say
An answer, till God wipes away
In heaven, these drops of weeping.
My name to me a sadness wears;
No murmurs cross my mind:
Now God be thank'd for these thick tears,
Which show, of those departed years,
Sweet memories left behind!
No murmurs cross my mind:
Now God be thank'd for these thick tears,
Which show, of those departed years,
Sweet memories left behind!
Now God be thank'd for years enwrought
With love which softens yet!
Now God be thank'd for every thought
Which is so tender, it hath caught
Earth's guerdon of regret!
With love which softens yet!
Now God be thank'd for every thought
Which is so tender, it hath caught
Earth's guerdon of regret!
The earth may sadden, not remove,
Our love divinely given;
And e'en that mortal grief shall prove
The immortality of love
And lead us nearer Heaven.
Our love divinely given;
And e'en that mortal grief shall prove
The immortality of love
And lead us nearer Heaven.
E. B. Browning
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