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Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems

by the late Thomas Haynes Bayly; Edited by his Widow. With A Memoir of the Author. In Two Volumes
Bayly, Thomas Haynes (1797-1839)
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VOL I.
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[VOLUME TWO]
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POEMS.
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FASHIONABLE ECLOGUES.
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LUNATIC LAYS.
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WEEDS OF WITCHERY.
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THE RECTORY.
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SEASONABLE DITTIES.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
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SONGS AND BALLADS.
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POEMS AND SONGS.
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SONGS OF THE DAYS OF CHIVALRY.
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THE WREATH.
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NO LOVER COMES TO ME.

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Oh! since the rising of the sun,
Upon the shore I've stood,
To be the first to welcome home
A lover, brave and good:
But o'er the troubled sea, alas!
No lover comes to me.

II

The waves in thunder lash the strand,
The rough wind chills my cheek,
And oh, I almost dread to view
The vessel that I seek!
But o'er the troubled sea, alas!
No lover comes to me.
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And now the day is almost past,
The distant tide grows dark,
Yet indistinctly I behold
A storm-struck helpless bark!
Now o'er the troubled sea, alas!
A lover comes to me.

IV

Is there no hope? will none go forth
A fellow man to save?
The ocean was his battle-field,
The ocean is his grave!
And o'er the troubled sea, alas!
No lover comes to me.
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