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Virginalia ; or, songs of my summer nights

A Gift of Love for the Beautiful
Chivers, T. H. (1809-1858)

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CHACTAS; OR, THE LAMENT OF THE HARMONIOUS VOICE.
 
UNA; OR, THE LOST ONE.
 
GANYMEDE.
 
THE BEAUTIFUL SILENCE:
 
THE CRUCIFIXION.
 
THE BELLES OF TONTINE.
 
APOLLO.
 
LILY ADAIR.
 
VALETE OMNIA.
 
TO THE QUEEN OF MY HEART.
 
THE FALL OF USHER.
 
ROSALIE LEE.
 
ROSIGNOL SUEDOIS.
 
BIRTH OF THE NEW LOVE.
 
AMORE DIVINO
 
THE MOON OF MOBILE.
 
ELEGY OF TEARS.
 
THE LADY ALICE.
 
CELUTA.
 
THE BRIGHT NEW MOON OF LOVE.
 
MORCIA FUNEBRE; OR,
 
THE RISING OF THE NATIONS.
 
THE NEW ODIN.
 
CYGNE D'ITALIA.
 
ALAMOTH;
 
THE CHAPLET OF PALMS.
 
PRIMO AMORE.
 
FIRST LOVE.
 
THE MARVEL OF ARABIA.
 
LAMENT FOR MARY IN HEAVEN.
 
ORPHIC HYMN OF THE NEW JERUSALEM
 
ISRAFELIA.
 
THE TREE OF HEAVEN.
 
TO THE ONLY ONE.
 
A VISION OF THE NIGHT.
 
ISABEL.
 
MEMORIAL OF MY CHILDHOOD.
 
EUTHANASIA.
 
ATALA'S PRAYER.
 
TO AVALON IN HEAVEN.
 
LORD BYRON'S DYING WORDS TO ADA.
 
SONG TO UNA OF AUSTER.
 
THE HEAVENLY REAPER.
 
IONA.
 
PAS D'EXTASE.
 
SONG.
 
THE CONFESSION.
 
ALMA.
 
DARK IS MY SOUL WITHOUT THEE.
 
BOAT-SONG.
 
CHANT D'AMOUR.
 
THE PLACE WHERE I WAS BORN.
 
THE INVITATION.
 
PERIA PERSICA.
 
THE ANGEL'S WHISPER.
 
BESSIE BELL.
 
TOHOO VABOHOO.
 
INVOCATION TO SPRING.
 
BYRON.
 
TO FLORENCE IN HEAVEN.
 
WORDS TO THE UNWISE.
 
VIGIL OF SORROW.
 
SOPHIA.
 
THE DYING NIGHTINGALE.
 
SONG TO THE POPPY.
 
URANOTHEN.
 
SERENADE.
 
TO THE ROSE OF SONG.
 
TO THE MAID OF MANY SONGS.
 
CHORAL SONG OF THE TEMPERANCE LEGIONS.
 
THE POET OF LOVE.
 
TO ADA IN PARADISE.
 
THE COMFORTER.
 
THE NEW MOON.
 
SONG OF SALEM.
 
SONNET TO ISA.
 
THE ANGELUS.
 
LIBERTY.
 
THE BLOOD-STAINED ALDER.
 
THE EXILE'S LAMENT.
 
SONNET.
 
CHAUNT OF HOPE.
 
THE WIND.
 
THE NIGTINGALE OF HEAVEN.
 
HYMN FROM THE INNER LIFE.
 
VISION OF THE HEAVENLY ONES.
 
TRUST IN GOD.
 
TO CARIE.
 
SONNET
 
TO AN ANGEL ON EARTH.
 
SONNET.
 
UNE SONGE D'UNE NUIT D'ETE.
 
LAMORAH'S DEATH SONG FOR HIS SON.
 
TO AN ANGEL IN HEAVEN.
 
TO MY LITTLE DAUGHTER.
 
SONNET.
 
THE SONG OF SERALIM.
 
CONSOLATION.
 
TO ENDEA.
 
CANZONET TO CARIE.
 
CRADLE-SONG.
 
ASTARTE'S SONG TO ENDYMION.
 
SONNET.
 
SPRING.
 
THE POET'S FAREWELL TO HIS HARP.

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FIRST LOVE.

Oh! what is the matter with my true love?
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
Three times she sighed like the Turtle Dove—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
The tear-drops stood in her deep blue eyes—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
Like an April rain in the sunny skies—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
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She laid her head on my panting breast—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
And my heart grew glad with her own unrest—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
I clasped her then in my trembling arms—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
And crowned my soul with her matchless charms—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
I laid mine own on her trembling cheek—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
And tried my lips—but I could not speak—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
She lay on my breast, as she looked at me—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
Like a milk-white Ship on a rolling Sea—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
She hid her face in her golden hair—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
And, in doing this, seemed to me more fair—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
I moved the veil from her shining face—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
And sunned my soul in her matchless grace—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
As a God his Nectar in glory sips—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
I sucked her soul through her smiling lips—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
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As Adam beheld in his Eve's fair eyes—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
The welcome that made all the world Paradise—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
As an Angel freed from his body waits—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
For his soul to pass through the heavenly Gates—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
As he then exults when he first gets in—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
To the Courts of God where there is no sin—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
When he strikes his Harp of a thousand strings—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
With the smiles of God on his shining wings—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
As the Angels welcome him home to bliss—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
So my soul first felt when I drew that kiss—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
From the crystalline wells of her eyes of love—
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
I drank what the Saints drink in Heaven above!
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
I asked her then if she would be mine?
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
And she, smiling, said, “I am thine! I'm thine!”
Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho! heigh-ho!
Villa Allegra, Ga., April 10, 1849.
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