A Sicilian Story With Diego de Montilla, and Other Poems. By Barry Cornwall [i.e. Bryan Waller Procter]. Second Edition |
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SERENADE.
Listen! from the forest boughs
The voice-like angel of the spring
Utters his soft vows
To the proud rose blossoming.
The voice-like angel of the spring
Utters his soft vows
To the proud rose blossoming.
And now beneath thy lattice, dear!
I am like the bird complaining:
Thou above (I fear)
Like the rose disdaining.
I am like the bird complaining:
Thou above (I fear)
Like the rose disdaining.
From her chamber in the skies
Shouts the lark at break of morning,
And when day-light flies
Comes the raven's warning.
Shouts the lark at break of morning,
And when day-light flies
Comes the raven's warning.
This of gloom and that of mirth
In their mystic numbers tell;
But thoughts of sweeter birth
Teacheth the nightingale.
In their mystic numbers tell;
But thoughts of sweeter birth
Teacheth the nightingale.
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