Songs from the Sunny South (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ... sad than sorrow, get thee to a Wife Who counts a Husband not by gold or fur, Who holds him not at what his wealth may be. As t' one that makes sweet music to a lyre With pleasing voice and well can strike the chords, Perchance she listens to your happy words And for a moment all her soul takes fire Shot thro with a new sense and strange desire For something more than gold or place can give, But ere the flush of hope hath time to live A spell upon her cheek, the World affords Some shaft to strike to Earth what would aspire. As one that listens for the birds of Dawn But vainly listens till the night be spent, She listens but hears not the instrument For higher nature in her is not born, And with a heart weary and over worn She turns again into the whirling throng, And sets her lips to smile and speeds along, But feels her life to all is vainly lent For loss of something that she seemed to scorn. Sad Spirits that feel the ache, but why it is Know never Happy is the pair to whom One clear note struck out from the common gloom Wraps both their souls in extacy of bliss And one life-oneness, they will never miss All the World's petty necessary parts, Nought steps between the beating of their hearts, And when Death comes for a new bridal-room They leave Earth, and for Heaven's experiences. ONLY ONE AND ONCE. I Love all Women for the sake of one That is all Woman, as the stars and sun Draw to themselves the sweetest influences And subtle virtues out of herbs and trees, So she draws forth from all that come to her A hidden holiness in the worshipper, A dream extatic of some fair past light Such as is breathed by the soft south wind Betwixt the dead day and the birth of night, A gentle whisper to the o'erladen mind, And all good Women have such powers as these. The ...