Songs of the Heart Volume 3; Selected from Many Sources, with Numerous Illustrations from Original Designs (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Oh, gracious is the arching sky, The south wind blowing blandly; The rippling white-caps fleck and fly; The sunset flushes grandly. And all the charm of sea and land, And splendid sunset glow and grace, And more, I'd give to hold her hand And look upon her face.' James T. McKAV. LOVE. He stood beside a cottage lone, And listened to a lute, One summer eve, when the breeze was gone. And the nightingale was mute. The moon was watching on the hill; The stream was staid, and the maples still, To hear a lover's suit, That, half a vow, and half a prayer, Spoke less of hope than of despair, And rose into the calm, soft air, As sweet and low, As he had heard?O, woe! O, woe! The flutes of angels, long ago! " By every hope that earthward clings, By faith that mounts on angel wings, By dreams that make night-shadows bright. And truths that turn our day to night, By childhood's smile, and manhood's tear, By pleasure's day, and sorrow's year, By all the strains that fancy sings, And pangs that time so surely brings, For joy or grief, for hope or fear, For all hereafter as for here, In peace or strife, in storm or shino, My soul is wedded unto thine! " And for its soft and sole reply, A murmur, and a sweet, low sigh, But not a spoken word; And yet they made the waters start Into his eyes who heard, For they told of a most loving heart, In a voice like that of a bird; Of a heart that loved though it loved in vain, A grieving, and yet not a pain: A love that took an early root And had an early doom, Like trees that never grow to fruit, And early shed their bloom; Of vanished hopes and happy smiles, All lost for evermore, Like ships that sailed for sunny isles, But never came to shore ! Thomas Ivibble Hekvey...