Poems (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: NELSON'S DYING WORDS. Kiss me, Hardy, kiss me, I am going quickly now, I feel it in my fainting heart, The coldness of my brow; But there's a pleasure, Hardy, That's high above my pain, For the last great blow is struck, And the world may breathe again.ii. Hardy, you must not let them say 'Twas altogether me; 'Tvas the stoutness of my brave hearts Made sure the victory; They'd have won the day with any man, Who knew old England's power, Who felt her greatness in his heart, As / feel it in this hour. Turn me on the other side, I've something more to say They'll not be hard upon my faults, When I am cold in clay: They never made me rich, Hardy, Fame's all I have to spare, So I leave a name you know, Hardy, To my dear country's care. Kiss me, kiss me, Hardy, Once more upon my brow, My backbone's shatter'd with the shot, I shall not stay long now: But I die, Hardy, I die, In pleasure more than pain, For I hear my brave hearts shouting, That England rules the main. THE SINGEE. " Though he's but a doting body, Yet like us he's blood and bones; See, the pitiless snowstorm driving, In every tree a tempest groans. Sit ye down, Sir, by the ingle, Till the storm's past, rest ye here, Warmth and fire ye're sorely wanting, Welcome to our homely cheer." So he sat down by the ingle, Seeming sorrowing and despised, And he look'd a dreamy body, And his harp was all he prized: But when of our cheer he'd tasted, O'er that harp his hand he flung, Look'd into the past the future Touch'd the sounding chords and sung First he sung a song of true love, In a rapture soft and high, I saw Jockey stealing nearer, I saw Jeanie looking sly. Then of early youth's sweet pleasures ...