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FLORA WARRENDER. "Lovely floweret, lovely floweret, Oh! what thoughts your beauties move— When I pressed thee to my bosom, Little did I know of love. In Castile I never entered— Fro…
LOVE, AND MATTERS PERTAINING THERETO. "They would sit and sigh, And look upon each other and conceive Not what they ailed; yet something did they ail, And yet were w…
A LAST KISS. "Yes; open your heart! be glad, Glad as the linnet on the tree: Laugh, laugh away—and merrily Drive away every dream that's sad. Who sadness takes for joy is mad— And mournful…
COSMO THE MASTER. "Why make I friendships with the great, When I no favour seek? Or follow girls seven hours in eight— I need but once a week? Luxurious lobster night's farewell, …
AN ABRUPT PROPOSAL. "Wherefore dwell so sad and lonely, By the desolate sea-shore; With the melancholy surges Beating at your cottage door? You shall dwell beside the castle, Shadow…
THE BLOW. "Take comfort: he no more shall see my face; Lysander and myself will fly this place. Before the time I did Lysander see, Seemed Athens as a paradise to me: Oh, then, what graces in m…
EXPOSTULATION. "Pledged till thou reach the verge of womanhood, And shalt become thy own sufficient stay! Too late I feel, sweet orphan! was the day For steadfast hope the contrast to fulfil; Y…
FORTH INTO THE WORLD. "This nicht is my departing nicht, For here nae langer I maun stay; There's neither friend or foe o' mine, But wishes me away. What I hae dune through la…
UNAVAILING REGRET. "Ay waken oh! Waken and wearie; Sleep I canna get For thinking o' my dearie. When I sleep I dream, And when I wake I'm eerie; Rest I canna get, For …
AN OLD SOLDIER'S STORY. "If he was of Leven's," said the lieutenant. "I told him your honour was." "Then," said he, "I served three campaigns…
