Wail! Wail!For a sub hath set.Which no returning morrowShall ever callFrom the darksome pall,To beam upon our sorrow!Moan! Moan!O’er his dwelling lone,As ye heap the clod above him:Dead! Dead!His soul hath fledFrom the hearts that lived to love him! Wail! Wail!Though our tears be vain,For the soul in glory shining!Yet how can thoseWho have seen […]

In the deep silence of the night,We come, O harvest moon,To dance beneath thy gentle light,To many a merry tune;We come, whilst thou in thoughtful sheenArt beaming from the blue,In wild wood lone, and meadow green,To tread the mellow dew!And pledge at midnight’s solemn noonA health to thee, O harvest moon! Whilst thou alone dost […]

“Where is the place of their first fond meeting,“Where, oh where, is that green bay tree,“Under whose cover“The maid and her lover“Plighted their troth and their constancy?”O the winter nights were bleak and dreary,The storms of summer were fierce and free;Its trunk is shattered,Its branches are scattered,O! withered and dead is that green bay tree! […]

Deep in the shade of the wild woods free,There standeth alone an old oak tree;And ever at night, ‘mong its branches dead,The cold wind mourneth its glories fled,And the nightingale singeth her saddest tune,To think that its strength should have died so soon;And the old oak droopeth its branches hoar,And maketh a moan for the […]

Come, maidens come, to our merry dance,Youth and Beauty come together;Let young hearts meetIn converse sweet,At twilight’s time, in the summer weather:By the pale light of the thoughtful moon,When all is hushed, save the sighing breeze;In a still and balmy night of June,Under the leaves of the linden trees. There song shall awake its softest […]

Far away! O far away,Over the wide sea’s bounding spray,Many a league o’er the pelting foam.We seek a country, we seek a home!Farewell, England! our native land,Lingering still on thy verdant strand,We look our last on thy once-loved shore,And vow in our hearts to return no more. Far away! O far away!Nothing invites us here […]

Where the snake lurks in the tangled grass,By the slippery brink of the dank morass,Merrily O! Merrily O!I light my lamp, and forth I go!And to lure astray the lated wight,I shine all night in the swampy hollows,Merrily O! Merrily O!Wailing and woe to the fool who follows! O! Love and Friendship and I make […]

When my soul flies to the first great Giver,Friends of the bard! let my dwelling heBy the green bank of that rippling river,Under the shade of yon tall beech tree.Bury me there, ye lovers of song,When the prayers for the dead are spoken,With my hands on my breast,My face to the west,And my lyre in […]

O! sadly, ye dark rolling waves of the ocean,O! sadly ye beat on this desolate shore,And wake, with the voice of your restless commotion,Sad thoughts of the home 1 must visit no more.From the far distant land which has spurned me for ever,The land for whose glory I’ve struggled in vain,Ye come, O ye waves, […]

The rushing winds around us sweep,The storms about us roar,And we–we skim the foaming deep,A thousand miles from shore.Fierce o’er the wave the tempests ride,And far from land are we,Star of the North! with none to guide,But Providence and thee! When o’er our deck the billows dash,And howls the rushing blast,When from afar the thunder-flashHas […]

O! for an eagle’s wings,To brave the rugged blast,In spite of wind and storm to soarO’er mount and meadow vast.O! that I might, like thee,O’er Alpine summits fly,And travel, unconfined and free,The nearest to the sky! O! that mine eye like thineUpon the sun might gaze,And revel in that living light,Undazzled by the blaze!O! that […]

I saw a stain on the last year’s snow,Brothers! a stain of blood!But the cold hath past, and the warm winds blow,And the trees are in the bud.The snow hath melted from dale and hill–But the blood–the blood remaineth still! I heard a voice on the winter blast,Brothers! a voice of woe!And it cried for […]

Far away from the white man’s smoke,In the woods and in silence deep,Under the shade of the beech and oak,The bones of the heroes sleep.And there we go when the sky is grey,We go, and we shed no tears,But bend our heads to the earth, and prayFor the men of many years. Lightly we tread […]

The earth is white with the falling snow,And white is the forest tree,And my mocassin leaves no tell-tale print,As I come to visit thee.O! swift is my foot on the war-path, love,And fleet on the red deer’s trail,But swifter far when at eve I comeTo visit my maiden pale. When the sun shines from a […]

In valleys where the white man’s footNe’er treads the early dew,By mighty streams, whose waters deepNe’er bear his light canoe;In wild woods, where the settler’s axeNe’er fells the ancient tree,There the Great Spirit wings our feetTo roam the forest free. When points the shadow to the west,We string the ready bow;Hark!–the wild stag is in […]

At sunset a maid was roamingAlone by the banks of Rhine,Whose stream to the dark sea foaming,Was bright in the red sunshine:And she wept in bitter sorrow,As faded the sun’s last ray,And sadly she thought of the morrow,For her love was far away! They’ve bartered the maid and sold herFor empty and pitiless pride,And morning’s […]

Alder tree, O alder tree,Over his grave reclining;I’ve braided a wreath of the fairest flowersThat ever were fed by the spring-time showers.Or nursed by the summer shining.Short, but lovely, their lives have been,Like his in the damp sod sleeping,And I strew them now on the hillock green,Where a mournful watch I’m keeping. Alder tree! O […]

Let others chase the timid deerO’er field or level moor,We’ve a braver sport, and a nobler here,To chase the mighty boar.Through forest dark, and tangled wood,Where mountain torrents flow,With hearts by danger ne’er subdued,O! merrily we go!–Hark! Hark!How he roars, as he springs from his lair so dark!Hark! Hark!He bounds! he bounds! in his fury […]

Tis sad to go a-rovingThrough the weary world alone,For the bliss of life is loving,Ere the days of youth are flownAnd old age is Love’s undoing,Passion fades away with time,So we’ll go again a-wooing,While our hearts are in their prime.So we’ll go again a-wooing, etc. etc. The frowns of Fortune grieve us,And Ambition is a […]

“While the beams of the daylight yet shine from the “west,“Sail onwards, my bark, to the isle of the blest,“Where Love blooms for ever in fondness and truth,“And Passion forgets not the vows of its youth;“Where Friendship forsakes not, tho’ sorrows subdue,“And the visions of Hope are as lovely as true.“Sail onwards, my bark, to […]