| - A bed-time song
Sway to and fro in the twilight gray, This is the ferry for Shadowtown; It always sails at the end of day, Just as the darkness is closing down Rest, little hea... - A Blackmore Maid Wooing a Fair Boy
Why, lovely boy, why fly'st thou me, That languish in these flames for thee? I'm Black, 'tis true; why, so is Night, And Love doth in Dark shades delight The wh... - A blacksmith courted me
A blacksmith courted me nine long months and better, He stole my heart away, wrote to me a letter, His hammer all in his hand he looked so brave and clever, And... - A bookworm
A moth devoured words When I heard of that wonder It struck me as a strange event That a worm should swallow the song of some man A thief gorge in the darkness ... - A brisk young sailor courted me
A brisk young sailor courted me, He stole away my liberty, He won my heart with a free good-will, He's false, I know, but I love him still There is an alehouse... - A brown bird singing
All through the night there's a little brown bird singing, Singing in the hush of the darkness and the dew Would that his song through the stillness could go wi... - A cavalry catch
Up! for the bugles are calling, Saddle and boot, and away! Sabres are clanking and lances are glancing, The colonel is fuming and horses are prancing, So up wit... - A Celtic Lullaby
Lennavanmo Lennavanmo who is it swinging you to and fro With a long low swing and a sweet low croon loving words of a mother's rune Lennavanmo Lennavanmo who is... - A cemetery
This quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies, And Lads and Girls; Was laughter and ability and sighing, And frocks and curls This passive place a Summer's nimble m... - A charm
Quiet! Sleep! or I will make Erinnys whip thee with a snake, And cruel Rhadamanthus take Thy body to the boiling lake, Where fire and brimstones never slake; Th... - My heart is like a singing bird
My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a watered shoot; My heart is like an apple tree Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit; My heart is like a r...
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