Wassail Wassail; All merit good cheer We wish thee dear faithful a wondrous New Year Our fine bowl is made of the white maple tree With the Wassailing bowl we h...

I am my only thief and jailor keep Bedeviled and priest beseech The pander come to me But mad love is religion enough For my heart And to those I gave life Conf...

Here, thoughts cling airborne To a sea of voice so glorious; mesmerizing This is my body; this is my inner mind What lies beneath my eyes Discarded years of el...

O my dear brother I am damnified at Caer Siddi For mine husband hath this twelfmonth treated me with cruelty Albe to please thee I didst cheerfully accept his p...

In kairos hour I bequeath Confusion of my sole belief Consider: am I god in mortal shell Yet shine no brighter than myself Invaded by life's patriarch Who conqu...

Beneath the sediment of aeons In ancient repose My trust lay eroded by age The old glory faded And past times forgotten My reign given way to my rage Harmoniou...

Behold this pale offering whose essence feeds your every need Entwined, divine in the sleepless heart but what's to become of me Wake the Walls of Remembrance S...

And if I'd the spell to claim your existence Your clandestine thoughts; your soul's soft persistence I'd follow the mirror aglow with your image Your water-grav...

(Words written by Tennyson, 1883) Row us out to Desenzano, to your Sirmione row So they rowed, and there we landed O Venusta Sirmio There to me through all the ...

Salute the essense Perfection's humor Conversed so often: mute Oh my dear I'm always near Oh my dear Heal We can't conceive A child's peace Belief our direction...

Low ye hills in ocean lie (Hob y derri dando) Hide not Meirion from my eye (Hob y derri dando) Still one view, oh let me take (Down derri down) Ere my longing h...

Ophelia Cordelia Desdemona And Kate My sweetness and Beatrice So precious your pain I sing for your lovers Your heavenly fathers to be Your possible futures You...

Soft in essence purity, came to me in blissful dreams, And bade me follow sleepily to sights we few have never seen, I dropped down to join her view, I fit quit...

Air-built madness: unfamiliar charm Hides in the softest eyes And ponderous smiles manifest denial But heavy heartless Conscious of our load Hurled by dreams in...

(Words written by Grandfather Lloyd Richards, 1929) There was a friend upon whom once Nature played her joke She gave him width instead of height and hands too ...

I woke up tired, I woke up down on my knees tonight My eyes were wet and I felt so dead inside A grieving fragment of myself, distorted memory Choking tears as ...

Come to life my deviltry Possess this poor company Our secret be benefit Their unhappy lack of it Awaken my trusting friend My undisturbed re...

How carelessly the bound daylight caresses Oblivious to wandering eyes extinguished Free me reckless with the night Elusive scenes enkindled burst to fire Where...

Come the tides We hear tell of a mortal season Fed rife with rhyme and reason Tained with despair Kill-darkened skies Painted black, so black with misery Raini...

There was a gentle angler who was angling in the sea With heart as cold as only heart untaught of love can be When suddenly the waters rushed and swelled and up...

Another night down on the catherine wheel Drawn into a corner A symphony of resounding shrieks in my head I court a sure, sudden death But give no quarter A pap...

(traditional ballad circa 1400) The wind doth howl today m'love And a winter's worth of rain I never had but one true love In cold grave she was lain Oh I adore...

A thousand dreamers crept as one Journey'd by the colder sun Knocked at the chamber's gate Yet this sleeper does not wake In the oracle overhung With careless w...

(written by Thomas campion; 1600) When to her lute Corinna sings Her voice revives the leaden strings And doth on highest note appeare As any challeng'd echo cl...