George Darley Love Poems
- 1. The Joy Of Childhood
Down the dimpled green-sward dancing
Bursts a flaxen-headed bevy,
Bud-lipt boys and girls advancing
Love's irregular little levy.
... - 2. It Is Not Beauty I Demand
It is not Beauty I demand,
A crystal brow, the moon's despair,
Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand,
Nor mermaid's yellow pride of hair.
... - 3. The Mermaidens' Vesper-hymn
Troop home to silents grots and caves!
Troop home! And mimic as you go
The mournful winding of the waves
Which to their dark abysses flow!
... - 4. The Gambols Of Children
DOWN the dimpled greensward dancing,
Bursts a flaxen-headed bevy,-
Bud-lipt boys and girls advancing,
Love's irregular little levy.
... - 5. To Helene
On a Gift-ring carelessly lost
I sent a ring-a little band
... - 6. Song
Sweet in her green dell the flower of beauty slumbers,
Lull'd by the faint breezes sighing through her hair;
Sleeps she and hears not the melancholy numbers
Breathed to my sad lute 'mid the lonely air.
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