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• “Farewell!—but whenever”

  FAREWELL!—but whenever you welcome the hour
  That awakens the night-song of mirth in your bower,
  Then think of the friend that once welcomed it too, …

  Thomas Moore

• Parting of Hector and Andromache

  From the Greek by Alexander Pope
  From “The Iliad,” Book VI.
  “TOO daring prince! ah whither dost thou run? …

  Homer

• Hector to His Wife

  From the Greek by E. C. Hawtrey
  From “The Iliad,” Book VI.
  [The following extract is given as showing a more modern style of translation. It embraces the bracketed portion of the foregoing from Pope’s version.] …

  Homer

• To Lucasta

  IF to be absent were to be
  Away from thee;
  Or that, when I am gone, …

  Richard Lovelace

• To Her Absent Sailor

  From “The Tent on the Beach”
  HER window opens to the bay,
  On glistening light or misty gray, …

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• “I love my Jean”

  Of a’ the airts 1 the wind can blaw,
  I dearly like the west;
  For there the bonnie lassie lives, …

  Robert Burns

• Jeanie Morrison

  I ’ve wandered east, I ’ve wandered west,
  Through mony a weary way;
  But never, never can forget …

  William Motherwell

• “O, saw ye bonnie Leslie?”

  O, Saw ye bonnie Leslie
  As she gaed o’er the border?
  She ’s gane, like Alexander, …

  Robert Burns

• The Rustic Lad’s Lament in the Town

  O, Wad that my time were owre but,
  Wi’ this wintry sleet and snaw,
  That I might see our house again, …

  David Macbeth Moir

• Robin Adair

  What ’s this dull town to me?
  Robin ’s not near,—
  He whom I wished to see, …

  Lady Caroline Keppel

• Daisy

  Where the thistle lifts a purple crown
  Six foot out of the turf,
  And the harebell shakes on the windy hill— …

  Francis Thompson

• “What ails this heart o’ mine?”

  What ails this heart o’ mine?
  What ails this watery ee?
  What gars me a’ turn pale as death …

  Susanna Blamire

• Love’s Memory

  From “All ’s Well That Ends Well,” Act I. Sc. 1.
  I AM undone: there is no living, none,
  If Bertram be away. It were all one, …

  William Shakespeare

• Thinkin’ Long

  Oh thinkin’ long ’s the weary work!
  It breaks my heart from dawn
  Till all the wee, wee, friendly stars …

  Anna MacManus

• “Tears, idle tears”

  From “The Princess”
  TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
  Tears from the depth of some divine despair …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• “Come to me, dearest”

  Come to me, dearest, I ’m lonely without thee,
  Daytime and night-time, I ’m thinking about thee;
  Night-time and daytime, in dreams I behold thee; …

  Joseph Brenan

• The Wife to her Husband

  Linger not long. Home is not home without thee:
  Its dearest tokens do but make me mourn.
  O, let its memory, like a chain about thee, …

  Anonymous

• My Old Kentucky Home

  Negro Song
  THE SUN shines bright on our old Kentucky home;
  ’T is summer, the darkeys are gay; …

  Stephen Collins Foster

• The Present Good

  From “The Task,” Book VI.
  NOT to understand a treasure’s worth
  Till time has stol’n away the slighted good, …

  William Cowper

• “Moan, moan, ye dying gales”

  Moan, moan, ye dying gales!
  The saddest of your tales
  Is not so sad as life; …

  Henry Neele

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