Thomas Dunn English

  • Don’t you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt,—
        Sweet Alice whose hair was so brown,
    Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile,
        And trembled with fear at your frown?
    In the old church yard in the valley, Ben Bolt,
        In a corner obscure and alone...

  • Don’t you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt,—
        Sweet Alice whose hair was so brown,
    Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile,
        And trembled with fear at your frown?
    In the old church-yard in the valley, Ben Bolt,
        In a corner obscure and alone...

  • Here from the brow of the hill I look,
        Through a lattice of boughs and leaves,
    On the old gray mill with its gambrel roof,
        And the moss on its rotting eaves.
    I hear the clatter that jars its walls,
        And the rushing water’s sound,
    And I...