• From “Irish Melodies”
    COME, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer,
    Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here;
    Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o’ercast,
    And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last.

    Oh! what was love made for, if ’t is not the same
    Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame?...

  • The Day returns, my bosom burns;
      The blissful day we twa did meet;
    Though winter wild in tempest toiled,
      Ne’er summer sun was half sae sweet.
    Than a’ the pride that loads the tide,
      And crosses o’er the sultry line,—
    Than kingly robes, and crowns and globes,
      Heaven gave me more; it made thee mine.

    While day and night can...