1. English

  • Glee — The great storm is over —

    Glee ! the great storm is over !

    Four have recovered the land ;

    Forty gone down together

    Into the boiling sand.


    Ring, for the scant salvation !

    Toll, for the bonnie souls, —

    Neighbor and friend and bridegroom,
    ...

  • "Glide soft, ye Silver Floods"

    "Glide soft", ye Silver Floods"

    Glide soft, ye silver floods,

    And every spring:

    Within the shady woods

    Let no bird sing!

    Nor from the grove a turtle-dove

    Be seen to couple with her love;

    But silence on each dale and mountain dwell...

  • Gloomy Winter's noo awa

    Gloomy Winter's noo awa'; soft the westlin breezes blaw.

    Among the birks o' Stanley shaw the mavis sings fu' cheerie O.

    Sweet the crawflowers early bell decks Glenifer's dewy dell.

    Blooming like your bonny sel', my ain my airtless dearie O.


    Come my lassie let us stray, o'er Glenkilloch's sunny brae,

    And...

  • Go not too near a House of Rose —

    Go not too near a House of Rose —

    The depredation of a Breeze —

    Or inundation of a Dew

    Alarms its walls away —


    Nor try to tie the Butterfly,

    Nor climb the Bars of Ecstasy,

    In insecurity to lie

    Is Joy's insuring quality.

  • "Go tell it" — What a Message —

    "Go tell it" — What a Message —

    To whom — is specified —

    Not murmur — not endearment —

    But simply — we — obeyed —

    Obeyed — a Lure — a Longing?

    Oh Nature — none of this —

    To Law — said sweet Thermopylae

    I give my dying Kiss —

  • God gave a Loaf to every Bird —

    God gave a Loaf to every Bird —

    But just a Crumb — to Me —

    I dare not eat it — tho' I starve —

    My poignant luxury —


    To own it — touch it —

    Prove the feat — that made the Pellet mine —

    Too happy — for my Sparrow's chance —

    For Ampler Coveting —


    It might be Famine — all...

  • God is a distant — stately Lover —

    God is a distant — stately Lover —

    Woos, as He states us — by His Son —

    Verily, a Vicarious Courtship —

    "Miles", and "Priscilla", were such an One —


    But, lest the Soul — like fair "Priscilla"

    Choose the Envoy — and spurn the Groom —

    Vouches, with hyperbolic archness —

    "Miles", and "John...

  • God is indeed a jealous God —

    God is indeed a jealous God —

    He cannot bear to see

    That we had rather not with Him

    But with each other play.

  • God made no act without a cause,

    God made no act without a cause,

    Nor heart without an aim,

    Our inference is premature,

    Our premises to blame.

  • God permits industrious Angels —

    God permits industrious Angels —

    Afternoons — to play —

    I met one — forgot my Schoolmates —

    All — for Him — straightway —

    God calls home — the Angels — promptly —

    At the Setting Sun —

    I missed mine — how dreary — Marbles —

    After playing Crown!