Some songs and verses . ay twas a lie She forged to part us? And I believed It true,—turned from you? I was deceived? Dont come so close? I cant take your hand! If I did, I should—you dont understand! I must, and shall hear what you say? You command in the old imperious way. My blood leaps to answer the call in your eyes That smile down upon me—my heaven, my skies! My soul stands again with your own face to face— As did those two in Eden, the first of the race. And I never loved anyone in the same way As 1 have loved you;—as I love you to-day;— And the passionate madness of sweetest unrest Is
Some songs and verses . ay twas a lie She forged to part us? And I believed It true,—turned from you? I was deceived? Dont come so close? I cant take your hand! If I did, I should—you dont understand! I must, and shall hear what you say? You command in the old imperious way. My blood leaps to answer the call in your eyes That smile down upon me—my heaven, my skies! My soul stands again with your own face to face— As did those two in Eden, the first of the race. And I never loved anyone in the same way As 1 have loved you;—as I love you to-day;— And the passionate madness of sweetest unrest Is beating again in my heart on your breast. THE AWAKENING HEN tender speech falls off to Yes and-No; When Life has lost the early sunrise glow; When every strain of song we pause to hear Is broken by sharp discord to the ear;When Loves sweet sacrament becomes but oneWith flesh and sense, the dream of Life is done;The cherub with the blindfold eyes has fledAnd left but Rue to lay above the dead,And all is 42 UNREQUITED HE end had come and the people saidA singer is gone, a poet is covered with roses from head to feetThe woman whose smile was rare, and sweet,While friends and strangers together wept Over the bier where a genius slept. They crowned her with laurel wreath of fame; They sculptured in marble and granite her name; But the man who had lived in her heart alway Was careless and gay on her burial day.
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