O friend forsake me not,

Forget not as I forgot:

But keep thy heart for me,

Keep thy faith true and bright;

Through the lone cold winter night

Perhaps I may come to thee.

bridegroom.

Nay peace, my darling, peace:

Let these dreams and terrors cease:

Who spoke of death or change or aught but ease?

O fair frail sin,

GHOST.

O poor harvest gathered in!

Thou shalt visit him again

To watch his heart grow cold;

To know the gnawing pain

I knew of old;

To see one much more fair

A SUMMER WISH.

Live all thy sweet life thro',

Sweet Rose, dew-sprent,

Drop down thine evening dew

To gather it anew

When day is bright:

I fancy thou wast meant

Chiefly to give delight.

Sing in the silent sky,

Glad soaring bird;

Sing out thy notes on high.

To sunbeam straying by

Or passing cloud;

Heedless if thou art heard

Sing thy full song aloud.

Oh that it were with me

As with the flower;

Blooming on its own tree

For butterfly and bee

Its summer morns:

That I might bloom mine hour

A rose in spite of thorns.

Oh that my work were done

As birds' that soar

Rejoicing in the sun:

That when my time is run

And daylight too,

I so might rest once more

Cool with refreshing dew.

AN APPLE GATHERING.

I plucked pink blossoms from mine apple tree
And wore them all that evening in my hair:
Then in due season when I went to see

I found no apples there.

With dangling basket all along the grass

As I had come I went the selfsame track :

My neighbours mocked me while they saw me pass

So empty-handed back.

Lilian and Lilias smiled in trudging by,

Their heaped-up basket teazed me like a jeer; Sweet-voiced they sang beneath the sunset sky, Their mother's home was near.