Love is

Love is of every heart the painted toy

The idol of man’s worship — faces fair
Were my enchanted magic from a boy
The pouting lip the colour of the hair
Left me in raptures next of kin to care
I loved & wooed them in the field like gems

Of too much value for the clown who sung
The azure bluebells in their sapphire stems
Among green bushes low their mute bells hung
These seemed loves modest maidens dew bestrung
With blebs o' mornings glittering pearls
I loved them in the valleys where I sung

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The hedge rose

The hedge rose blossoms like thy face
Sweet red & white together
& shadows wave about the place
Where branches twist together

The leaves dance to a merry tune
& boughs wave like to billows
A flowry carpet throughout june
& concert in the willows

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All delight

The season now is all delight

Sweet smile the passing hours
& Summers pleasures at their height
Are sweet as are her flowers
The purple morning waken'd soon
The middays gleaming din
Grey evening with her silver moon
Are sweet to mingle in
While waking doves betake to flight
From off each roosting bough
While Natures locks are wet with night
How sweet to wander now

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The orchis tribes

Haunting thy mossy steeps to botanize

& hunt the orchis tribes where natures skill

Doth like my thoughts run into phantasies

Spider & bee all mimicking at will

Displaying powers that fool the proudly wise

Showing the wonders of great natures plan

In trifles insignificant & small

Puzzling the power of that great trifle man

Who finds no reason to be proud at all

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A bean field

A bean field full in blossom smells as sweet
As Araby or groves of orange flowers
Black-eyed & white & feathered to ones feet
How sweet they smell in mornings dewy hours
When seething night is left upon the flowers
& when morns sun shines brightly o'er the field
The bean bloom glitters in the gems of showers
& sweet the fragrance which the union yields
To battered footpaths crossing o'er the fields

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Silent balm

 

Yet still the little path winds on & on 

 Down hedgrow sides & many a pastoral charm 

 We soon forget the charm of poesy gone 

 In the still woodland with its silent balm 

 & find some other joy to dream upon 

 A distant notice of some nestling farm 

 Crowded with russet stacks that peep between 

 Hugh homestead elms or orchards squatting trees 

 Where apples shine sun tanned & mellow green 

 Home comforts for dull winters reveries

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The enemy of all

 

The frog half fearful jumps across the path

& little mouse that leaves its hole at eve
Nimbles with timid dread beneath the swath

My rustling steps awhile their joys deceive

Till past & then the cricket sings more strong

& grasshoppers in merry moods still wear

The short night weary with their fretting song

Up from behind the molehill jumps the hare

Cheat of his chosen bed & from the bank

The yellowhammer flutters in short fears

From off its nest hid in the grasses rank

& drops again when no more noise it hears

Thus natures human link & endless thrall

Proud man still seems the enemy of all

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