My soul, they say, is hard and cold,
And nought can move me
Perchance 'tis so 'midst life's wild whirl,
But, oh! on Beauty's lips, my girl,
'Twill melt like Cleopatra's pearl;
Then love me, love me.
I would not climb th' ambitious heights
That soar above me;
I do not ask thee to bestow
Or wealth or honours on me now,
Or wreathe with laurel leaves my brow;
But love me, love me.

Oh! I'll gaze on thee till my fond
Fix'd glances move thee;
Love's glance sometimes the coldest warms:
Pygmalion on a statue's charms

My love gave me a passion-flower.
I nursed it well—so brief its hour!
My eyelids ache, my throat is dry:
He told me that it would not die.

My love and I are one, and yet
Full oft my cheeks with tears are wet—
So sweet the night is and the bower!
My love gave me a passion-flower.

So sweet! Hold fast my hands. Can God
Make all this joy revert to sod,
And leave to me but this for dower—
My love gave me a passion-flower.

Gazing on my idol-treasure,
All my soul is lost in joy;
She affords eternal pleasure,
And can never, never cloy.

Ev'ry motion, ev'ry feature
Shines with such peculiar grace;
Never, sure, was human creature
Blest with such an angel's face.

I.

O'er the graveyard burning noonday poured its flood of stainless golden light;
In that hour the sun seemed victor over all the doubts and dreams of night.
II.

From the heavens of boundless azure, from the air superb with summer's breath,
Came, it seemed, a thrill of triumph, wide-winged triumph over wingless death
III.

Though the dead around lay silent, though a thousand souls had watched in vain,
Summer's heart of endless sweetness seemed to soothe man's heart of endless pain.
IV.

TO HENRY .

?A ND has that heart, unmoved so long
?By beauty, softness, wit, and song,
At length been taught love's pleasing pains to feel?
Ah! no;....I fear, not e'en Amanda's charms
Have in thy breast waked passion's fond alarms:
But let my verse love's genuine signs reveal,....
And if your blushes answering symptoms prove,
Then will I own that you have learnt to love.
?If with confusion's deepening red
?Your manly cheek be not o'erspread
Whene'er by chance you hear Amanda's name,....
Or if, when unexpected she's in sight,

1. Oh, Mexico, my Mexico, Heave away, Santy
Anno! Oh, Mexico, my Mexico, All along
the plains of Mexico.
2 The ladies there, oh, I do adore,
3 Where I began my lifelong store.
4 Now, the girls are pretty with their long black hair.
5 Oh, in Mexico where I do belong,
6 I've found my señora right there!
7 Now, Mexico, you know what you are.
Oh, Mexico, well you know what you are.
8 You've loved me dear and you've taught me well!
9 Now, I'd love to be in Sannajooves tonight.
10 Now, really it seems only to be, etc.

I

SHE sang of Love so loud and long
?That when one day he came to call
She was so busy with her song
?She did not hear him knock at all;
And aShe left, unrecognized,
He looked exceedingly surprised.
II

Searching for Love, the distance o'er
?She scanned the high and starry way,
And never knew that by her door
?He greeted her, say, thrice a day,
Because he wore, ah! hapless one,
The aspect of her neighbour's son.
III

About her everywhere she saw
Love's double breaking love and law,
So when at last, Himself, he came

BEGIN A BALLAD ON IT

The wind is weary, the world is wan;
?(Oh, lone, lank lilies and long, lean loves)
My shield is shed, my armor is gone,
And Virtue is all I depend upon.
( My lily ,
?My lissome lily, my languid love.)
Full thirteen days have I walked with woe,
?(Oh dear, dead days and divine desires)
And wolves may follow where'er I go,
But nothing shall stop my song's sweet flow.
( My lily ,
?My love, my delirious, dark desire.)
The night is old and threadbare and thin,
?(Oh limpid lily, oh labial love)

ROBERT HERRICK

INCLUDES IT IN ONE OF HIS “PIOUS PIECES”
?Fuscus, dear friend,
?I prithee lend
An ear for but a space,
?And thou shalt see
?How Love may be
A more than saving grace.
?As on a day
?I chanced to stray
Beyond my own confines
?Singing, perdie,
?Of Lalage
Whose smile no star outshines—
?So 'tranced were all
?That heard me call
On Love, that (from a grot)
?A wolf who heard
?That tender word,
Listened and harmed me not.
?Thus shielded by
?The magicry
Of Love that kept me pure,
?I live to praise

Oh , no—not even when first we loved,
?Wert thou as dear as now thou art;
Thy beauty then my senses moved,
?But now thy virtues bind my heart.
What was but Passion's sigh before,
?Has since been turned to Reason's vow;
And, though I then might love thee more ,
?Trust me, I love thee better now.
Altho' my heart in earlier youth
?Might kindle with more wild desire,
Believe me, it has gained in truth
?Much more than it has lost in fire.
The flame now warms my inmost core,
?That then but sparkled o'er my brow,
And, though I seemed to love thee more,