Odi quelrusignolo

Che va di ramo in ramo

Cantado; io amo; io amo.

Tasso's Aminta


This mournful heart can dream of nought but thee,

As with slow steps among these shades I move,

And hear the nightingale from tree to tree

Sighing "I love! I love!"


This mournful heart wakes to one thought alone

That still our fatal parting will renew,

To hear that bird when Spring's last eve is gone

Sighing "Adieu! Adieu!"

(C) Louisa Stuart Costello
03/19/2017


Best Poems of Louisa Stuart Costello

• Lines.-if We Should Ever Meet Again
• Song.-yes, I Had Hope
• To A False Friend
• Song.-the Transient Time
• His Indian Love To Diogo Alvarez
• Song.-since Thou Wilt Banish Me
• The Dreamer On The Sea-shore
• The Destroying Spirit
• Song.-when Others Saw Thee
• To My Mother
• The Traveller In Africa
• November Fifth
• Song.-thy Form Was Fair
• The Indian Cupid
• Song For A German Air
• Spanish Song
• Memory
• The Adieu