Francis William Bourdillon Sweet Poems
- 1. The Piper
The dews were on the hedges,
The mist was on the mead,
When down among the sedges
I wrought my pipe of reed.
... - 2. The Home Of My Heart
Not here in the populous town,
In the playhouse or mart,
Not here in the ways gray and brown,
Bnt afar on the green-swelling down,
... - 3. On The South Downs
Light falls the rain
On link and laine,
After the burning day;
And the bright scene,
... - 4. Only To Live
Only to live! There nothing is more sweet.
Only to live! There nothing is more bitter.
Only to live, when flowers are at the feet
And overhead the happy swallows twitter.
... - 5. Eurydice
HE came to call me back from death
To the bright world above.
I hear him yet with trembling breath
Low calling, รข??O sweet love!
... - 6. The Acorn
An acorn swung
On an oak-tree bough;
So long it had hung,
It would fain fall now
... - 7. Sonnet I
Oft had I felt, like pure Endymion,
Such love for the sweet moon, that I had well
Believed her able on earth to love and dwell
With whatso man she set her love upon;
... - 8. The Chantry Of The Cherubim
O CHANTRY of the Cherubim,
Down-looking on the stream!
Beneath thy boughs the day grows dim;
Through windows comes the gleam;
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