A Garden of Girls Ruth She stood breast-high amid the corn, On her cheek an autumn flush, Round her eyes her tresses fell, And her hat, with shady brim, "Sure," I said, "Heav'n did not mean THOMAS HOOD. My Peggy My Peggy is a young thing, Fair as the day, and sweet as May, And I'm not very auld, Yet well I like to meet her at My Peggy sings sae saftly, ALLAN RAMSAY. From "The Gentle Shepherd." A Garden of Girls Annie Laurie Maxwelton braes are bonnie Where early fa's the dew, And it's there that Annie Laurie Gie'd me her promise true, Gie'd me her promise true, A Garden of Girls Which ne'er forgot will be; Her brow is like the snawdrift, That e'er the sun shone on,— Like dew on the gowan lying Her voice is low and sweet; And she's a' the world to me; And for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay me doune and dee. WILLIAM DOUGLAS OF FINGLAND. Lucy Three years she grew in sun and shower; On earth was never sown: This child I to myself will take; 66 Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse: and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, To kindle or restrain. "She shall be sportive as the fawn And hers shall be the breathing balm, Of mute, insensate things. "The floating clouds their state shall lend To her; for her the willow bend; Nor shall she fail to see E'en in the motions of the storm Grace that shall mold the maiden's form By silent sympathy. A Garden of Girls A Garden of Girls "The stars of midnight shall be dear Where rivulets dance their wayward round, "And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height, Her virgin bosom swell; Such thoughts to Lucy I will give While she and I together live Here in this happy dell." Thus Nature spake the work was done― This heath, this calm and quiet scene; And nevermore will be. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Jessie Jessie is both young and fair, Are not where her beauty lies. |