PAGE 259 266 279 291 307 357 PEGASUS IN POUND Pegasus a winged horse, said to have sprung from the blood of OLD IRONSIDES This poem was suggested by the proposal to break up the famous old American warship Constitution, called "Old Ironsides," and sell the timber and iron. THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE This charge was made during the battle of Balaklava, in the Crimean War, in 1854, and was the result of the misunderstanding of an order. Hern: heron. THE BROOK CALLICLES' SONG OF APOLLO Apollo: god of music and leader of the nine muses. little. QUEEN ALCESTIS AND THE GOD OF Love Met dreamed. Tho: then. Flowrouns: borders of flowers. Lite: A' perle: one pearl. Greves: groves, i.e. leaves and branches in the embroidered design. Gilte: golden. Unneathes : scarcely. Gledes: coals. 359 DAME NATURE CROWNS THE LION Compear: appear at court. Cheer face. Corpse: body. But 361 fear without fear. Listly: easily. Busteous: rough. Unicorn: a fabulous animal, like a horse, with one horn in the middle of the forehead. TO MISTRESS MARGARET HUSSEY Isiphil: Hypsipyle, queen of Lemnos. Pomander: a perfumed ball to carry in the pocket. PAGE 366 GLENLOGIE Maun: must. Gar: make some one. Frae: from. His lane. alone. Gaed ben: went in. Binna: be not. 374 376 DESCRIPTION OF SPRING Mings: mingles. Springs: revives. WAKE NOW, MY LOVE, AWAKE The Epithalamion, or wedding hymn, from which these two selec- Ganymede, the beautiful youth who served the gods as cupbearer, seems to have been on companionable terms with the eagle, the favorite bird of Jove, or Jupiter, and sometimes even to have employed him as a messenger. A fair little girl sat under a tree A green silk frock her comely shoulders clad A lake and a fairy boat A nightingale that all day long. 83 277 38 204 74 A parrot from the Spanish main A spaniel, Beau, that fares like you A sunny shaft did I behold A wet sheet and a flowing sea A widow bird sate mourning for her love. Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase) All ye woods, and trees, and bowers. And are ye sure the news is true And when, its force expended Art thou the bird whom man loves best As it fell upon a day. At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears Ay, tear her tattered ensign down Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way Daily the fishers' sails drift out . Dame Nature ordered every bird and beast Darby dear, we are old and gray Diaphenia, like the daffadowndilly. Did you hear of the curate who mounted his mare Do you ask what the birds say? The sparrow, the dove Encinctured with a twine of leaves Faintly as tolls the evening chime Far in the bosom of the deep 140 |