We Have Been Friends Together
We have been friends together, In sunshine and in shade; Since first beneath the chestnut-trees In infancy we played. But coldness dwells within thy heart, A cloud is on thy brow; We have been friends together— Shall a light word part us now? We have been gay together; We have laugh’d at little jests;
For the fount of hope was gushing Warm and joyous in our breasts. But laughter now hath fled thy lip, And sullen glooms thy brow; We have been gay together— Shall a light word part us now? We have been sad together, We have wept, with bitter tears, O’er the grass-grown graves, where slumber’d The hopes of early years.
The voices which are silent there Would bid thee clear thy brow; We have been sad together— Oh! what shall part us now?
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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Dreams
LY I heard a voice—surely my name Was breathed in tones familiar to my heart I listened—and the low wind stealing came, In darkness and in silence to depart Surely I saw a form, a proud bright form,
I Was Not False To Thee
I AS not false to thee, and yet My cheek alone looked pale; My weary eye was dim and wet, My strength began to fail
Dedication
CE more, my harp once more, although I thought Never to wake thy silent strings again, A wandering dream thy gentle chords have wrought, And my sad heart, which long hath dwelt in pain,
The Undying One - Canto IV
IS done--the night has pass'd away; And, basking in the sunny day, The laughing fountain's waters bear No record of each burning tear;-- The silent echoes give no sound Of shriek or moan; and nothing round Can tell what breaking hearts h...
