Chapter I: Front Matter

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Victorian Songs

"'Let some one sing to us, lightlier move
The minutes fledged with music'."

TENNYSON

Victorian Songs

Lyrics of the Affections
and Nature

Collected and Illustrated
by Edmund H Garrett
with an Introduction by
Edmund Gosse

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Little Brown and Company
Boston 1895

_Copyright, 1895._
BY EDMUND H. GARRETT.

University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

[Transcriber's Note:

Some printings of the book have a two-page Editor's Note before the Contents, acknowledging the "publishers and authors who have given permission for the use of many of the songs included in this volume". It has been omitted from this e-text.]

CONTENTS

Where are the songs I used to know?

Christina Rossetti.

AIDE, HAMILTON (1830). Page
Remember or Forget 3
Oh, Let Me Dream 6
Love, the Pilgrim 7

ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM (1824-1889).
Lovely Mary Donnelly 9
Song 13
Serenade 14
Across the Sea 16

ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN (1832).
Serenade 18
A Love Song of Henri Quatre 20

ASHE, THOMAS (1836-1889).
No and Yes 22
At Altenahr 23
Marit 24

AUSTIN, ALFRED (1835).
A Night in June 26

BEDDOES, THOMAS LOVELL (1803-1849).
Dream-Pedlary 30
Song from the Ship 33
Song 34
Song 35
Song, by Two Voices 36
Song 38

BENNETT, WILLIAM COX (1820).
Cradle Song 39
My Roses blossom the Whole Year Round 41
Cradle Song 42

BOURDILLON, F. W. (1852).
Love's Meinie 43
The Night has a Thousand Eyes 44
A Lost Voice 45

BUCHANAN, ROBERT (1841).
Serenade 46
Song 48

COLLINS, MORTIMER (1827-1876).
To F. C. 49
A Game of Chess 50
Multum in Parvo 52
Violets at Home 53
My Thrush 54

CRAIK, DINAH MARIA MULOCK (1826-1887).
Too Late 56
A Silly Song 58

DARLEY, GEORGE (1795-1846).
May Day 60
I 've been Roaming 62
Sylvia's Song 63
Serenade 64

DE TABLEY, LORD (1835).
A Winter Sketch 66
The Second Madrigal 69

DE VERE, AUBREY (1788-1846).
Song 70
Song 72
Song 74

DICKENS, CHARLES (1812-1870).
The Ivy Green 75

DOBSON, AUSTIN (1840).
The Ladies of St. James's 77
The Milkmaid 81

DOMETT, ALFRED (1811-1887).
A Glee for Winter 84
A Kiss 86

DUFFERIN, LADY (1807-1867).
Song 88
Lament of the Irish Emigrant 90

FIELD, MICHAEL.
Winds To-day are Large and Free 94
Let us Wreathe the Mighty Cup 96
Where Winds abound 97

GALE, NORMAN (1862).
A Song 98
Song 99

GOSSE, EDMUND (1849).
Song for the Lute 101

HOOD, THOMAS (1798-1845).
Ballad 102
Song 104
I Remember, I Remember 106
Ballad 108
Song 110

HOUGHTON, LORD (RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES) (1809-1885).
The Brookside 111
The Venetian Serenade 113
From Love and Nature 115

INGELOW, JEAN (1830).
The Long White Seam 116
Love 118
Sweet is Childhood 120

KINGSLEY, CHARLES (1819-1875).
Airly Beacon 121
The Sands of Dee 122
Three Fishers went Sailing 124
A Farewell 126

LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE (1775-1864).
Rose Aylmer 127
Rubies 128
The Fault is not Mine 129
Under the Lindens 130
Sixteen 131
Ianthe 132
One Lovely Name 133
Forsaken 133

LOCKER-LAMPSON, FREDERICK (1821-1895).
A Garden Lyric 134
The Cuckoo 137
Gertrude's Necklace 139

LOVER, SAMUEL (1797-1868).
The Angel's Whisper 141
What will you do, Love? 143

MACKAY, CHARLES (1814-1889).
I Love my Love 145
O Ye Tears! 147

MAHONEY, FRANCIS (1805-1866).
The Bells of Shandon 149

MASSEY, GERALD (1828).
Song 153

O'SHAUGHNESSY, ARTHUR (1844-1881).
A Love Symphony 156
I made Another Garden 158

PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE (1825-1864).
The Lost Chord 160
Sent to Heaven 162

PROCTER, B. W. (BARRY CORNWALL) (1787-1874).
The Poet's Song to his Wife 165
A Petition to Time 167
A Bacchanalian Song 168
She was not Fair nor Full of Grace 170
The Sea-King 172
A Serenade 174
King Death 176
Sit Down, Sad Soul 178
A Drinking Song 180
Peace! What do Tears Avail? 182
The Sea 184

ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA G. (1830-1895).
Song 186
Song 188
Song 189
Three Seasons 190

ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL (1828-1882).
A Little While 191
Sudden Light 193
Three Shadows 194

SCOTT, WILLIAM BELL (1812-1890).
Parting and Meeting Again 196

SKIPSEY, JOSEPH (1832).
A Merry Bee 198
The Songstress 199
The Violet and the Rose 200

STERRY, J. ASHBY.
Regrets 201
Daisy's Dimples 203
A Lover's Lullaby 204

SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES (1837).
A Match 205
Rondel 208
Song 209

TENNYSON, ALFRED (1809-1892).
The Bugle Song 210
Break, Break, Break 212
Tears, Idle Tears 213
Sweet and Low 215
Turn, Fortune, Turn thy Wheel 216
Vivien's Song 217

THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE (1811-1863).
At the Church Gate 218
The Mahogany Tree 220

THORNBURY, GEORGE WALTER (1828-1876).
Dayrise and Sunset 223
The Three Troopers 225
The Cuckoo 228

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AN INDEX TO FIRST LINES

Listen--Songs thou 'lt hear
Through the wide world ringing.

Barry Cornwall.

Page

A baby was sleeping
_Samuel Lover_ 141
"A cup for hope!" she said
_Christina G. Rossetti_ 190
A golden bee a-cometh
_Joseph Skipsey_ 198
A little shadow makes the sunrise sad
_Mortimer Collins_ 52
A little while a little love
_Dante Gabriel Rossetti_ 191
A thousand voices fill my ears
_F. W. Bourdillon_ 45
Across the grass I see her pass
_Austin Dobson_ 81
Ah, what avails the sceptered race!
_Walter Savage Landor_ 127
Airly Beacon, Airly Beacon
_Charles Kingsley_ 121
All glorious as the Rainbow's birth
_Gerald Massey_ 153
All through the sultry hours of June
_Mortimer Collins_ 54
Along the garden ways just now
_Arthur O'Shaughnessy_ 156
Although I enter not
_William Makepeace Thackeray_ 218
As Gertrude skipt from babe to girl
_Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 139
As I came round the harbor buoy
_Jean Ingelow_ 116
Awake!--The starry midnight Hour
_B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 174
Awake thee, my Lady-love!
_George Darley_ 64
Back flies my soul to other years
_Joseph Skipsey_ 199
Break, break, break
_Alfred Tennyson_ 212

Came, on a Sabbath noon, my sweet
_Thomas Ashe_ 23
Christmas is here
_William Makepeace Thackeray_ 220
Come, rosy Day!
_Sir Edwin Arnold_ 20
Come sing, Come sing, of the great Sea-King
_B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 172
Could ye come back to me, Douglas, Douglas
_Dinah Maria Mulock Craik_ 56

Drink, and fill the night with mirth!
_B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 180

Every day a Pilgrim, blindfold
_Hamilton Aide_ 7

Fast falls the snow, O lady mine
_Mortimer Collins_ 49
First the fine, faint, dreamy motion
_Norman Gale_ 98

Hence, rude Winter! crabbed old fellow
_Alfred Domett_ 84
How many Summers, love
_B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 165
How many times do I love thee, dear?
_Thomas Lovell Beddoes_ 38

I bring a garland for your head
_Edmund Gosse_ 101
I had a Message to send her
_Adelaide Anne Procter_ 162
I have been here before
_Dante Gabriel Rossetti_ 193
I leaned out of window, I smelt the white clover
_Jean Ingelow_ 118
I looked and saw your eyes
_Dante Gabriel Rossetti_ 194
I made another garden, yea
_Arthur O'Shaughnessy_ 158
I remember, I remember
_Thomas Hood_ 106
I sat beside the streamlet
_Hamilton Aide_ 3
I wandered by the brook-side
_Lord Houghton_ 111
I walked in the lonesome evening
_William Allingham_ 16
If I could choose my paradise
_Thomas Ashe_ 22
If love were what the rose is
_Algernon Charles Swinburne_ 205
If there were dreams to sell
_Thomas Lovell Beddoes_ 30
I 'm sitting on the stile, Mary
_Lady Dufferin_ 90
In Clementina's artless mien
_Walter Savage Landor_ 131
In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours
_Alfred Tennyson_ 217
Into the Devil tavern
_George Walter Thornbury_ 225
It was not in the winter
_Thomas Hood_ 102
I 've been roaming! I 've been roaming!
_George Darley_ 62

King Death was a rare old fellow!
_B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 176
Kissing her hair I sat against her feet.
_Algernon Charles Swinburne_ 208

Lady! in this night of June
_Alfred Austin_ 26
Last time I parted from my Dear
_William Bell Scott_ 196
Let us wreathe the mighty cup
_Michael Field_ 96
Little dimples so sweet and soft
_J. Ashby Sterry_ 203
Lullaby! O lullaby!
_William Cox Bennett_ 42
Lute! breathe thy lowest in my Lady's ear
_Sir Edwin Arnold_ 18

Mirror your sweet eyes in mine, love
_J. Ashby Sterry_ 204
Mother, I can not mind my wheel
_Walter Savage Landor_ 133
My fairest child, I have no song to give you
_Charles Kingsley_ 126
My goblet's golden lips are dry
_Thomas Lovell Beddoes_ 34
My love, on a fair May morning
_Thomas Ashe_ 24
My roses blossom the whole year round
_William Cox Bennett_ 41

O for the look of those pure gray eyes
_J. Ashby Sterry_ 201
O happy buds of violet!
_Mortimer Collins_ 53
"O Heart, my heart!" she said, and heard
_Dinah Maria Mulock Craik_ 58
O lady, leave thy silken thread
_Thomas Hood_ 104
O lips that mine have grown into
_Algernon Charles Swinburne_ 209
O Love is like the roses
_Robert Buchanan_ 48
O May, thou art a merry time
_George Darley_ 60
O roses for the flush of youth
_Christina G. Rossetti_ 188
O spirit of the Summertime!
_William Allingham_ 13
O ye tears! O ye tears! that have long refused to flow
_Charles Mackay_ 147
Often I have heard it said
_Walter Savage Landor_ 128
Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green
_Charles Dickens_ 75
Oh, hearing sleep, and sleeping hear
_William Allingham_ 14
Oh! let me dream of happy days gone by
_Hamilton Aide_ 6
Oh, lovely Mary Donnelly, my joy, my only best!
_William Allingham_ 9
"Oh, Mary, go and call the cattle home"
_Charles Kingsley_ 122
One lovely name adorns my song
_Walter Savage Landor_ 133

Peace! what can tears avail?
_B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 182

Seated one day at the Organ
_Adelaide Anne Procter_ 160
Seek not the tree of silkiest bark
_Aubrey de Vere_ 72
She was not fair, nor full of grace
_B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 170
She 's up and gone, the graceless Girl
_Thomas Hood_ 108
Sing!--Who sings
_B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 168
Sit down, sad soul, and count
_B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 178
Sleep sweet, beloved one, sleep sweet!
_Robert Buchanan_ 46
Sleep! the bird is in its nest
_William Cox Bennett_ 39
Softly, O midnight Hours!
_Audrey de Vere_ 70
Strew not earth with empty stars
_Thomas Lovell Beddoes_ 35
Sweet and low, sweet and low
_Alfred Tennyson_ 215
Sweet is childhood--childhood 's over
_Jean Ingelow_ 120
Sweet mouth! O let me take
_Alfred Domett_ 86

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean
_Alfred Tennyson_ 213
Terrace and lawn are white with frost
_Mortimer Collins_ 50
Thank Heaven, Ianthe, once again
_Walter Savage Landor_ 132
The fault is not mine if I love you too much
_Walter Savage Landor_ 129
The ladies of St. James's
_Austin Dobson_ 77
The night has a thousand eyes
_F. W. Bourdillon_ 44
The Sea! the Sea! the open Sea!
_B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 184
The splendour falls on castle walls
_Alfred Tennyson_ 210
The stars are with the voyager
_Thomas Hood_ 110
The streams that wind amid the hills
_George Darley_ 63
The Sun came through the frosty mist
_Lord Houghton_ 115
The Violet invited my kiss
_Joseph Skipsey_ 200
There is no summer ere the swallows come.
_F. W. Bourdillon_ 43
Three fishers went sailing away to the West
_Charles Kingsley_ 124
To sea, to sea! the calm is o'er
_Thomas Lovell Beddoes_ 33
Touch us gently, Time!
_B. W. Procter_ (_Barry Cornwall_) 167
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel and lower the proud!
_Alfred Tennyson_ 216
Two doves upon the selfsame branch
_Christina G. Rossetti_ 189

Under the lindens lately sat
_Walter Savage Landor_ 130

Wait but a little while
_Norman Gale_ 99
We have loiter'd and laugh'd in the flowery croft
_Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 134
We heard it calling, clear and low
_Frederick Locker-Lampson_ 137
What is the meaning of the song
_Charles Mackay_ 145
"What will you do, love, when I am going"
_Samuel Lover_ 143
When a warm and scented steam
_George Walter Thornbury_ 228
When along the light ripple the far serenade
_Lord Houghton_ 113
When another's voice thou hearest
_Lady Dufferin_ 88
When I am dead, my dearest
_Christina G. Rossetti_ 186
When I was young, I said to Sorrow
_Aubrey de Vere_ 74
When Spring casts all her swallows forth
_George Walter Thornbury_ 223
When the snow begins to feather
_Lord de Tabley_ 66
Where winds abound
_Michael Field_ 97
Who is the baby, that doth lie
_Thomas Lovell Beddoes_ 36
Winds to-day are large and free
_Michael Field_ 94
With deep affection
_Francis Mahoney_ 149
Woo thy lass while May is here
_Lord de Tabley_ 69

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Their songs wake singing echoes in my land.

Christina Rossetti.

Sweet and low, sweet and low _Frontispiece_
"Oh! let me dream of happy days gone by" 6
Across the Sea 16
"My love on a fair May morning" 24
Song in the Garden 38
The night has a thousand eyes 44
A Game of Chess 50
"I 've been roaming, I 've been roaming" 62
"A maid I know,--and March winds blow" 82
"That bright May morning long ago" 90
"I remember, I remember" 106
I wandered by the brook-side 112
"Three fishers went sailing away to the West" 124
Ianthe 132
Gertrude's Necklace 140
"She turned back at the last to wait" 158
King Death 176
"I looked and saw your eyes" 194
Break, Break, Break 212
"When Spring casts all her swallows forth" 224

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