Fly Leaves
Calverley, Charles Stuart, 1831-1884
English
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FLY LEAVES
Contents:
Morning
Evening
Shelter
In the Gloaming
The Palace
Peace--a study
The Arab
Lines on Hearing the Organ
Changed
First Love
Wanderers
Sad Memories
Companions
Ballad
Precious Stones
Disaster
Contentment
The Schoolmaster
Arcades Ambo
Waiting
Play
Love
Thoughts at a Railway Station
On the Brink
"Forever"
Under the Trees
Motherhood
Mystery
Flight
On the Beach
Lovers, and a Reflection
The Cock and the Bull
An Examination Paper
MORNING.
'Tis the hour when white-horsed Day
Chases Night her mares away;
When the Gates of Dawn (they say)
Phobus opes:
And I gather that the Queen
May be uniformly seen,
Should the weather be serene,
On the slopes.
When the ploughman, as he goes
Leathern-gaitered o'er the snows,
From his hat and from his nose
Knocks the ice;
And the panes are frosted o'er,
And the lawn is crisp and hoar,
As has been observed before
Once or twice.
When arrayed in breastplate red
Sings the robin, for his bread,
On the elmtree that hath shed
Every leaf;
While, within, the frost benumbs
The still sleepy schoolboy's thumbs,
And in consequence his sums
Come to grief.
But when breakfast-time hath come,
And he's crunching crust and crumb,
He'll no longer look a glum
Little dunce;
But be brisk as bees that settle
On a summer rose's petal:
Wherefore, Polly, put the kettle
On at once.
EVENING.
Kate! if e'er thy light foot lingers
On the lawn, when up the fells
Steals the Dark, and fairy fingers
Close unseen the pimpernels:
When, his thighs with sweetness laden,
From the meadow comes the bee,
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