Songs Of The Loire, And Other Poems [Signed Peter The Hermit].

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SOUNDING OCEAN! Sounding Ocean ! gentle be; Sink, O sink to rest: Let no rude wind bestir the sea? 'T is Marian's fond behest! Her love is sailing east or west; At home, while she must pine; Let no wave, with angry crest, His life endanger?mine. Is my Edwin on the sea ? Rock him soon to rest: Sounding Ocean! gentle he, And Marian shall be blest! Let all be silent as his rest; Beautiful as sleep, And lovely as by nature drest? Be still, thou mighty deep ! THE MAID OF CLISSON. I heard the Maid of Clisson Sing of love and madness too: And saw her dark eye glisten On struggling tears of woe ! Her lineaments were noble, Her form divinely fair; Her cheek bespoke the trouble Her bosom had to bear. Her brow was pale as ashes, Her lips were parched with pain; As the grief, which madly lashes The cold heart, stirred again! Oh she was never voiceless, Through the awful pause of night; Nor was she ever songless Through the sunny hours of light. Of Abelard she sang too, With sighs that rent the air; Of Heloise' untimely woe, With looks of wild despair ! THERE CAME A YOUNG KNIGHT. There came a young knight clad in armour bright To the western tower at dawn; And his noble mien and mantle of green, Bespoke him a squire unknown? Bespoke him a squire unknown. He sounded his horn at the breath of morn, In the porch of the prince's tower; But they heard him not in the hermit's cot, Nor in the cottager's bower. Nor in the cottager's bower. He sounded again?it proved not in vain? For the soldier awoke, of age; And spake with the knight, 'neath the pale moon's light, Thus, concerning his pilgrimage? Thus, concerning his pilgrimage." Pray tell me, old man, if haply ye can, ...