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And May her crown of roses。
Go; happy maid; increase the store
Of graces born with you; and more
Add to their number still;
So neither all…consuming age;
Nor envy's blast; nor fortune's rage
Shall ever work you ill。
Edmund Waller '1606…1687'
〃O; SAW YE BONNY LESLEY〃
O saw ye bonny Lesley
As she gaed owre the Border?
She's gane; like Alexander;
To spread her conquests farther。
To see her is to love her;
And love but her for ever;
For nature made her what she is;
And ne'er made sic anither!
Thou art a queen; fair Lesley;
Thy subjects we; before thee;
Thou art divine; fair Lesley;
The hearts o' men adore thee。
The deil he couldna scaith thee;
Or aught that wad belang thee;
He'd look into thy bonny face;
And say; 〃I canna wrang thee!〃
The powers aboon will tent thee;
Misfortune sha' na steer thee;
Thou'rt like themselves sae lovely
That ill they'll ne'er let near thee。
Return again; fair Lesley;
Return to Caledonie!
That we may brag we hae a lass
There's nane again sae bonny。
Robert Burns '1759…1796'
TO A YOUNG LADY
Sweet stream; that winds through yonder glade;
Apt emblem of a virtuous maid! …
Silent and chaste she steals along;
Far from the world's gay busy throng:
With gentle yet prevailing force;
Intent upon her destined course;
Graceful and useful all she does;
Blessing and blest where'er she goes;
Pure…bosomed as that watery glass;
And Heaven reflected in her face!
William Cowper '1731…1800'
RUTH
She stood breast high among the corn;
Clasped by the golden light of morn;
Like the sweetheart of the sun;
Who many a glowing kiss had won。
On her cheek an autumn flush;
Deeply ripened; … such a blush
In the midst of brown was born;
Like red poppies grown with corn。
Round her eyes her tresses fell;
Which were blackest none could tell。
But long lashes veiled a light;
That had else been all too bright。
And her hat; with shady brim;
Made her tressy forehead dim;
Thus she stood amid the stooks;
Praising God with sweetest looks:
Sure; I said; Heaven did not mean;
Where I reap thou shouldst but glean;
Lay thy sheaf adown and come;
Share my harvest and my home。
Thomas Hood '1799…1845'
THE SOLITARY REAPER
Behold her; single in the field;
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here; or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain;
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound。
No Nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of Travellers in some shady haunt;
Among Arabian sands:
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard
In spring…time from the Cuckoo…bird;
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides。
Will no one tell me what she sings?
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old; unhappy; far…off things;
And battles long ago:
Or is it some more humble lay;
Familiar matter of to…day?
Some natural sorrow; loss; or pain;
That has been; and may be again!
Whate'er the theme; the Maiden sang
As if her song could have no ending;
I saw her singing at her work;
And o'er the sickle bending; …
I listened; motionless and still;
And; as I mounted up the hill;
The music in my heart I bore;
Long after it was heard no more。
William Wordsworth '1770…1850'
THE THREE COTTAGE GIRLS
I
How blest the Maid whose heart … yet free
From Love's uneasy sovereignty …
Beats with a fancy running high;
Her simple cares to magnify;
Whom Labor; never urged to toil;
Hath cherished on a healthful soil;
Who knows not pomp; who heeds not pelf;
Whose heaviest sin it is to look
Askance upon her pretty Self
Reflected in some crystal brook;
Whom grief hath spared … who sheds no tear
But in sweet pity; and can hear
Another's praise from envy clear。
II
Such (but O lavish Nature! why
That dark unfathomable eye;
Where lurks a Spirit that replies
To stillest mood of softest skies;
Yet hints at peace to be o'erthrown;
Another's first; and then her own?)
Such haply; yon Italian Maid;
Our Lady's laggard Votaress;
Halting beneath the chestnut shade
To accomplish there her loveliness:
Nice aid maternal fingers lend;
A Sister serves with slacker hand;
Then; glittering like a star; she joins the festal band。
III
How blest (if truth may entertain
Coy fancy with a bolder strain)
The Helvetian Girl … who daily braves;
In her light skiff; the tossing waves;
And quits the bosom of the deep
Only to climb the rugged steep!
… Say whence that modulated shout!
From Wood…nymph of Diana's throng?
Or does the greeting to a rout
Of giddy Bacchanals belong?
Jubilant outcry! rock and glade
Resounded … but the voice obeyed
The breath of an Helvetian Maid。
IV
Her beauty dazzles the thick wood;
Her courage animates the flood;
Her steps the elastic greensward meets
Returning unreluctant sweets;
The mountains (as ye heard) rejoice
Aloud; saluted by her voice!
Blithe Paragon of Alpine grace;
Be as thou art … for through thy veins
The blood of Heroes runs its race!
And nobly wilt thou brook the chains
That; for the virtuous; Life prepares;
The fetter which the Matron wears;
The patriot Mother's weight of anxious cares!
〃Sweet Highland Girl! a very shower
Of beauty was thy earthly dower;〃
When thou didst flit before mine eyes;
Gay Vision under sullen skies;
While Hope and Love around thee played;
Near the rough falls of Inversneyd!
Have they; who nursed the blossom; seen
No breach of promise in the fruit?
Was joy; in following joy; as keen
As grief can be in grief's pursuit?
When youth had flown did hope still bless
Thy goings … or the cheerfulness
Of innocence survive to mitigate distress?
VI
But from our course why turn … to tread
A way with shadows overspread;
Where what we gladliest would believe
Is feared as what may most deceive?
Bright Spirit; not with amaranth crowned
But heath…bells from thy native ground;
Time cannot thin thy flowing hair;
Nor take one ray of light from Thee;
For in my Fancy thou dost share
The gift of immortality;
And there shall bloom; with Thee allied;
The Votaress by Lugano's side;
And that intrepid Nymph; on Uri's steep descried!
William Wordsworth '1770…1850'
BLACKMWORE MAIDENS
The primrwose in the sheade do blow;
The cowslip in the zun;
The thyme upon the down do grow;
The cote where streams do run;
An' where do pretty maidens grow
An' blow; but where the tower
Do rise among the bricken tuns;
In Blackmwore by the Stour。
If you could zee their comely gait;
An' pretty feaces' smiles;
A…trippen on so light o' waight;
An' steppen off the stiles;
A…gwain to church; as bells do swing
An' ring within the tower;
You'd own the pretty maidens' pleace
Is Blackmwore by the Stour。
If you vrom Wimborne took your road;
To Stower or Paladore;
An' all the farmers' housen showed
Their daughters at the door;
You'd cry to bachelors at hwome …
〃Here; come: 'ithin an hour
You'll vind ten maidens to your mind;
In Blackmwore by the Stour。〃
An' if you looked 'ithin their door;
To zee em in their pleace;
A…doen housework up avore
Their smilen mother's feace;
You'd cry … 〃Why if a man would wive
An' thrive; 'ithout a dower;
Then let en look en out a wife
In Blackmwore by the Stour。〃
As I upon my road did pass
A school…house back in May;
There out upon the beaten grass
Wer maidens at their play;
An' as the pretty souls did tweil
An' smile; I cried; 〃The flower
O' beauty; then; is still in bud
In Blackmwore by the Stour。〃
William Barnes '1801…1886'
A PORTRAIT
〃One name is Elizabeth〃 Ben Jonson
I will paint her as I see her。
Ten times hav