PHILLIDA AND CORYDON. In the merrie moneth of Maye, Much adoe there was, god wot; He sayde, hee had lovde her longe : She sayes, maydes must kisse no men, Tyll they doe for good and all. Love, that had bene long deluded, NICHOLAS BRETON. MAID OF ATHENS. MAID of Athens, ere we part, By those tresses unconfined, By that lip I long to taste; BONNIE LESLEY. OH saw ye bonnie Lesley As she gaed o'er 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; Thou art a queen, fair Lesley- The hearts o' men adore thee. The Spanish girl that meets your love Ne'er taunts you with a mock denial, For every thought is bent to prove Her passion in the hour of trial. When thronging foemen menace Spain, She dares the deed and shares the danger; And should her lover press the plain, She hurls the spear, her love's avenger. And when, beneath the evening star, Of Christian knight or Moorish hero, Or counts her beads with fairy hand Beneath the twinkling rays of Hesper, Or joins devotion's choral band, To chaunt the sweet and hallow'd vesper, In each her charms the heart must move LORD BYRON. I LOVE MY LOVE. WHAT is the meaning of the song That rings so clear and loud, Thou nightingale amid the copse, Thou lark above the cloud? What says thy song, thou joyous thrush, Up in the walnut tree? "I love my Love, because I know My Love loves me.” What is the meaning of thy thought, What can the meaning be? Oh happy words! at Beauty's feet We sing them ere our prime, And when the early summers pass, And Care comes on with Time, |