Oliver Madox Brown Poems

AH! long ago since I or thou
Glanced past these moorlands brow to brow,
Our mixed hair streaming down the wind—
So fleet! so sweet!
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A dwalling drumble-drone ie' th' ruets,
An apple-dreane aboo,
Th' yapple-dreane sturtled and stugged ie' th' fruits,
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“I love very well
The first blossoming
(I love well I ween)
That blooms in the spring;
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The growth of love's fruit is
Most meet to eat;
Yet a snare where the root is
Entangles the feet.
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Love is a desultory fire,
Blown by a wind made musical with sighs,
A void and wonderfully vague desire,
Which comes and flies.
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Alas! who knows or cares, my love,
If our love live or die,—
If thou thy frailty, sweet, should prove,
Or my soul thine deny?
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Lady, we are growing tired!
Lo! our faltering breath,
Once with new-born love inspired,
Holds the love we once desired, as weary unto death.
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Sing away, Oh sing away!
My father's ship sails swiftly home:
O'er the wind-blown waves a-foam
What gifts will be bring away?
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Leaning against the window, rapt in thought,
Of what sweet past do thy soft brown eyes dream
That so expressionlessly sweet they seem?
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No more these passion-worn faces shall men's eyes
Behold in life. Death leaves no trace behind
Of their wild hate and wilder love, grown blind
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