My tingling finger-tips

Each time the golden syllables

Fall lightly from my lips!

Williamina Parrish

“I LEANED OUT MY WINDOW”

I leaned out my window, I smelt the white clover,

Dark, dark was the garden, I saw not the gate;

Now, if there be footsteps, he comes, my one lover—

Hush, nightingale, hush! Oh, sweet nightingale, wait

Till I listen and hear