Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature

by Unknown

Listen—Songs thou ’lt hear

Through the wide world ringing.

Barry Cornwall.

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A baby was sleeping	Samuel Lover	[141]
“A cup for hope!” she said	Christina G. Rossetti	[190]
A golden bee a-cometh	Joseph Skipsey	[198]
A little shadow makes the sunrise sad	Mortimer Collins	[52]
A little while a little love	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	[191]
A thousand voices fill my ears	F. W. Bourdillon	[45]
Across the grass I see her pass	Austin Dobson	[81]
Ah, what avails the sceptered race!	Walter Savage Landor	[127]
Airly Beacon, Airly Beacon	Charles Kingsley	[121]
All glorious as the Rainbow’s birth	Gerald Massey	[153]
All through the sultry hours of June	Mortimer Collins	[54]
Along the garden ways just now	Arthur O’Shaughnessy	[156]
Although I enter not	William Makepeace Thackeray	[218]
As Gertrude skipt from babe to girl	Frederick Locker-Lampson	[139]
As I came round the harbor buoy	Jean Ingelow	[116]
Awake!—The starry midnight Hour	B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall)	[174]
Awake thee, my Lady-love!	George Darley	[64]
Back flies my soul to other years	Joseph Skipsey	[199]
Break, break, break	Alfred Tennyson	[212]
Came, on a Sabbath noon, my sweet	Thomas Ashe	[23]
Christmas is here	William Makepeace Thackeray	[220]
Come, rosy Day!	Sir Edwin Arnold	[20]
Come sing, Come sing, of the great Sea-King	B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall)	[172]
Could ye come back to me, Douglas, Douglas	Dinah Maria Mulock Craik	[56]
Drink, and fill the night with mirth!	B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall)	[180]
Every day a Pilgrim, blindfold	Hamilton Aïdé	[7]
Fast falls the snow, O lady mine	Mortimer Collins	[49]
First the fine, faint, dreamy motion	Norman Gale	[98]
Hence, rude Winter! crabbed old fellow	Alfred Domett	[84]
How many Summers, love	B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall)	[165]
How many times do I love thee, dear?	Thomas Lovell Beddoes	[38]
I bring a garland for your head	Edmund Gosse	[101]
I had a Message to send her	Adelaide Anne Procter	[162]
I have been here before	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	[193]
I leaned out of window, I smelt the white clover	Jean Ingelow	[118]
I looked and saw your eyes	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	[194]
I made another garden, yea	Arthur O’Shaughnessy	[158]
I remember, I remember	Thomas Hood	[106]
I sat beside the streamlet	Hamilton Aïdé	[3]
I wandered by the brook-side	Lord Houghton	[111]
I walked in the lonesome evening	William Allingham	[16]
If I could choose my paradise	Thomas Ashe	[22]
If love were what the rose is	Algernon Charles Swinburne	[205]
If there were dreams to sell	Thomas Lovell Beddoes	[30]
I ’m sitting on the stile, Mary	Lady Dufferin	[90]
In Clementina’s artless mien	Walter Savage Landor	[131]
In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours	Alfred Tennyson	[217]
Into the Devil tavern	George Walter Thornbury	[225]
It was not in the winter	Thomas Hood	[102]
I ’ve been roaming! I ’ve been roaming!	George Darley	[62]
King Death was a rare old fellow!	B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall)	[176]
Kissing her hair I sat against her feet.	Algernon Charles Swinburne	[208]
Lady! in this night of June	Alfred Austin	[26]
Last time I parted from my Dear	William Bell Scott	[196]
Let us wreathe the mighty cup	Michael Field	[96]
Little dimples so sweet and soft	J. Ashby Sterry	[203]
Lullaby! O lullaby!	William Cox Bennett	[42]
Lute! breathe thy lowest in my Lady’s ear	Sir Edwin Arnold	[18]
Mirror your sweet eyes in mine, love	J. Ashby Sterry	[204]
Mother, I can not mind my wheel	Walter Savage Landor	[133]
My fairest child, I have no song to give you	Charles Kingsley	[126]
My goblet’s golden lips are dry	Thomas Lovell Beddoes	[34]
My love, on a fair May morning	Thomas Ashe	[24]
My roses blossom the whole year round	William Cox Bennett	[41]
O for the look of those pure gray eyes	J. Ashby Sterry	[201]
O happy buds of violet!	Mortimer Collins	[53]
“O Heart, my heart!” she said, and heard	Dinah Maria Mulock Craik	[58]
O lady, leave thy silken thread	Thomas Hood	[104]
O lips that mine have grown into	Algernon Charles Swinburne	[209]
O Love is like the roses	Robert Buchanan	[48]
O May, thou art a merry time	George Darley	[60]
O roses for the flush of youth	Christina G. Rossetti	[188]
O spirit of the Summertime!	William Allingham	[13]
O ye tears! O ye tears! that have long refused to flow	Charles Mackay	[147]
Often I have heard it said	Walter Savage Landor	[128]
Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green	Charles Dickens	[75]
Oh, hearing sleep, and sleeping hear	William Allingham	[14]
Oh! let me dream of happy days gone by	Hamilton Aïdé	[6]
Oh, lovely Mary Donnelly, my joy, my only best!	William Allingham	[9]
“Oh, Mary, go and call the cattle home”	Charles Kingsley	[122]
One lovely name adorns my song	Walter Savage Landor	[133]
Peace! what can tears avail?	B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall)	[182]
Seated one day at the Organ	Adelaide Anne Procter	[160]
Seek not the tree of silkiest bark	Aubrey de Vere	[72]
She was not fair, nor full of grace	B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall)	[170]
She ’s up and gone, the graceless Girl	Thomas Hood	[108]
Sing!—Who sings	B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall)	[168]
Sit down, sad soul, and count	B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall)	[178]
Sleep sweet, belovëd one, sleep sweet!	Robert Buchanan	[46]
Sleep! the bird is in its nest	William Cox Bennett	[39]
Softly, O midnight Hours!	Audrey de Vere	[70]
Strew not earth with empty stars	Thomas Lovell Beddoes	[35]
Sweet and low, sweet and low	Alfred Tennyson	[215]
Sweet is childhood—childhood ’s over	Jean Ingelow	[120]
Sweet mouth! O let me take	Alfred Domett	[86]
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean	Alfred Tennyson	[213]
Terrace and lawn are white with frost	Mortimer Collins	[50]
Thank Heaven, Ianthe, once again	Walter Savage Landor	[132]
The fault is not mine if I love you too much	Walter Savage Landor	[129]
The ladies of St. James’s	Austin Dobson	[77]
The night has a thousand eyes	F. W. Bourdillon	[44]
The Sea! the Sea! the open Sea!	B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall)	[184]
The splendour falls on castle walls	Alfred Tennyson	[210]
The stars are with the voyager	Thomas Hood	[110]
The streams that wind amid the hills	George Darley	[63]
The Sun came through the frosty mist	Lord Houghton	[115]
The Violet invited my kiss	Joseph Skipsey	[200]
There is no summer ere the swallows come.	F. W. Bourdillon	[43]
Three fishers went sailing away to the West	Charles Kingsley	[124]
To sea, to sea! the calm is o’er	Thomas Lovell Beddoes	[33]
Touch us gently, Time!	B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall)	[167]
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel and lower the proud!	Alfred Tennyson	[216]
Two doves upon the selfsame branch	Christina G. Rossetti	[189]
Under the lindens lately sat	Walter Savage Landor	[130]
Wait but a little while	Norman Gale	[99]
We have loiter’d and laugh’d in the flowery croft	Frederick Locker-Lampson	[134]
We heard it calling, clear and low	Frederick Locker-Lampson	[137]
What is the meaning of the song	Charles Mackay	[145]
“What will you do, love, when I am going”	Samuel Lover	[143]
When a warm and scented steam	George Walter Thornbury	[228]
When along the light ripple the far serenade	Lord Houghton	[113]
When another’s voice thou hearest	Lady Dufferin	[88]
When I am dead, my dearest	Christina G. Rossetti	[186]
When I was young, I said to Sorrow	Aubrey de Vere	[74]
When Spring casts all her swallows forth	George Walter Thornbury	[223]
When the snow begins to feather	Lord de Tabley	[66]
Where winds abound	Michael Field	[97]
Who is the baby, that doth lie	Thomas Lovell Beddoes	[36]
Winds to-day are large and free	Michael Field	[94]
With deep affection	Francis Mahoney	[149]
Woo thy lass while May is here	Lord de Tabley	[69]