[ { "title": "A Farewell", "author": "Amy Levy", "lines": [ "(After Heine.)", "", "", "The sad rain falls from Heaven,", "A sad bird pipes and sings ;", "I am sitting here at my window", "And watching the spires of \"King's.\"", "", "O fairest of all fair places,", "Sweetest of all sweet towns!", "With the birds, and the greyness and greenness,", "And the men in caps and gowns.", "", "All they that dwell within thee,", "To leave are ever loth,", "For one man gets friends, and another", "Gets honour, and one gets both.", "", "The sad rain falls from Heaven;", "My heart is great with woe--", "I have neither a friend nor honour,", "Yet I am sorry to go." ], "linecount": "17" }, { "title": "A Farewell to the World", "author": "Ben Jonson", "lines": [ "FALSE world, good night! since thou hast brought", " That hour upon my morn of age;", "Henceforth I quit thee from my thought,", " My part is ended on thy stage.", "", "Yes, threaten, do. Alas! I fear", " As little as I hope from thee:", "I know thou canst not show nor bear", " More hatred than thou hast to me.", "", "My tender, first, and simple years", " Thou didst abuse and then betray;", "Since stir'd'st up jealousies and fears,", " When all the causes were away.", "", "Then in a soil hast planted me", " Where breathe the basest of thy fools;", "Where envious arts professed be,", " And pride and ignorance the schools;", "", "Where nothing is examined, weigh'd,", " But as 'tis rumour'd, so believed;", "Where every freedom is betray'd,", " And every goodness tax'd or grieved.", "", "But what we're born for, we must bear:", " Our frail condition it is such", "That what to all may happen here,", " If 't chance to me, I must not grutch.", "", "Else I my state should much mistake", " To harbour a divided thought", "From all my kind--that, for my sake,", " There should a miracle be wrought.", "", "No, I do know that I was born", " To age, misfortune, sickness, grief:", "But I will bear these with that scorn", " As shall not need thy false relief.", "", "Nor for my peace will I go far,", " As wanderers do, that still do roam;", "But make my strengths, such as they are,", " Here in my bosom, and at home." ], "linecount": "36" }, { "title": "A Farewell", "author": "Charles Kingsley", "lines": [ "I", "", "My fairest child, I have no song to give you;", "No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey:", "Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you", "For every day.", "", "II", "", "Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;", "Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:", "And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever", "One grand, sweet song." ], "linecount": "10" }, { "title": "A Farewell", "author": "Coventry Patmore", "lines": [ "With all my will, but much against my heart,", "We two now part.", "My Very Dear,", "Our solace is, the sad road lies so clear.", "It needs no art,", "With faint, averted feet", "And many a tear,", "In our opposèd paths to persevere.", "Go thou to East, I West.", "We will not say", "There 's any hope, it is so far away.", "But, O, my Best,", "When the one darling of our widowhead,", "The nursling Grief,", "Is dead,", "And no dews blur our eyes", "To see the peach-bloom come in evening skies,", "Perchance we may,", "Where now this night is day,", "And even through faith of still averted feet,", "Making full circle of our banishment,", "Amazèd meet;", "The bitter journey to the bourne so sweet", "Seasoning the termless feast of our content", "With tears of recognition never dry." ], "linecount": "25" }, { "title": "A Farewell", "author": "Lord Alfred Tennyson", "lines": [ "Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea,", " Thy tribute wave deliver:", "No more by thee my steps shall be,", " For ever and for ever.", "", "Flow, softly flow, by lawn and lea,", " A rivulet then a river:", "Nowhere by thee my steps shall be", " For ever and for ever.", "", "But here will sigh thine alder tree", " And here thine aspen shiver;", "And here by thee will hum the bee,", " For ever and for ever.", "", "A thousand suns will stream on thee,", " A thousand moons will quiver;", "But not by thee my steps shall be,", " For ever and for ever." ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "A Farewell to Agassiz", "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "lines": [ "How the mountains talked together,", "Looking down upon the weather,", "When they heard our friend had planned his", "Little trip among the Andes", "How they'll bare their snowy scalps", "To the climber of the Alps", "When the cry goes through their passes,", "\"Here comes the great Agassiz!\"", "\"Yes, I'm tall,\" says Chimborazo,", "\"But I wait for him to say so,--", "That's the only thing that lacks,-- he", "Must see me, Cotopaxi!\"", "\"Ay! ay!\" the fire-peak thunders,", "\"And he must view my wonders", "I'm but a lonely crater", "Till I have him for spectator!\"", "The mountain hearts are yearning,", "The lava-torches burning,", "The rivers bend to meet him,", "The forests bow to greet him,", "It thrills the spinal column", "Of fossil fishes solemn,", "And glaciers crawl the faster", "To the feet of their old master!", "Heaven keep him well and hearty,", "Both him and all his party!", "From the sun that broils and smites,", "From the centipede that bites,", "From the hail-storm and the thunder,", "From the vampire and the condor,", "From the gust upon the river,", "From the sudden earthquake shiver,", "From the trip of mule or donkey,", "From the midnight howling monkey,", "From the stroke of knife or dagger,", "From the puma and the jaguar,", "From the horrid boa-constrictor", "That has scared us in the picture,", "From the Indians of the Pampas", "Who would dine upon their grampas,", "From every beast and vermin", "That to think of sets us squirmin',", "From every snake that tries on", "The traveller his p'ison,", "From every pest of Natur',", "Likewise the alligator,", "And from two things left behind him,", "(Be sure they'll try to find him,)", "The tax-bill and assessor,--", "Heaven keep the great Professor!", "May he find, with his apostles,", "That the land is full of fossils,", "That the waters swarm with fishes", "Shaped according to his wishes,", "That every pool is fertile", "In fancy kinds of turtle,", "New birds around him singing,", "New insects, never stinging,", "With a million novel data", "About the articulata,", "And facts that strip off all husks", "From the history of mollusks.", "", "And when, with loud Te Deum,", "He returns to his Museum", "May he find the monstrous reptile", "That so long the land has kept ill", "By Grant and Sherman throttled,", "And by Father Abraham bottled,", "(All specked and streaked and mottled", "With the scars of murderous battles,", "Where he clashed the iron rattles", "That gods and men he shook at,)", "For all the world to look at!", "God bless the great Professor!", "And Madam, too, God bless her!", "Bless him and all his band,", "On the sea and on the land,", "Bless them head and heart and hand,", "Till their glorious raid is o'er,", "And they touch our ransomed shore!", "Then the welcome of a nation,", "With its shout of exultation,", "Shall awake the dumb creation,", "And the shapes of buried aeons", "Join the living creature's paeans,", "Till the fossil echoes roar;", "While the mighty megalosaurus", "Leads the palaeozoic chorus,", "God bless the great Professor,", "And the land his proud possessor,--", "Bless them now and evermore!" ], "linecount": "91" }, { "title": "A Farewell to False Love", "author": "Sir Walter Raleigh", "lines": [ "Farewell, false love, the oracle of lies,", "A mortal foe and enemy to rest,", "An envious boy, from whom all cares arise,", "A bastard vile, a beast with rage possessed,", "A way of error, a temple full of treason,", "In all effects contrary unto reason.", "", "A poisoned serpent covered all with flowers,", "Mother of sighs, and murderer of repose,", "A sea of sorrows whence are drawn such showers", "As moisture lend to every grief that grows;", "A school of guile, a net of deep deceit,", "A gilded hook that holds a poisoned bait.", "", "A fortress foiled, which reason did defend,", "A siren song, a fever of the mind,", "A maze wherein affection finds no end,", "A raging cloud that runs before the wind,", "A substance like the shadow of the sun,", "A goal of grief for which the wisest run.", "", "A quenchless fire, a nurse of trembling fear,", "A path that leads to peril and mishap,", "A true retreat of sorrow and despair,", "An idle boy that sleeps in pleasure's lap,", "A deep mistrust of that which certain seems,", "A hope of that which reason doubtful deems.", "", "Sith then thy trains my younger years betrayed,", "And for my faith ingratitude I find;", "And sith repentance hath my wrongs bewrayed,", "Whose course was ever contrary to kind:", "False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu.", "Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew." ], "linecount": "30" } ]