Madrigal

"When on the sandy shore I sit, Beside the salt sea-wave, And fall into a weeping fit Because I dare not shave A little whisper at my ear Enquires"

""Don't they consult the 'Victims,' though?" I said. "They should, by rights, Give them a chance,    because, you know, The tastes of people differ"

"Ay, 'twas here, on this spot, In that summer of yore, Atalanta did not Vote my presence a bore, Nor reply to my tenderest talk "She had heard all"

"Alice was walking beside the White Knight in Looking Glass Land. "You are sad." the Knight said in an anxious tone: "let me sing you a song to comfo"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"