A Certain Young Lady A CERTAIN YOUNG LADY THERE'S a certain young lady, And full of all mischief, I ween; So teasing! so pleasing! Capricious! delicious! And you know very well whom I mean. With an eye dark as night, Yet than noonday more bright, It can thrill with a glance, And you know very well whom I mean. With a stately step-such as You'd expect in a duchess And a brow might distinguish a queen, With a mighty proud air, That says "touch me who dare,' And you know very With a toss of the head well whom I mean. That strikes one quite dead, But a smile to revive one again; That toss so appalling! That smile so enthralling! And you know very well whom I mean. Confound her! de'il take her! A cruel heart-breaker But hold! see that smile so serene. May nothing distress her! You know very well whom I mean. \. ייך 731 The lover who wakens her spleen; But too blest for a sinner Is he who shall win her, And you know very well whom I mean. cd-make here and HB, Queen Washington Irving [1783-1859] "WHERE BE YOU GOING, YOU DEVON MAID" WHERE be you going, you Devon maid? I love your hills and I love your dales, I'll put your basket all safe in a nook; John Keats [1795-1821] LOVE IN A COTTAGE THEY may talk of love in a cottage, They may talk of the pleasure of sleeping But give me a sly flirtation By the light of a chandelier,- And nobody very near; Song of the Milkmaid Or a seat on a silken sofa, With a glass of pure old wine, Your love in a cottage is hungry, True love is at home on a carpet, His wing is the fan of a lady, His foot's an invisible thing, And his arrow is tipped with a jewel, And shot from a silver string. 733 Nathaniel Parker Willis [1806-1867] SONG OF THE MILKMAID From "Queen Mary" SHAME upon you, Robin, Shame upon you now! Kiss me would you? with my hands Milking the cow? Daisies grow again, Kingcups blow again, And you came and kissed me milking the cow. Milking the cow? Swallows fly again, Cuckoos cry again, And you came and kissed me milking the cow. Come, Robin, Robin, Come and kiss me now; Help it can I? with my hands Milking the cow? Ringdoves coo again, All things woo again, Come behind and kiss me milking the cow! Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892] "WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO KNOW” I KNOW a girl with teeth of pearl, She lives,-ah well, I must not tell,- Her sunny hair is wondrous fair, And wavy in its flow; Who made it less One little tress, Wouldn't you like to know? Her eyes are blue (celestial hue!) And dazzling in their glow; On whom they beam With melting gleam, Her lips are red and finely wed, Like roses ere they blow; What lover sips Those dewy lips, Wouldn't you like to know? Sing Heigh-Ho!" Her fingers are like lilies fair Whose hand they press With fond caress,- Her foot is small, and has a fall And where it goes Beneath the rose, Wouldn't you like to know?! She has a name, the sweetest name "Twould break the spell If I should tell, Wouldn't you like to know? 735 John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887] "SING HEIGH-HO!" THERE sits a bird on every tree; There sits a bird on every tree, And courts his love as I do thee; Young maids must marry. There grows a flower on every bough; There grows a flower on every bough, From sea to stream the salmon roam; From sea to stream the salmon roam; |