MAIDEN LONGINGS.
Sitting, thinking, all alone,Listening to the beetle’s drone,And the night-hawk’s monotone;Sitting, sighing, thus alone,How my heart is longing!Yet I could not tell you whyTears will gather in my eyeWhen the night-winds tread the sky;No, I could not answer why,Or for what, I’m longing.Solemn as the rapid’s roar,Sounding on my native shore,Is my heart’s dream evermore;Oh! for some old wizard’s loreTo ease this weary longing.Vague the cause that moves me so;—Is it love? Ah no! no! no!!It can’t be love that shakes me so,When the stars in regal showAround their Queen are thronging.
Sitting, thinking, all alone,Listening to the beetle’s drone,And the night-hawk’s monotone;Sitting, sighing, thus alone,How my heart is longing!Yet I could not tell you whyTears will gather in my eyeWhen the night-winds tread the sky;No, I could not answer why,Or for what, I’m longing.Solemn as the rapid’s roar,Sounding on my native shore,Is my heart’s dream evermore;Oh! for some old wizard’s loreTo ease this weary longing.Vague the cause that moves me so;—Is it love? Ah no! no! no!!It can’t be love that shakes me so,When the stars in regal showAround their Queen are thronging.
Sitting, thinking, all alone,Listening to the beetle’s drone,And the night-hawk’s monotone;Sitting, sighing, thus alone,How my heart is longing!
Yet I could not tell you whyTears will gather in my eyeWhen the night-winds tread the sky;No, I could not answer why,Or for what, I’m longing.
Solemn as the rapid’s roar,Sounding on my native shore,Is my heart’s dream evermore;Oh! for some old wizard’s loreTo ease this weary longing.
Vague the cause that moves me so;—Is it love? Ah no! no! no!!It can’t be love that shakes me so,When the stars in regal showAround their Queen are thronging.