SUMMER LONGINGS. Las mañanas floridas De Abril y Mayo. CALDERON АH! my heart is weary waiting, Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles, Scent the dewy way. Ah! my heart is weary waiting, Ah! my heart is sick with longing, Longing for the May, Longing to escape from study, To the young face fair and ruddy, And the thousand charms belonging Ah! my heart is sick with longing, Longing for the May. Ah! my heart is sore with sighing, Sighing for their sure returning, When the summer beams are burning: THE FISHER'S COTTAGE. Hopes and flowers that, dead or dying, Ah! my heart is sore with sighing, Sighing for the May. Ah! my heart is pained with throbbing, Or the water-wooing willows, Where, in laughing and in sobbing, Glide the streams away. Ah! my heart, my heart is throbbing, Waiting sad, dejected, weary, Spring goes by with wasted warnings, Moonlit evenings, sunbright mornings ; Man is ever weary, weary, Waiting for the May! DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY. THE FISHER'S COTTAGE. WE sat by the fisher's cottage, THE FISHER'S COTTAGE. One by one in the light-house A ship went sailing by. We spoke of storm and shipwreck, We spoke of distant countries, And curious customs there: Of perfumed lamps on the Ganges, Which are launched in the twilight hour; Of the wretched dwarfs of Lapland, And the maidens earnestly listened, The ship like a shadow had vanished, HENRY HEINE. (German.) Translation of CHARLES GODFREY LELAND. THE night is wet and stormy, The heavens are black above; Through the woods, 'neath rustling branches, All silently I rove. From the lonely hunter's cottage A light beams cheerily ; But it shall not tempt me thither THE MERRY LARK WAS UP AND SINGING. The blind old grandam is sitting The red-headed son of the hunter With a bitter laugh and a frown; A maiden is spinning and weeping, Translation of CHARLES GODFREY LELAND. HENRY HEINE. (German.) THE MERRY LARK WAS UP AND SINGING. THE merry, merry lark was up and singing, Now the hare is snared, and dead beside the snow-yard, And my baby in his cradle in the churchyard CHARLES KINGSLEY. |