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Title: Songs, Merry and Sad

Author: John Charles McNeill

Posting Date: November 7, 2008 [EBook #1847]
Release Date: August, 1999

Language: English

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SONGS, MERRY AND SAD

by John Charles McNeill

[American (North Carolina) poet. 1874-1907.]

To
JOSEPH P. CALDWELL
("The Old Man")

Contents

The Bride
"Oh, Ask Me Not"
Isabel
To ------
To Melvin Gardner: Suicide
Away Down Home
For Jane's Birthday
A Secret
The Old Bad Woman
Valentine
A Photograph
Jesse Covington
An Idyl
Home Songs
M. W. Ransom
Protest
Oblivion
Now!
Tommy Smith
Before Bedtime
"If I Could Glimpse Him"
Attraction
Love's Fashion
Alcestis
Reminiscence
Sonnet
Lines
An Easter Hymn
A Christmas Hymn
When I Go Home
Odessa
Trifles
Sunburnt Boys
Gray Days
An Invalid
A Caged Mocking-Bird
Dawn
Harvest
Two Pictures
October
The Old Clock
Tear Stains
A Prayer
She Being Young
Paul Jones
The Drudge
The Wife
Vision
September
Barefooted
Pardon Time
The Rattlesnake
The Prisoner
Sonnet
Folk Song
"97": The Fast Mail
Sundown
At Sea
L'envoi

SONGS, MERRY AND SAD

The Bride

The little white bride is left alone
With him, her lord; the guests have gone;
The festal hall is dim.
No jesting now, nor answering mirth.
The hush of sleep falls on the earth
And leaves her here with him.

Why should there be, O little white bride,
When the world has left you by his side,
A tear to brim your eyes?
Some old love-face that comes again,
Some old love-moment sweet with pain
Of passionate memories?

Does your heart year