John Ireland - The Lent Lily

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John Ireland - Ladslove
Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me One the long nights through must lie

John Ireland - Goal and Wicket
Twice a week the winter thorough Here stood I to keep the goal: Football then was fighting sorrow For the young man's soul Now in Maytime to the wicket Out I march

John Ireland - The Vain Desire
If truth in hearts that perish Could move the powers on high I think the love I bear you Should make you not to die Sure, sure, if stedfast meaning If single thought

John Ireland - The Encounter
The street sounds to the soldiers' tread And out we troop to see: A single redcoat turns his head He turns and looks at me My man, from sky to sky's so far We

John Ireland - Youth's Spring Tribute
On this sweet bank your head thrice sweet and dear I lay, and spread your hair on either side And see the newborn woodflowers bashful-eyed Look through the golden tresses here and

John Ireland - Penumbra
I did not look upon her eyes (Though scarcely seen, with no surprise 'Mid many eyes a single look) Because they should not gaze rebuke At night, from stars in sky and brook

John Ireland - Spleen
Around were all the roses red The ivy all around was black Dear, so thou only move thine head Shall all mine old despairs awake! Too blue, too tender was the sky

John Ireland - Beckon to Me to Come
Beckon to me to come With handkerchief or hand Or finger mere or thumb; Let forecasts be but rough Parents more bleak than bland 'Twill be enough Maid mine

John Ireland - Weathers
This is the weather the cuckoo likes And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes And nestlings fly; And the little brown nightingale bills his best And they sit

John Ireland - Summer Schemes
When friendly summer calls again Calls again Her little fifers to these hills We'll go - we two - to that arched fane Of leafage where they prime their bills Before they