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Cary, Alice, 1820-1871 [1859], The adopted daughter and other tales. (J.B. Smith and Company, Philadelphia) [word count] [eaf487T]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
BY PHæBE CAREY Summer in the fields of harvest Binds the yellow sheaves of grain, One long year that mournful shadow On the maiden's heart has lain. Sits she now beside the window, Looking eagerly without, Sometimes hopeful, sometimes yielding To the bitterness of doubt. Rocking to and fro, and singing, As of old a lonesome tune, Often breaking off to ask me If the year has worn to June. And when I have said, the roses Are all fading from their prime; Then she says, that he is coming, That she knew that it was time! Yester night she gaily pointed To the pleasant fields in sight, Where the wheat was bending heavy, And the rye-stalks turning white:
And she whispered, softly blushing At the trembling of her tone, Let me see him first, alone!” O, these eves are almost over, All I wished is nearly won, When the autumn winds blow chilly Then my watching will be done!”
Cary, Alice, 1820-1871 [1859], The adopted daughter and other tales. (J.B. Smith and Company, Philadelphia) [word count] [eaf487T]. |
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