Caroline Anne Bowles Southey Poems

Ladybird, ladybird! fly away home!
The field-mouse has gone to her nest,
The daisies have shut up their sleepy red eyes,
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Tread softly - bow the head -
In rev'rent silence bow -
No passing bell doth toll,
Yet an immortal soul
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I saw it in my evening walk
A little lonely flower -
Under a hollow bank it grew
Deep in a mossy bower.
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Come not in terrors clad, to claim
An unresisting prey:
Come like an evening shadow, Death!
So stealthily, so silently!
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Launch thy bark, mariner! Christian, God speed thee!
Let loose the rudder-bands! good angels lead thee!
Set thy sails warily; tempests will come;
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The east wind had whistled for many a day,
Sere and wintry, o'er summer's domain;
And the sun, muffled up in a dull robe of gray,
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I weep, but not rebellious tears;
I mourn, but not in hopeless woe;
I droop, but not with doubtful fears;
For whom I've trusted Him I know.
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