Spike Island. A Legend
Translator
Mary Ann
Browne
Browne, Mary Ann (Mrs. James Grey)
Metadata research and editing
DVPP Project Team
Fralick
Kaitlyn
University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
In the public domain
Poem included in Spike Island. A Legend (121-53), by M. A. Browne. (SP)
Forget-Me-Not
1840
147–148
From the alder bushes,
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From the alder bushes,
From the daisies’ home,
From the bending rushes,
Come, come, come !
I am spirit-weary,
Weary of the earth ;
I would be a fairy,
Sharing in your mirth !
At my wishes take me,
Little fairy elves !
By your magic make me
Even as yourselves.
From the mossy hollow,
From the lily’s dome,
Follow, follow, follow,
Come, come, come !
Shall we to the
river ?
Shall we to the
mead,
Where the dew-drops quiver,
Where the rainbows feed ?
In yonder airy palace
I will lightest trip,
From your acorn chalice
Deepest will I sip.
Bring me to the waters
By the musk-wind fanned ;
Let me see the daughters
Of your lovely land ;
Or where the monsters wallow,
’Neath the white sea foam,
Follow, follow, follow,
Come, come, come !
’Neath the glistering laurel
In the moon’s pale light ;
’Midst the branching coral,
Where sea-bones are white.
In earth, air, or ocean,
Stars, or flowers, or dew,
Any where for motion,
Any where with you !
So shall come forgetting
Of earthly tear and sigh !
So shall cease regretting
For the days gone by !
Skim we like the swallow,
Wheresoe’er we roam ;
Follow, follow, follow,
Come, come, come !