Poems

Chapter 82: COURTSHIP LINES.

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This collection gathers lyrical pieces that trace the day's and year's cycles, moving through sunrise, morning, noonday, sunset, moonlight and seasonal scenes. It pairs brief landscape lyrics with sonnets, songs, and occasional narrative ballads, blending vivid natural description—mountains, streams, birds, and coastal views—with meditative reflections on mortality, faith, memory, and poetic ambition. The tone alternates between pastoral celebration and sober contemplation, favoring clear sensory detail, moral sentiment, and accessible stanza forms that foreground feeling and observation over formal experimentation.

COURTSHIP LINES.

Oh! let not sorrow cloud thine eye,

Or doubt oppress thy heart,

For love, like truth, can never lie,

Nor truth, like love, depart.

To be mine own, I've chosen thee,

From all the world deems fair;

And I've vowed thine own to be,

Then wherefore cherish care?

Thou canst not think a love like mine,

Could e'er to thee cause pain;

Or make thy gentle heart repine

That it has loved in vain:

Thee still mine eyes desire to see,

Like sunlight from above;

For all my heart is full of thee,

And all my heart is love.

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