Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE HAZARD He dared not ask a kiss For fear that she’d not brook it, But, eager still for bliss, He boldly went and took it. And now he’s unaware If she did like or spurn it, For she, right then and there, Compelled him to return it ! AS TO LOVE Tis said that Love when all is done Is but Two Hearts That Beat As One, Which I deny, for I have found When Love to visit me comes round The moment he comes through the door He makes my heart beat like ten score, And even more ! If I were teaching Love at school, And to define it I were tasked, I’d say That ‘tis an element, by no means cool, That comes our way, Both night and day, Unsought, unasked, And as a rule Makes Man a Hero or a Fool, And best of all it is so rich He cares not which ! How shall I know him when we meet ? Good lack, the answer is complete ? Sunshine or storm The symptoms are, Heart overwarm, A shivering spine, and truly Arctic feet ! As to Love How tell one’s Love ? Ah, it were well If so you rest beneath its spell To let its gold Remain untold, For Love’s a special kind of pelf That soon or late must tell itself. Yet if it must be told, why then Intrust it not to tongue or pen ? The better plan, O Lover faint but true, Is just to let your two eyes speak for you. A CHANGE OF HEART By day a bird I’d be, And soar the heavens high with songs of glee, But when the night doth fall, And dreamy thoughts begin to call, And birds that sing Sleep with their heads beneath their wing, Or in some frigid barn do woo repose With only wisps of straw to warm their toes, Or sink to rest In some unroofed, uncomfortable nest, I change my mind, and am content to be Me! A PROTEST Hi, Nature ! Here’s a word or two, Flirtatious Dame, …
