Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago..

O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is t….

I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away..

Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be..

I'm saddest when I sing..

Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands, And many friends I've met; Not one fair scene or kindly smile Can this fond heart forget..

Where's the hope that can abate The grief of hearts thus desolate That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage, And mitigate the gloom of Age? Religion bi….

Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep..

Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep..

Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth, And make use of you….

The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall..

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget..

Why don't the men propose, Mamma? Why don't the men propose?.

She wore a wreath of roses, The night that first we met..

The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me..

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!.

Oh! where do fairies hide their heads, When snow lies on the hills, When frost has spoiled their mossy beds, And crystallized their rills?.

Surely 't is better, when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away..