Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Undercliff, Isle of Wight | | Bonnie Jeanie Walkinshaw | | Allan Cunningham (1784–1842) |
| | | THE MOONBEAM sleeps on Undercliff, | |
| The sea is lulled and calm, | |
| The honey-bee has left the rose, | |
| The lily lies in balm; | |
| And all is music that we hear, | 5 |
| All lovely that we see,— | |
| O bonnie Jeanie Walkinshaw, | |
| ’T is then I think on thee. | |
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| The gladsome sun of May returns | |
| With sweet flowers in his train, | 10 |
| And bird and bee in bower and lea | |
| Break into song again. | |
| What May’s bright sun is to the flowers, | |
| The flowers to bird and bee, | |
| O gentle Jeanie Walkinshaw, | 15 |
| Thou ’rt that and more to me. | |
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| I see thee shining on thy hills, | |
| Like a young beam of light, | |
| And O, I think how bright thou ’lt be | |
| When all with me is night! | 20 |
| But, gentle one, a smile of thine | |
| Will make my song flow free, | |
| Then, bonnie Jeanie Walkinshaw, | |
| I ’ll owe my fame to thee. | | | | |
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