Fly Leaves

Name: Fly Leaves
Author: Charles Stuart Calverley

by Charles Stuart Calverley

Pages: about 43
Category: Literature & Fiction
Language: English
Reading time: 47 min at 250 wpm

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From the opening

Page MORNING 1 EVENING 4 SHELTER 6 IN THE GLOAMING 8 THE PALACE 13 PEACE 17 THE ARAB 19 LINES ON HEARING THE ORGAN 22 CHANGED 29 FIRST LOVE 32 WANDERERS 36 SAD MEMORIES 39 COMPANIONS 45 BALLAD 48 PRECIOUS STONES 51 DISASTER 56 CONTENTMENT 59 THE SCHOOLMASTER 63 ARCADES AMBO 66 WAITING 69 PLAY 71 LOVE 74 THOUGHTS AT A RAILWAY STATION 78 ON THE BRINK 81 “FOREVER” 86 UNDER THE TREES 89 MOTHERHOOD 92 MYSTERY 95 FLIGHT 99 ON THE BEACH 104 LOVERS, AND A REFLECTION 108 THE COCK AND THE BULL 113 AN EXAMINATION PAPER 121
’TIS the hour when white-horsed Day Chases Night her mares away; When the Gates of Dawn (they say) Phœbus opes: And I gather that the Queen May be uniformly seen, Should the weather be serene, On the slopes.
When the ploughman, as he goes Leathern-gaitered o’er the snows, From his hat and from his nose Knocks the ice; And the panes are frosted o’er, And the lawn is crisp and hoar, As has been observed before Once or twice.
When arrayed in breastplate red Sings the robin, for his bread, On the elmtree that hath shed Every leaf; While, within, the frost benumbs The still sleepy schoolboy’s thumbs, And in consequence his sums Come to grief.
But when breakfast-time hath come, And he’s crunching crust and crumb, He’ll no longer look a glum Little dunce; But be brisk as bees that settle On a summer rose’s petal: Wherefore, Polly, put the kettle On at once.
KATE! if e’er thy light foot lingers On the lawn, when up the fells Steals the Dark, and fairy fingers Close unseen the pimpernels: When, his thighs with sweetness laden, From the meadow comes the bee, And the lover and the maiden Stand beneath the trysting tree:—

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