A Bunch Of Triolets

TO ---

You like the trifling triolet:
    Well, here are three or four.
Unless your likings I forget,
You like the trifling triolet.
Against my conscience I abet
    A taste which I deplore;
You like the trifling triolet:
    Well, here are three or four.

Have you ever met with a pretty girl
    Walking along the street,
With a nice new dress and her hair in curl?
Have you ever met with a pretty girl,
When her hat blew off and the wind with a whirl
    Wafted it right to your feet?
Have you ever met with a pretty girl
    Walking along the street?

I ran into a lady's arms,
    Turning a corner yesterday.
To my confusion, her alarms,
I ran into a lady's arms.
So close a vision of her charms
    Left me without a word to say.
I ran into a lady's arms,
    Turning a corner yesterday.

How many maids you love,
    How many maids love you!
Your conscious blushes prove
How many maids you love.
Each trusts you like a dove,
    But would she, if she knew
How many maids you love,
    How many maids love you?

Robert Fuller Murray

Robert Fuller Murray was a Scottish poet known for his lyrical and expressive poetry. Born on December 26, 1863, in Roxbury, Massachusetts, he moved to Scotland at a young age. Despite a short life, ending on April 15, 1894, Murray left a significant mark with his works, which often reflected themes of nature and human emotion. His poetry is characterized by its elegance and depth of feeling. Murray's influence remained through posthumous publications and collections of his poetry.

Robert Fuller Murray

The Life Of Earth

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A Swinburnian Interlude

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For Scotland

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When people tell me they have loved
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When we three meet? Ah! friend of mine
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    Find nepenthe for their woe;
Following through shine or rain
    Where the "greens" like satin show;
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At night when I would go to sleep,
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And when, with weariness oppressed,
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I wake upon the autumn morn
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And in the sky a soft pale blue,
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When out I walk to take the air,
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As I, with hopeless love o'erthrown,
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As I, with hopeless love o'erthrown,
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I met my love one morning
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And I looked up, and there she stood.

I asked what was it brought her there,
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