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Poem by Charles Kingsley


A Farewell


I

My fairest child, I have no song to give you;
No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey:
Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you
For every day.

II

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever
One grand, sweet song.



Charles Kingsley


Charles Kingsley's other poems:
  1. Oh! That We Two Were Maying
  2. 21st September 1870
  3. Down to the Mothers
  4. The Weird Lady
  5. Frank Leigh's Song


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Alfred Tennyson A Farewell ("Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea")
  • Alfred Austin A Farewell ("Good-bye, old year, good-bye!")
  • Charlotte Mew A Farewell ("Remember me and smile, as smiling too")
  • Coventry Patmore A Farewell ("With all my will, but much against my heart")
  • George Russell A Farewell ("I GO down from the hills half in gladness, and half with a pain I depart")
  • Robert Burns A Farewell ("FAREWELL dear Friend! may guid luck hit you") 1786
  • Edith Nesbit A Farewell ("Good-bye, good-bye; it is not hard to part!")
  • Samuel Rogers A Farewell ("Once more, enchanting girl, adieu!")
  • Amy Levy A Farewell ("(After Heine.)")
  • Mary De Vere A Farewell ("I PUT thy hand aside, and turn away")
  • Cicely Smith A Farewell ("The frost is on the pane and the rime's on the ground")
  • Harriet Monroe A Farewell ("GOOD-BY: nay, do not grieve that it is over")
  • William Wordsworth A Farewell ("FAREWELL, thou little Nook of mountain-ground")

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