Victorian Songs

A year ago, two lovers watched April rain patter on the leaves beside a stream. Now the water is frozen, the roses dead, and the speaker cannot decide whether remembering hurts more than forgetting.

Published in the late nineteenth century, Victorian Songs gathers lyrics shaped by love, longing, and the passing seasons. Its voices move from a lonely fire to moonlit shores, from a village dance where Mary Donnelly captivates every eye to a quiet night when a serenade hopes to reach a sleeper. Tender, wistful, and sometimes playful, these poems find both beauty and ache in what cannot be held: a vanished spring, a far-off beloved, a moment of love just beginning. When memory is its own kind of sorrow, is it wiser to forget—or does the heart know better?

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