Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

Cean Dubh Deelish

Sir Samuel Ferguson (1810–1886)

PUT your head, darling, darling, darling,

Your darling black head my heart above;

O mouth of honey, with thyme for fragrance,

Who, with heart in breast, could deny you love?

O many and many a young girl for me is pining,

Letting her locks of gold to the cold wind free,

For me, the foremost of our gay young fellows;

But I’d leave a hundred, pure love, for thee!

Then put your head, darling, darling, darling,

Your darling black head my heart above;

O mouth of honey, with thyme for fragrance,

Who with heart in breast could deny you love?