Absolutely Poetry: Great Collection of High Quality Poems

  main : author : poems by stephen c. foster

absolutely poetry
 main
 by author
 friendship poems
 life poems
 love poems
 time poems
 occasion poems
 religious - spirituality poems
 links
 

Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair

Send this Poem
Printer Version

Enter Poetry Contest to win K!

Get 1 book for !

Free Scholarship Search!
I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair,
Borne, like a vapor, on the summer air;
I see her tripping where the bright streams play,
Happy as the daisies that dance on her way.
Many were the wild notes her merry voice would pour.
Many were the blithe birds that warbled them o'er:
Oh! I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair,
Floating, like a vapor, on the soft summer air.

I long for Jeanie with the daydawn smile,
Radiant in gladness, warm with winning guile;
I hear her melodies, like joys gone by,
Sighing round my heart o'er the fond hopes that die: --
Sighing like the night wind and sobbing like the rain, --
Wailing for the lost one that comes not again:
Oh! I long for Jeanie, and my heart bows low,
Never more to find her where the bright waters flow.

I sigh for Jeanie, but her light form strayed
Far from the fond hearts round her native glade;
Her smiles have vanished and her sweet songs flown,
Flitting like the dreams that have cheered us and gone.
Now the nodding wild flowers may wither on the shore
While her gentle fingers will cull them no more:
Oh! I sigh for Jeanie with the light brown hair,
Floating, like a vapor, on the soft summer air



related poetry

  • Old Black Joe
  • My Old Kentucky Home,Good Night
  •  

    Copyright ©2000-2006. Absolutely Poetry
    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED