Song + 

I Had a Dove + 

I had a dove and the sweet dove died; + 

And I have thought it died of grieving: + 

O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, + 

With a silken thread of my own hand’s weaving; + 

Sweet little red feet! why should you die⁠— + 

Why should you leave me, sweet bird! why? + 

You lived alone in the forest-tree, + 

Why, pretty thing! would you not live with me? + 

I kiss’d you oft and gave you white peas; + 

Why not live sweetly, as in the green trees? + 