Songs
"Mr. Leno is a working man to the backbone. He believes in the honour and dignity of labour, and sings while he toils in a right royal spirit. He is a Radical, but a poetic Radical, which is being a Radical with a difference." -- Birmingham Daily Gazette, 9 Jan 1868
"Drury Lane Lyrics show keen relish for eternal beauty and deep sympathy with human nature under various circumstances." -- Athenaeum, 28 Mar 1868
"Mr. Leno's "Lyrics" are on the side of labour and struggling humanity, and will serve in no small degree to cheer the working man" - Falmouth and Penryn Weekly Times, 11th Jan 1868
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“When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget.”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
“We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage
And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die,
We Poets of the proud old lineage
Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why,”
—James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)
“What wondrous love is this
That caused the Lord of bliss
To bear the dreadful curse for my soul”
—Unknown. “What Wondrous Love is this!” L. 3-5, Dupuy’s Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1811)