Historical ballads, ed. and annotated by C.M. Yonge, arranged to meet the new code of 1882, schedule II., English, Том 1

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Страница 30 - O father ! is it vain, This late remorse and deep ? Speak to me, father, once again. I weep — behold I weep ! Alas ! my guilty pride and ire ! Were but this work undone ! I would give England's crown, my sire, To hear thee bless thy son.
Страница 87 - And conquer this good land ; Sees't thou not, Hermit, that the Lord Hath given it to my hand ?" The Hermit heard King Henry speak, And angrily look'd down ; His face was gentle, and for that More solemn was his frown.
Страница 86 - I have passed forty years of peace Beside the river Blaise ; But what a weight of woe hast thou Laid on my latter days ! " I used to see along the stream The white sail gliding down, That wafted food, in better times, To yonder peaceful town.
Страница 30 - Thou wert the noblest king On royal throne e'er seen ; And thou didst wear in knightly ring, Of all, the stateliest mien ; And thou didst prove, where spears...
Страница 29 - There was heard a heavy clang, As of steel-girt men the tread, And the tombs and the hollow pavement rang With a sounding thrill of dread ; And the holy chant was...
Страница 29 - Oh, father! is it vain, this late remorse and deep? Speak to me, father ! once again ! — I weep — behold, I weep ! Alas ! my guilty pride and ire ! were but this work undone, I would give England's crown, my sire, to...
Страница 86 - The white sail gliding down, Famine, Disease, and Death, and Thou Destroy that wretched town. " I used to hear the traveller's voice As here he passed along, Or maiden, as she loiter'd home, Singing her evensong.
Страница 78 - Carried to a land Troubled with rats and mice, As they did understand; The King of the country there As he at dinner sat, Daily remained in fear Of many a mouse and rat.
Страница 76 - Turning at the fire ; And to scour pots of brass, For a poor scullion's hire : Meat and drink all his pay, Of coin he had no store ; Therefore to run away, In secret thought he bore. So from the merchant-man Whittington secretly Towards his country ran, To purchase liberty.
Страница 74 - ... our king ; For he and all his host Not passing fifteen thousand had, Accounted at the most. The king of France, which well did know The number of our men, In vaunting pride unto our prince Did send a herald then ; To understand what he would give For ransom of his life, When he in field should taken be Amidst their bloody strife.

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