The Book of British BalladsSamuel Carter Hall Douglas, printer, 1844 - 152 страници |
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... stood looking on . You two bee erles , ' quo ' Witherington , " And I be squier alone : Ile doe the best that doe I may , While I have power to stand : While I have power to weeld my sword , Ile fight with heart and hand . ' Our English ...
... stood looking on . You two bee erles , ' quo ' Witherington , " And I be squier alone : Ile doe the best that doe I may , While I have power to stand : While I have power to weeld my sword , Ile fight with heart and hand . ' Our English ...
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... stood . His host he parted had in three , As leader ware and try'd ; And soon his spearmen on their foes Bare down on every side . Throughout the English archery They dealt full many a wound : But still our valiant Englishmen All firmly ...
... stood . His host he parted had in three , As leader ware and try'd ; And soon his spearmen on their foes Bare down on every side . Throughout the English archery They dealt full many a wound : But still our valiant Englishmen All firmly ...
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... stood in their eye , And bade them come and go with him , And look they did not crye : And two long miles he ledd them thus , While they for bread complaine : ' Stay here , quoth he , ' I'll bring ye bread , When I do come againe ...
... stood in their eye , And bade them come and go with him , And look they did not crye : And two long miles he ledd them thus , While they for bread complaine : ' Stay here , quoth he , ' I'll bring ye bread , When I do come againe ...
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... stood at his garden , pale , Whan , lo ! he beheld fair Emmelines page Come trippinge downe the dale . The Childe of Elle he hyed him thence , Y - wis he stoode not stille , And soone he mette faire Emmelines page Come climbing up the ...
... stood at his garden , pale , Whan , lo ! he beheld fair Emmelines page Come trippinge downe the dale . The Childe of Elle he hyed him thence , Y - wis he stoode not stille , And soone he mette faire Emmelines page Come climbing up the ...
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... stood in her eye . And now a fyer was built of wood ; And a stake was made of tree ; And nowe Queene Elinore forthe was led , A sorrowful sight to see . Three times the herault he waved his hand , And three times spake on hye : ' Giffe ...
... stood in her eye . And now a fyer was built of wood ; And a stake was made of tree ; And nowe Queene Elinore forthe was led , A sorrowful sight to see . Three times the herault he waved his hand , And three times spake on hye : ' Giffe ...
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Страница 71 - I'm the chief of Ulva's isle, And this Lord Ullin's daughter. — And fast before her father's men Three days we've fled together, For should he find us in the glen, My blood would stain the heather. His horsemen hard behind us ride ; Should they our steps discover...
Страница 71 - I'll forgive your Highland chief. My daughter ! Oh ! my daughter...
Страница 60 - Few sorrows hath she of her own. My hope ! my joy ! my Genevieve ! She loves me best, whene'er I sing The songs that make her grieve.
Страница 34 - Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm." They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift grew dark, and the wind blew loud, And gurly grew the sea. The ankers brak, and the topmasts lap, It was sic a deadly storm; And the waves cam o'er the broken ship, Till a
Страница 61 - And saved from outrage worse than death The lady of the land ; And how she wept and...
Страница viii - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids, that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Страница 150 - Knight; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair. "His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady's ta'en another mate, So we may mak our dinner sweet. "Ye'll sit on his white hause-bane, And I'll pick out his bonny blue een: Wi' ae lock o' his gowden hair We'll theek our nest when it grows bare.
Страница 108 - The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. "How pleasant...
Страница 60 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Страница 34 - A' for the sake of their true loves ; For them they'll see nae mair. O lang, lang, may the ladyes sit, Wi' their fans into their hand, Before they see Sir Patrick Spens Come sailing to the strand ! And lang, lang, may the maidens sit, Wi' their goud kaims in their hair, A' waiting for their ain dear loves ! For them they'll see nae mair.