 | 1792 - 822 pages
...homage paid by me, In genuine TRUTH'* Simplicity. DELLA CRUSCA. A BALLAD. From PINKERTON'S COLLECTION. I WISH I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me ihe cries To bear her company. 0 would that in her darklome bed My weary fra.ne to reft were laid,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 458 pages
...Nicol Muschet, on the body of his wife, in that place, in the year 1720. FAIR HELEN. PART FIRST. Ol SWEETEST sweet, and fairest fair, Of birth and worth...were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries ; O that I were where Helen lies, On fair Kirconnell Lee ! Curst be the heart, that thought the thought,... | |
 | Robert Jamieson - 1806 - 388 pages
...in the mools at saught were laid, And the green truff closed o'er my head, On fair Kirkconnel-lee ! I wish I were where Helen lies, Night and day on me she cries ; — O, gin I were where Helen lies, In fair Kirkconnel-lee ! THE MER-MAN, 1 AND MARSTIG'S DAUGHTER.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1829 - 408 pages
...HELEN OF KIRKCONNEL.f TUNE — / wish I were where Helen lies. I WISH I were where Helen lies, Where night and day on me she cries ; Oh, that I were where Helen lies, On fair Kirkconnel lee I Ting, the daughter of the laird of Kirkconnel, in Dumfries-shire, was admired for... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 1104 pages
...slave some pity have, And do him save that's near his grave, And dies for love of then. FAIB HELEV. PART SECOND. I WISH I were where Helen lies, Night and day on me she cries; O that I were where Helen lies, On fair Kirconnell Lee ! Curst be the heart that thought the thought,... | |
 | England - 1835 - 794 pages
...growing green, A winding-sheet drawn o'er my een, And I in Helen's arms lying On fair Kirconnel lea. I wish I were where Helen lies, Night and day on me she cries ; I'm sick of all beneath the skies Since my love died for me. readings and different versions of ancient... | |
 | 1835 - 436 pages
...slave some pity haw. And do him save that's near hi« grave, And died for love of thee. PART SKCOND. 1 WISH I were where Helen lies, Night and day on me she cries ; О that I were where Helen lies, On fair Kirconnell Lee! Curst be the heart that thought the though:,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1838 - 562 pages
...Of thy poor slave some pity have, And do* him save that's near his grave, And dies for love of thee. PART SECOND. I wish I were where Helen lies, Night and day on me she cries; O that I were where Helen lies, On fair Kirconnell Lee! Curst be the heart that thought the thought,... | |
 | Hatchway (lieut, R.N., pseud.) - 1838 - 922 pages
...clos'd for ay the sparkling glance, That dwelt on me sae kindly." — BURNS. • • • Oh ! that I were where Helen lies, Night and day on me she cries, Oat "• my bed she bids me rise . O come, my love, to me. ANONYMOUS. " I COULD no longer disguise... | |
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Lee ! Curst be the heart that thought the thought, And curst the hand that fired the shot, When in my arms burd ' Helen dropt, And died to succour me ! O think na ye my heart was sair, When my love dropt down and spak... 
