English and Scottish Popular BalladsHoughton Mifflin, 1909 - 187 pages |
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Annie Barbara Allan Binnorie bonny Earl bowr Captain Car Christ receive thy Cruel Brother Dæmon dear Douglas dowie Earl of Murray Edward English Erle Fair Annet Fair Annie father frae gane gold Gummere hair hame haue Hind Horn Iohn Johnie Armstrong Johnie Cock Kemp Owyne king kirk kiss knee lads lady Lamkin Lord Judge Lord Thomas Love Gregor lovers mair Margret maun merry minstrel mother never nevir night nourice nut-browne bride Otterburn Patrick Spence Percy Poems Popular Ballad pret printed by Child Professor Child rade receive thy saule refrain ring Robin Hood sall sang says Scott Scottish singing Sir Patrick Spence slain song stanza steed story sweet taen thee Thomas and Fair Thomas Rymer thou Three Ravens thro traditional true-love twa sisters wee pen-knife Whan Yarrow yonder Young Waters
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Page 47 - Blow up the fire, my maidens! Bring water from the well! For a' my house shall feast this night, Since my three sons are well.
Page 87 - And when we reachd the Staneshaw-bank, The wind was rising loud and hie ; And there the laird garrd leave our steeds, For fear that they should stamp and nie.
Page 42 - I dought neither speak to prince or peer, Nor ask of grace from fair ladye.' 'Now hold thy peace!' the lady said, 'For as I say, so must it be.' He has gotten a coat of the even cloth, And a pair of shoes of velvet green ; And till seven years were gane and past, True Thomas on earth was never seen.
Page 137 - That name does not belang to me; I am but the Queen of fair elfland, That am hither come to visit thee." "Harp and carp, Thomas," she said; " Harp and carp along wi me; And if ye dare to kiss my lips, Sure of your bodie I will be.
Page 39 - Late late yestreen I saw the new moone, Wi the auld moone in hir arme, And I feir, I feir, my deir master, That we will cum to harme.
Page 108 - Lay me a green sod under my head, And another at my feet ; And lay my bent bow by my side, Which was my music sweet ; And make my grave of gravel and green, Which is most right and meet. Let me have length and breadth enough, With a green sod under my head ; That they may say, when I am dead, Here lies bold Robin Hood.
Page 25 - And slowly, slowly raise she up, And slowly, slowly left him, And sighing said, she could not stay, Since death of life had reft him.
Page 83 - He was a braw gallant, And he rid at the ring: And the bonny Earl of Murray, Oh he might have been a king! He was a braw gallant, And he playd at the ba; And the bonny Earl of Murray Was the flower amang them a'.
Page 50 - I wad never hae trodden on Irish ground If it had not been for thee.
Page 99 - This shoote it was but looselye shott, The arrowe flew in vaine, And it mett one of the sheriffes men; Good William a Trent was slaine.