The Songstresses of Scotland, 第 1 巻Strahan, 1871 - 334 ページ |
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49 ページ - Is this a time to think o' wark ? Ye jades, lay by your wheel ; Is this the time to spin a thread, When Colin's at the door ? Reach down my cloak, I'll to the quay, And see him come ashore. For there's nae luck about the house, There's nae luck at a' ; There's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman's awa'.
50 ページ - Been fed this month and mair ; Mak haste and thraw their necks about, That Colin weel may fare ; And spread the table neat and clean, Gar ilka thing look braw, For wha can tell how Colin fared When he was far awa?
48 ページ - His breath like caller air ; His very foot has music in't As he comes up the stair. And will I see his face again ? And will I hear him speak ? I'm downright dizzy wi' the thought, In troth I'm like
94 ページ - The waes o' my heart fa' in showers frae my e'e, Unkent by my gudeman, wha sleeps sound by me. Young Jamie lo'ed me weel and sought me for his bride, But saving...
181 ページ - I last night supped in Mr Walter Scott's. He has the most extraordinary genius of a boy I ever saw. He was reading a poem to his mother when I went in. I made him read on : it was the description of a shipwreck. His passion rose with the storm. He lifted his eyes and hands. 'There's the mast gone,' says he; 'crash it goes ! — they will all perish ! ' After his agitation, he turns to me. 'That is too melancholy,' says he; 'I had better read you something more amusing.
24 ページ - I am oppressing my heroine with many misfortunes. I have already sent her Jamie to sea, and broken her father's arm, and made her mother fall sick, and given her auld Robin Gray for a lover ; but I wish to load her -with a fifth sorrow within the four lines, poor thing ! Help me to one ! " " Steal the cow, sister Anne,
290 ページ - She charmed my heart, and aye sinsyne I couldna think on ony ither : By sea and sky she shall be mine, The bonnie lass amang the heather ! O'er the muir amang the heather...
44 ページ - And are ye sure the news is true? And are ye sure he's weel ? Is this a time to think o
163 ページ - Gae tell Mistress Jean to come speedily ben, — She's wanted to speak to the Laird o
222 ページ - I've heard them lilting, at our ewe-milking Lasses a' lilting before dawn of day : But now they are moaning, on ilka green loaning, The Flowers of the forest are a