The Romantic Scottish Ballads and the Lady Wardlaw HeresyA. Brown, 1859 - 49 ページ |
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Aberdeen ancient antiquity auld author of Hardyknute authorship barely three be't Beheld baith dale Bent sae Brown body bleed bonny boy Bonny Earl bower Buchan Carterhaugh castle century Chambers's Clerk Saunders composition copies deadly storm Douglas Dunfermline town e'er Earl of Murray Edinburgh Fair Annie fair Janet Fause Foodrage frae Gil Morrice Godscroft Gos-hawk gowd gude church hadna hame historical ballads History Janet king king's daughter kirk knight LADY WARDLAW HERESY ladyes laith Lochryan manuscript mony noble Noroway o'er the faem old ballad old literature Otterbourne ower Percy Percy's Peter Buchan's pieces poem printed queen quoted recitation references Robert Chambers Romantic Ballads ROMANTIC SCOTTISH BALLADS says Scotland Scots lords Scott's Minstrelsy ship Sir Patrick Spence Sir Walter Scott song spake Spens stanzas style sung Sweet William's Ghost thee true love verses version of Sir wan water weet ye lie yestreen Young Tamlane Young Waters
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23 ページ - And he that had a bonnie boy, Sent out his horse to grass, And he that had not a bonnie boy, His ain servant he was. But up then spake a little page, Before the peep of dawn: 'O waken ye, waken ye, my good lord, For Percy's hard at hand.
27 ページ - 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'.
31 ページ - Or how shall I thee knaw, Amang so many unearthly knights, The like I never saw ?" — "The first company that passes by, Say na, and let them gae ; The next company that passes by, Say na, and do right sae ; The third company that passes by, Then I'll be ane o
20 ページ - Prefixed to them both is an advertisement, setting forth that the preservation of this poem was owing to " a lady, who favoured the printers with a copy, as it was carefully collected from the mouths of old women and nurses ;" and " any reader that can render it more correct or complete," is desired to oblige the public with such improvements.
29 ページ - The Lindsays flew like fire about, Till all the fray was done. The Percy and Montgomery met, That either of other were fain ; They swapped swords, and they twa swat, And aye the blood ran down between. " Now yield thee, yield thee, Percy," he said, " Or else I vow I'll lay thee low ! "—
31 ページ - The first company, that passes by, "Say na, and let them gae; The next company, that passes by, Say na, and do right sae; The third company, that passes by, 219 Than I'LL be ane o
38 ページ - I bring nae news," said the gray-headed carle, " Save what these eyes did see. " As I came down by Merriemass, And down amang the scroggs,* The bonniest childe that ever I saw Lay sleeping amang his dogs. "The shirt that was upon his back Was o' the Holland fine ; The doublet which was over that Was o
46 ページ - Thy faith and troth thou sail na get, And our true love shall never twin, Until ye tell what comes of women, I wot, who die in strong traivelling ?' •Their beds are made in the heavens high, Down at the foot of our good lord's knee, Weel set about wi' gillyflowers : I wot sweet company for to see.
31 ページ - There came a wind out of the north, A sharp wind and a snell ; And a deep sleep came over me, And frae my horse I fell.
43 ページ - O listen, listen, ladies gay! No haughty feat of arms I tell; Soft is the note, and sad the lay, That mourns the lovely Rosabelle. —" Moor, moor the barge, ye gallant crew! And, gentle ladye, deign to stay! Rest thee in Castle Ravensheuch, Nor tempt the stormy firth to-day. . " The blackening wave is edged with white; To inch...