 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 324 ページ
...make a garland of thy hair, Shall bind my heart for evermair, Until the day I die. BUKD HELEN. O that I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries ; Out of my bed she bids me rise, Says, "Haste, and come to me!" 0 Helen fair! O Helen chaste! If I... | |
 | W. F. March Phillipps - 1879 - 384 ページ
...growing green, A winding-sheet drawn o'er my e'en, And I in Helen's arms lying, On fair Kirkconnell lea. I wish I were where Helen lies, Night and day on me she cries, And I am weary of the skies, For her sake that died for me. ( Unknown. ) THE THREE RAVENS. 1611. |HERE... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 ページ
...growing green, A winding sheet drawn ouer my een, And I in Helen's arms lying, On fair Kirconnell Lee. I wish I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries; And I am weary of the skies, For her sake that died for me. Anonymous. EDWARD OF THE BLOODY BRAND.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 488 ページ
...greatness flowed around our incompleteness, — Round our restlessness, his rest. EB BROWNING. FAIR HELEN. I WISH I were where Helen lies : Night and day on...she cries ; O that I were where Helen lies . On fair Kirconuell lea ! Curst be the heart that thought the thought, And curst the hand that fired the shot,... | |
 | 1908 - 710 ページ
...felt the great sorrow that comes from the separation when the grave has claimed its own : — " I wad I were where Helen lies, Night and day on me she cries...O that I were where Helen lies On fair Kirconnell lea! " O Helen fair, O Helen chaste! If I were with thee, I were blest. Where thou liest low and takes... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1880 - 376 ページ
...growing green, A winding-sheet drawn ower my ecu, And I in Helen's arms lying, On fair Kirconnell Lee. I wish I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries , And I am weary of the skies, For her sake that died for me.1 1 [The Edinburgh Reviewer for January,... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1880 - 774 ページ
...havi:, And do him save thafs near his grave, And dies for love of thee. FAIR HELEN. PART SECOND. [ WISH I were where Helen lies, Night and day on me she cries ; 0 that I were where Helen lies, On fair Kirconnell Lee ! Curst be the heart that thought the thought,... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1881 - 428 ページ
...impossible not to feel that he must himself have been a chief actor in this truly dramatic lyric. O that I were where Helen lies, Night and day on me she cries, O that I were where Helen lies, On fair Kirkconnell Lee ! Is that not the very wail of love in agony ? And then the vengeance — I hacked... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 600 ページ
...near Kirkpatrick. The adjoining churchyard is the scene of the ballad of " Fair Helen of Kirkconnell." I wish I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries. Oh that I were where Helen lies On lair Kirkconnell Lee I Kit-Kut Club. A celebrated association in... | |
 | 1923 - 748 ページ
...growing green, A winding-sheet drawn ower my een, And I in Helen's arms lying, On fair Kirconnell lea. I wish I were where Helen lies, Night and day on me she cries; And I am weary of the skies, Since my love died for me. 425 THE BONNIE BOWER THE LAMENT OF THE BORDER... | |
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I wish I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries ; And I am weary of the skies, For her sake that died for me. 
