A Book of Old English Ballads: With an Accompaniment of Decorative DrawingsHamilton Wright Mabie Macmillan, 1896 - 185 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
awaye banished Barbara Allen bide blood bold Robin bonny grey bower brente Northumberland bride bride-bed Charles Murray daughter dead deadlye dear love deep doth dream Earl of Menteith Erle Douglas Erle Percy fair lady Fair Margaret fast fight foes Frae gane green wood go gude hair hame hand Harry Percy hast heart Helen Islington King Leir kiss knee knight Lady Margaret Little John Lord William maid mair mankind I love merry mony ne'er never noble Noroway Nut-brown Maid o'er outlàwe Phillida poetry popular ballad queene quoth Robin Hood rade Rose sayes Scots seven brethren shee shoote Sir Hugh Sir Patrick Sir Patrick Spens slain songs sooth sorrow steed Sweet William tell thee town true love true lover's knot unto unwritten songs wae betide waly wine wold Yarrow young Waters
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Página 183 - Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.' They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift grew dark, and the wind blew loud, And gurly grew the sea. The ankers brak, and the topmasts lap, It was sic a deadly storm, And the waves came o'er the broken ship, Till a
Página 181 - Our king has written a braid letter, And sealed it with his hand, And sent it to Sir Patrick Spens, Was walking on the strand. " To Noroway, to Noroway, To Noroway o'er the faem; The king's daughter of Noroway, 'Tis thou maun bring her hame...
Página 36 - With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart A deep and deadly blow. Who never spoke more words than these: Fight on, my merry men all, For why, my life is at an end, Lord Percy sees my fall.
Página 98 - 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!
Página 101 - As Robin Hood next morning stood, Amongst the leaves so gay, There did he espy the same young man Come drooping along the way. The...
Página 127 - Tis not sic cauld that makes me cry, But my Love's heart grown cauld to me.
Página 132 - It standeth so: a deed is do Whereof much harm shall grow; My destiny is for to die A shameful death, I trow; Or else to flee. The one must be. None other way I know, But to withdraw as an out-law, And take me to my bow. Wherefore, adieu, my own heart true! None other rede I can: For I must to the green wood go, Alone, a banished man.
Página 171 - O stay at hame, my noble lord, " O stay at hame, my marrow ! " My cruel brother will you betray " On the dowie houms of Yarrow .r " O fare ye weel, my ladye gaye ! " O fare ye weel, my Sarah ! " For I maun gae, though I ne'er return " Frae the dowie banks o
Página 122 - In behint yon auld fail dyke, I wot there lies a new-slain Knight ; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair. ' His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame...
Página 100 - COME listen to me, you gallants so free, All you that love mirth for to hear, And I will tell you of a bold outlaw. That lived in Nottinghamshire.