 | Ancient ballads - 1827 - 270 Seiten
...the greenwood tree. Ye shall sit on his white hause-bane, I will pike out his bonnie blue een; Ye'll take a tress of his yellow hair, To theak your nest...birds shall fly, The wild deer bound, and foxes cry. The late Mr. John Findlay, author of Wallace, or the Vale of EUeralie, &c. seems also to have borne... | |
 | Thomas Lyle - 1827 - 272 Seiten
...the greenwood tree. Ye shall sit on his white hause-bane, I will pike out his bonnie blue een ; Ye'll take a tress of his yellow hair, To theak your nest...birds shall fly, The wild deer bound, and foxes cry. The late Mr. John Findlay, author of Wallace, or the Vale of Ellerslie, &c. seems also to have borne... | |
 | Minstrelsy - 1827 - 566 Seiten
...yere nest when it grows bare ; The gowden down on his young chin Will do to sewe my young ones in. O cauld and bare will his bed be, When winter storms...birds shall fly, The wild deer bound and foxes cry. SIR PATRICK SPENS LAYS claim to a high and remote antiquity. It is supposed by Bishop Percy to be founded... | |
 | William Motherwell - 1827 - 566 Seiten
...will his bed be, \Vlien winter storms sing in the tree; At his head a turf, at his feet a stone, Me will sleep, nor hear the maiden's moan; O'er his white...birds shall fly, The wild deer bound and foxes cry. SIR PATRICK SPENS LAYS claim to a high and remote antiquity. It is supposed by Bishop Percy to be founded... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1828 - 550 Seiten
...yere nest when it grows bare ; The gowden down on his young chin Will do to sewe my young ones in. " O cauld and bare will his bed be, When winter storms...birds shall fly, The wild deer bound, and foxes cry." There is a character about the ancient ballad which no observer can mistake, and the imitation of which... | |
 | 1829 - 682 Seiten
...yere nest when it grows bare; The gowden down on his young chin Will do to sewe my young ones in. ' O cauld and bare will his bed be, When winter storms...shall fly, The wild deer bound and foxes cry.' This certainly possesses great merit, but we suspect we have seen something like it before. 'Halbert the... | |
 | William Motherwell - 1846 - 300 Seiten
...yere nest when it grows bare ; The gowden down on his young chin Will do to sewe my young ones in. O cauld and bare will his bed be, When winter storms...birds shall fly, The wild deer bound, and foxes cry. SIR PATRICK SPENS. THIS ballad lays claim to a high and remote antiquity. It is supposed by Bishop... | |
 | Phillip Pendleton Kennedy, Philip Pendleton Kennedy - 1853 - 242 Seiten
...greenwood-tree. " ' Ye shall sit on his white hause-bane, I will pick out his bonny blue e'en ; Ye'll take a tress of his yellow hair, To theak your nest...you might prefer to hear the ballad of Harold the Grim.3 That's a ballad, now, for such a night as this 1 I think I could pitch it to the ' Infernal... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1853 - 464 Seiten
...bare will his bed be When winter storms sing in the tree ; At his head a turf, at his feet a stun?, He will sleep nor hear the maiden's moan ; O'er his...birds shall fly, The wild deer bound and foxes cry.' " James Hogg attempted an imitation of it, which he introduces by the following remarks, in allusion... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 Seiten
...yere nest when it grows bare ; The gowden3 down on bis young chin Will do to sewe my young ones in. O, cauld and bare will his bed be, When winter storms...birds shall fly, The wild deer bound, and foxes cry. QUEEN ELIZABETH." 1533—1603. THE pretensions of Queen Elizabeth to poetic genius are about as valid... | |
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O, cauld and bare will his bed be, When winter storms sing in the tree ; At his head a turf, at his feet a stone, He will sleep, nor hear the maiden's moan ; O'er his white bones the birds shall fly, The wild deer bound, and foxes cry. 
