I'm with my comrades met, Beneath the greenwood bough, What once we were we all forget, Nor think what we are now. Chorus "Yet Brignall banks are fresh and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer queen. The poetical works of sir Walter Scott - Seite 188von sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1913 - 324 Seiten
...one came to the Brignal beck or burn, whose banks are celebrated in the " O, lirignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer queen." A little to the right the road wends its way to the town, where stand the ruins of " l'roiirl Burilan]... | |
| Samuel Silas Curry - 1896 - 388 Seiten
...westward river ! Requiems chanting to the Day — Day, the mighty Giver. OH, Brignall banks are wild and fair, and Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there would grace a summer queen. STILL, through our paltry stir and strife glows down the wished Ideal, And Longing moulds in clay what... | |
| 1896 - 412 Seiten
...bright in my story, 1 knew it was love, and I felt it was glory. THE OUTLAW 0 Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands th*re Would grace a summer-queen. And as I rode by Dalton-Hall Beneath the turrets high, A Maiden on... | |
| 1897 - 800 Seiten
...true love set, Under the greenwood bough, What once I was she must forget, Nor think what I am now. Yet Brignal banks are fresh and fair, And Greta woods...gather garlands there, Would grace a summer queen." It was a lovely autumn evening, and so much warmth still lingered in the air that it was pleasant to... | |
| William Ernest Henley - 1897 - 438 Seiten
...Beneath the greenwood bough, What once we were we all forget, Nor think what we are now. ' Yet Brignall banks are fresh and fair, And Greta woods are green,...gather garlands there Would grace a summer queen. i Sir Waller Scott. 343 WHERE SHALL THE LOVER REST WHERE shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever... | |
| Mowbray Morris - 1898 - 394 Seiten
...Beneath the greenwood bough, What once we were we all forget, Nor think what we are now. Yet Brignall banks are fresh and fair, And Greta woods are green,...gather garlands there Would grace a summer queen.' Sir Walter Scott. 15° ROBIN HOOD No ! those days are gone away And their hours are old and grey, And... | |
| Edmund Bogg - 1898 - 276 Seiten
...immediately behind the inn is a well-defined Roman camp. Brignall Banks is further up the Greta. " O Brignal Banks are fresh and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands three, Would grace a summer queen." Near to is the cave where Guy Denziel and his band of robbers had... | |
| 1899 - 816 Seiten
...the bells were ringing. EDMUND'S SONG (From Kokeby, 1812) CANTO III. XVI. O, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there, Would grace a summer queen. 5 And as I rode by Dalton-hall, Beneath the turrets high, A Maiden on the castle wall Was singing merrily,... | |
| 1910 - 542 Seiten
...greenwood bough, — What once we were we all forget, Nor think what we are now.' Chorus 'Yet Brignall banks are fresh and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer-queen.' 428 To A LOCK OF HAIR THY hue, dear pledge, is pure and bright As in that well-remember'd... | |
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