 Maiden ! a nameless life I lead, A nameless death I'll die ! The fiend, whose lantern lights the mead, Were better mate than I ! And when I'm with my comrades met, Beneath the greenwood bough, What once we were we all forget, Nor think what we are now.  The poetical works of sir Walter Scott - Seite 188von sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 680 Seiten
...his hum, My comrades take the spear. And oh! though Brignall banks be fair, And Greta woods be gay, Yet mickle must the maiden dare Would reign my Queen of May! " Maiden ! a nameless life I lead, A nameless death I'll die: The fiend, whose lantern lights the mead,... | |
 | Mowbray Morris - 1898 - 394 Seiten
...But when the beetle sounds his hum, And, oh ! though Brignall banks be fair, And Greta woods be gay, Yet mickle must the maiden dare, Would reign my Queen of May ! ' Maiden ! a nameless life I lead, A nameless death I'll die ! The fiend, whose lantern lights the... | |
 | 1899 - 816 Seiten
...Yet mickle must the maiden dare, Would reign my Queen of May! " Maiden ! n nameless life I lead, 50 A nameless death I'll die; The fiend, whose lantern lights the mead, Were better mate than I! And when I'm with my comrades met, Beneath the greenwood bough, 55 What once we were we all forget,... | |
 | 1899 - 788 Seiten
...comrades take the spear. CHORUS 45 " And, O ! though Brignall banks be fair, And Greta woods be gay, Yet mickle must the maiden dare, Would reign my Queen of May! " Maiden ! a nameless life I lead, 50 A nameless death I'll die; The fiend, whose lantern lights the... | |
 | Miriam Coles Harris - 1899 - 342 Seiten
...Richard came toward the stairs, and I escaped to my own room. CHAPTER XII. PK^EMONITUS, PE-iEMntOTUB. • The fiend whose lantern lights the mead, Were better mate than 1 l Sec* Fools, when they cannot see their way, At once grow desperate, Have no resource — have nothing... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 502 Seiten
...comrades take the spear. CHORUS. " And, O ! though Brignall banks be fair, And Greta woods be gay, Yet mickle must the maiden dare, Would reign my Queen...death I'll die : The fiend, whose lantern lights the mead,1 Were better mate than I ! And when I'm with my comrades met,2 Beneath the greenwood bough, What... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 824 Seiten
...comrades take the spear. CHORUS. " And, 0 ! though Brignall banks be fair, And Greta woods be gay, Yet mickle must the maiden dare, Would reign my Queen of May ! XVIIL " Maiden ! a nameless life I lead, A nameless death I'll die : The fiend, whose lantern lights... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1901 - 1190 Seiten
...his hum, My comrades take the spear. ' And O ! though Brignall banks be fair. And Greta woods be gay, Yet mickle must the maiden dare, Would reign my Queen of May! 'Maiden! a nameless life I lead, A nameless death I'll die; The fiend whose lantern lights the mead... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 Seiten
...hia hum My comrades take the spear. And oh ! though Brignall banks be fair And Greta woods be gay, erful brogue, the righting, rioting Irishman ! One of his ey " Maiden ! a nameless life I lead, A nameless death I'll diel The fiend whose lantern lights the mead... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1902 - 1118 Seiten
...fair, And Greta woods be gay, Yet mickle must the maiden dare, Would reign my Queen of May ! ' Maiden I a nameless life I lead, A nameless death I'll die;...whose lantern lights the mead Were better mate than I ! And when I'm with my comrades met Beneath the green -wood bough, What once we were we all forget,... | |
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