The Harp of Renfrewshire: A Collection of Songs and Other Poetical Pieces (many of which are Original) Accompanied with Notes, Explanatory, Critical, and Biographical, and a Short Essay on the Poets of RenfrewshireWilliam Motherwell |
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... beauty of this song ; -her never hav- ing attempted to write anything else in the Scotish language , — and the age of the song itself , which , according to Burns , first be- gan to be hawked through the streets in 1771 or 1772 , which ...
... beauty of this song ; -her never hav- ing attempted to write anything else in the Scotish language , — and the age of the song itself , which , according to Burns , first be- gan to be hawked through the streets in 1771 or 1772 , which ...
Page xxxiv
... beauty and natural simplicity of the language that I found means shortly afterwards of being introduced to its author . The acquaintance thus formed between us gradually ripened into a warm and steady friendship , that was never ...
... beauty and natural simplicity of the language that I found means shortly afterwards of being introduced to its author . The acquaintance thus formed between us gradually ripened into a warm and steady friendship , that was never ...
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... ventured to disagree on this point with Mr. Smith , inasmuch as the courteous reader will find the song alluded to printed at full length in the Appendix . - Editor . E " Songs possessing great poetical beauty do not always be- XXXVII .
... ventured to disagree on this point with Mr. Smith , inasmuch as the courteous reader will find the song alluded to printed at full length in the Appendix . - Editor . E " Songs possessing great poetical beauty do not always be- XXXVII .
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... beauty do not always be- come favourites with the public . - Keen blaws the wind o'er the braes of Gleniffer is perhaps Tannahill's best lyrical effu- sion , yet it does not appear to be much known , at least it is but seldom sung . It ...
... beauty do not always be- come favourites with the public . - Keen blaws the wind o'er the braes of Gleniffer is perhaps Tannahill's best lyrical effu- sion , yet it does not appear to be much known , at least it is but seldom sung . It ...
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... beauty and pleasure does yield . The warblers are heard in the grove , The linnet , the lark , and the thrush , The blackbird , and sweet cooing dove , With music enchant every bush . Come , let us go forth to the mead , Let us see how ...
... beauty and pleasure does yield . The warblers are heard in the grove , The linnet , the lark , and the thrush , The blackbird , and sweet cooing dove , With music enchant every bush . Come , let us go forth to the mead , Let us see how ...
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Page 281 - Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That had'st thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired : Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die ! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee, —...
Page 5 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little hell reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him...
Page 383 - Row, brothers, row ! the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past!
Page 415 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten,— In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs,— All these in me no means can move To come to thee and be thy love.
Page 267 - No rude sound shall reach thine ear, Armour's clang, or war-steed champing, Trump nor pibroch summon here, Mustering clan, or squadron tramping. Yet the lark's shrill fife may come At the daybreak from the fallow, And the bittern sound his drum, Booming from the sedgy shallow. Ruder sounds shall none be near, Guards nor warders challenge here, Here's no war-steed's neigh and champing, Shouting clans or squadrons stamping.
Page 334 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain.
Page 4 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 412 - With coral clasps and amber studs ; And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love.
Page 413 - The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love.
Page 412 - Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies...