 | 1834 - 766 pages
...as swiftly as they may, And tell their talc of sorrow to anxious friends in rain — They pined away and died within the year and day, And ne'er was Anna Grace seen again. SF THE LADY'S CHAPEL, ST. SAVIOUR'S, AND THE CHURCHES OF THE CITY OF LONDON. Who is Antichrist? The... | |
 | 1847 - 784 pages
...as swiftly as they may, And tell their tale of sorrow to anxious friends in rain — They pined away and died within the year and day, And ne'er was Anna Grace seen again." We think this ballad one of the best he author has ever written. There is great melody and sweetness... | |
 | Edward Hayes - Ballads, English - 1856 - 396 pages
...as swiftly as they may, And tell their tale of sorrow to anxious friends in vain — They pined away and died within the year and day, And ne'er was Anna Grace seen again. THE BANSHEE. ANON. (MARY.) SHE sat beside the haunted stream While 'twas crimsoned yet with the sunset... | |
 | Edward Hayes (collector of ballads) - 1856 - 442 pages
...as swiftly as they may, And tell their tale of sorrow to anxious friends in vain—- They pined away and died within the year and day, And ne'er was Anna Grace seen again. THE BANSHEE. ANON. (MARY.) SHE sat beside the haunted stream While 'twas crimsoned yet with the sunset... | |
 | William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 pages
...as swiftly as they may, And tell their tale of sorrow to anxious friends in vain — They pined away and died within the year and day, And ne'er was Anna Grace seen again. SAMUEL FERGUSON. THE HOUSE. THERE is no architect can build As the Muse can ; She is skilful to select... | |
 | Sir Charles Gavan Duffy - Ballads - 1861 - 264 pages
...as swiftly as they may And tell their tale of sorrow to anxious frioaJs in vain — Tiey pined away and died within the year and day, And ne'er was Anna Grace seen airain. THE AVENGKR. A JACOBITE EELIG. BT JEREMIAH JOSEPH CALLAVAS. Da Ofeaacin sen la sin bo seasta... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 304 pages
...three as swiftly as they may, And tell their tale of sorrow to anxious friends in vain; They pined away and died within the year and day— And ne'er was Anna Grace seen again. (By permission oftUe Author.) A SCENE FROM DOUGLAS. THE REV. JOHN HOME. [John Home was born in Roxburghshire... | |
 | John O'Hanlon - Folk-Lore, Irish - 1870 - 382 pages
...morning. The three maidens, who were left behind on earth by the fairy host, soon afterwards " pined away and died, within the year and day, And ne'er was Anna Grace seen again." Such persons, it is supposed, may be recovered again, and restored to their friends; but not without... | |
 | 1884 - 658 pages
...sorrow to anxious friends in vain — They pined away and died within the year and day, And ne'er wa« Anna Grace seen again." If Sir Samuel Ferguson had...Gilliland," and other poems of his youth, it cannot he questioned that he would have earned, and would in the future have achieved, a high place amongst... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 394 pages
...as swiftly as they may, And tell their tale of sorrow to anxious friends in vain — They pined away and died within the year and day, And ne'er was Anna Grace seen again. WILLY (ÍILLILAN1>. AN ULSTER B.VU..VD. Up in the mountain solitudes, and in a rebel ring, He has worshipped... | |
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The maidens' trance dissolveth so. Then fly the ghastly three as swiftly as they may, And tell their tale of sorrow to anxious friends in vain — They pined away and died within the year and day, And ne'er was Anna Grace seen again. 
