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... known , Of virgins , pure as opening day , Or bosom of the flower of May : Oft dreamed of beings free from stain , Of maidens of the emerald main , Of fairy dames in grove at even , Of angels in the walks of heaven : But , nor in earth ...
... known , Of virgins , pure as opening day , Or bosom of the flower of May : Oft dreamed of beings free from stain , Of maidens of the emerald main , Of fairy dames in grove at even , Of angels in the walks of heaven : But , nor in earth ...
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... known , Proscribed , and by gallant Macdougal expelled ; Where rolls the dark Teith through the valley of Down The conqueror's menial he toiled in the field . His master he loved not , obeyed with a scowl 50 NIGHT I. THE QUEEN'S WAKE .
... known , Proscribed , and by gallant Macdougal expelled ; Where rolls the dark Teith through the valley of Down The conqueror's menial he toiled in the field . His master he loved not , obeyed with a scowl 50 NIGHT I. THE QUEEN'S WAKE .
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... known ; Too often deep sorrow succeeds thy love - smile ; Too oft , in a moment , thy peace overthrown , - Fair butt of delusion , of passion , and guile ! What heart will not bleed for Matilda so gay , To art and to long perseverance a ...
... known ; Too often deep sorrow succeeds thy love - smile ; Too oft , in a moment , thy peace overthrown , - Fair butt of delusion , of passion , and guile ! What heart will not bleed for Matilda so gay , To art and to long perseverance a ...
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... flew . Woe that the bard , whose thrilling song Has poured from age to age along , Should perish from the lists of fame , And lose his only boon - a name . Yet many a song of wonderous power , Well known 62 NIGHT I. THE QUEEN'S WAKE .
... flew . Woe that the bard , whose thrilling song Has poured from age to age along , Should perish from the lists of fame , And lose his only boon - a name . Yet many a song of wonderous power , Well known 62 NIGHT I. THE QUEEN'S WAKE .
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A Legendary Poem James Hogg. Yet many a song of wonderous power , Well known in cot and green - wood bower , Wherever swells the shepherd's reed On Yarrow's banks and braes of Tweed ; Yes , many a song of olden time , Of rude array , and ...
A Legendary Poem James Hogg. Yet many a song of wonderous power , Well known in cot and green - wood bower , Wherever swells the shepherd's reed On Yarrow's banks and braes of Tweed ; Yes , many a song of olden time , Of rude array , and ...
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abbot auld bard BARD'S SONG beneath blue bold bosom brave breast breeze brow cheek claymore cliffs dame dark deep Douglas dread dream Dumlanrig Dunedin Earl Walter eternal weep Ettrick fair fairy fell fled flew flower forest frae glen glowing gray green green-wood grew hall harp hast thou heard heart heaved heaven Highland Highland hill hill Holyrood honours Kilmeny knew lady land lone looked Lord Lord Darcie loud lyre Macgregor maid maiden Malcolm Mary's midnight minstrel moon morning mountain ne'er never nigh night NOTE numbers o'er pale Queen Quhan Quhill rill rose round rung scarcely Scotland Scottish seen shepherd sigh sing sleep smile soul Southrons spirits Staffa stern stood storm strain sung sweet tale thee thine tongue Torwoodlee Tushilaw Twas vale warriors wave weened weep wild wind womyne wonderous wood wyfe young youth
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Page 175 - The wood was sere, the moon i' the wane, The reek o' the cot hung over the plain,— Like a little wee cloud in the world its lane; When the ingle lowed with an eiry leme, ' • Late, late in the gloamin...
Page 191 - It was like an eve in a sinless world! When a month and a day had come and gane, Kilmeny sought the green-wood wene ; There laid her down on the leaves sae green, And Kilmeny on earth was never mair seen!
Page 188 - To tell of the place where she had been, And the glories that lay in the land unseen ; To warn the living maidens fair, The loved of Heaven, the spirits' care, That all whose minds unmeled remain Shall bloom in beauty when time is gane.
Page 189 - Her seymar was the lily flower, And her cheek the moss-rose in the shower ; And her voice like the distant melodye, That floats along the twilight sea.
Page 177 - All striped wi' the bars of the rainbow's rim ; And lovely beings round were rife, Who erst had travelled mortal life ; And aye they smiled, and 'gan to...
Page 180 - They lifted Kilmeny, they led her away. And she walked in the light of a sunless day: The sky was a dome of erystal bright. The fountain of vision, and fountain of light: The emerald fields were of dazzling glow, And the flowers of everlasting blow. Then deep in the stream her body they laid.
Page 188 - Kilmeny came hame ! And O, her beauty was fair to see, But still and steadfast was her ee ! Such beauty bard may never declare, For there was no pride nor passion there ; And the soft desire of maiden's een In that mild face could never be seen.
Page 148 - ... That the pine, which for ages had shed a bright halo, Afar on the mountains of Highland Glen-Falo, Should wither and fall ere the turn of yon moon, Smit through by the canker of hated Colquhoun : That a feast on Macgregors each day should be common. For years, to the eagles of Lennox and Lomond. A parting embrace, in one moment, she gave : Her breath was a furnace, her bosom the grave ! Then flitting elusive, she said, with a frown, " The mighty Macgregor shall yet be my own !" — " Macgregor,...
Page 178 - O, blest be the day Kilmeny was born! Now shall the land of the spirits see, Now shall it ken what a woman may be!
Page 176 - Kilmeny looked up with a lovely grace, But nae smile was seen on Kilmeny's face ; As still was her look, and as still was her ee, As the stillness that lay on the emerant lea, Or the mist that sleeps on a waveless sea.