 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...several miles through * A beautiful and well-known ballad, which begins thus : The moon had climb'd the highest hill, Which rises o'er the source of Dee ; And, from the eastern summit, shed It's silver light on tower and tree. through the most fertile and beautiful holm ;* till it expands... | |
 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - Ballads, English - 1801 - 266 pages
...Bamboroughshire men should forget, Some part of it in time. No. LV. MARY'S DREAM. THE moon had climb'd the highest hill, Which rises o'er the source of Dee,...from the eastern summit shed, Her silver light on tower and tree : When Mary laid her down to sleep, Her thoughts on Sandy, far at sea, When soft and... | |
 | 1811 - 544 pages
...can lead but to one conclusion. He himself does riot entertain ;i doubt that (he Scotch copy is the And from the eastern summit shed Her silver light...her down to sleep, Her thoughts on Sandy far at sea; When soft and low a voice was heard, Saying, Man-, weep no more for me. She from her pillow gently... | |
 | Robert Burns - Dialect literature, Scottish - 1808 - 496 pages
...love disappointment. The • "", i * This is the pathetic song beginning — " The moon had climb'd the highest hill, Which rises o'er the source of Dee,...her down to sleep, Her thoughts on Sandy far at sea ; When soft and low a voice was heard, Saying, Mary weep no more for me." 217 The Maid that tends the... | |
 | Robert Burns - English literature - 1809 - 328 pages
...This is the pathetic song beginning — " The moon had climh'd the highest hi!!, Which rises o'crthe source of Dee, And from the eastern summit shed Her...her down to sleep, Her thoughts on Sandy far at sea; When soft art! low a voice was heard, Saying-, Mary weep no more for m? " Mian Water. This Allan Water,... | |
 | Robert Burns - English literature - 1809 - 326 pages
...words of this old song than the title. * This is the pathetic song beginning — " The moon had climb'd the highest hill, Which rises o'er the source of Dee, And from the eastern summit shed Her silver liglit on tow'r and tree : When M:iry laid her down to sleep, Her thoughts on Sandy far at sea; When... | |
 | Robert Hartley Cromek - Ballads, Scots - 1810 - 260 pages
...strain of the verses, it appeared that they allude to some love disappointment. The moon had climb'd the highest hill, Which rises o'er the source of Dee,...tree : When Mary laid her down to sleep, Her thoughts on*Sandy far at sea ; When soft and low a voice was heard, 51 She from her pillow gently rais'd Her... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1815 - 344 pages
...the pathetie song, heginning— " The moon had elimh'd the highest hill, Whieh rises o'er the souree of Dee, And from the eastern summit shed Her silver...tow'r and tree : When Mary laid her down to sleep, Airds, in Galloway. The poet was a Mr. Alexander Lowe, who likewise wrote another heautiful song, ealled... | |
 | Roundelay - 1815 - 260 pages
...Squire Arthur O'Bradley, &c. Mary's Dream. 'T'HE moon had climb'd the highest hill When Mary laidTicr down to sleep, Her thoughts on Sandy far at sea :...Then Soft and low a voice was heard Say — " Mary, weep.no more for me !" She from her pillow gently rais'd Her head, to ask who there might ber And saw... | |
 | Scottish songs - 1816 - 378 pages
...for him I lo'ed sae lang. MARY'S DREAM. THE moon had climb'd the highest hill That rises o'er th« source of Dee, And from the eastern summit shed Her...down to sleep— Her thoughts on Sandy far at sea; When soft and low a voice she heard, Say—" Mary, weep no more for me!" C 3 Her head, to ask who there... | |
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The moon had climbed the highest hill Which rises o'er the source of Dee, And from the eastern summit shed Her silver light on tower and tree; When Mary laid her down to sleep, Her thoughts on Sandy far at sea, When, soft and low, a voice was heard, Saying,... 
