 | Edward William Cole - 1892 - 412 pages
...Jenny dee ? Oh 1 why was I spared to cry, Wae's me ! My father urged me sair ; my mither didna speak, She look'd in my face till my heart was like to break. So they gied him my hand, though my heart was at the sea, Now auld Robin Gray is gudeman to me. I badna... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 484 pages
...didna Jamie dee? Or, why am I spared to cry, Wae is me? My father argued sair— my mother didna speak, But she look'd in my face till my heart was like to break ; They gii ni him my hand, but my heart was in the sea; And so Auld Bobin Gray, he was gudeman to me.... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 pages
...Or, wherefore am I spared to cry out, Woe is me ! My father argued sair — my mother didna speak, But she look'd in my face till my heart was like to break : They gied him my hand, but my heart was in the sea ; And so Auld Robin Gray, he was gudeman to me.... | |
 | James Hackman, Martha Reay, Sir Herbert Croft - English letters - 1895 - 248 pages
...his spur. And again, after lying in bed ten months at Demotica. .... Though my mother could na speak. She look'd in my face till my heart was like to break. The Abra of Prior's Solomon. When she, with modest scorn, the wreath return'd, Reclin'd her beauteous... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - English poetry - 1897 - 438 pages
...Why didna Jamie dec ? Or why do I live to cry Wae's me? My father urgit sair : my mother didna speak, But she look'd in my face till my heart was like to break : They gi'ed him my hand, but my heart was at the sea, Sae auld Robin Gray he was gudeman to me. I... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - Elocution - 1898 - 614 pages
...dee? Or, why do I live to say, Wae's me? My father argued sair—my mother didna speak, But she lookit in my face till my heart was like to break; Sae they gied him my hand, though my heart was in the sea; And auld Robin Gray was gudeman to me. I hadna been a wife, a week... | |
 | Richard Dacre Archer-Hind, Robert Drew Hicks - Classical literature - 1899 - 518 pages
...didna Jamie dee ? Or why do I live to cry, Wae's me ? My father urgit sair: my mother didna speak; But she look'd in my face till my heart was like to break : They gi'ed him my hand, but my heart was at the sea; Sae auld Robin Gray he was gudeman to me. stabulisque... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1900 - 482 pages
...argued fair. Tho' my mother didna speak ; She looked in my face, till my heart was like to break ! So they gied him my hand, tho' my heart was in the sea ; And auld ROBIN GREY is Gudeman to me. I hadna been a Wife a week but only four, When, sitting sae... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1190 pages
...didna Jamie dee? Or why do I live to cry, Wae 's me ! My father urged me sair : my mother didna speak ; But she look'd in my face till my heart was like to break : They gi'ed him my hand, tho' my heart was in the sea ; Sae auld Robin Gray he was gudeman to me.... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1901 - 350 pages
...argued fair. Tho' my mother didna speak ; She looked in my face, till my heart was like to break ! So they gi'ed him my hand, tho' my heart was in the sea ; And auld ROBIN GREY is Gudeman to me. I hadna been a Wife a week but only four, When, sitting sae... | |
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My father urged me sair: my mother didna speak; But she look'd in my face till my heart was like to break: They gie'd him my hand, tho' my heart was in the sea; Sae auld Robin Gray he was gudeman to me. I hadna been a wife a week but only four, When mournfu... 
