 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...him ! That's Christian care enough ; for living murmurers There's places of rebuke. Id. Henry VIII. My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, F'low gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. burns. Trouble is grudgingly and hardly brooked, While life's sublimest joys are overlooked : We wander... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Ballads, Scots - 1829 - 414 pages
...Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes ; Flow gently, sweet river, the theme of my lays ; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream ; Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. 83 MACPHERSON'S FAREWELL. BURNS. Tuwe—Macpherson's Rant. FAREWEIL, ye prisons dark and strong, The... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Ballads, Scots - 1829 - 356 pages
...Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes ; Flow gently, sweet river, the theme of my lays ; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream; Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. * " The pastoral feeling which Bums infused into this song, is in strict conformity with nature. The... | |
 | Charles Granville Gepp - English poetry - 1830 - 194 pages
...Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes ; Flow gently, sweet river, the theme of my lays : My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream : Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. Stanza I. 1, 2. How do thy crystal (imitantia crystallos) streams glide around the tiny cot (lares)... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...wave. Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, sweet river, the theme of my lays ; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. EVAN BANKS. SLOW spreads the gloom my soul desires, The sun from India's shore retires ; To Evan banks... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1831 - 338 pages
...proper to be used whenever fair lady was to be addressed in rhyme. " Flow gently, sweet Afton, ainonjr thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song...stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow; There... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...ihowert, I'll love my gallant weaver. AFTON WATER. FLOW gently, sweet Afton, among thy green Ьгяез, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise ;...sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. Thou stock-dove whoso echo resounds through the glen, Ye wild wlmlling blackbirds in yon thorny den, Thou green-crested... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1831 - 484 pages
...gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes. Flow gently, sweet river, the theme of my lays ; My Mary 's asleep by thy murmuring stream. Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. BONNIE BELL. THE smiling spring comes in rejoicing, And surly winter grimly flies : Now crystal clear... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 368 pages
...in the dust — And Rome again is free !" FLOW GENTLY, SWEET AFTON. Tune—" Afton Water." I. FLOW gently, sweet Afton ! among thy green braes, Flow...— Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. II. Thou stock-dove, whose echo resounds thro' the glen ; Ye wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poetry, Modern - 1834 - 236 pages
...wild woods wave, By bonie Castle Gordon. IPjlTER. FLOW "cntly, sweet Afton, among thy green brae* j Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise ; My Mary's asleep by thy raurmuiing stream, Fiow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. Thou stock-dove whose echo resounds... | |
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My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. 
