 | William Carr - English language - 1828 - 384 pages
...diminutive insect, there seems to be a reference to some superstition of which I have met with no account. " Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children do roam." COWL, A circular swelling on the head, occasioned by a blow. SWED. kull. COW-PRESS, 1 A lever,... | |
 | 1840 - 356 pages
...dewy ground, And their little voices chiming rung, While these were the words the young group sung. "Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home! Your house is on fire, your children will roam." They thought, to be sure, the dainty thing Would flutter aloft its tiny wing, And fly to rescue the... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...trust, for he kenned it wa' just, That the king should enjoy his ain agen. JACOBITE SONG. LADYBIRD. LADYBIRD, ladybird, fly away home; Your house is on fire, your children will burn. ARUNDINE8 CAМI. Heu ! multam ad noctem surgente a sole laborans Paulatim extremara curarum vergit... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Counting-out rhymes - 1843 - 332 pages
...but one that ligs under a stone, Ply thee home, lady-cow, ere it be gone. CCCLXXV. [Another version.] Lady-bird ! Lady-bird ! Fly away home, Your house is on fire, Your children will burn. CCCLXXVI. SING jigmijole, the pudding-bowl, The table and the frame ; My master he did cudgel... | |
 | Jacob Grimm - Germanic peoples - 1844 - 1338 pages
...sitzt auf der schwelle; flieg in himmel aus der bölle l' alt sein, da auch in England gesangen wird: 'ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, your house is on fire , your children will burn !' Die kinder setzen auch bei uns Marienkäferchen oder einen sonnenkäfer auf den finger und... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Authors - 1845 - 662 pages
...* Such are " The Childe of Elle," " Catharine and Janfarie," " Cospatric," " Willie's Lady," &c. " Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will roam." This fragment of a respectable little poem has soothed the slumbers of the German infant for many ages.... | |
 | Robert Hasell Newell - Animals - 1845 - 216 pages
...notice, and insared its proteotion. Even with children it is a favoarite ; and that oft.repeated distich, Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children at home, has saved many a one from thcir dangerous little clotches.* Superstition and vulgar prejudice... | |
 | George Harris - 1849 - 540 pages
...gay, With me shall no mischief betide thee ; No harm would I do thee, no foeman is here, I only would gaze on thy beauties so dear, Those beautiful winglets...will roam, List ! list ! to their cry and bewailing t The pitiless spider is weaving their doom ; Then Lady-bird, Lady-bird, fly away home, Hark ! hark... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Nursery rhymes - 1849 - 296 pages
...; With me shall no mischief betide thee ; Ko harm would I do thee, no foeman is near, I only would gaze on thy beauties so dear, Those beautiful winglets...beside thee. Lady-bird ! lady-bird ! fly away home ; Thy house is a-fire, thy children will roam ! List ! list ! to their cry and bewailing ! The pitiless... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 432 pages
...gay ; With me shall no mischief betide thee. No harm would I do thee, no foeman is near I only would gaze on thy beauties so dear, Those beautiful winglets beside thee. "Ladybird! ladybird! fly away home! Thy house is on fire, thy children will roam ! List ! list ! to their cry and bewailing 1 The pitiless... | |
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