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" 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. "
The Queen's Wake: A Legendary Poem - Page 188
by James Hogg - 1819 - 384 pages
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Camp-fire Musings: Life and Good Times in the Woods

William Cunningham Gray - Natural history - 1894 - 322 pages
...beautify my page by quoting it : And when she wakened she lay her lane All happed wi' flowers in the greenwood wene. When seven lang years had come and...scarce was remembered Kilmeny's name, Late, late in the gloamin' Kilmeny came hame. And oh, her beauty was fair to see, But still and steadfast was her...
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New ... Reader, Volume 3

California. State Board of Education - Readers - 1895 - 224 pages
...Scotch fairy tale, who strayed away from her home and remained many years in Fairyland. When seven long years had come and fled, When grief was calm and hope...scarce was remembered Kilmeny's name, Late, late in the gloaming Kilmeny came hame. Kilmeny had been, she knew not where; Kilmeny had seen what she could...
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A thousand and one gems of English poetry, selected and arranged by C. Mackay

Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...north, or flew she south, She met wi' the gowl of the lion's mouth. KILMENY'S RETURN FROM FAIRY LAND. WHEN seven lang years had come and fled: When grief was calm, and hope wai dead ; When scarce was remembered Kilmeny's name, Late, late in a gloamin', Kilmeny cam' hame !...
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A Country Schoolmaster

James Shaw - Teachers - 1899 - 550 pages
...i' the wane, The reek o' the cot hung over the plain Like a little wee cloud in the world its lane; When seven lang years had come and fled, When grief...scarce was remembered Kilmeny's name, Late, late in the gloamin' Kilmeny cam' hame.' Could Noel Paton not paint us that ? More interesting, however, than...
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The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1190 pages
...lull'd Kilmeny sound asleep; And when she awaken'd, she lay her lane, All happ'd with flowers, in the green-wood wene. When seven lang years had come and...grief was calm, and hope was dead ; When scarce was remember'd Kilmeny's name, Late, late in a gloamin' Kilmeny came hame ! And O, her beauty was fair...
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The Fireside Encyclopedia of Poetry: Comprising the Best Poems of the Most ...

Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...sound asleep; And when she awakened, she lay her lane. All hupped with flowers in the greenwood weue. r4 Kilmeny '.4 name, Late, late in a gloamin Kilmeny came hame. And O, her beauty was fair to see, But...
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The Poems of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd

James Hogg - Scotland - 1903 - 298 pages
...lulled Kilmeny sound asleep ; And when she awakened, she lay her lane, al All happed with flowers in the greenwood wene. When seven lang years had come and...hame. And O, her beauty was fair to see, But still and steadfast was her ee. Such beauty bard may never declare, one For there was no pride nor passion there...
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Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical ..., Volume 3

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1903 - 888 pages
...sound asleep ; And when she awakened she lay her lane, AH happed with flowers in the greenwood wcne. whatever was movable was divided among the soldiers...with such celerity that the mighty temple soon presen Kilmeny' s пяте, Lite, late in a gloamin Kilmeny came líame ! at dusk Ami oh, her beauty was fair...
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The World's Best Poetry ...

John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - English poetry - 1904 - 618 pages
...when she awakened, she lay her lane, All happed with flowers in the green- wood wene. When seven long years had come and fled ; When grief was calm, and...! 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...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 3

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1904 - 884 pages
...lulled Kilmeny sound asleep ; And when she awakened she lay her lane, All happed with flowers in the ll on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her ! at dusk And oh, her beauty was fair to see, But still and steadfast was her ее ; Such beauty bard...
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