 | William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 pages
...soar, but never roam ; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home ! WORDSWORTH. THE TWA CORBIES.1 AS I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane ; The tane unto the t'ither did say, " Whar sall we gang and dine the day ? " 1 Corbies, ravens. "... | |
 | Francis James Child - Ballads, English - 1860 - 430 pages
...ii. 359. It •was communicated to Scott by Mr. Sharpe, as written down, from tradition, by a lady. As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane ; The tane unto the t'other say, "Where sall we gang and dine to-day?" — " In behint yon auld fail... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...day on me she cries ; And I am weary of the skies, Since my Love died for me. Anon. THE TWA CORBIES As I was walking all alane I heard twa corbies making a mane ; The tane unto the t'other say, ' Where sail we gang and dine today ?' ' —In behint yon auld fail... | |
 | William Motherwell - Ballads, Scots - 1864 - 380 pages
...self e ere euen song time. " God send euery gentleman, Such haukcs, such houndes, and such a leman. " As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane ; The tane unto the other 'gan say, '' Where sall we gang and dine to-day ?" "In behint yon auld fail*... | |
 | William Allingham - Ballads, English - 1865 - 456 pages
...the velvet green ; And till seven years were come and gane, True Thomas on earth was never seen. II As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane : The tane unto the tither did say, ' Whar sail we gang and dine the day ? ' ' dought/ could. ' corbies,'... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...that shoot along the sky shine brightest as they fall from high. LORD BYRON 723 THE TWA CORBIES Ai I was walking all alane I heard twa corbies making a mane; the tane unto the t'other say, 'Where sail we gang and dine today?' ' — In behint yon auld fail dyke,... | |
 | Frederick W. MARTIN - 1869 - 308 pages
...void of care or strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A splendid shilling." JOHN PHILIPS. " As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane ; The ane unto th' other did say, ' Whar shall we gang and dine to-day ? ' " Old Ballad. How Strangely... | |
 | Scottish border - 1869 - 624 pages
...and unwashen feet — Alluding to the custom of washing and dressing dead bodies. THE TWA CORBIES.1 AS I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane ; The tane unto the t'other say, " Where sall we gang and dine to-day ? " — "In behint yon auld fail... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1873 - 336 pages
...those ' fal-la-las,' and other nonsense refrains, which, if they were not meant to imitate bird-notes, for what were they meant ? In the old ballads, too,...on crowd, how — ' In summer, when the shawes be shcno, And leaves be large and long, It is full merry in fair furest To hear the fowles' song. ' The... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1873 - 838 pages
...leman." Ancient Songt, 1792, p. 155 I have seen a copy of this dirge much modernized THE TWA CORBIES.1 As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane ; The tane unto the t'other say, " Where sall we gang and dine to-day ] " — " In behint yon auld... | |
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In behint yon auld fail dyke I wot there lies a new-slain Knight; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair. ' His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame,. His lady's... 
