The Scottish Songs, Volume 1Robert Chambers Ballantyne, 1829 - 370 páginas |
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... death of Alexander the Third , gave occasion to a rhyme , or song , which has been preserved for us by the English chroniclers . In 1296 , when King Edward I. ( surnamed Longshanks ) undertook his first expedi- tion against Scotland ...
... death of Alexander the Third , gave occasion to a rhyme , or song , which has been preserved for us by the English chroniclers . In 1296 , when King Edward I. ( surnamed Longshanks ) undertook his first expedi- tion against Scotland ...
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... death of Wallace , and the fates of his various compatriots . The next national Scottish song , of which any no- tice occurs in our early chroniclers , is one of triumph on the brilliant victory of Bannockburn . On this oc- casion ...
... death of Wallace , and the fates of his various compatriots . The next national Scottish song , of which any no- tice occurs in our early chroniclers , is one of triumph on the brilliant victory of Bannockburn . On this oc- casion ...
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... death of King James , speaks still more point- edly of his talents as a poet and musician . " He was , " says this historian , " a most ingenious composer in his native or vernacular language , and his numerous poems and songs are still ...
... death of King James , speaks still more point- edly of his talents as a poet and musician . " He was , " says this historian , " a most ingenious composer in his native or vernacular language , and his numerous poems and songs are still ...
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... death , in enjoyment of a European reputation on that account . James has been the means of supplying us with one farther historically certain fact regarding Scottish song . It may be recollected by many of my readers , that , af- ter ...
... death , in enjoyment of a European reputation on that account . James has been the means of supplying us with one farther historically certain fact regarding Scottish song . It may be recollected by many of my readers , that , af- ter ...
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... Death of the Piper of Kilbarchan , or the Epitaph of Habbie Simpson , " published in Watson's Collection of Scots Poems , 1706 , the following line occurs : Now , who shall play , The day it daws ? When Dunbar's allusion is associated ...
... Death of the Piper of Kilbarchan , or the Epitaph of Habbie Simpson , " published in Watson's Collection of Scots Poems , 1706 , the following line occurs : Now , who shall play , The day it daws ? When Dunbar's allusion is associated ...
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Allan Allan water amang auld baith ballad baloo banks beautiful Birks of Aberfeldy blythe boatie rows bonnie lassie braes braw BURNS canna cauld Complaynt of Scotland dance dear dearie Donald Macgillavry doun Dumbarton's Drums e'en e'er Edinburgh fair Farewell flowers frae gane gang Gilderoy glen green gude gudeman gudewife hame heart Herd's Collection Highland Highland laddie hills ilka Jacobite Jenny John Tod Johnnie king kiss laddie lady laird lass lo'e Lochaber lover maun merry mony nae mair nane ne'er never o'er ower padda Pinkie House puir Ramsay Rob Morris sang Scotland Scots Scots Musical Museum Scottish song sing sung sweet Tea-Table Miscellany thee There's thou toun tune TUNE-The wadna weel Whigs wife Willie ye're yestreen young
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Página 19 - I'll wage thee! Who shall say that Fortune grieves him While the star of hope she leaves him? Me, nae cheerfu' twinkle lights me, Dark despair around benights me. I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy; Naething could resist my Nancy; But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love for ever. Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met - or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Página 290 - I forget the hallowed grove, Where by the winding Ayr we met, To live one day of parting love ! " Eternity will not efface Those records dear of transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace ; Ah ! little thought we 'twas our last ! " Ayr gurgling kiss'd his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening, green, The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twin'd amorous round the raptured scene.
Página 234 - But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see. So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar?
Página 289 - Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. My Mary, dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast ? Vol.
Página 290 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ! Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Página 234 - I long wooed your daughter, my suit you denied; — Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide,- And now am I come, with this lost love of mine, To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine. There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far, That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar.
Página 246 - Soft shall be his pillow. There, through the summer day, Cool streams are laving : There, while the tempests sway, Scarce are boughs waving...
Página liv - At the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century...
Página 131 - I've heard them lilting, at our ewe-milking Lasses a' lilting before dawn of day : But now they are moaning, on ilka green loaning, The Flowers of the forest are a
Página 121 - I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might have gone near to love thee ; Had I not found the slightest prayer That lips could speak had power to move thee : But I can let thee now alone, As worthy to be loved by none.