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... follow , follow me , 126 Come into the garden , Maud , 335 Come live with me and be my love , Come not , when I am dead , 339 • Come , Sleep , and with thy sweet deceiving , . 13 Dear is my little native vale , 193 Doubt thou the stars ...
... follow , follow me , 126 Come into the garden , Maud , 335 Come live with me and be my love , Come not , when I am dead , 339 • Come , Sleep , and with thy sweet deceiving , . 13 Dear is my little native vale , 193 Doubt thou the stars ...
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... follow , follow me , Come into the garden , Maud , Come live with me and be my love , Come not , when I am dead , Come , Sleep , and with thy sweet deceiving , . Dear is my little native vale , Doubt thou the stars are fire , Drink to ...
... follow , follow me , Come into the garden , Maud , Come live with me and be my love , Come not , when I am dead , Come , Sleep , and with thy sweet deceiving , . Dear is my little native vale , Doubt thou the stars are fire , Drink to ...
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... Follow , follow , follow ! Hark how the soldiers hollow ! Brave Diocles is dead , And all his soldiers fled ; The battle's won , and lost , That many a life hath cost . Hey , hey ! MY LADY GREENSLEEVES ANONYMOUS ALAS ! my love , you do ...
... Follow , follow , follow ! Hark how the soldiers hollow ! Brave Diocles is dead , And all his soldiers fled ; The battle's won , and lost , That many a life hath cost . Hey , hey ! MY LADY GREENSLEEVES ANONYMOUS ALAS ! my love , you do ...
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... follow him , And look they did not cry : And two long miles he led them on , While they for food complain : Stay here , quoth he , I'll bring you bread , When I come back again . The pretty babes , with hand in hand , Went wandering up ...
... follow him , And look they did not cry : And two long miles he led them on , While they for food complain : Stay here , quoth he , I'll bring you bread , When I come back again . The pretty babes , with hand in hand , Went wandering up ...
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... the tyrant's stroke ; Care no more to clothe and eat ; To thee the reed is as the oak : The sceptre , learning , physic , must All follow this , and come to dust . Fear no more the lightning - flash Nor the all 80 SONGS AND BALLADS.
... the tyrant's stroke ; Care no more to clothe and eat ; To thee the reed is as the oak : The sceptre , learning , physic , must All follow this , and come to dust . Fear no more the lightning - flash Nor the all 80 SONGS AND BALLADS.
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Agincourt Allan Water Allen-a-Dale ANONYMOUS auld auld lang syne birds blood blow bonny Braes of Yarrow brave bride bright busk Camelot cheer cold cried dead dear death doth Earl eyes fair father fear flowers frae gallant gold gone grave Gray green Greensleeves hand hath hear heard heart Hearts of oak heaven heir of Linne High trolollie Inchcape Rock John king kiss Lady of Shalott land lassie light live looked Lord loud luve maid Mariner merry moon morning mother Nanie ne'er never night noble Nut-brown Maid o'er Oriana poor pray pretty Bessee quoth Robin Gray rose round sail ship sigh sing Sir Patrick Spens sleep SONGS AND BALLADS sorrow soul spake stood stormy sweet tears tell thee There's thine thro Twas unto waves weary weep wife wild wind wood wooing o't young
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Page 242 - River where ford there was none; But ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late : For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar. So boldly he...
Page 265 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind!
Page 202 - Did send a dismal sheen: Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
Page 260 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 120 - Go, lovely Rose! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Page 177 - As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a" the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi
Page 212 - The sails at noon left off their tune, And the ship stood still also. The Sun, right up above the mast, Had fixed her to the ocean: But in a minute she 'gan stir, With a short uneasy motion— Backwards and forwards half her length With a short uneasy motion. Then like a pawing horse let go, She made a sudden bound: It flung the blood into my head, And I fell down in a swound.
Page 212 - twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute; And now it is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute. It ceased; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Page 207 - This body dropt not down Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.
Page 239 - I met a little cottage girl: She was eight years old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad ; Her eyes were fair, and very fair; —Her beauty made me glad. ' Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be ?' ' How many ? Seven in all,' she said, And wondering looked at me.