English and Scottish Ballads: Book IV. Tragic Ballads (pt. 11-32). Book V. Love Ballads not tragic (pt. 1-8) v. 4. Book V. Love Ballads not tragic (pt. 9-45)Francis James Child Little, Brown, 1857 - Ballads, English |
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... sweet ; O there's a bird within your bower , Keeps me frae my night's sleep . " They left the douking on the day , And douk'd upon the night ; 75 80 And where that sackless knight lay slain , 85 The candles burned bright . The deepest ...
... sweet ; O there's a bird within your bower , Keeps me frae my night's sleep . " They left the douking on the day , And douk'd upon the night ; 75 80 And where that sackless knight lay slain , 85 The candles burned bright . The deepest ...
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... sweet , Then out she's tane a little penknife , And wounded him sae deep . " O lang , lang , is the winter nicht , And slawly daws the day ; There is a slain knicht in my bouer , And I wish he war away . " Then up bespak her bouer ...
... sweet , Then out she's tane a little penknife , And wounded him sae deep . " O lang , lang , is the winter nicht , And slawly daws the day ; There is a slain knicht in my bouer , And I wish he war away . " Then up bespak her bouer ...
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... sweet - heart , Castleswa . " LORD WILLIAM was the bravest knight That dwalt in fair Scotland , And though renown'd in France and Spain , Fell by a ladie's hand . As she was walking maid alone , Down by yon shady wood , She heard a smit ...
... sweet - heart , Castleswa . " LORD WILLIAM was the bravest knight That dwalt in fair Scotland , And though renown'd in France and Spain , Fell by a ladie's hand . As she was walking maid alone , Down by yon shady wood , She heard a smit ...
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... the hunting gane , His hawk , to fetch the wild - fowl hame , 10 His lady's ta'en another mate , So we may mak our dinner sweet . " Ye'll sit on his white hause - bane , b The Twa Corbies, [Scott] -19 b The Twa Corbies, [Scott]
... the hunting gane , His hawk , to fetch the wild - fowl hame , 10 His lady's ta'en another mate , So we may mak our dinner sweet . " Ye'll sit on his white hause - bane , b The Twa Corbies, [Scott] -19 b The Twa Corbies, [Scott]
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... sweet ; Our dinner's sure , our feasting free , - Come , and dine by the greenwood tree . " Ye shall sit on his white hause - bane , I will pick out his bonny blue een ; Ye'll take a tress of his yellow hair , To theak yere nest when it ...
... sweet ; Our dinner's sure , our feasting free , - Come , and dine by the greenwood tree . " Ye shall sit on his white hause - bane , I will pick out his bonny blue een ; Ye'll take a tress of his yellow hair , To theak yere nest when it ...
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