| Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 pages
...slain her lover ?"— Outspoke the hardy Highland wight, " I'll go, my chief—I'm ready:— It is not for your silver bright; But for your winsome lady:...bonny bird In danger shall not tarry; So, though the waves are raging white, I'll row you o'er the ferry."— By this the storm grew loud apace, The water-wraith... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 508 pages
...is not for your silver bright ; But for your winsome lady : * Ireland my darling, Ireland forever. "And by my word ! the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry : So, though the waves are raging white, I '11 row you o'er the ferry." — By this the storm grew loud apace, The water-wraith... | |
| American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...slain her lover ? " Outspoke the hardy Highland wight, " I '11 go, my chief, — I 'm ready, — " And, by my word, the bonny bird . In danger shall not tarry ; So, though the waves are raging white, I '11 row you o'er the ferry." By this the storm grew loud apace, The watrr-wraith... | |
| Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...slain her lover ? " Outspoke the hardy Highland wight, " I '11 go, my chief, — I 'm ready, • — " And, by my word, the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry ; So, though the waves are raging white, I '11 row you o'er the ferry." By this the storm grew loud apace, The water-wraith... | |
| American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...slain her lover ? " Outspoke the hardy Highland wight, " I '11 go, my chief, — I 'm ready, — " And, by my word, the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry ; So, though the waves are raging white, I '11 row you o'er the ferry." By this the storm grew loud apace, The water-wraith... | |
| Wife - 1855 - 350 pages
...cannot think so — let not my error be visited on my guiltless, persecuted girl." CHAPTER VIII. " And by my word, the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry." Campbell. MR. MORTON, leaving instructions with his servants, on whose discretion he could fully depend,... | |
| William Sherwood - Conversation - 1856 - 466 pages
...slain her lover ? " Out spoke the hardy Highland wight, " I'll g6, my chief, I'm ready : — It is not for your silver ' bright ; But for your winsome lady...bird ' In danger shall not tarry ; So, though the waves are raging white, I'll row you o'er the ferry." — By this, the storm grew loud apace, The water-wraith... | |
| Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...lover?" — : Out spoke the hardy Highland wight, " I'll go, my chief — I'm ready : — " It is not for your silver bright, " But for your winsome lady...bird " In danger shall not tarry ; " So, though the waves are raging white, " I'll row you o'er the ferry." — By this the storm grew loud apace, The... | |
| Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...slain her lover ? " Outspoke the hardy Highland wight, " I '11 go, my chief — I 'm ready : It is not for your silver bright, but for your winsome lady...my word, the bonny bird in danger shall not tarry : 80, though the waves are raging white, I '11 row you o'er the ferry." "0, haste thee, haste!" the... | |
| Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 490 pages
...po. rny chief — I "m ready : It is not for your silver bright, hut for your winsome lady : Anil, by my word, the bonny bird in danger shall not tarry : So, though the waves are raging white, I '11 row you o'er the ferry." " 0, baste thee, haste ! " the lady cries, "... | |
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