| 1866 - 524 pages
...steps discover, Then who will cheer my bonny bride When they have slain her lover ? " — 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... | |
| English poetry - 1866 - 180 pages
...slain her 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...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-... | |
| Electronic journals - 1866 - 618 pages
...word used by Campbell, in his ballad of ' Lord Ullin's Daughter " t He makes the ferryman say : — " And by my word, the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry'." The word seems to have been spelt indifferently l»ird or bird ; and the derivation from it of the... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...slain her lover J " 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-... | |
| Edward Clarke LOWE - 1868 - 186 pages
...slain her 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 water-wraith... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - American poetry - 1868 - 710 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... | |
| John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1868 - 636 pages
...slain her lover ! " Out spoke the hardy highland wight, " I '11 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 '11 row you o'er the ferry." By this the storm grew loud apace, The water-wraith... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 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 ; — " And, by my word I the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry ; So, though the waves are raging white, I'll row you o'er... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...slain her lover ?" Out spoke the hardy island 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-... | |
| William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...slain her 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...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... | |
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