| William Stewart Ross - 1869 - 452 pages
...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... | |
| William Cox Bennett - 1870 - 202 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... | |
| Alexander Kennedy Isbister - Oratory - 1870 - 420 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-wraith... | |
| Henry William Dulcken - 1870 - 236 pages
...ready : — It is not for your silver bright, But for your winsome lady : 'll LORD ULLLVS DAUGHTER. " And, by my word ! the 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 - English poetry - 1870 - 456 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... | |
| English poetry - 1871 - 476 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."...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... | |
| Literature - 1910 - 542 pages
...have 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... | |
| Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1909 - 636 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-... | |
| English poetry - 1910 - 540 pages
...have slain her lover ? ' Out spoke the hardy Highland wight, Til 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... | |
| William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1910 - 974 pages
...ready ; It is not for your silver bright, But for your winsome lady. 329. cantraips, witcheries. ' 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-... | |
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