 | Robert Bell - Ballads, English - 1885 - 490 pages
...Eildon hills his name still lingers, but it is only the echo of the old lore.] TRUE Thomas lay on Huntly bank, A ferlie* he spied wi' his ee, And there he saw a lady bright, Come riding down by the Eildon tree. Her shirt was o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle... | |
 | Washington Irving - Abbotsford (Scotland) - 1886 - 562 pages
...Ihomas the Rhymer lay musing and sleeping when he saw, or dreamt he saw, the queen of Elfland: " ' True Thomas lay on Huntlie bank; A ferlie he spied...bright, Come riding down by the Eildon tree. " ' Her skirt was o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fyne; At ilka tett of her horse's mane... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - English poetry - 1887 - 416 pages
...from intercourse with the Elfin Queen. His first meeting with her the ballad thus describes : — " True Thomas lay on Huntlie bank, A ferlie he spied wi' his e'e ; And there he saw a lady bright Come riding down by the Eildon Tree." After some parley, in which Thomas, by kissing the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1887 - 952 pages
...or dreamt he saw, the queen of Elfland: " ' True Thomas lay on Huntlie bank; A ferlie he spied wl" his e'e; And there he saw a ladye bright, Come riding down by the Eildon tree. " ' Her skirt was o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fyne; At ilka tett of her horse's mane... | |
 | Robert Ford - Ballads, English - 1889 - 312 pages
...Rhymer's poetical fame, and the traditional account of his marvellous return to Fairyland. PART I. TRUE Thomas lay on Huntlie bank ; A ferlie he spied...the velvet fyne ; At ilka tett of her horse's mane Hang fifty siller bells and nine. True Thomas, he pull'd off his cap, And louted low down to his knee,... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1890 - 976 pages
...ALFRED Тиятю«. lije fll^mer. TRUE THOMAS lay on Huntlie bank ; A ferlie he spied wi' his ее ; And there he saw a ladye bright, Come riding down...grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fyne ; At ilka tctt of her horse's mane Hung fifty siller bells and nine. True Thomas he pulled aff his cap, And louted... | |
 | Katharine Lee Bates - Ballads, English - 1890 - 266 pages
...hell, Ere you'd been won away ! " TBUE TH0MAS. TKUE THOMAS lay on Huntlie bank ; A ferlie he spied with his e'e ; And there he saw a ladye bright, Come riding down by the Eildon tree. Her skirt was o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fine, At ilka tett of her horse's mane,... | |
 | Katharine Lee Bates - Ballads, English - 1890 - 262 pages
...Ere you'd been won away ! " TRUE THOMAS. TRUE THOMAS lay 011 Huntlie bank ; A ferlie he spied with his e'e ; And there he saw a ladye bright, Come riding down by the Eildon tree. Her skirt was o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fine, At ilka tett of her horse's mane,... | |
 | George Eyre-Todd - 1893 - 344 pages
...Stone.] TRUE THOMAS lay on Huntlie bank, A ferlie1 he spied wi' his e'e; "marvel. And there he saw a lady bright, Come riding down by the Eildon tree. Her shirt...o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fine; At ilka tett2 of her horse's mane Hung fifty siller bells and nine. True Thomas, he pulled aff... | |
 | Floris Delattre - English poetry - 1912 - 248 pages
...much renowned as a " rymour, " that is as a poet and prophet, in the beginning of the XlVth century : True Thomas lay on Huntlie bank ; A ferlie he spied...Her shirt was o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle o'the velvet fyne ; At ilka tett of her horse's mane, lock Hung fifty siller bells and nine.1 She dared... | |
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TRUE Thomas lay on Huntlie bank ; A ferlie he spied wi' his e'e ; „ And there he saw a ladye bright, Come riding down by the Eildon Tree. Her shirt was o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fyne ; At ilka tett of her horse's mane, Hang fifty... 
