Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets, Together with Some Few of Later Date, Volume 1E. Moxon, 1844 |
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Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets, Together with Some Few of Later Date Thomas Percy. RELIQUES OF ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY : CONSISTING OF OLD HEROIC BALLADS , SONGS , AND OTHER PIECES OF OUR ...
Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets, Together with Some Few of Later Date Thomas Percy. RELIQUES OF ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY : CONSISTING OF OLD HEROIC BALLADS , SONGS , AND OTHER PIECES OF OUR ...
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... ballads in the old Scottish dialect , most of them of the first - rate merit , are also interspersed among those of our ancient English min- strels ; and the artless productions of these old rhap- sodists are occasionally confronted ...
... ballads in the old Scottish dialect , most of them of the first - rate merit , are also interspersed among those of our ancient English min- strels ; and the artless productions of these old rhap- sodists are occasionally confronted ...
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... ballads , near 2000 in number , which he has left pasted in five volumes in folio ; besides garlands and other smaller miscellanies . This collection he tells us was " begun by Mr. Selden ; improved by the addition of many pieces elder ...
... ballads , near 2000 in number , which he has left pasted in five volumes in folio ; besides garlands and other smaller miscellanies . This collection he tells us was " begun by Mr. Selden ; improved by the addition of many pieces elder ...
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... ballads . From all these some of the best pieces were selected ; and from many private collections , as well printed ... ballad - singers , have , as might be ex- pected , been handed down to us with less care than any other writings in ...
... ballads . From all these some of the best pieces were selected ; and from many private collections , as well printed ... ballad - singers , have , as might be ex- pected , been handed down to us with less care than any other writings in ...
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... Ballads . It was at the request of many of these gentlemen , and of others eminent for their genius and taste , that this little work was undertaken . To prepare it for the press has been the amusement of now and then a vacant hour amid ...
... Ballads . It was at the request of many of these gentlemen , and of others eminent for their genius and taste , that this little work was undertaken . To prepare it for the press has been the amusement of now and then a vacant hour amid ...
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Adam Bell agayne ancient Anglo-Saxon appears archar arrowes awaye ballad Bards called castle Cloudeslè Comedy copy Cotton Library daughter daye dear doth Douglas Du Cange Earl Earl of Northumberland edition editor Edom English Erle fast father fayre Garland greene willow hand harpe Harper hart hast hath heart Henry Hist intitled John king king Estmere knight lady ladye lord Minstrels mither Music myght never noble Northumberland Otterbourn owre Patrick Spence Percy Persè play poem poet printed quoth reader reign Robin Hood Romance ryde sayd saye Scotland Scots Scottish Shakesp Shakespeare shalt shee shew Sing slaine slayne song sonnes stanzas sworde syr Cauline thee ther theyr thou thow thre Tyll unto whan willow wold word writer wyfe wyll Wyllyam Wyth yemen yere zour
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Page 209 - THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against Fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 173 - The rest complains of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward Winter reckoning yields: A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle...
Page 173 - A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Page 192 - Hadst thou been fond, he had been false, And left thee sad and heavy ; For young men ever were fickle found, Since summer trees were leafy.
Page 174 - A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten ; In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw, and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps, and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and be thy love.
Page ii - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Page 57 - The king has written a braid letter. And signd it wi his hand, And sent it to Sir Patrick Spence, Was walking on the sand. The first line that Sir Patrick red, A loud lauch lauched he; The next line that Sir Patrick red, "O what is this has don this deid, This ill deid don to me, To send me out this time o' the yeir, To sail upon the se!
Page 209 - The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon Death's purple altar, now, See where the victor victim bleeds : All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
Page 253 - Solitude, romantic maid ! Whether by nodding towers you tread ; Or haunt the desert's trackless gloom, Or hover o'er the yawning tomb ; Or climb the Andes' clifted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide : Or, starting from your half-year's sleep, From Hecla view the thawing deep : Or, at the purple dawn of day, Tadmor's marble wastes survey." observing,
Page 191 - Now Christ thee save, thou reverend friar, I pray thee tell to me, If ever at yon holy shrine My true love thou didst see. And how should I know your true love, From many another one ? O by his cockle hat, and staff, And by his sandal shoone.