 | 1834 - 766 pages
...have the honour to be, Mr. Editor, Your faithful and obedient servant, CORNELIUS O'BRIEN. (?)— ED. THE FAIRY THORN. •• Get up, our Anna dear, from...asleep : Come up above the crags, and we'll dance a higbland reel Around the fairy thorn on the steep." At Anna Grace's d_oor 'twas tbus the maidens cried,... | |
 | sir Charles Gavan Duffy - 1845 - 262 pages
...King William that crossed the water. THE FAIRY THORN. AN ULSTER BALI.AIl. BY SAMUEL FERGUSON, UKIA " GET up, our Anna dear, from the weary spinning wheel; For your father 's on the hill, and your mother U asleep: Come up above the crags, and we'll dance a highland... | |
 | Edward Hayes (collector of ballads) - 1856 - 442 pages
...the angels were whispering with thee." THE FAIRY THORN. AN ULSTER BALLAD. BY 8AMDEL FERGUSON, MRIA " GET up, our Anna dear, from the weary spinning wheel...'twas thus the maidens cried, Three merry maidens fan- in kirtles of the green ; And Anna laid the rock and the weary wheel aside, The fairest of the... | |
 | Sir Charles Gavan Duffy - 1861 - 264 pages
...dear, from the weary «pirJMg wheel ; For your father 's on the hill, and your mother is asleep : Cnme up above the crags, and we'll dance a highland reel Around the fairy thorn on the steep." A t Anna Grace's door 'twas thus the maidens cried. Three merry maidens fair in kirtles of the green... | |
 | 1879 - 830 pages
...sinking twilight. "'Get up, our Anna dear, from the weary spinning-wheel ; For your father's on the bill, and your mother is asleep : Come up above the crags,...highland reel Around the fairy thorn on the steep.' * * • * " But lolemn is the silence of the silvery haze That drinks away their voices in echolets... | |
 | 1884 - 658 pages
...twilight. " ' Get up, our Anna dear, from the weary spinning-wheel ; For your father's on the bill, and your mother is asleep : Come up above the crags,...highland reel Around the fairy thorn on the steep.' * • * * " But solemn is the silence of the silvery haze That drinks away their voices in ecbolees... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 394 pages
...grant them quiet freedom too, And blithe homes soon again : " THE FAIRY THORN. AN ULSTER BALLAD. " Get up, our Anna dear, from the weary spinning wheel;...merry maidens fair in kirtles of the green; And Anna kid the rock and the weary wheel aside, The fairest of the four, I ween. They're glancing through the... | |
 | Alfred Mason Williams - 1881 - 472 pages
...THORN. AN ULSTER BALLAD. " GET up, our Anna dear, from the weary spinning-wheel ; For your father 's on the hill, and your mother is asleep : Come up above the crags, and we 'll dance a highland reel Around the fairy thorn on the steep." At Anna Grace's door 't was thus... | |
 | John O'Hagan - 1887 - 94 pages
...mystic supernaturalism. A presence not of earth pervades and breathes from the sinking twilight. " ' Get up, our Anna dear, from the weary spinning- wheel...highland reel Around the fairy thorn on the steep." * * * * " But solemn is the silence of the silvery haze That drinks away their voices in echoless repose,... | |
 | 1887 - 842 pages
...That sat with thy white lap full of nuts, Beneath the hazel tree. THE FAIRY THORN. AN ULSTER BALLAD. " GET up, our Anna dear, from the weary spinning wheel ; For your father 's on the hill and your mother is asleep : Come up above the crags, and we'll dance a highland... | |
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For your father's on the hill, and your mother is asleep : .Come up above the crags, and we'll dance a highland reel Around the fairy thorn on the steep.' " At Anna Grace's door 'twas thus the maidens cried, Three merry maidens fair in kirtles of the... 
