| Walter Scott - 1806 - 458 pages
...ower my een, And I in Helen's arms lying, On fair Kirconnell Lee. I wish I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries ; And I am weary of the skies, For her sake that died for me. HUGHIE THE GRAEME. 1 HE Graemes, as we have had frequent occasion to notice, were a powerful and numerous... | |
| Scottish border - 1812 - 516 pages
...ower my een, And I in Helen's arms lying, On fair Kirconnell Lee. I wish I were where Helen lies 1 Night and day on me she cries ; And I am weary of the skies, For her sake that died for mo. 331 HUGHIE THE GRJEME. THE Graemes, as we have had frequent occasion to notice, were a powerful... | |
| Scottish border - 1821 - 472 pages
...ower my een, And I in Helen's arms lying, On fair Kirconnell Lee. I wish I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries ; And I am weary of the skies, For her sake that died for me. HUGHIE THE GRAEME. THE Graemes, as we have had frequent occasion to notice, were a powerful and numerous... | |
| Walter Scott - 1833 - 1104 pages
...compare ! I'll make a garland of thy hair, Shall bind my heart for ever mair, Until the day I die. O that I were where Helen lies I Night and day on me she cries; Out of my bed she bids me rise, Says, Haste and come to me !" — 0 Helen fair! O Helen chaste! If... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1838 - 562 pages
...over my een, And I in Helen's arms lying, On fair Kirconnell Lee. I wish I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries; And I am weary of the skies, For ber sake that died for me.' HUGHIE THE GR^ME. The Graemes, as we have had frequent occasion to notice,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1842 - 746 pages
...ower my een, And I in Helen's arms lying, On fair Kirconnell Lee. I wish I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries; And I am weary of the skies, For her sake that died for me.S land. But a few years ago, ft cairn win pointed out to me in the King's Park ol' Edinburgh, which... | |
| 1844 - 671 pages
...will hardly fail to be reminded of the exquisite burst of sorrow: " Oh that I -were where Helen lies, Night and day on me she cries, And I am weary of the skies, For her sake that died for me." These and the Mariana at the Moated Grange, and the Recollections of the Arabian Nights — both which... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1844 - 178 pages
...ower my een, And I in Helen's arms lying, On fair Kirconnell Lee. I wish I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries ; And I am weary of the skies, For her sake that died for me. THE LUCK OF EDEN-HALL. THIS charming ballad was composed a few years since, by Mr. Wiflen, a member... | |
| 1845 - 888 pages
...blest. Would I wore with thee, and at rest Beneath the kirk-yard tree! ' O that I were where HELEN lies! Night and day on me she cries ; And I am weary of the skies For her sake that died for me.' The various female characters are also reproduced without alteration. The usual criticism upon these... | |
| Francis James Child - 1857 - 418 pages
...ower my een, And I hi Helen's arms lying, On fair Kirconnell Lee. I wish I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries ; And I am weary of the skies, For her sake that died for me. THE LOWLANDS OF HOLLAND. MB. STENHOUSE was informed that this ballad was composed, about the beginning... | |
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