 MY JO. JOHN Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent ; Your locks were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent ; But now your brow is beld, John Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo.  The Yale Literary Magazine - Page 3731843Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burns - 1880 - 1024 pages
...Ye gallants braw, I rede you a', Beware o' bonny Ann 1 JOHN ANDERSON. TUNE — John Anderion my Jo. JOHN ANDERSON my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonny brow was brent ; But now your brow is beld, John, Your locks are like the snaw; But blessings... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 618 pages
...eyes, — fond as they were when this old ring was new ! WILLIAM Cox BENNETT. JOHN ANDERSON, MY JO. JOHN ANDERSON, my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent ; But now your brow is beld, John, Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1877 - 116 pages
...or green ; There 's not a bonnie bird that sings, But minds me o' my Jean. JOHN ANDERSON, MY JO. OHN ANDERSON, my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent ; But now your brow is beld, John, Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings... | |
 | Martha Rainbolt, Janet Fleetwood - 1983 - 370 pages
...your own youth but the youth of your children. Sweet things vanish and brightness falls from the air. John Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent; But now your brow is beld, John, Your locks are like the snaw; But blessings... | |
 | Jon Stallworthy - 1986 - 422 pages
...hopeless surrender. Translated from the Russian by Vladimir Nabokov Robert Burns JOHN ANDERSON MY JO John Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent; Your locks were like the raven, Your bony brow was brent; But now your brow is held, John, Your locks are like the snaw; But blessings... | |
 | 1993 - 412 pages
...我會回來的， 我的愛人， 即使萬里相隔@ 李小怡譯 孫梁校 39 John Anderson, My Jo Robert Bums John Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonie brow was brent; But now your brow is beld, John, Your locks are like the snow, But blessings... | |
 | Frank Shuffelton - 1993 - 295 pages
...lineal descendant of the celebrated, 'John Anderson my Jo.'" In Burns's poem, the speaker recalls young John: "When we were first acquent/ Your locks were like the raven /your bonny brow was brent." The jest book parody relates how Johnny Anderson joined the loyalist forces... | |
 | John Daverio - 1997 - 624 pages
...those same locks have become "like the snaw," and her premonition of future happiness beyond the grave: John Anderson, my jo, John when we were first acquent your locks were like the raven, your bonie brow was brent. But now your brow is beld, your locks are like the snaw, But blessings on... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pages
...16 Corn rigs, an' barley rigs, An' corn rigs are bonnie. 'It was upon a Lammas Night' (1796) 17 lohn Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonny brow was brent. 'John Anderson my Jo' ( 1 790} 18 I once was a maid, tho' I cannot tell... | |
 | Melissa Wiley - 2003 - 212 pages
...Laird 0' Cockpen, he's proud and he's great, His mind is ta'en up ar/' things o' the State . . ." And: "John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonny brow was brent; But now your brow is held, John; Your locks are like the snow; But blessing... | |
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