Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 13Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1844 - English literature |
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Page xviii
... light blue , the change to a rusty kind of black , was effected by steeping them in bog water for some days . My attention was first attracted to the keen in 1813 , by the following circumstance . - In the sum- mer of that year I ...
... light blue , the change to a rusty kind of black , was effected by steeping them in bog water for some days . My attention was first attracted to the keen in 1813 , by the following circumstance . - In the sum- mer of that year I ...
Page xli
... lights to his poor mother's soul , are closed and sunk in darkness for ever ! -The Ban- shee will come on the morrow , when ye are keening the last keen of sorrow over his head , -its cry will drown your death - song , for Oweneen was ...
... lights to his poor mother's soul , are closed and sunk in darkness for ever ! -The Ban- shee will come on the morrow , when ye are keening the last keen of sorrow over his head , -its cry will drown your death - song , for Oweneen was ...
Page xlii
... lights seen dancing on Cairn Thierna , and moving quickly across the wet bog , and let ye not follow , for the evil spirit is the guide , and will lead you to darkness . - Come to my grave when the yellow leaves off the trees are upon ...
... lights seen dancing on Cairn Thierna , and moving quickly across the wet bog , and let ye not follow , for the evil spirit is the guide , and will lead you to darkness . - Come to my grave when the yellow leaves off the trees are upon ...
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... light morning breeze , but so indistinct and so faint from distance , that it was repeated more than once before I could be quite certain it was more than mere imagination . However , I heard it again and again at intervals of a few ...
... light morning breeze , but so indistinct and so faint from distance , that it was repeated more than once before I could be quite certain it was more than mere imagination . However , I heard it again and again at intervals of a few ...
Page lv
... light and darkness , playing upon the surface of a sullen stream ; or like those blazes intermittingly shot forth by the Persian fire - flies on the meinham tree , which , glittering in their confusion , shed their most beautiful lights ...
... light and darkness , playing upon the surface of a sullen stream ; or like those blazes intermittingly shot forth by the Persian fire - flies on the meinham tree , which , glittering in their confusion , shed their most beautiful lights ...
Common terms and phrases
Adew appears BALLADS Banshee beauty blacke shepe blessed brother Callanan Carrigaline Castle cold Corpus Christi College county of Cork dark darling dead death dere derlyng Do-well Dublin Dunmanway Earl of Desmond earth Editor Edmond Fitzgerald England's Helicon English eyes fair father feare fire Fraser's Magazine gaol grief hand harp hart hath heart heaven Innisfail Irish Irish poetry John Fitzgerald John Jegon Keating keen keeners Knight of Glin Knight of Kerry knytte lament Leary literally Lord Milesius morning Morty Oge mourning murder never nowght o'er O'Sullivan Bear original Percy Society poem poetry poor priest printed Puxley Rapparees Richard Cox Saxon Say-well shulde knytte sing song sorrow soul South of Ireland Sullivan sweet tears thee Thomas thou translation Twas verses versified voice Walsh weeping wild woman words wounde my flesshe wyll wyll dothe rule Wytte