Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 13Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1844 - English literature |
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Page iii
... sweet wit and good inven- tion , but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device , which gave good grace and comeliness unto them . " SPENSER'S View of the ...
... sweet wit and good inven- tion , but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device , which gave good grace and comeliness unto them . " SPENSER'S View of the ...
Page vii
... sweet ditties with delighted soul , Though much the ba rd who sung , he loathed , I ween . Yet spite of all the hatred them between- Spite of discordant creed , detested race , ― Still , when he heard the melancholy keen , Or the proud ...
... sweet ditties with delighted soul , Though much the ba rd who sung , he loathed , I ween . Yet spite of all the hatred them between- Spite of discordant creed , detested race , ― Still , when he heard the melancholy keen , Or the proud ...
Page xxx
... sweet Clonmel , Gives peace and hope , and all around , Rejoice that flames thy soul surround . Earth , yield at once thy hell - doom'd dead , Too cold thou art to be the bed Of hands by blessed blood profaned , Of heart with guilt of ...
... sweet Clonmel , Gives peace and hope , and all around , Rejoice that flames thy soul surround . Earth , yield at once thy hell - doom'd dead , Too cold thou art to be the bed Of hands by blessed blood profaned , Of heart with guilt of ...
Page lix
... sweet and terse is . Early and late , once proudly sung the bard , The glowing strains his busy brain created ; And surely on such honied fame ' twas hard That none his valued stores should have translated . But Erin's long neglected ...
... sweet and terse is . Early and late , once proudly sung the bard , The glowing strains his busy brain created ; And surely on such honied fame ' twas hard That none his valued stores should have translated . But Erin's long neglected ...
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... sweet voice to the breeze , Like the song of the Women of Tears . * Dear Island ! may plenty be thine ! May the sky that is o'er thee be calm ! Thy mornings with dew freshly shine , And thy evenings breathe only of balm . Holy Isle ...
... sweet voice to the breeze , Like the song of the Women of Tears . * Dear Island ! may plenty be thine ! May the sky that is o'er thee be calm ! Thy mornings with dew freshly shine , And thy evenings breathe only of balm . Holy Isle ...
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