Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 13Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1844 - English literature |
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Page xix
... thou- sands of the peasantry usually assembled there for the purposes of piety and mirth , penance and transgression . This combination of purposes may sound odd to an English ear , but it nevertheless correctly describes this , and ...
... thou- sands of the peasantry usually assembled there for the purposes of piety and mirth , penance and transgression . This combination of purposes may sound odd to an English ear , but it nevertheless correctly describes this , and ...
Page xxix
... thou art doomed to endless fire . Pluto and Nero , fiend and man , In hellish deeds thy acts outran ; Cromwell and Judas , two in one Thou wert , xxix.
... thou art doomed to endless fire . Pluto and Nero , fiend and man , In hellish deeds thy acts outran ; Cromwell and Judas , two in one Thou wert , xxix.
Page xxx
... thou'rt gone . Perfidious Maude , thy long farewell , To Dundrum's plain , and 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 ...
... thou'rt gone . Perfidious Maude , thy long farewell , To Dundrum's plain , and 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 ...
Page xxxviii
... thou who wert well - educated , mild , Who wert just and pure , and free from vice , as innocent as a child ; Oh ! glorious King of heaven , hadst thou spared to me the best- It breaks my heart entirely , I - might have parted with the ...
... thou who wert well - educated , mild , Who wert just and pure , and free from vice , as innocent as a child ; Oh ! glorious King of heaven , hadst thou spared to me the best- It breaks my heart entirely , I - might have parted with the ...
Page xlvi
... thou left us so ? The gem , the flower of all thy race , With heretics to go . ' " The annexed verse alludes to the custom in Catholic countries , of placing a new coffin when put into the ground , under the old coffins which had been ...
... thou left us so ? The gem , the flower of all thy race , With heretics to go . ' " The annexed verse alludes to the custom in Catholic countries , of placing a new coffin when put into the ground , under the old coffins which had been ...
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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