Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 13Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1844 - English literature |
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Page xviii
... true mourning suit of the people of rank is a new white cloth , first dyed yellow with waver , the wood of a tree which the monks use to dye their garments . When the cloth is dyed yellow , it is again buried in a black mud , common in ...
... true mourning suit of the people of rank is a new white cloth , first dyed yellow with waver , the wood of a tree which the monks use to dye their garments . When the cloth is dyed yellow , it is again buried in a black mud , common in ...
Page xxi
... true , perfectly true ; " and she then began reciting , or rather , murmuring , with a mo- notonous modulation of voice , about a dozen Irish verses , clapping her hands and rocking her body backwards and forwards between each verse . I ...
... true , perfectly true ; " and she then began reciting , or rather , murmuring , with a mo- notonous modulation of voice , about a dozen Irish verses , clapping her hands and rocking her body backwards and forwards between each verse . I ...
Page xxiv
... true representative of the expiring race of Bardic Ireland . This woman , whose name was Harrington , had come from the south - west part of the county of Cork . She led a wandering kind of life , travelling from cabin to cabin about ...
... true representative of the expiring race of Bardic Ireland . This woman , whose name was Harrington , had come from the south - west part of the county of Cork . She led a wandering kind of life , travelling from cabin to cabin about ...
Page lii
... true pathos of this ancient melody to see that it bore with undiminished effect so close a juxta- position with the real demonstration of genuine and unartificial grief ; indeed I fancied at times that some of them , even in the utmost ...
... true pathos of this ancient melody to see that it bore with undiminished effect so close a juxta- position with the real demonstration of genuine and unartificial grief ; indeed I fancied at times that some of them , even in the utmost ...
Page 32
... gold , My white - handed champion , My marshal so bold . My fierce - fighting bear ; My loud - sounding horn ; My fiery - mouthed dragon ; My own Goll Mac Morn ; My hero ; my lion ; My true lady's knight 32 SPECIMENS OF THE KEEN.
... gold , My white - handed champion , My marshal so bold . My fierce - fighting bear ; My loud - sounding horn ; My fiery - mouthed dragon ; My own Goll Mac Morn ; My hero ; my lion ; My true lady's knight 32 SPECIMENS OF THE KEEN.
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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