 | 1853 - 774 pages
...now let 's hear what you can do : — A SPINNING-WHEEL SONG. Aw—" The Little Hcusi under the HUL" Mellow the moonlight to shine is beginning ; Close...knitting — " Eileen, achora, I hear some one tapping." — " "I'is the ivy, dear mother, against the glass flapping." " Eileen, I surely hear somebody sighing."... | |
 | Arts - 1854 - 394 pages
...the window young Eileen is spinning, Sent o'er the fire her blind grandmother, sitting, scroaning, and moaning, and drowsily knitting — 'Eileen, achora,...the ivy, dear mother, against the glass flapping." Eileen, I surely hear somebody sighing."— ' 'Tis the sound, mother dear, of the summer wind dying."... | |
 | Edward Hayes - Ballads, English - 1856 - 396 pages
...fretting, The pale night-sick moon is setting. THE SPINNING WHEEL SONG. BY JOHN FRANCIS WALLER, LL. D. MELLOW the moonlight to shine is beginning ; Close...tapping." " ' Tis the ivy, dear mother, against the glass napping." " Eileen, I surely hear somebody sighing." " 'Tis, the sound, mother dear, of the summer... | |
 | Edward Hayes (collector of ballads) - 1856 - 442 pages
...fretting, The pale night-sick moon is setting. THE SPINNING WHEEL SONG. BY JOHN FRANCIS WALLER, LL.D. MELLOW the moonlight to shine is beginning ; Close...the ivy, dear mother, against the glass flapping." " Eileen, I surely hear somebody sighing." " 'Tis the sound, mother dear, of the summer wind dying."... | |
 | Edward Hayes - Ballads, Irish - 1857 - 456 pages
...fretting, The pale night-sick moon is setting. THE SPINNING WHEEL SONG. BY JOHN FRANCIS WALLER, LL.D. MELLOW the moonlight to shine is beginning ; Close...the ivy, dear mother, against the glass flapping." " Eileen, I surely hear somebody sighing." "'Tis the sound, mother dear, of the summer wind dying."... | |
 | 1857 - 280 pages
...delicate modulation It can not fail to win all the attention of an audience, when properly recited. MELLOW the moonlight to shine is beginning ; Close...Bent o'er the fire her blind grandmother sitting, Is groaning, and moaning, and drowsily knitting— " Eileen, achora, I hear some one tapping ;"— " "I*... | |
 | Samuel Lover - Ballads, English - 1858 - 394 pages
...peasantry pattern) means the observance of a patron saint's day. A SPINNING-WHEEL SONG. J, F. WALIEE, LL.D. MELLOW the moonlight to shine is beginning ; Close...Bent o'er the fire her blind grandmother, sitting, Is croning, and moaning, and drowsily knitting — "Eileen, achora, I hear some one tapping." — " "Tis... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 pages
...pride: Weep no more ! The world's strong chains Are cast aside. A SPINNING-WHEEL SONG. By JF WALLER. MELLOW the moonlight to shine is beginning ; Close...Bent o'er the fire her blind grandmother, sitting, Is croning, and moaning, and drowsily knitting— " Eileen, achora, I hear some one tapping."— " 'Tis... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 540 pages
...the window young Eileen is spinning ; Bent o'er the fire, her blind grandmother, sitting, Is croning, and moaning, and drowsily knitting. " Eileen, achora,...the ivy, dear mother, against the glass flapping." " Eileen, I surely hear somebody sighing." " 'Tis the sound, mother dear, of the summer wind dying."... | |
 | John Francis Waller - 1863 - 294 pages
...whispers near, "We'll be back with the cuckoo in spring next year." 235 * A SPINNING-WHEEL SONG. I MELLOW the moonlight to shine is beginning ; Close...Bent o'er the fire her blind grandmother, sitting, Is croning, and moaning, and drowsily knitting — " Eileen, aohora, I hear some one tapping.'' — "... | |
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Eileen, I surely hear somebody sighing." " 'Tis the sound, mother dear, of the summer wind dying. 
