Ballads and Songs of Brittany

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Macmillan and Company, 1865 - 239 páginas
 

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Página 18 - That night they laid her, stiff and cold, Beside her lord, beneath the mould : When lo, a marvel to behold ! Next morn from the grave two oak-trees fair Shot lusty boughs high up in air ; And in their boughs...
Página 213 - I've lost them, my naked feet I've torn, A-following my sweeting through field and brake of thorn : The rain may beat, and fall the sleet, and ice chill to the bone, But they're no stay to hold away the lover from his own. My sweeting is no older than I that love her so : She's scarce seventeen, her face is fair, her cheeks like roses glow. In her eyes there is a fire, sweetest speech her lips doth part; Her love, it is a prison where I've locked up my heart. Oh, to what shall I liken her, that a...
Página 214 - ... But they're no stay to hold away the lover from his own. My sweeting is no older than I that love her so, — She's scarce seventeen; her face is fair, her cheeks like roses glow. In her eyes there is a fire; sweetest speech her lips doth part: Her love it is a prison where I've locked up my heart. Oh, to what shall I liken her, that a wrong it shall not be? To the pretty little white rose, that is called Rose-Marie? The pearl of girls; the lily when among the flowers it grows, — The lily newly...
Página 214 - To the pretty little white rose, that is called Rose-Marie ? The pearl of girls ; the lily when among the flowers it grows, The lily newly opened, among flowers about to close. When I came to thee a-wooing, my sweet, my gentle May, I was, as is the nightingale upon the hawthorn spray : When he would sleep, the thorns, they keep a pricking in his breast, That he flies up perforce, and sings upon the tree's tall crest.
Página xxi - Breton peasant. He informs us in his preface that his habit has been to obtain all the versions he could of the same ballad, and the only liberty he has taken has been in choosing between more and less complete versions — proceeding on the sound theory that the fullest in detail and most picturesque in colour were likely to be the oldest. The result has been a body of ballads with as distinct and consistent an impress of their time upon them as the very best preserved examples in the Border Minstrelsy.
Página 46 - Now tell me, tell me, thou porter bold, If that thy master be in hold ? " " But, be he in, or be he out, God guard from harm that chieftain stout.
Página 41 - Say, fisher, the mermaid hast thou seen, Combing her hair by the sea-waves green — Her hair like gold in the sunlight sheen ? " " I saw the white maiden of the sea, And I heard her chaunt her melody, And her song was sad as the wild waves be.
Página 45 - Then outspake the Intendant straight : ' Vassal, thy head shall make the weight ! ' " With that his sword forth he abrade, And straight smote off the young man's head ; " And by the hair the head he swung, And in the scale, for makeweight, flung.
Página 205 - THE CROSS BY THE WAY (KROAZ ANN KENT) SWEET in the greenwood a birdie sings; Golden-yellow its two bright wings; Red its heartikin, blue its crest' Oh, but it sings with the sweetest breast! Early, early it 'lighted down On the edge of my ingle-stone, As I prayed my morning prayer, — "Tell me thy errand, birdie fair." Then sung it as many sweet things to me As there are roses on the rose-tree : " Take a sweetheart, lad, an' you may ; To gladden your heart both night and day.
Página 41 - Awake, Sir King, the gates unspar ! Rise up, and ride both fast and far! The sea flows over bolt and bar! 3. Ye crags and peaks, I 'm with you once again ! I hold to you the hands you first beheld, To show they still are free. Methinks I hear A spirit in your echoes answer me, And bid your tenant welcome home again ! 4. O sacred forms, how proud you look!

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