My lady Green Sleeves, by the author of 'Comin' thro' the rye'. |
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... meet on equal terms , and the word obey " is unknown , save in middle - class households , where virtue still flourishes , and the ten commandments are moderately observed . Perhaps the wretched training of women nowa- days has ...
... meet on equal terms , and the word obey " is unknown , save in middle - class households , where virtue still flourishes , and the ten commandments are moderately observed . Perhaps the wretched training of women nowa- days has ...
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... meet , the highest and lowest classes touch , and are welded together in their immorality ; only the one sins gracefully in purple and fine linen , the other in rags , and in a hovel . In the month that I have been in town I MY LADY ...
... meet , the highest and lowest classes touch , and are welded together in their immorality ; only the one sins gracefully in purple and fine linen , the other in rags , and in a hovel . In the month that I have been in town I MY LADY ...
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... meet anyone you knew , they'd never suspect you of being our sister . " " You are a very rude boy , " says Bell , colouring and tossing her little crocus head ; " the girls have spoilt you , I see . ” " In my class , " I say , with mock ...
... meet anyone you knew , they'd never suspect you of being our sister . " " You are a very rude boy , " says Bell , colouring and tossing her little crocus head ; " the girls have spoilt you , I see . ” " In my class , " I say , with mock ...
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... meet the other pair , and all four mingle , and kiss one another , I vow they make a posy of beauty not to be matched in the whole town . They conclude their embraces within doors , and I have observed that when women , who really like ...
... meet the other pair , and all four mingle , and kiss one another , I vow they make a posy of beauty not to be matched in the whole town . They conclude their embraces within doors , and I have observed that when women , who really like ...
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... meet her lover if he does not come , yet when he is safely within her reach , will not fail to keep him waiting . " Such coquetry may do for some men , but it won't do for him , " I say , sternly . " If you are going , go this minute ...
... meet her lover if he does not come , yet when he is safely within her reach , will not fail to keep him waiting . " Such coquetry may do for some men , but it won't do for him , " I say , sternly . " If you are going , go this minute ...
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Page 65 - He is made one with Nature. There is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder to the song of night's sweet bird. He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone ; Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own, Which wields the world with never-wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
Page 133 - Bonnie and blooming and straight was its make, The sun took delight to shine for its sake ; And it will be the brag o
Page 156 - And mony ane sings o' corn ; And mony ane sings o' Robin Hood, Kens little whare he was born. It was na in the ha', the ha', Nor in the painted bower ; But it was in the gude green wood, Amang the lily flower.
Page 65 - His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there All new successions to the forms they wear; Torturing th...
Page 107 - Empedocles, himself a native of the city, that • the Agrigentines built as if they were to live for ever, and feasted as if they were to die on the morrow.
Page 88 - It was well known that with a woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat 'em the better they be.
Page 89 - Up then spake the Queen o' Fairies, Out o' a bush o* broom — "She that has borrow'd young Tamlane, Has gotten a stately groom. — Up then spake the Queen o' Fairies, Out o' a bush o' rye— "She's ta'en awa the bonniest knight In a
Page 68 - THERE was three ladies in a ha', Fine flowers i' the valley ; There came three lords amang them a', Wi' the red, green, and the yellow.
Page 114 - They managed things better in Rome,' I say, laughing, ' where the citizens used to take out their slaves to evening parties to jest for them, and at every shout of laughter provoked by them assumed an air of modesty as if they had said all the good things themselves — it must have saved them a lot of trouble.
Page 211 - The red o' my love's cheek is red As blood that's spilt on snaw. "When ye come to the castle, Light on the tree of ash, And sit ye there and sing our loves As she comes frae the mass. " Four and twenty fair ladies Will to the mass repair; And weel may ye my lady ken, The fairest lady there.