My lady Green Sleeves, by the author of 'Comin' thro' the rye'. |
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... tell her I have seen you . Let me see , supposing now- " she reflects a moment . " Yes , we could manage it , I think . Of course she would like to see you . I will bring her down to Picotee Lane to - morrow morning . We will beg ...
... tell her I have seen you . Let me see , supposing now- " she reflects a moment . " Yes , we could manage it , I think . Of course she would like to see you . I will bring her down to Picotee Lane to - morrow morning . We will beg ...
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... tell me the way back to Sieviking ? " " I will show you , " I say , restoring to her the flowers that have fallen from her lap . " You know the way ? " she says . " Yes . " She is taller than I had thought . As we go down the glade ...
... tell me the way back to Sieviking ? " " I will show you , " I say , restoring to her the flowers that have fallen from her lap . " You know the way ? " she says . " Yes . " She is taller than I had thought . As we go down the glade ...
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... . ' As I pass We are walking on again now . each familiar landmark , I seem to be moving in a dream from which I shall presently awaken . " I don't know why I am telling you all this , " she says , timidly ; " but 48 MY LADY GREEN SLEEVES .
... . ' As I pass We are walking on again now . each familiar landmark , I seem to be moving in a dream from which I shall presently awaken . " I don't know why I am telling you all this , " she says , timidly ; " but 48 MY LADY GREEN SLEEVES .
Page 69
... tell me how it all happened . " " He is an elder son , " says Hetty , gravely ; " but he is plain Mister - Bell was furious because I would not accept a horrid , little old Duke , much older than Mr. Menzies , and without any teeth ...
... tell me how it all happened . " " He is an elder son , " says Hetty , gravely ; " but he is plain Mister - Bell was furious because I would not accept a horrid , little old Duke , much older than Mr. Menzies , and without any teeth ...
Page 84
... tell him , even if I would , how something stronger even than the love of a brother for a sister has within the past few moments stirred within me ; how in this man before me I seem to see the realisation of that dream of " My ain ...
... tell him , even if I would , how something stronger even than the love of a brother for a sister has within the past few moments stirred within me ; how in this man before me I seem to see the realisation of that dream of " My ain ...
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abruptly Anak's Ariel arms back Sieviking beautiful better boys breath brown eyes cerned Charolais child colour comes cries Bell cries Hetty dead dear Dear boy Dick door dress drily earn face falls feel fellow flowers Gilly girls give gone grip hands hand happy hard head hear heart Hetty's honour hope Hungerford Jill's kiss Lady Florizel Lady Green Sleeves laughing leave lives look looking-glass Lord Siva marriage mind never once pale parlour passionately pause perhaps Picotee Lane poor pretty rump steak says Anak says Bell says Cynthia says Green says Hetty says Jill says Pink says the Squiffer seems Sir Peter sisters smile Solomon soul stand sternly sudden fear talk tear tell thee thing thought to-morrow to-night told turns Ullathorne Ullathorne's voice wife window woman women wonder word young
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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.