Palgrave's Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics ...Macmillan, 1903 |
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... ballad , the only poem she is known to have written . " The story goes that , as they were driving home in the family coach one evening in 1756 , they talked of Flodden , and Gilbert wagered a pair of gloves or a set of ribbons against ...
... ballad , the only poem she is known to have written . " The story goes that , as they were driving home in the family coach one evening in 1756 , they talked of Flodden , and Gilbert wagered a pair of gloves or a set of ribbons against ...
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... ballad , The Dowie Dens of Yarrow . It is connected with ' dull ' and ' ' dully . ' ' sad . ' wae , adjective as well as substantive in Scottish , ' woful , ' 7. daffin ' , S. , joking . R. L. Stevenson in Kidnapped uses ' to daff ' for ...
... ballad , The Dowie Dens of Yarrow . It is connected with ' dull ' and ' ' dully . ' ' sad . ' wae , adjective as well as substantive in Scottish , ' woful , ' 7. daffin ' , S. , joking . R. L. Stevenson in Kidnapped uses ' to daff ' for ...
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... Ballad after ballad comes down loaded with a dirge like wail for some sad event , made still sadder for that it befell in Yarrow . " One of the most familiar traditions was of some comely youth either drowned by accident in Yarrow or ...
... Ballad after ballad comes down loaded with a dirge like wail for some sad event , made still sadder for that it befell in Yarrow . " One of the most familiar traditions was of some comely youth either drowned by accident in Yarrow or ...
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... ballad , Fine flowers in the valley : " She's ta'en out her little penknife , ( Fine flowers in the valley ) : And twin'd the sweet babe o ' its life , ( And the green leaves they grow rarely ) . " 38. braid and narrow . Such ...
... ballad , Fine flowers in the valley : " She's ta'en out her little penknife , ( Fine flowers in the valley ) : And twin'd the sweet babe o ' its life , ( And the green leaves they grow rarely ) . " 38. braid and narrow . Such ...
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... ballad poetry , and their meaning must not be pressed . But this phrase seems to have a special propriety here broadly , far and wide ; narrowly , carefully . 14. Toll for the brave " THIS little poem might be called one of our trial ...
... ballad poetry , and their meaning must not be pressed . But this phrase seems to have a special propriety here broadly , far and wide ; narrowly , carefully . 14. Toll for the brave " THIS little poem might be called one of our trial ...
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Aeneid Aeolian Aeschylus anapaest ancient ballad Bard beautiful bonnie Book Bradshaw braes Burns called charm Collins Comus Cowper CXLV dear death Dryden's Eclogue eighteenth century Elegy English English poetry epithet eyes F. T. Palgrave Faerie Queene fair favourite flowers Georgics Golden Treasury Gray Gray's Greek Hales heart honour Horace Horace's Il Penseroso Jean John Anderson King L'Allegro Lady Latin leal lines living lourche Lucretius LXXXIX Lycidas Lycidas G. T. lyre lyric Mary melancholy Metre Milton mind Muse Nativity Ode night o'er Paradise Lost Penseroso G. T. phrase Pindar poem poetic poetry poets Pope Queen reader rhyme Scottish sense shade Shakespeare simplicity sleep song Sonnet Sophocles sorrow soul sound Spenser stanza stream sweet tabby tear Tennyson thee thou thought Tovey Twas verb verse Virgil warble wind wings word Wordsworth written Yarrow وو
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