 | 1873 - 966 pàgines
...prints as the earliest known English love-song, and dates at or before 1200? It begins thus :— " Blow, northern wind ; Send thou me my sweeting : Blow, northern wind ; Blow, blow, Mow. Ich wot a burd in bower bright That full seemly is on sight, Menskful maiden of might, Fair and... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1894 - 376 pàgines
...She's a lily of largess, She is parnenke pronesse, She is salsecle of sweetness And lady of lealty. Blow, northern wind, send Thou me my sweeting ; blow Northern wind, blow, blow. 2. MY SWETE SWETYNG. AH ! my swete swetyng, My lytyl pretie swetyng ! My swetyng wyl I loue whereuer... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 462 pàgines
...little refrain as fresh as the wind it invokes, as certainly folk-song as anything left to us: — Blow, northern wind, Send thou me my sweeting! Blow, northern wind, Blow, blow, blow! The actual song, though overloaded with alliteration, has a good movement. A stanza may be quoted:... | |
 | Frederic Ives Carpenter - 1897 - 382 pàgines
...icumen in ", songs of politics and of patriotism, love -songs, snatches of refrain like the following : Blow, northern wind; Send thou me my sweeting ! Blow, northern wind Blow! blow! blow! and short pieces in many other sorts can be found among the scanty remains of this poetry. The greater... | |
 | Frederic Ives Carpenter - 1897 - 350 pàgines
...icumen in ", songs of politics and of patriotism, love -songs, snatches of refrain like the following: Blow, northern wind ; Send thou me my sweeting ! Blow, northern wind Blow! blow! blow! and short pieces in many other sorts can be found among the scanty remains of this poetry. The greater... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - 1897 - 656 pàgines
...little refrain as fresh as the wind it invokes, as certainly folk-song as anything left to us: — Blow, northern wind, Send thou me my sweeting! Blow, northern wind, Blow, blow, blow! The actual song, though overloaded with alliteration, has a good movement. A stanza may be quoted:... | |
 | Frederic Ives Carpenter - 1897 - 356 pàgines
...icumen in ", songs of politics and of patriotism, love -songs, snatches of refrain like the following: Blow, northern wind ; Send thou me my sweeting ! Blow, northern wind Blow I blow! blow! and short pieces in many other sorts can be found among the scanty remains of this poetry.... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 pàgines
...preserved was written about the year 1200. The following extract is modernized in spelling : — " Blow, northern wind, send Thou me my sweeting ; blow Northern wind, blow, blow, blow. She is coral of goodness, She is ruby of rich fulness, She is crystal of clearness, And banner of beauty."... | |
 | Francis Barton Gummere - 1901 - 528 pàgines
...a burde in boure bryht, which has the refrain at the beginning, as in many Provencal ballads : — Blow, northern wind, Send thou me my sweeting ! Blow, northern wind, blow, blow, blow ! Compare this with the artistic refrain of Alisoun, from which it differs so widely, and with the... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse - 1903 - 430 pàgines
...genuine a lyrical inspiration as will easily be found, it song 1 rsever cease. SONGS AND MUSIC 123 clearly is not the first of its kind. Its popularity...general appear open to the same charge as the similar umib U)dtt IT ft*" — OmtcaauQ -t -5-*iou. Client cuou^d fttifltf tw cucoi ndM —"•—•* \> I... | |
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Blow, northern wind, Send thou me my sweeting. Blow, northern wind, blow, blow, blow... 
