 O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk? How rich the hawthorn's blossom! As underneath their fragrant shade, I clasped her to my bosom! The golden hours on angel wings, Flew o'er me and my dearie; For dear to me as light and...  Country life [poems]. - Pàgina 125per Country life - 1873 - 147 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1845 - 440 pàgines
...; For dear to me as light and life, Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi' mony a vow, and lock'd emhrace, Our parting was fu' tender ; And, pledging aft to meet again, We tore our selves asunder ; But Oh ! fell death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early ! Now green's... | |
 | 1846 - 374 pàgines
...And then that radiant image of " angels-wings ! " — But we need not expatiate further. " Wi' many a vow and lock'd embrace, Our parting was fu' tender...pledging aft to meet again. We tore oursels asunder." Ay, " fu.' tender" indeed was your parting ! Ye stood on one side a crystal rivulet and Mary Campbell... | |
 | 1846 - 166 pàgines
...my dearie ; For dear to me ns light and life, Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi' mony a vow and locli'd embrace, Our parting was fu' tender ; And pledging aft to meet again, We tore ourselves asunder. But OI fell death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early ; Now green's... | |
 | percy b. st. john - 1846 - 436 pàgines
...Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me as light and life, Was my sweet Highland Mary. " WI' many a vow and lock'd embrace, Our parting was fu' tender ; And pledging oft to meet again, We tore ouTзsls asunder. g in But, ah ! fell death's untimely frost That nipped... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 856 pàgines
...they laved their hands in the purling brook, fondly vowed to be faithful to each other : " Wi' mony a vow, and lock'd embrace, Our parting was fu' tender...untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early ! Now green 's the sod, and cauld 's the clay, That wraps my Highland Mar)'. Oh pale, pale now, those rosy... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1847 - 704 pàgines
...Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me, as light and life, Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi' monie a vow and lock'd embrace, Our parting was fu' tender ; And pledging aft to meet again, We tote ourse Is asunder: u Unfold«. But, oh ! fell death s untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early... | |
 | 1847 - 906 pàgines
...my dearie ; For dear to me as light and life, Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi' monie a vow and locked embrace, Our parting was fu' tender, And pledging aft to meet again, We tore ourselves asunder. But oh ! fell death's untimely frost, That nipt my friend sae early, Now green's... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1855 - 126 pàgines
...lines which he consecrates to the memory of his own early love, his " Highland Mary," — " Wi" mony a vow, and lock'd embrace, Our parting was fu' tender ; And, pledging aft to meet again, We tore ourselves asunder ; " But, oh ! fell Death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early ! Now green's... | |
 | Sylvan (pseud.) - 1848 - 106 pàgines
...stream as cruelly forced upon his remembrance — -fell Death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sac early! Now green's the sod, and cauld's the clay That wraps my Highland Mary ! Sorrowful indeed are all the associations of the banks of Ayr, and as the traveller when " the gloomy... | |
 | British minstrel - 1848 - 480 pàgines
...dearie ; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi' mony a vow and lock'd emhrace, Our parting was fu' tender ; And, pledging aft to meet again, We tore ourselves asunder. But oh! fell death's untimely frost, That nipt my flow'r so early; Now green's the... | |
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