 | 1792 - 822 pages
...homage paid by me, In genuine TRUTH'* Simplicity. DELLA CRUSCA. A BALLAD. From PINKERTON'S COLLECTION. I WISH I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me ihe cries To bear her company. 0 would that in her darklome bed My weary fra.ne to reft were laid,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 458 pages
...growing green, A winding sheet drawn ower my een, And I in Helen's arms lying, On fair Kirconnell Lee. I wish I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries ; And I am weary of the skies, For her sake that died for me. HUGHIE THE GRAEME. 1 HE Graemes, as we... | |
 | Robert Jamieson - Ballads, Danish - 1806 - 388 pages
...in the mools at saught were laid, And the green truff closed o'er my head, On fair Kirkconnel-lee ! I wish I were where Helen lies, Night and day on me she cries ; — O, gin I were where Helen lies, In fair Kirkconnel-lee ! THE MER-MAN, 1 AND MARSTIG'S DAUGHTER.... | |
 | Scottish border - 1812 - 516 pages
...have, And do him save that's near his" grave, And dies for love of thcc. 328 FAIR HELEN. FART SECOND. I WISH I were where Helen lies! Night and day on me she cries ; O that I were where Helen lies, On fair Kirconnel Lee ! Curst be the heart that thought the thought,... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 472 pages
...pity have, And do him save that's near his grave, And dies for love of thee. FAIR HELEN. PART SECOND. I WISH I were where Helen lies, Night and day on me...she cries ; Oh that I were where Helen lies, On fair Kirconnell Lee ! Curst be the heart that thought the thought, And curst the hand that fired the shot,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Ballads, Scots - 1829 - 408 pages
...HELEN OF KIRKCONNEL.f TUNE — / wish I were where Helen lies. I WISH I were where Helen lies, Where night and day on me she cries ; Oh, that I were where Helen lies, On fair Kirkconnel lee I Ting, the daughter of the laird of Kirkconnel, in Dumfries-shire, was admired for her beauty,... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 1104 pages
...pity have, And do him save that's near his grave, And dies for love of then. FAIB HELEV. PART SECOND. I WISH I were where Helen lies, Night and day on me she cries; O that I were where Helen lies, On fair Kirconnell Lee ! Curst be the heart that thought the thought,... | |
 | England - 1835 - 794 pages
...growing green, A winding-sheet drawn o'er my een, And I in Helen's arms lying On fair Kirconnel lea. I wish I were where Helen lies, Night and day on me she cries ; I'm sick of all beneath the skies Since my love died for me. readings and different versions of ancient... | |
 | Railroad engineering - 1835 - 436 pages
...slave some pity haw. And do him save that's near hi« grave, And died for love of thee. PART SKCOND. 1 WISH I were where Helen lies, Night and day on me she cries ; О that I were where Helen lies, On fair Kirconnell Lee! Curst be the heart that thought the though:,... | |
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I wish I were where Helen lies; Night and day on me she cries; And I am weary of the skies, For her sake that died for me. 
