A waefu' day it was to me ; For there I lost my father dear, My father dear and brethren three. Their winding-sheet the bluidy clay, Their graves are growing green to see ; And by them lies the dearest lad That ever blest a woman's e'e ! Now wae to thee... The Works of Robert Burns: With His Life - Page 282by Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1834 - 394 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Hartley Cromek - Ballads, Scots - 1810 - 286 pages
...day, A waefu' day it was to me ; For there I lost my father dear, My father dear and brethren three ! Their winding sheet the bluidy clay, Their graves...thee thou cruel lord, A bluidy man I trow thou be 4 For mony a heart thou hast made sair, That ne'er did wrang to thine or thee ! * By Burns. VOL. II.... | |
| Robert Burns - Scotland - 1815 - 364 pages
...day, A waefu' day it was to me ; For there I lost my father dear, Their winding sheet the bluidy elay, Their graves are growing green to see ; And by them...That ever blest a woman's e'e ! Now wae to thee, thou eruel lord, A bluidy man I trow thou be ; For mony a heart thou hast made sair. That ne'er did wrong... | |
| Alexander Balfour, Campbell (fict. name.) - 1819 - 972 pages
...CHAPTER XIV. Old times were changed, old manners gone, A stianger filled the Stuart's throne. SCOTT. Now wae to thee, thou cruel lord, A bluidy man I trow thou he, For mony a heart thou hast made sair, That ne'er did wrang to thine nor thee. BURNS. WHILE I was... | |
| Jacobites - 1821 - 502 pages
...; " For there I lost my father dear, " My father dear, and brethren three. " Their winding-sheet's the bluidy clay, " Their graves are growing green...mony a heart thou hast made sair, " That ne'er did wrang to thine or thee." SONG LXXXV. die dfraseri tn t&f Comt. FROM THE GAELIC. m "WHERE is your dad-dy... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 274 pages
...was to me ; For there I lost my father dear, My father dear, and brethren three. Their winding-sheet the bluidy clay, Their graves are growing green to...For mony a heart thou hast made sair, That ne'er did wrang to thine or thee. O MAY, THY MORN. O MAY, thy morn was ne'er sae sweet, As the mirk night o'... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...was to me ; For there I lost my father dear, My father dear, and brethren three. Their winding-sheet the bluidy clay, Their graves are growing green to...thou cruel lord, A bluidy man I trow thou be ; For mem) a heart thou hast made sair, That ne'er did wrang to thine or thee. LXXX. BONNIE BELL.* THE smiling... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 756 pages
...For there I lost my father dear, My father dear and brethren three. Their winding sheet the bloody clay, Their graves are growing green to see, And by...woman's e'e ! Now wae to thee, thou cruel lord, A bloody man I trow thou be; For mimy a heart thou hast made sair, That ne'er did wrang to thine or thee.... | |
| Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1825 - 388 pages
...them lies the dearest lad That ever blest a woman's e'e ! Now wae to thee, thou cruel lord, A bloody man I trow thou be ; For mony a heart thou hast made sair, That ne'er did wrang to thine or thee. It has been often said, though probably not written, that, in some half dozen... | |
| Robert Burns - 1826 - 288 pages
...waa to me ; For there I lost my father dear, My father dear, and brethren three. Their winding-sheet the bluidy clay, Their graves are growing green to...thou cruel lord, A bluidy man I trow thou be; For monie a heart thou hast made sait', That ne'er did wrong to thine or the?. THE ABSENT WAKRIOB. Tune—"... | |
| Ballads, English - 1828 - 396 pages
...I lost my father dear, My father dear, and brethren three. " Their winding sheet's the bluidy lay, Their graves are growing green to see ; And by them...thou cruel lord ! A bluidy man I trow thou be ; For monie a heart thou hast made sair, That ne'er did wrang to thine or thee." THE FRASERS tN THE CORBEL*... | |
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