 | Joseph Payne - 1874 - 390 sider
...suffice for. "Mak ready, mak ready, my merry men a',1 Our gude ship sails the morn " " Now ever alak ! my master dear, I fear a deadly storm. " I saw the new moon late yestreen,2 Wi' the auld moon in her arm ; Arid if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1874 - 206 sider
...melancholy waste of salt water. To be sure it was a lovely night, with a young moon in its sky, — " I saw the new moon late yestreen Wi' the auld moon in her arms," — and we kept an anxious lookout for the Maine hills that push so boldly down into the sea.... | |
 | Weldon Thornton - 1968 - 568 sider
...In the ballad "Sir Patrick Spens," one of the seamen warns his captain against the voyage by saying, "I saw the new moon late yestreen/ Wi' the auld moon...gang to sea, master,/ I fear we'll come to harm." 700.36/685.20 THE APPEARANCE OF A STAR . . . ABOUT THE PERIOD OF THE BIRTH OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE .... | |
 | L. P. Wilkinson - 1969 - 392 sider
...portion is visible'. He goes on, however,41 to compare the lines in the ballad of Sir Patrick Spens, I saw the new moon late yestreen Wi' the auld moon in her arms. But there, surely, the phenomenon is taken as a sinister portent, whereas in Virgil it is the... | |
 | Joseph Needham - 1959 - 1146 sider
...the 'Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens' puts it: I saw the new moon yestereen Wi' the old moon in her arms, And if we gang to sea, Master, I fear we'll come to harm. Kuhnert (5), in an elaborate paper, has shown that this phenomenon was recognised by the Chinese under... | |
 | Sheila Hales - 1994 - 160 sider
...o'er the sea wi' me. Make ready, make ready, my merry men a', Our gude ship sails the morn:' 'Now, ever alake! my master dear, I fear a deadly storm!...sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.' They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift grew dark, and the wind blew loud,... | |
 | Joseph Needham, Colin A. Ronan - 1978 - 476 sider
...the 'Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens' puts it: I saw the new moon yestereen Wi' the old moon in her arms, And if we gang to sea, Master, I fear we'll come to harm. The phenomenon was recognised by the Chinese, and Ssuma Chhien says: When the sky is serene, then the... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 sider
...The Return "Mak ready, mak ready, my merry men a'! Our gude ship sails the morn." "Now ever alack, my master dear, I fear a deadly storm. "I saw the...harm." They hadna sail'da league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift grew dark, and the wind blew loud, And gurly grew the sea. The ankers... | |
 | A. J. Hill - 2010 - 274 sider
...thin streamers of oil wavered up toward the distant surface. Otherwise, nothing moved. THE BEGINNING "I saw the new moon late yestreen Wi' the auld moon...we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm." —TRADITIONAL BALLAD MONDAY, AUGUST 3O, 192O, 12:OO— BOSTON NAVY YARD. At noon on Monday, August... | |
 | Paul Brandon - 2002 - 386 sider
...CALLING In dreams begins responsibility. — William Butler Yeats, Old Play, Epigraph, Responsibilities I saw the new moon late yestreen Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, 1 fear we'll come to harm. —Anonymous 1 SCOTLAND, LAST JULY Sorrow washed over me completely, like... | |
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Our gude ship sails the morn." "Now ever alake, my master dear, I fear a deadly storm! I saw the new moon, late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm. 
