 | Manchester Literary Club - 1879 - 336 sider
...went away ; And brought the king that very night, Who brake my bower, and slew my knight. He slew my knight, to me sae dear ; He slew my knight, and poin'd his gear ; My servants au for life did flee, And left me in extremitie. I sew'd his sheet, making my mane ; I watched the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1880 - 376 sider
...brake my bower, and slew my knight He slew my knight, to me sae dear; He slew my knight, and poin'd1 his gear ; My servants all for life did flee, And...making my mane ; I watch'd the corpse, myself alane ; 1 Poin'd — Poinded, attached by legal distress. I watch'd his body, night and day ; No living creature... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 sider
...brought the king that very night, Who brake my bower, and slew my knight. He slew my knight, to me sue PJ 3 Нее, And left me in extremitie. I sowed his sheet, making my mane ; I watohed the ooi'iwe myscll... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 sider
...brake my bower and slew my knight. He slew my knight, to me sae dear, He slew my knight, and poined his gear ; My servants all for life did flee, And left me in extremity. I sewed his sheet, making my maen, I watched the corpse, myself alane ; I watched his body... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 sider
...went away; And brought the king that very night, Who brake my bower and slew my knight. He slew my w extreniitie. I sew'd his sheet, making my mane -, I watch'd the corpse mysell alane ; I watch'd his... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 sider
...went away ; And brought the king that very night, Who brake my bower, and slew my knight. He slew my knight, to me sae dear ; He slew my knight, and poin'd...all for life did flee, And left me in extremitie. I sewed his sheet, making my mane ; I watched the corpse, myself alane ; 1 watched his body, night and... | |
 | Francis James Child, George Lyman Kittredge - 1886 - 280 sider
...went away, And brought the king that very night, Who brake my bower, and slew my knight. 3 He slew my knight, to me sae dear ; He slew my knight, and poind...all for life did flee, And left me in extremitie. 4 I sewd his sheet, making my mane ; I watched the corpse, myself alane ; I watched his body, night... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 388 sider
...He slew my knight and poin'd his gear ; My servants all for life did flee And left me in extremity. I sew'd his sheet, making my mane, I watch'd the corpse...creature came that way. I took his body on my back, And whiles I gaed and whiles I sat ; I digg'da grave, and laid him in, And happ'd him wi' the sod sae... | |
 | 1883 - 492 sider
...no introspection ; yet the miserere has all the pathos of the mourning of Rizpah : — " He slew my knight, to me sae dear, He slew my knight and poin'd...for life did flee, And left me in extremitie. " I sewed his sheet, making my mane ; I watch'd the corpse myself alane ; I watch'd his body night and... | |
 | Francis Hindes Groome - 1883 - 302 sider
...that exquisite ballad The Border Widow's Lament — ' I gew'd his sheet, making my mane ; I watch 'd the corpse, myself alane ; I watch'd his body night...creature came that way. •I took his body on my back. And whiles I gaed, and whiles I sat ; I digg'da grave, and laid him in. And happ'd him wi' the eod... | |
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A brawer bower ye ne'er did see, Than my true love he built for me. There came a man, by middle day, He spied his sport, and went away ; And brought the king that very night, Who brake my bower, and slew my knight. He slew my knight, to me sae dear ;... 
