| Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 页
...dead ; but I'm no like to dee. O, why was I born to cry, Wae's me ! I gang like a ghaist, and I carena to spin ; I darena think o' Jamie, for that wad be...I will do my best a gude wife aye to be, For auld Eobin Gray, O ! he is kind unto me. GEORGE CRABBE. Born, 1754; Died, 1832. AN ENGLISH PEASANT. To pomp... | |
| Edward Clarke Lowe - 1868 - 186 页
...gang like a ghaist, and I carena to spin ; I daurna think on Jamie, for that wad be a sin ; But I'll do my best a gude wife aye to be, For Auld Robin Gray he is kind unto me. Lady A. Lindsay. 68. — THE DAFFODILS. I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud That floats... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 页
...that I were dead, but I'm na like to dee, For, though my heart is broken, I'm but young, — Wae is me ! I gang like a ghaist, and I carena much to spin,...gude wife aye to be, For Auld Robin Gray, oh, he is sac kind to me. REGINALD HEBER, 1783-1826. Whose eloquence Ilt'hl rm-i'-LMtiiTM open-ear'd An from... | |
| English poems - 1870 - 722 页
...gang like a ghaist, and I carena to spin ; I daurna think on Jamie, for that wad be a sin ; But I'll do my best a gude wife aye to be For auld Robin Gray he is kind unto me. ' INTRODUCTION TO THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. BY WALTER SCOTT. — 1771-1832.... | |
| 1871 - 210 页
...awa. 1 wish that I were dead, but I'm no like to dee ; For O, I am but young to cry out, Woe is me ! T gang like a ghaist, and I carena much to spin. I darena...best a gude wife aye to be ; For Auld Robin Gray, O ! he is sae kind to me. LADY AXNE LINDSAY. OLD TIMES. • I. OLD times, old times, the gay old times,... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 页
...wish that I were dead, but I'm na like to die, For, though my heart is broken, I'm but young, wae is me ! I gang like a ghaist, and I carena much to spin,...darena think o' Jamie, for that wad be a sin ; But I'll do my best a gude wife to be, For, O, Robin Gray, he is kind to me. ROBERT BURNS. Robert Burns... | |
| Casket - 1873 - 912 页
...Wae is me! I gang like a ghaist, and I carena to spin ; I .1. n m. i think o' Jamie, for that would - is a kind man to me. PART II. The spring had pass'd over, 'twas summer пае mair. And, trembling,... | |
| Lyrics, William Davenport Adams - 1874 - 312 页
...gang like a ghaist, and I carena to spin ; I daurna think on Jamie, for that wad be a sin ; But I'll do my best a gude wife aye to be, For auld Robin Gray he is kind unto me. Lady Anne Barnard. CCLV. LOVES FAREWELL. ADIEU LOVE, UNTRUE LOVE. WHILE that the... | |
| Violet Fane - 1875 - 266 页
...gang like a ghaist, and I care na to spin, I daur na think on Jamie, for that wad be a sin ; But I'll do my best a gude wife aye to be, For Auld Robin Gray he is sae kind to me." (" Auld Rodin Gray," by LADY ANNE LINDSAY. > IV. O it was over ! Love had come... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 页
...like a ghaist, and I carena to spin ; I e la i in ia think on Jamie, for that wad be a sin ; But I'll do my best a gude wife aye to be, For Auld Robin Gray is kind unto me. BY THE FIRESIDE. RESIGNATION. [HsirRT WADSWORTH LOROFEMXiW, born February 27, 1807,... | |
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