| Thomas Campbell - 1809 - 148 pages
...my word! the bonny bird ' In danger shall not tarry; 131 So, though the waves are raging white, I'll row you o'er the ferry. — By this the storm grew...The water-wraith was shrieking;' And in the scowl of heav'n each face Grew dark as they were speaking. But still as wilder blew the wind, And as the night... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1810 - 266 pages
...word ! the bonny bird * In danger shall not tarry; ' So, though the waves are raging white, ' I'll row you o'er the ferry.'— By this the storm grew...water-wraith was shrieking ;* And in the scowl of heav'n each face Grew dark as they were speaking. 9 The evil spirit of the waters. But still as wilder... | |
| John Aikin, Robert Harding Evans - 1810 - 508 pages
...by my word, the bonny bird , In danger shall not tarry ; So, though the waves are raging white, I'll row you o'er the ferry." By this the storm grew loud...The water-wraith was shrieking, And in the scowl of heav'n each face Grew dark, as they were speaking. " Oh ! haste thee, haste ;" the lady cries, " Though... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1810 - 272 pages
...word! the bonny bird ' In danger shall not tarry; , ' So, though the waves are raging white, ' I'll row you o'er the ferry.' — By this the storm grew loud apace, The water- wraith was shrieking ;» And in the scowl of heav'n each face Grew dark as they were speaking.... | |
| Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...word ! the bonny bird, " In danger shall not tarry : " So, tho' the waves are raging white, " I'll row you o'er the ferry !" By this the storm grew loud...apace, The water-wraith was shrieking ; * And in the scowle of heaven, each face Grew dark as they were speaking. But still as wilder blew the wind, And... | |
| 1811 - 462 pages
...the bonny bir4 ' In danger shall uot tarry , 'So, though the waves arc raging white, ' I'll row yon o'er the ferry.*— " By this the storm grew loud...water-wraith was shrieking; " And in the scowl of heav'n each face "Grew dark as they were speaking, " But still .as wilder blew the wind, " And as the... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1814 - 274 pages
...word! the bonny bird ' In danger shall. not tarry; ' So, though the waves are raging white, ' I'll row you o'er the ferry.' — By this the storm grew loud apace, The water- wraith was shrieking ; s And in the scowl of heav'n each face Grew dark as they were speaking.... | |
| 1817 - 292 pages
...highland sterility, and bare rocks, which we had eft behind us ; but here again — —the water wraith was shrieking, And, in the scowl of heaven, each face Grew dark as ice were speaking.* The road to Stirling winded serpentinely round the town, so that we had it always... | |
| 1821 - 438 pages
...by my word ! the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry ; So, though the waves are raging white, I'll row you o'er the ferry." By this the storm grew loud...The water-wraith was shrieking ; And in the scowl of hcav'n each face Crew dark as they were speaking. But still as. wilder blew the wind, And as the night... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 188 pages
...word ! the bonny bird ' In danger shall not tarry ; ' So though the waves are raging white, ' I'll row you o'er the ferry.'— By this the storm grew loud apace, The water-wraith was shrieking ; 2 And in the scowl of heav'n each face Grew dark as they were speaking. But still as wilder blew... | |
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