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" FAREWELL to fair Alba, high house of the sun, Farewell to the mountain, the cliff, and the dun; Dun Sweeny, adieu! for my love cannot stay, And tarry I may not when love cries away. "
The death of the children of Usnach. The return of Claneboy. The captive of ... - Page 21
by Sir Samuel Ferguson - 1887
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The Book of Irish Ballads

Denis Florence MacCarthy - 1846 - 554 pages
...Draynach, adieu to the i Of the blue billows bursting in light on the shore ; Dun Fiagh, farewell ! for my love cannot stay, And tarry I may not when love cries away. ' Scotland. i A SIGH FOR KNOCKMANY. BY WILLIAM CAKLETON. TAKE, proud ambition, take thy fill Of pleasures...
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The book of Irish ballads, ed. by D.F. M'Carthy

Irish ballads - 1846 - 260 pages
...Draynach, adieu to the roar Of the blue billows bursting in light on the shore ; Dun Fiagh, farewell ! for my love cannot stay, And tarry I may not when love cries away. A SIGH FOB KNOCKMANY. BY WILLIAM CABLETON. TAKE, proud ambition, take thy fill Of pleasures won through...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 6; Volume 12

1850 - 744 pages
...to fair Alba, high house of the sun, Farewell to the mountain, the cliff, and the dun ; Dun Sweeny adieu ! for my love cannot stay, And tarry I may not when love calls away. Glen Nashan ! Glen Nashan ! whose roe bucks run free, Where my love used to feast on the...
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The Lyrics of Ireland

Samuel Lover - 1858 - 394 pages
...the mountain, the cliff, and the dun ; Dun Sweeny, adieu ! for my love cannot stay, And tarry I must not, when love cries "away." Glen Vashan ! Glen Vashan ! where roebucks run free, Where my love used to feed on the red-deer with me, Where, rocked on thy waters, while stormy winds blew, My love used to...
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The book of Irish ballads, ed. by D.F. M'Carthy

Irish ballads - 1881 - 268 pages
...to fair Alba, high house of the sun, farewell to the mountain, the cliff, and the duzi ; Dun-Sweeny, adieu ! for my love cannot stay, And tarry I may not when love cries away. Glen Vashanl Glen Vashan! where roebucks run free, Where my love used to feast on the red deer with mo ;...
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Poems of Ireland. To which is added 'Lover's Metrical tales'.

Samuel Lover - 1884 - 458 pages
...the mountain, the cliff, and the dun ; Dun Sweeny, adieu ! for my love cannot stay, And tarry I must not, when love cries " away." Glen Vashan ! Glen Vashan ! where roebucks run free, Where my love used to feed on the red-deer with me, Where, rocked on thy waters, while stormy winds blew, My love used to...
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Lays of the Western Gael: And Other Poems

Samuel Ferguson - 1888 - 226 pages
...ELL to fair Alba, high house of the sun, Farewell to the mountain, the cliff, and the dun; Dun Sweeny adieu ! for my love cannot stay, And tarry I may not when love cries aw_ay. Glen Vashan ! Glen Vashan ! where roebucks run free, Where my love used to feast on the red...
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Sir Samuel Ferguson in the Ireland of His Day, Volume 1

Lady Mary Catharine Guinness Ferguson, Mary Catharine Guinness Ferguson - 1896 - 386 pages
...Draynach, adieu to the roar Of the blue billows bursting in light on the shore ; Dun Fiagh, farewell ! for my love cannot stay, And tarry I may not when love cries away. The Lament which his heroine sings in his drama of " DeirdreY' published in ' Poems,' 1880, is pitched...
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Gaodhal, Volume 23

1904 - 276 pages
...Loch Etive she chanted this farewell to Alba that was a lament for the days that were over forever. Farewell to fair Alba, high house of the sun, Farewell...cannot stay And tarry I may not when Love cries Away. Farewell to Inch Draynachi, adieu to the roar Of the blue billows bursting in light on the shore. Dun...
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A History of Verse Translation from the Irish, 1789-1897

Robert Welch - 1988 - 226 pages
...Draynach, adieu to the roar Of the blue billow bursting in light on the shore: Dun Fiagh, farewell! for my love cannot stay, And tarry I may not when love cries: 'Away!'48 So far the concern has been with Ferguson's verse translations of Irish verse, but these,...
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