Thomas Tickell: Colin and Lucy
Leinster Colin and Lucy Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) OF Leinster, famed for maidens fair, Bright Lucy was the grace, Nor e’er did Liffy’s limpid stream Reflect so sweet a face; Till luckless love...
View ArticleAnonymous: Rathlin – The Enchanted Island
TO Rathlin’s Isle I chanced to sail, When summer breezes softly blew, And there I heard so sweet a tale, That oft I wished it could be true. They said, at eve, when rude winds sleep, And hushed...
View ArticleRobert Burns: Ca´the Yowes to the Knowes (Kathleen Ferrier)
CHORUS.—Ca’ the yowes to the knowes, Ca’ them where the heather grows, Ca’ them where the burnie rows, My bonny dearie! Hark! the mavis’ evening-sang Sounding...
View ArticleAnonymous: On the Banks of the Dee
THE MOON had climbed the highest hill That rises o’er the banks of Dee, And from her farthest summit poured Her silver light o’er tower and tree, When Mary laid her down to sleep, Her thoughts...
View ArticleWilliam Wordsworth: The Thorn
I “There is a Thorn—it looks so old, In truth, you’d find it hard to say How it could ever have been young, It looks so old and grey. Not higher than a two years’ child...
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