 O gin my love were yon red rose That grows upon the castle wa', And I mysel' a drap o' dew, Into her bonnie breast to fa' ! Oh, there beyond expression blest. I'd feast on beauty a' the night ; Seal'd on her silk-saft faulds to rest, Till fley'd awa'...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Pàgina 621829Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1872 - 638 pàgines
...health, Is but a dirty fellow. Merry butt, and &c. O GIN MY LOVE WERE YON RED ROSE. FROM HERD'S MS. 0 GIN my love were yon red rose, That grows upon the castle wa', And I mysel' a drap of dew, Down on that red rose I would fa'. 0 my love's bonnie, bonnie, bonnie ; My love's... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pàgines
...night, And heaven thy morn will bless.'* — The Ckrutian Year. 0 GIN MY LOVE WERE YON RED ROSE. О leasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast Down on that red rose I would fa'. О my love's boimy, bonny, bonny ; My love's bonny, and f:iir to... | |
 | Lyrics, William Davenport Adams - 1874 - 312 pàgines
...By autumn wild and winter rude ! But I wad sing on wanton wing, When youthfu' May its bloom renewed. O gin my Love were yon red rose That grows upon the castle wa', And I mysel' a drap o' dew, Into her bonnie breast to fa' ! O ! there beyond expression blest, I'd feast... | |
 | Mary Carlyle Aitken - 1874 - 398 pàgines
...autumn wild, and winter rude ! But I wad sing on wanton wing, When youthfu' May its bloom renew'd. O gin my love were yon red rose, That grows upon the castle wa', And I mysel' a drap o' dew, Into her bonnie breast to fa' ! O ! there beyond expression blest, I'd feast... | |
 | Lord Neaves - 1874 - 234 pàgines
...hand, That I might touch that cheek ! " Christopher also appropriately refers to Burns :— " O that my love were yon red rose That grows upon the castle wa', And I myself a drap o' dew, , Into her bonny breast to fa'! " 0, there, beyond expression blest, I'd feast... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1876 - 536 pàgines
...additional words to the following beautiful fragment published in Herd's collection, Vol. II., 1776 :— " O gin my love were yon red rose, that grows upon the castle wa'; And I mysel' a drap o' dew, into her bonie breast to fa': Oh there, beyond expression blest, I'd feast on... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1876 - 626 pàgines
...autumn wild, and winter rude ! But I wad sing on wanton wing, When youthfu' May its bloom renewed. 0 gin my love were yon red rose, That grows upon the castle wa' ; And I mysel' a drap о' dew, Into her bonnie breast to fa' ! Oh, there boyond expression blest, I'd feast... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pàgines
...the first four lines of the following stanza, which Burns quotes from an old ballad ; — " Oh, that my love were yon red rose, That grows upon the castle wa', And I myself a drap o' dew, Into her bonny breast to fa' ! " Oh, there beyond expression blest, I'd feast... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 376 pàgines
...autumn wild, and winter rude ! But I wad sing on wanton wing, When youthfu' May its bloom renew'd. O gin my love were yon red rose That grows upon the castle wa', And I mysel' a drap o' dew, - Into her bonnie breast to fa' ! Oh! there beyond expression blest, I'd feast... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1878 - 550 pàgines
...autumn wild, and winter rude 1 But I wad sing on wanton wing, When youthfu' May its bloom renewed. [O, gin my love were yon red rose, That grows upon the castle wa', And I mysel' a drap o' dew, Into her bonnic breast to fa' ; O, there, beyond expression blest, I 'd feast... | |
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