 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pàgines
...dim-declining age ! AFTOff WATER. JC LOW gently, sweet Afton, among Hie green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, i'low gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. Thou stock-dove, whose echo resounds through the... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 pàgines
...SWEET AFTON. TUNE— A/ton Water. FLO w gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afion, disturb not her dream. Thou stock-dove whose echo resounds thro' the glen, Ye wild whistling... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1822 - 440 pàgines
...wave. Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, sweet river, the theme of my lays ; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. BOJVNIE BELL. THE smiling spring comes in rejoicing, And surly winter grimly flies : Fresh o'er the... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pàgines
...Flow gently, sweet Afton ! among thy green braes ; Flow gently, sweet river ! the theme of my lays ; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream : Flow gently, sweet Afton ! disturb not her dream. XXI. TcSE—Gilderoy. FROM thee, Eliza ! I must go, And from my native shore ; The cruel fates between... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 756 pàgines
...prudent and frugal pair. AFTON WATER. Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise; My Mary's asleep by thy mnrmuring stream— Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. Thou stock-dove whose echo resounds... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 734 pàgines
...was to be addressed in rhyme. " Flow gently, sweet Afton,' among thy green braes. Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise: My Mary's asleep by...stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow ; There... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - 324 pàgines
...was to be addressed in rhyme. " Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise : My Mary's asleep...stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow ; There... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1829 - 414 pàgines
...Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes ; Flow gently, sweet river, the theme of my lays ; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream ; Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. 83 MACPHERSON'S FAREWELL. BURNS. Tuwe—Macpherson's Rant. FAREWEIL, ye prisons dark and strong, The... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pàgines
...him ! That's Christian care enough ; for living murmurers There's places of rebuke. Id. Henry VIII. My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, F'low gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. burns. Trouble is grudgingly and hardly brooked, While life's sublimest joys are overlooked : We wander... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1829 - 356 pàgines
...Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes ; Flow gently, sweet river, the theme of my lays ; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream; Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. * " The pastoral feeling which Bums infused into this song, is in strict conformity with nature. The... | |
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My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton... 
