 | James Hogg - 1840 - 378 pages
...lang may her minny look o'er the wa.' And lang may she seek i' the green-wood shaw ; Lang the laird of Duneira blame, And lang, lang greet or Kilmeny...fled, When grief grew calm, and hope was dead, When mess for Kilmeny 's soul had been sung, When the bedes-man had prayed, and the dead bell rung, Late,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...lang may her minny look o'er the wa'. And lang may she seek i' the green-wood shaw ; Lang the laird of Duneira blame, And lang, lang greet or Kilmeny...When mass for Kilmeny's soul had been sung, When the bedea-man had pray'd, and the deadbell rung, Late, late in a gloamin, when all was still, When the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...wn'. And King may she seek i' the green-wood ahaw ; Lang the laird of Dunoira blame, And lang, lane! greet or Kilmeny come hame When many a day had come...Kilmeny's soul had been sung. When the bedes-man had pray'd, and the deadbell rung, Late, late in a gloamin, when all was still, When the fringe was red... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 934 pages
...lang may she seek in the greenwood shaw ; Lang the laird of Duneira blame, And lang, lang greet, ere Kilmeny come hame ! When many a day had come and fled,...When mass for Kilmeny's soul had been sung, When the beadsman had prayed, and the dead-bell rung, Late, late in a gloamin', when a' was still, When the... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - 1847 - 396 pages
...her minny* look o'er the wa', And lang may she seek i' the greenwood shaw ; Lang the laird of Duncira blame, And lang, lang greet or Kilmeny come hame !...When mass for Kilmeny's soul had been sung, When the beads-man had prayed, and the dead-bell rung, Late, late in a gloamin, when all was still, When the... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - 1851 - 398 pages
...mother look owre the wa', And lang may she seek in the greenwood shaw ; 108 "KILMENY." Lang the laird of Duneira blame, And lang, lang greet or Kilmeny...had been sung, When the bedesman had prayed, and the death-bell rung, Late, late in a gloaming, when all was still, When the fringe was red on the western... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 260 pages
...earth again. And the rhyme and the images are beyond all praise. Judge of thesQ few selections — " When many a day had come and fled, When grief grew...had been sung, When the bedesman had prayed, and the dead bell rung — Late, late in a gloamin' when all was still, When the fringe was red on the westlin... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...lang may her minny look o'er the wa', And lang may she seek i' the green-wood shaw; Lang the laird of Duneira blame, And lang, lang greet or Kilmeny...When the bedesman had prayed , and the deadbell rung, Hogg. Late , late in a gloamin when all was still, When the fringe was red on the westlin hill, The... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...lang may her mother look owre the wa', And lang may she seek in the greenwood shaw ; Lang the laird of Duneira blame, And lang, lang greet or Kilmeny...Kilmeny's soul had been sung, When the bedesman had pray'd, and the death-bell rung, Late, late in a gloaming, when all was still, When the fringe was... | |
 | John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, James Hogg - 1854 - 516 pages
...the greenwood shaw ; Lang the laird of Duneira blame, And lang, lang greet, ere Kilmeny come hame I When many a day had come and fled, When grief grew calm, and hope was dead, When mess for Kilmeny's soul had been sung, When the beadsman had prayed, and the dead-bell rung, Late,... | |
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The wood was sere, the moon i' the wane, The reek o' the cot hung over the plain, Like a little wee cloud in the world... 
