| Charles Kingsley - Essays - 1860 - 424 pages
...to go without epithets. Compare the second stanza of each : — Thou'lt break my heart, thou bonnie bird, That sings upon the bough ; Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fause love was true. * * * * * * Thou'lt break my heart, thou warbling bird, That wantons through the flowery... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...wring his bosom, is—to die. cxxxix O. Goldsmith Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon How can ye bloom sae fair ! How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae fu' o' care ! Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird That sings upon the bough ; Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fause Luve was true.... | |
| Household song - 1861 - 72 pages
...Fareweel, fareweel ! sweet Baliodimyle. THE I5ANKS 0' DOON. FIRST VERSION. YE flowery banks o' bonnie Boon, How can ye blume sae fair ! How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae fu' o' care ! THE BANKS 0' DOON. Thou'lt break my heart, them bonnie bird, That sings upon the bough ; Thou minds... | |
| Robert Burns - 1863 - 328 pages
...altered, is afterwards introduced. January, 1787. YE flowery banks o' bonnie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fair ! How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae fu' o' care ! Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird, That sings upon the bough ; Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fause luve was true.... | |
| Robert Burns - 1863 - 332 pages
...altered, is afterwards introduced. January, 1787. YE flowery banks o' bonnie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fair ! How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae fu' o' care ! Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird, That sings upon the bough ; Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fause luve was true.... | |
| English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...fair ! How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae fu' o' care ! Thou 'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird That sings upon the bough ; Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fause Luve was true. Thou 'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird That sings beside thy mate ; For sae I sat, and sae I sang,... | |
| Conway Keith - 1863 - 318 pages
...the whole underlaid by a ground-swell of storm : Ye banks and braes o' bonny Doon, How can ye bloom sae fair ? How can ye chant, ye little birds ? And I sae fu' o' care ! Thou'lt break my heart, thou bonnie bird, That sings upon the bough ; Thou minds me of the happy... | |
| English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...his bosom, is — to die, O. Goldsmith cxxxix "\/E banks and braes o' bonnie Doon ]L How can ye bloom sae fair ! How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae fu' o' care ! Thou 'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird That sings upon the bough ; Thou minds me o' the happy... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1864 - 784 pages
...popular song given at p. 325, of Dr. Currie's fourth volume : — " Ye flowery banks o' bonie Doon, How can ye blume sae fair ; How can ye chant, ye little...the bough ; Thou minds me o* the happy days When my fanse Iiivr was true. " Thou'll break my heart, thou bonie bird That sings beside thy mate ; For sae... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...That weary-laden mourn ! 259. THE BANKS o' DOON. Ye flowery banks o' bonnie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fair ! How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae fu' o' care ! Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird, That sings upon the bough ; Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fause luve was true.... | |
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