 O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasp'd her to my bosom! The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie; For dear to me as light and life...  The Songs of England and Scotland - Page 2341835 - 675 pagesFull view - About this book
 | England - 1839 - 870 pages
...hirk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom ; As underneath the fragrant shade I clavp'd her to my bosom I The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie j For dear to me. as light and life, Was my sweet Highland Mary. " Wi' mony a vow and lock'd embrace... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1818 - 346 pages
...hirk, How rieh the hawthorn's hlossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I elasp'd her to my hosom ! The golden hours, on angel wings, Flew o'er me and...life, Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi' mony a vOW, and loek'd emhraee, Our parting was fu' tender ; And, pledging aft to meet again, We tore ourse Is asunder... | |
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots - Poets, Scottish - 1821 - 414 pages
...birk. How rich the hawthorn's blossom ! As underneath their fragrant shade, I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours on angel wings, Flew o'er me and...me as light and life, Was my sweet Highland Mary. The gleam of bliss, unhappily, was but transient. The object of this passion died early in life, and... | |
 | Society of ancient Scots - 1821 - 226 pages
...rich the hawthorn's blossom ! . ° As underneath their fragrant shade, I clasp'd her to my bosom 1 The golden hours on angel wings, Flew o'er me and...me as light and life, Was my sweet Highland Mary. The gleam of bliss, unhappily, was but transient. The object of this passion died early in life, and... | |
 | 1821 - 724 pages
...youthful courtships, when, as he says with inimitable sweetness, The golden hours, on angel wings, Hew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me as light and life, Was my young Highland Alary. A sort of pensive moral pathos seems, in his earlier pieces, to have been a predominant... | |
 | American wit and humor - 1821 - 154 pages
...kirk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom : As underneath her fragrant shade, I clasp'd her to my bosom ! •The golden hours, on angel wings ; Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For (ivar to me as light and life, Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi' money a vow, and lock'd embrace, Our... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom ; As underneath their fragrant shade, I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours on angel wings, Flew o'er me and...pledging aft to meet again, We tore oursels asunder ; Hut Oh ! fell death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early ! Now green's the sod, and cauld's... | |
 | Joseph Clinton Robertson - Poets, Scottish - 1822 - 414 pages
...birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom ! As underneath their fragrant shade, I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours on angel wings, Flew o'er me and...me as light and life, Was my sweet Highland Mary. The gleam of bliss, unhappily, was but transient. The object of this passion died early in life, and... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 274 pages
...birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade, I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours, on angel wings, Flew o'er me and...me, as light and life, Was my sweet Highland Mary. i Young's Night Thought*. AULD LANG SYNE. 171 Wi' mony a vow, and lock'd embrace, Our parting was fu'... | |
 | James M'Henry - American literature - 1824 - 276 pages
...prisoners could be conveyed without risk or difficulty to their destination. CHAP. XXII. With many a vow and lock'd embrace, Our parting was fu' tender; And pledging oft to meet again, We tore ourselves asunder. BCKHS. As the party proceeded to Mr. Agnew's, the lovers... | |
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