| Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...fountain, wood, or green, There's not a bonnie bird that sings But minds me of my Jean. AFTON WATER. Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow...murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. . . . Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely it glides, And winds by the cot where my Mary... | |
| Robert Burns - Poets, Scottish - 1881 - 700 pages
...Willie had, I wadna gie a button for her. FLOW GENTLY, SWEET AFTON. TUNE — Tht YeUoa-haired LaMie. FLOW gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow...by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturh not her dream. Theu stoek-dovo wheso eohe resounds through the glen Ye wild whistling blaekbirds... | |
| Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...its thorny tree ; And my fause luver stole my rose, But ah! he left the thorn wi' me. AFTON WATER. Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow...asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Aftou, disturb not her dream. Thou stockdove whoso echo resounds through the glen, Ye wild whistling... | |
| Robert Burns - 1881 - 326 pages
...mean an angel mind. 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...stream, — Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. Thou stock-dove, whose echo resounds through the glen, We wild whistling blackbirds in yon... | |
| Austin Barclay Fletcher - Elocution - 1881 - 498 pages
...earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written. ROBERT EMMEI. FLOW GENTLY, SWEET AFTON. X FLOW gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise ; Mv Mary 's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. Thou... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1882 - 720 pages
...shall rest, And joy shall revisit my bosom no more. AFTON WATER. Tune — The Yellow-haired Laddie. FLOW gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow...stream, — Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. Thou stock-dove, whose echo resounds through the glen, Ye wild whistling blackbirds in yon... | |
| Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...its thorny tree; And my fause hiver stole my rose, But ah ! he left the thoru wi' шс. AFTON WATER. Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow...murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not- her dream. Thou stockdove whoso echo resounds through the glen, Ye wild whistling blackbirds in you... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - English literature - 1882 - 460 pages
...1869; N. Br. Eev., v. 16, 1851-2. Burns' A/ton Water. Plow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes,i Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise;...murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. Thou stock-dove, whose echo resounds thro' the glen, Ye wild, whistling black birds in yon... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 380 pages
...all along considered the most proper to be used whenever fair lady 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 ; lly Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. How pleasant... | |
| Robert Burns - Scotland - 1882 - 374 pages
...WATER.* FLOW gently, sweet Afion, *mt*ng t • t green braes, Flow gently. Til sing thec a sooj, ii thy praise ; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not Tier dream. Thou stock-dove whose echo resound* thro' the 'glen, Ye wild whistling blackbirds in jo*... | |
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