 Her shirt was o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fyne ; At ilka tett of her horse's mane, Hung fifty siller bells and nine. True Thomas, he pull'd aff his cap, And louted low down to his knee, " All hail, thou mighty queen of heaven ! For...  Fraser's Magazine - Page 6501873Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - 1887 - 952 pages
...dreamt he saw, the queen of Elfland: " ' True Thomas lay on Huntlie bank; A ferlie he spied wl" his e'e; And there he saw a ladye bright, Come riding down by the Eildon tree. " ' Her skirt was o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fyne; At ilka tett of her horse's... | |
 | Robert Ford - Ballads, English - 1889 - 312 pages
...marvellous return to Fairyland. PART I. TRUE Thomas lay on Huntlie bank ; A ferlie he spied wi' his e'e ; And there he saw a ladye bright, Come riding down by the Eildon Tree. Her shirt was o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fyne ; At ilka tett of her horse's... | |
 | Katharine Lee Bates - Ballads, English - 1890 - 266 pages
...you'd been won away ! " TBUE TH0MAS. TKUE THOMAS lay on Huntlie bank ; A ferlie he spied with his e'e ; And there he saw a ladye bright, Come riding down by the Eildon tree. Her skirt was o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fine, At ilka tett of her horse's mane,... | |
 | Katharine Lee Bates - Ballads, English - 1890 - 262 pages
...been won away ! " TRUE THOMAS. TRUE THOMAS lay 011 Huntlie bank ; A ferlie he spied with his e'e ; And there he saw a ladye bright, Come riding down by the Eildon tree. Her skirt was o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fine, At ilka tett of her horse's mane,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1894 - 308 pages
...London, 1893.) PART FIRST— ANCIENT TRUE THOMAS lay on Huntlie bank ; A ferlie he spied wi1 his ee ; And there he saw a ladye bright, Come riding down by the Eildon Tree. Her shirt was o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fyne ; At ilka tett of her horse's... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 pages
...thee more and more. THOMAS THE RHYMER. TRUE THOMAS lay on Huntlie bank ; A ferlie he spied wi' his ee; And there he saw a ladye bright, Come riding down by the Eildon Tree. Her skirt was o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fyne; At ilka tett of her horse's mane... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - Scotland - 1919 - 208 pages
...example of mediaeval literature—- "True Thomas lay on Ihmtlie bunk. A ferlie he spied wi' his ее, And there he saw a ladye bright Come riding down by the Eildon Tree." Rohed in the vesture of another world, and surrounded by a dazzling bue of unearthly heauty. The consequences... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1900 - 410 pages
...saw, the queen of Elfland : " ' True Thomas lay on H untile bank; A f erlie he spied wi* his e'e ; And there he saw a ladye bright, Come riding down by the Eildon tree. " ' Her skirt was o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fyne; At ilka tett of her horse's... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1190 pages
...AUTHORS 367. Thomas the Rhymer "TRUE Thomas lay on Huntlie bank; *. A ferlie he spied wi' his e'e; And there he saw a ladye bright Come riding down by the Eildon Tree. Her skirt was o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fyne; At ilka tett o' her horse's mane,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Ballads, English - 1902 - 430 pages
...THOMAS THE RHYMER PART FIRST ANCIENT I TEUE Thomas lay on Huntlie bank ; A ferlie he spied wi' his ee ; And there he saw a ladye bright, Come riding down by the Eildon Tree. n Her shirt was o1 the grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fyne ; At ilka tett of her horse's... | |
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