 | Bernard Burke - Families - 1869 - 434 pages
...so fair, Now moulder in decay ; Proud strangers now usurp their lands, And bear their wealth away. " Those towers, alas ! now stand forlorn, With noisome...lords and courtly dames, And where the poor were fed." BISHOP PERCY. » FROM its source in Knocknanavon (Cnoc na habun — Hill of the Rivers), on the confines... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1869 - 388 pages
...towers, And overlooks the sea. 31 Those towers, alas! now lie forlorn, With noisome weeds o'erspred, Where feasted lords and courtly dames, And where the poor were fed. 32 Meantime far off, mid Scottish hills The Percy lives unknown: On stranger's bounty he depends, And... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 276 pages
...fair, Now moulder in decay ; Proud strangers now usurp their lands, And bear their wealth away. Not far from hence, where yon full stream Runs winding down...'mid Scottish hills, The Percy lives unknown ; On strangers' bounty he depends, And may not claim his own. O might I with these aged eyes But live to... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1870 - 526 pages
...fair, Now moulder in decay ; Proud strangers now usurp their lands, And bear their wealth away. Not far from hence, where yon full stream Runs winding down...'mid Scottish hills, The Percy lives unknown ; On strangers' bounty he depends, And may not claim his own. O might I with these aged eyes But live to... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Durham (England : County) - 1873 - 502 pages
...Hatt, formerly a property of the Greys, and beyond, " Not far from hence, where yon full stream Enns winding down the lea, Fair Warkworth lifts her lofty towers, And overlooks the sea." 32 m. Warkworth Stat. The town is li m. distant from the Stat., and about as far from the sea. A conveyance... | |
 | English poetry - 1877 - 394 pages
...Now moulder in decay; Proud strangers now usurp their lands, And bear their wealth away. 30 Nor far from hence, where yon full stream Runs winding down...Warkworth lifts her lofty towers, And overlooks the sea. 31 Those towers, alas! now lie forlorn, With noisome weeds o'erspred, Where feasted lords and courtly... | |
 | Aungervyle society - 1884 - 474 pages
...Now moulder in decay ; Proud strangers now usurp their lands, And bear their wealth away. " Nor far from hence, where yon full stream Runs winding down the lea, Fair WA*KWORTH lifts her lofty towers, And overlooks the sea. " Those towers, alas ! now stand forlorn,... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - Great Britain - 1908 - 450 pages
...what lord belong ? " the hermit narrates the evil fortunes which have befallen the Percies: " Not far from hence, where yon full stream Runs winding down...lords and courtly dames, And where the poor were fed." And so the ballad sings its way, leading to the revelation of the identity of the hermit's guests,... | |
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No chieftain of that noble house Now leads our youth to arms ; The bordering Scots despoil our fields, And ravage all our farms. Their halls and castles, once so fair, Now moulder in decay ; Proud strangers now usurp their lands, And bear their wealth... 
