"Birk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons cam' hame, And their hats were o' the birk. ...
— Ballad Book • Katherine Lee Bates (ed.)
... place in the secret rites and customs of the Ballad Age. It was with 'a wand o' the bonnie birk' that May Margaret went through the mysterious process of restoring her plighted troth to Clerk Saunders; in other ballads it is done by passes of the hand, or of a crystal rod. When the 'Clerk's Twa Sons o' Owsenford' were brought back to earth by their mother's bitter grief ...
— The Balladists - Famous Scots Series • John Geddie
... the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasped 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 Was my sweet ...
— Home Life of Great Authors • Hattie Tyng Griswold
... birk, green grows, green grows the grass, Yellow on Yarrow bank the gowan, Fair hangs the apple frae the rock, Sweet the wave of ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... the gay green birk! How rich the hawthorn's blossom! As underneath their fragrant shade I clasped 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 Was ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various
... the chairs back to the wa', But ane made o' the birk; She sweepit the flure,—left that ae spale, A lang spale o' ...
— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald
... subject, mentioned that the Lady Eleanor had sung or said certain choice ballads, and Henry eagerly entreated for one. It was the pathetic 'Wife of Usher's Well' that Eleanor chose, with the three sons whose hats were wreathen with the birk that ...
— Two Penniless Princesses • Charlotte M. Yonge
... even at my love's bour door "There grows a flowering birk; "And ye maun sit and sing thereon "As she gangs to ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3) • Walter Scott |
