Anonymous Poems

IN Scarlet town, where I was born,
   There was a fair maid dwellin',
Made every youth cry Well-a-way!
   Her name was Barbara Allen.
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The falcon soars
The town's gates are even higher

Angelica's their doorkeeper
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OF on that is so fayr and bright
   Velut maris stella,
Brighter than the day is light,
   Parens et puella:
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The time when first I fell in love,
Which now I must lament;
The year wherein I lost such time
To compass my content.
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O HAPPY dames! that may embrace
   The fruit of your delight,
Help to bewail the woful case
   And eke the heavy plight
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O I forbid you, maidens a',
That wear gowd on your hair,
To come or gae by Carterhaugh,
For young Tam Lin is there.
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THE reivers they stole Fair Annie,
   As she walk'd by the sea;
But a noble knight was her ransom soon,
   Wi' gowd and white monie.
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The king sits in Dumferling toune,
Drinking the blude-reid wine:
"O whar will I get guid sailor,
To sail this schip of mine?"
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SISTER, awake! close not your eyes!
   The day her light discloses,
And the bright morning doth arise
   Out of her bed of roses.
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