 | George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 pages
...to which thou sett'st thy feet, 20 Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet Beneath each birken njamin tribes2 their creamy bowl allots; By night they sip it round the cottage door, 25 While airy minstrels... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 412 pages
...land to which thou sett'st thy feet, Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet Beneath each birken shade on mead or hill. There each trim lass that skims the milky store To the swart tribes their creamy bowl allots; By night they sip it round the cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes.... | |
 | John Milton - 1918 - 236 pages
...standing fee." There is the same allusion in Collins' Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands: "There, each trim lass that skims the milky store, To the swart tribes their creamy bowl allots." 108. Shadowy, ie without substance, unreal. 109. Some say that here and in Coriolanus,... | |
 | John Duncan Ernst Spaeth - 1921 - 302 pages
...or elf-bolts, and they are supposed to be hurled not only at human beings, but especially at cattle. "There every herd by sad experience knows How winged with fate their elf-shot arrows fly." — COLLINS, Ode on Highland Superstitions. 34. WITCH FLY AWAY. In old German, witches are called woodwives,... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...to which thou sett'st thy feet ; Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet Beneath each birken shade on mead or hill. There each trim lass that skims the milky store To the swart tribes their creamy bowl allots ; By night they sip it round the cottage-door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes.... | |
 | R. R. Agrawal - 1990 - 316 pages
...supposed to make the domestic animals sick. Collins poetizes this popular belief in the following lines: There, each trim lass, that skims the milky store,...notes. There every herd, by sad experience, knows How, wing'd with fate, their elf-shot arrows fly, When the sick ewe her summer food forgoes, Or, stretched... | |
 | Deborah Elise White - 2000 - 252 pages
...to which thou sett'st thy feet; Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet 20 Beneath each birken shade on mead or hill. There each trim lass that skims the milky store To the swart tribes their creamy bowl allots; 165 By night they sip it round the cottage-door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes.... | |
 | Katharine Mary Briggs - 2002 - 360 pages
...store, To the swart tribes their creamy bowls allots; By night they sip it round the cottage-door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. There, every herd, by sad experience, knows How, wing'd with Fate, their elf-shot arrows fly, When the sick ewe her summer food foregoes, Or, stretch'd... | |
 | 1846 - 778 pages
...practices, — •• Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet, Beneath each birken shade, or mead, or hill; There each trim lass that skims the milky store. To the swart tribes their creamy bowl allots ; By night (her sip it round the cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes.... | |
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There must thou wake perforce thy Doric quill; Tis Fancy's land to which thou sett'st thy feet; Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet, Beneath each birken shade, on mead or hill. There, each trim lass, that skims the milky store, To the swart... 
