The Apple Trees Complaint
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Song
The Eagle and the Partridge
An eagle swooping over and over the mastic bushes
singing sad songs to the partridge
scratching in the earth below,
sorrow...
Song
A Sailor-Lads A-Dying
I heard the shouting and the cries, they filled the Cyprus straits.
I thought they must be slaughtering bulls or taming some...
Song
All the Birds, Two by Two
All the birds, amàn amàn,
the birds nest two by two,
all the birds two by two,
the swallow with his mate.
The lonesome ni...
Song
Beam, Dear Moon
– Come on beam, dear moon,
shine, moon dear, and light the way to my love.
Beam high and low, for it’s muddy and wet;
beam...
Song
In a Fine Orchard
In a fine orchard, laurel and myrtle quarrel.
And myrtle, amàn-amàn, myrtle says to laurel…
And myrtle says to laurel, -You...
Song
May
May's come,
May's come and spring,
summer’s come
when the perfumed roses bloom.
I've a white rose I want to dye
and if I...
Song
May Is Come
May is come and bids me reap but for his sake
I shall not go and darken in the sun.
May, dear May with the flowers
and s...
Song
River, Dear River of Mine
River, dear river of mine,
river, my river, when you fill.
River, my river, when you fill
and crash, and crash and swell.
...
Song
The Maid Climbed up to the Summer Pasture
The maid climbed up to the summer pasture, my little bird,
to become a shepherdess, come, come I say!
to become a shepherde...
Song
Up Upon the Rose
The partridge built her nest
amàn amàn, high up upon the rose-bush
And the startled partridge started,
and the roses to th...
