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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANNIE LAURIE, by WILLIAM DOUGLAS First Line: Maxwelton's braes are bonnie Last Line: I'd lay me doune and dee. | |||
Maxwelton's braes are bonnie Where early fa's the dew, And it's there that Annie Laurie Gie'd me her promise true; Gie'd me her promise true, Which ne'er forgot will be; And for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay me doune and dee. Her brow is like the snaw drift; Her throat is like the swan; Her face it is the fairest That e'er the sun shone on -- That e'er the sun shone on -- And dark blue is her ee; And for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay me doune and dee. Like dew on the gowan lying Is the fa' o' her fairy feet; And like the winds in summer sighing, Her voice is low and sweet -- Her voice is low and sweet -- And she's a' the world to me; And for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay me doune and dee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JEALOUSY by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER DEATH by THOMAS HOOD THE QUANGLE WANGLE'S HAT by EDWARD LEAR HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON by PHILLIS WHEATLEY OUT FROM A DREAM by ELLA ALLISON POEM FOR PICTURE: TO AN OIL PAINTING BY WINSLOW HOMER (DRIFTWOOD) by FRANK ANKENBRAND JR. |
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