The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

‘The Daemon Lover’
‘What hills are yon, yon pleasant hills,
The sun shines sweetly on?’—
‘O yon are the hills o’ Heaven,’ he said,
‘Where you will never won.’
‘The Daemon Lover’
‘Let me have length and breadth enough,
And under my head a sod;
That they may say when I am dead,
—Here lies bold Robin Hood!’
‘The Death of Robin Hood’
There were three lords drinking at the wine
On the dowie dens o’ Yarrow;
They made a compact them between
They would go fight tomorrow.
‘Dowie Dens of Yarrow’ (dowie melancholy; den river valley)
O well’s me o’ my gay goss-hawk,
That he can speak and flee!
He’ll carry a letter to my love,
Bring another back to me.
‘The Gay Goss Hawk’
I am a man upon the land,
I am a selkie in the sea;
When I am far and far from land,
My home it is the Sule Skerry.
‘The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry’ (selkie seal)
A ship I have got in the North Country
And she goes by the name of the Golden Vanity,
O I fear she will be taken by a Spanish Ga-la-lee,
As she sails by the Low-lands low.
‘The Golden Vanity’
He bored with his augur, he bored once and twice,
And some were playing cards, and some were playing dice,
When the water flowed in it dazzled their eyes,
And she sank by the Low-lands low.
‘The Golden Vanity’
I wish I were where Helen lies,
Night and day on me she cries;
O that I were where Helen lies,
On fair Kirkconnell lea!