Famous quotes containing the words barbara allan, bonny and/or allan:
“It was in and about the Martinmas time,
When the green leaves were afalling,
That Sir John Graeme, in the West Country,
Fell in love with Barbara Allan.”
—Unknown. Bonny Barbara Allan (l. 1–4)
“Ye Highlands and ye Lawlands.
Oh! where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl of Murray,
And hae laid him on the green.”
—Unknown. The Bonny Earl of Murray (l. 1–4)
“It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)