Famous quotes containing the words tam lin, unknown, tam and/or lin:
“O I forbid you, maidens a
That wear gowd on your hair,
To come, or gae by Carterhaugh,
For young Tom-lin is there.”
—Unknown. Tam Lin (l. 14)
“So that this beautiful realm of hers was held in her mind extended, or lengthened: it had been finite, bounded, known utterly and in every detail, self-enclosed ... but now it lapped and rippled out and upwards beyond there into hinterlands that were like unknown possibilities in her own mind.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“O I forbid you, maidens a
That wear gowd on your hair,
To come, or gae by Carterhaugh,
For young Tom-lin is there.”
—Unknown. Tam Lin (l. 14)
“Out then spak her father dear,
And he spak meek and mild,
And ever alas, sweet Janet, he says,
I think thou gaes wi child.
If that I gae wi child, father,
Mysel maun bear the blame;
Theres neer a laird about your ha,
Shall get the bairns name.”
—Unknown. Tam Lin (l. 5360)