1. English
  2. hunting

  • Hunting Song

    Waken, lords and ladies gay,
    On the mountain dawns the day;
      All the jolly chase is here,
      With hawk and horse and hunting-spear!
    Hounds are in their couples yelling,
    Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling,
      Merrily, merrily mingle they,
      “Waken, lords and ladies gay.”

    Waken, lords and ladies gay,
    The mist has left...

    Sir Walter Scott

  • “A hunting we will go”

    The Dusky night rides down the sky,
      And ushers in the morn:
    The hounds all join in glorious cry,
      The huntsman winds his horn,
                And a hunting we will go.

    The wife around her husband throws
      Her arms to make him stay;
    “My dear, it rains, it hails, it blows;
      You cannot hunt to-day.”
                Yet a...

    Henry Fielding