Corbies

“Twa Corbies” Two Crows is a famous Scottish poem or song where the crows sit on a dyke discussing dining on a slain knight lying beneath them.

A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010

I understand, the putrescence of this maudlin cast of Corbies, labeled the Boys of Bush (the Fascist), is worthy only of disdain and censure from the quick-witted and puissant Progressives.

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Corbies_, and _Bonnie George Campbell_ amongst the dirges.

Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series Frank Sidgwick

I am very fond of simple epics and of ballad poetry, from the Nibelungenlied and the Roland song through "Chevy Chase" and "Patrick Spens" and "Twa Corbies" to Scott's poems and Longfellow's "Saga of King Olaf" and

An Autobiography Roosevelt, Theodore 1913

Corbies and clergy are a shot right kittle; [Ravens, sort, ticklish] couplets of which Pope need hardly have been ashamed, with such touches of nature as these:

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

Corbies, Bonny Barbara Allan, _ have each a pronounced lyric element.

Ballad Book Katherine Lee Bates 1894

My readers have heard of the ballad of the 'Two Corbies,' which the writer of the ballad has made to meet and tell gruesomely where and on what carrion their feast has been.

The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Sarah Tytler 1870

The traditional early 17th century Scottish ballad "Twa Corbies" performed by the German band Schelmish.

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Marie Brennan: "The TWA Corbies" (Talebones, Winter 2005)

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Marie Brennan: "The TWA Corbies" (Talebones, Winter 2005)

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