The poem tells the story of Lord Ullin's daughter who falls in love with a chief from another clan. When their love is not approved by Lord Ullin, the couple attempts to elope by hiring a boat to take them across a stormy sea. They are pursued for two days by Lord Ullin and his men. As the boat crosses the sea in a raging storm, Lord Ullin watches helplessly from the shore as his daughter and her lover drown, with his heart melting too late to forgive and save them.

3. Lord Ullin's Daughter is a poem about 2 lovers who explain
their sad story to a boats man requesting him to take them
across the stormy sea . the daughter of Ullin falls in love with
a chief of another place. When Ullin dosen't agree to get his
daughter married to her lover, the A both run away. Ullin and
his men chase the two for 2 days continuously to find his
beloved daughter dying in a storm. At the end, the heart of
the hard hearted Ullin melts on seeing his daughter's
condition but then he was helpless.

7. By this the storm grew loud apace,
The water-wraith was shrieking;
And in the scowl of heaven each face
Grew dark as they were speaking.
But still as wilder blew the wind,
And as the night grew drearer,
Adown the glen rode armèd men,
Their trampling sounded nearer.--
``O haste thee, haste!'' the lady cries,
``Though tempests round us gather;
I'll meet the raging of the skies,
But not an angry father.''--

9. ``Come back! come back!'' he
cried in grief
``Across this stormy water:
And I'll forgive your
Highland chief,
My daughter!--O my
daughter!''
'Twas vain: the loud waves
lash'd the shore,
Return or aid preventing:
The waters wild went o'er
his child,
And he was left lamenting.

10. •In 1795 Campbell visited Mull, one of the largest islands of the Inner Hebrides
(Argyllshire, Scotland), and there sketched the ballad "Lord Ullin's Daughter," which he
reworked in 1804 and finally published in 1809. The ballad is the story of an
attempted elopement which results in the deaths of the couple. The fleeing lovers, the
young "chief of Ulva's isle" and his "bonny bride," Lord Ullin's daughter, have been
hotly pursued by Lord Ullin and his horsemen for three days. Both know that the
young man's life will be forfeit if they are captured. They approach a boatman to
whom the young man offers money if he will row them over the ferry; that is, if he will
take them across Lochgyle. The boatman, a "hardy Highland wight," agrees to row
them across in spite of the raging storm, not for money, but for the sake of the
"winsome lady." As the pursuers approach, the boat puts out into the stormy loch.
When Lord Ullin reaches the shore, he is forced to watch his daughter and her lover
drown as he calls out to them, vainly promising forgiveness to the young man if only
they will return.