The Poetical Works of Robert Burns: Including Several Pieces Not Inserted in Dr. Currie's Edition : Exhibited Under a New Plan of Arrangement, and Preceded by a Life of the Author : with Notes, and a Complete GlossaryPhillips, Sampson and Company, 1855 - 524 pages |
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... rhyme . You know our country custom of coupling a man and woman together as partners in the labors of harvest . In my fifteenth autumn my partner was a bewitching creature , a year younger than myself . My scarcity of English denies me ...
... rhyme . You know our country custom of coupling a man and woman together as partners in the labors of harvest . In my fifteenth autumn my partner was a bewitching creature , a year younger than myself . My scarcity of English denies me ...
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... rhyme ; and then the conning over my verses , like a spell , soothed all into quiet ! None of the rhymes of those days are in print , except Winter , a dirge , the eldest of my printed pieces ; the Death of poor Mailie ; John Barleycorn ...
... rhyme ; and then the conning over my verses , like a spell , soothed all into quiet ! None of the rhymes of those days are in print , except Winter , a dirge , the eldest of my printed pieces ; the Death of poor Mailie ; John Barleycorn ...
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... Rhyme , except some religious pieces that are in print , I had given up ; but meeting with Ferguson's Scottish Poems , I strung anew my wildly - sounding lyre with emulating vigor . When my father died , his all went among the hell ...
... Rhyme , except some religious pieces that are in print , I had given up ; but meeting with Ferguson's Scottish Poems , I strung anew my wildly - sounding lyre with emulating vigor . When my father died , his all went among the hell ...
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... rhymes . The first of my poetic offspring that saw the light was a burlesque lamentation on a quarrel between two reverend Calvinists , both of them dramatis persone in my Holy Fair . I had a notion myself that the piece had some merit ...
... rhymes . The first of my poetic offspring that saw the light was a burlesque lamentation on a quarrel between two reverend Calvinists , both of them dramatis persone in my Holy Fair . I had a notion myself that the piece had some merit ...
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... rhyming tribe , that even he , an obscure , name- less bard , shrinks aghast at the thought of being brand- ed as an ... rhymes together , looking upon him- self as a poet of no small consequence , forsooth . It is an observation of that ...
... rhyming tribe , that even he , an obscure , name- less bard , shrinks aghast at the thought of being brand- ed as an ... rhymes together , looking upon him- self as a poet of no small consequence , forsooth . It is an observation of that ...
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