 No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish end: My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise: To you I sing, in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's sequester'd scene; The native feelings strong, the guileless...  Robert Burns: A Memoir - Page 92by James White - 1859 - 100 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...happier there, I ween. * Dr. Young. November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The shortening winter day ndering o'er the deeps ; Where'er he moves Palemon still attends, blackening trains o' craws to their repose i The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What Aiken in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! though his worth unknown, far happier there I ween ! November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The shortening winter-day is near a close, The miry beasts retreating frae the plough ; The blackening... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...lowly train in life's sequestered scene ; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What Aiken in a cottage would have been ; Ah! tho' his worth...ween ! November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The shortening winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh, THE COTTKR S SATURDAY... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...lowly train in life's sequestcr'd scene, The native feelings strong, the guileless ways, — What AIKEN in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! tho' his worth...ween ! November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The shortening winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the plough, The black'ning... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...lowly train in life's sequestered scene ; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways , What Aiken in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! tho' his worth...ween. November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The shortening winter-day is near a close The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh ; The blackening trains... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pages
...than His own appointed Sabbath. " November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The short'ning winter day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae...The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose; The toil worn Cottar frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 pages
...lays, The lowly train in life's sequester'd scene; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The short'ning...near a close; The miry beasts retreating frae the plough; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose; The toil-worn Cotter frae his labor goes, This... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pages
...than His own appointed Sabbath. " November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The short'ning winter day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae...The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose ; The toil worn Cottar frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades,... | |
 | English poetry - 1854 - 608 pages
...The native feelings strong, the guileless ways, What Aiken in a cottage would have been : Ah I though his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween '. November chill blaws loud wi' angry sough ; The shortening winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh; The... | |
 | Scottish ballads and songs - 1854 - 606 pages
...The native feelings strong, the guileless ways, What Aiken in a cottage would have been : Ah ! though his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween '. November chill blaws loud wi' angry sough; The shortening winter-day is near a close; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh; The blackening... | |
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