 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 Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...than His own appointed Sabbath. " November chill blaws loud wi' angry sngh ; The short'ning winter day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae...black'ning trains o' craws to their repose ; The toil-worn Cottar frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 466 pages
...His own appointed Sabbath. " November chill blaws loud •sri' angry sugh ; The short'ning winter day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae...black'ning trains o' craws to their repose ; The toil-worn Cottar frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 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...black'ning trains o' craws to their repose ; The toil-worn Cottar frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 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 frae2 the pleugh; The blackening... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...left. COWPER. THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT. NOVEMBER chill blaws loud with angry sugh ; The shortening winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh ; The blackening trains o' craws to their repose ; The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1859 - 284 pages
...lowly train in life's sequester'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 pleugh ; The blackening... | |
 | Robert Burns - English letters - 1859 - 736 pages
...native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; AVhat Aiken in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! though his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween ! November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; whistle The short'ning winter-day is near a close ; The miry heasts retreating frae the plcugh :... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...chooses. Beets — adds fuel to fire. NOVEMBER chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The short'ning winter day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh ; The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades,... | |
 | England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...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 pleugh ; The blackening trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 128 pages
...chooses. Beets — adds fuel to fire. NOVEMBER chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The short'ning winter day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh ; The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades,... | |
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