Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Volumen1Adam Neill and Company, 1800 - 287 páginas |
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... - res , Are blinkin at the entry . Here fits a raw of tittlin jades , Wi ' heaving breast and bare neck , An ' there a batch o ' wabfter lads , Blackguarding frae Kck For fun this day . X. X. Here fome are thinkin on their fins , An ( 41 )
... - res , Are blinkin at the entry . Here fits a raw of tittlin jades , Wi ' heaving breast and bare neck , An ' there a batch o ' wabfter lads , Blackguarding frae Kck For fun this day . X. X. Here fome are thinkin on their fins , An ( 41 )
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... ruftic plough , Learning his tuneful trade from ev'ry bough ; The chanting linnet , or the mellow thrush , Hailing the fetting fun , fweet , in the green thorn bush ; The The foaring lark , the perching red - breast fhrill ( 66 )
... ruftic plough , Learning his tuneful trade from ev'ry bough ; The chanting linnet , or the mellow thrush , Hailing the fetting fun , fweet , in the green thorn bush ; The The foaring lark , the perching red - breast fhrill ( 66 )
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Robert Burns. The foaring lark , the perching red - breast fhrill , Or deep - ton'd plovers , grey , wild - whistling o'er the hill ; Shall he , nurft in the Peasant's lowly fhed , To hardy Independence bravely bred , By early Poverty to ...
Robert Burns. The foaring lark , the perching red - breast fhrill , Or deep - ton'd plovers , grey , wild - whistling o'er the hill ; Shall he , nurft in the Peasant's lowly fhed , To hardy Independence bravely bred , By early Poverty to ...
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... breast ! An ' warn him , what I winna name , To stay content wi ' yowes at hame ; An ' no to rin an ' wear his cloots , Like ither menfelefs , gracelefs , brutes . An ' nieft , my yowie , filly thing , Gude keep thee frae a tether ...
... breast ! An ' warn him , what I winna name , To stay content wi ' yowes at hame ; An ' no to rin an ' wear his cloots , Like ither menfelefs , gracelefs , brutes . An ' nieft , my yowie , filly thing , Gude keep thee frae a tether ...
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... pray'rs ! " 6 Perhaps , this hour , in Mis'ry's squalid neft , She ftrains your infant to her joyless breast , And with a Mother's fears , shrinks at the rocking blaft : • Oh Oh ye ! who , funk in beds of down ( 210 )
... pray'rs ! " 6 Perhaps , this hour , in Mis'ry's squalid neft , She ftrains your infant to her joyless breast , And with a Mother's fears , shrinks at the rocking blaft : • Oh Oh ye ! who , funk in beds of down ( 210 )
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Página 47 - Leeze me on Drink ! it gi'es us mair Than either School or College : It kindles Wit, it waukens Lair, It pangs us fou o
Página 217 - It's no in making muckle, mair : It's no in books, it's no in lear, To make us truly blest : If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest : Nae treasures, nor pleasures, Could make us happy lang ; The heart ay's the part ay, That makes us right or wrang. Think ye, that sic as you and I, Wha drudge and drive thro...
Página 34 - To stan" or rin, Till skelp — a shot — they're aff, a' throw'ther, To save their skin. But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say, such is royal George's will, An' there's the foe, He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow.
Página 159 - Gies now and then a wallop, What ragings must his veins convulse That still eternal gallop: Wi' wind and tide fair i' your tail, Right on ye scud your sea-way; But in the teeth o' baith to sail, It maks an unco leeway.
Página 191 - Whyles owre a linn the burnie plays, As thro' the glen it wimpl't; Whyles round a rocky scar it strays; Whyles in a wiel it dimpl't; Whyles glitter'd to the nightly rays, Wi' bickerin, dancin dazzle ; Whyles cookit underneath the braes, Below the spreading hazel, Unseen that night.
Página 161 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord — its various tone, Each spring — its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 106 - An' now, auld Cloots, I ken ye're thinkin, A certain Bardie's rantin, drinkin, Some luckless hour will send him linkin, To your black pit ; But, faith ! he'll turn a corner jinkin, An
Página 100 - To scaud poor wretches! Hear me, auld Hangie, for a wee, An' let poor damned bodies be; I'm sure sma' pleasure it can gie, Ev'n to a deil, To skelp an' scaud poor dogs like me, An' hear us squeel! Great is thy pow'r, an' great thy fame; Far kend an' noted is thy name; An' tho' yon lowin heugh's thy hame, Thou travels far; An' faith! thou's neither lag nor lame, Nor blate nor scaur. Whyles, ranging like a roarin lion For prey, a...
Página 231 - Too justly I may fear! Still caring, despairing, Must be my bitter doom; My woes here shall close ne'er But with the closing tomb!
Página 159 - And (what's aft mair than a' the lave) Your better art o' hidin'. Think, when your Castigated pulse Gies now and then a wallop ! What ragings must his veins convulse, That still eternal gallop ! Wi