Advertisement ; Life of Burns ; Glossary ; Preface to the first edition ; Dedication to the second edition ; Book I. Moral, religious and preceptive ; Book II. Pathetic, elegiac, and descriptive ; Book III. Familiar and epistolaryJames B. Dow, 1834 - Poetry, Modern |
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... Father for R. A. Esq . on a Friend A Bard's Epitaph Verses on the birth of a posthumous child , born in pecu- liar circumstances of family distress On Sensibility low had just shot at Verses on seeing a wounded Hare limp by me , which a ...
... Father for R. A. Esq . on a Friend A Bard's Epitaph Verses on the birth of a posthumous child , born in pecu- liar circumstances of family distress On Sensibility low had just shot at Verses on seeing a wounded Hare limp by me , which a ...
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... father was of the north of Scotland , the son of a farmer , who rented lands of the noble Keiths of Marischal , and had the honour of shar- ing their fate . I do not use the word honour with any reference to political principles : loyal ...
... father was of the north of Scotland , the son of a farmer , who rented lands of the noble Keiths of Marischal , and had the honour of shar- ing their fate . I do not use the word honour with any reference to political principles : loyal ...
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... father was gardener to a worthy gentleman of small estate , in the neighbourhood of Ayr . Had he continued in that station , I must have marched off to be one of the little under- lings about a farm house : but it was his dearest wish ...
... father was gardener to a worthy gentleman of small estate , in the neighbourhood of Ayr . Had he continued in that station , I must have marched off to be one of the little under- lings about a farm house : but it was his dearest wish ...
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... father's generous mas- ter died ; the farm proved a ruinous bargain ; and , to clench the misfortune , we fell into the hands of a factor , who sat for the picture I have drawn of one in my tale of Twa Dogs . My father was advanced in ...
... father's generous mas- ter died ; the farm proved a ruinous bargain ; and , to clench the misfortune , we fell into the hands of a factor , who sat for the picture I have drawn of one in my tale of Twa Dogs . My father was advanced in ...
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Robert Burns. out by early hardships , was unfit for labour . My father's spirit was soon irritated , but not easily broken . There was a freedom in his lease in two years more ; and , to weather these two years , wé retrenched our ...
Robert Burns. out by early hardships , was unfit for labour . My father's spirit was soon irritated , but not easily broken . There was a freedom in his lease in two years more ; and , to weather these two years , wé retrenched our ...
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aith amang auld banks Bard Beneath blast blate blaw blest blow bonie bosom breast Brig Burns charms Claut Coilus Crunt dear death dimin Dumfries e'en e'er Ellisland Ev'n ev'ry fair farewell fate father fear fellow flower frae gang grace groan hame heart heav'n honest honour hope Housie humble ither kind labour LAMENT life's Lord Mailie maun mind monie morn mourn muckle Muse Nae mair native Nature's ne'er never night o'er owre pleasure plough POEMS poet poor Poussie pow'r pride rhyme roar ROBERT BURNS round rustic scenes Scotia's Scotland Scottish sing skelpin Sliddery Snowkit song sorrow soul sugh sweet Tarbolton tear thee thegither thou thought thro tion tune Twas unco VERSES vex'd wander warl Wastrie weary weel whyles wild winds worth wretched ye'll ye're yokin young younkers
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Page 89 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head...
Page 128 - I'm truly sorry man's dominion. Has broken nature's social union, An' justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor earth-born companion, An...
Page 90 - O Scotia, my dear, my native soil, For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content...
Page 113 - The bridegroom may forget the bride Was made his wedded wife yestreen ; The monarch may forget the crown ' That on his head an hour has been ; The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And a' that thou hast done for me ! " LINES, SENT TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD, OF WHITEFORD, BART.
Page 148 - A set o' dull conceited hashes, Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak ; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o
Page 93 - mid renewing storms? Is it departing pangs my soul alarms? Or death's unlovely, dreary, dark abode? For guilt, for guilt, my terrors are in arms: I tremble to approach an angry God, And justly smart beneath His sin-avenging rod. Fain would I say: " Forgive my foul offence, " Fain promise never more to disobey; But, should my Author health again dispense, Again I might desert fair virtue's way; Again in folly's path might go astray; Again exalt the brute and sink the man; Then how should I for heavenly...
Page 118 - The golden hours, on angel wings, Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me, as light and life, Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi' mony a vow, and lock'd embrace, Our parting was fu...
Page 130 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent Lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth is...
Page 89 - Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope 'springs exulting on triumphant wing' That thus they all shall meet in future days: There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear; While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 61 - Unacquainted with the necessary requisites for commencing poet by rule, he sings the sentiments and manners he felt and saw in himself and his rustic compeers around him, in his and their native language.