The Poetical Works of Robert Burns: With Critical and Biographical NoticesPorter & Coates, 1876 - 604 pages |
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... ev'ry side they're gath'rin ' , Some carrying dails , some chairs an ' stools , An ' some are busy blethrin , Right loud that day . Here stands a shed to fend the show'rs , An ' screen our countra gentry , There , racer Jess , and twa ...
... ev'ry side they're gath'rin ' , Some carrying dails , some chairs an ' stools , An ' some are busy blethrin , Right loud that day . Here stands a shed to fend the show'rs , An ' screen our countra gentry , There , racer Jess , and twa ...
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... ev'ry skin , We'll rin them aff in fusion Like oil , some day . THE CALF . TO THE REV . MR . JAMES STEVEN . On his text , MALACHI , iv . 2.— “ And ye shall go forth , and grow up as CALVES of the stall . " [ The laugh which this little ...
... ev'ry skin , We'll rin them aff in fusion Like oil , some day . THE CALF . TO THE REV . MR . JAMES STEVEN . On his text , MALACHI , iv . 2.— “ And ye shall go forth , and grow up as CALVES of the stall . " [ The laugh which this little ...
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... ev'ry heavenly power , You e'er should be a Stot ! Tho ' , when some kind , connubial dear , Your but - and - ben adorns , The like has been that you may wear A noble head of horns . And in your lug , most reverend James , To hear you ...
... ev'ry heavenly power , You e'er should be a Stot ! Tho ' , when some kind , connubial dear , Your but - and - ben adorns , The like has been that you may wear A noble head of horns . And in your lug , most reverend James , To hear you ...
Page 88
... ev'ry star that blinks aboon , Ye've cost me twenty pair o ' shoon Just gaun to see you ; And ev'ry ither pair that's done , Mair ta'en I'm wi ' you . That auld capricious carlin , Nature , To mak amends for scrimpit stature , She's ...
... ev'ry star that blinks aboon , Ye've cost me twenty pair o ' shoon Just gaun to see you ; And ev'ry ither pair that's done , Mair ta'en I'm wi ' you . That auld capricious carlin , Nature , To mak amends for scrimpit stature , She's ...
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... ev'ry nobler virtue bred , And polish'd grace . By stately tow'r , or palace fair , Or ruins pendent in the air , Bold stems of heroes , here and there , I could discern ; Some seem'd to muse , some seem'd to dare , With feature stern ...
... ev'ry nobler virtue bred , And polish'd grace . By stately tow'r , or palace fair , Or ruins pendent in the air , Bold stems of heroes , here and there , I could discern ; Some seem'd to muse , some seem'd to dare , With feature stern ...
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Page 515 - O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasp'd her to my bosom ! 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 f u...
Page 163 - Thy snawie bosom sunward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies...
Page 134 - 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 158 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Page 485 - Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise ; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.
Page 159 - 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 157 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam' o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek ; With heart-struck anxious care, inquires his name, While Jenny hafflins is afraid to speak : Weel pleased the mother hears it's nae wild, worthless rake. Wi...
Page 515 - Ye banks, and braes, and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie ' ! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry ; For there I took the last fareweel O
Page 160 - And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide; But, chiefly, in their hearts with Grace Divine preside.
Page 45 - THOU, unknown, Almighty Cause Of all my hope and fear ! In whose dread presence, ere an hour, Perhaps I must appear! If I have wander'd in those paths Of life I ought to shun; — As something, loudly in my breast, Remonstrates I have done; — Thou know'st that Thou hast formed me With passions wild and strong; And list'ning to their witching voice Has often led me wrong.