The life and works of Robert Burns, ed. by R. Chambers. Libr. ed, Volume 1Chambers, 1856 |
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... poor old woman to spend a few months at a time with his family , both at Alloway and Mount Oliphant , where , to requite his kindness , she was most assiduous in spinning , carding , and doing all kinds of good offices that were in her ...
... poor old woman to spend a few months at a time with his family , both at Alloway and Mount Oliphant , where , to requite his kindness , she was most assiduous in spinning , carding , and doing all kinds of good offices that were in her ...
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... poor , despised , abandoned vagabonds , Whom vice , as usual , has turned o'er to ruin . -Oh , but for kind , though ill - requited friends , I had been driven forth like you forlorn , The most detested , worthless wretch among you ...
... poor , despised , abandoned vagabonds , Whom vice , as usual , has turned o'er to ruin . -Oh , but for kind , though ill - requited friends , I had been driven forth like you forlorn , The most detested , worthless wretch among you ...
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... poor fellow in despair went to sea , where , after a variety of good and ill fortune , a little before I was acquainted with him , he had been set on shore by an American privateer on the wild coast of Connaught , stripped of everything ...
... poor fellow in despair went to sea , where , after a variety of good and ill fortune , a little before I was acquainted with him , he had been set on shore by an American privateer on the wild coast of Connaught , stripped of everything ...
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... poor auld Scotland's sake , Some usefu ' plan or beuk could make , Or sing a sang at least . The rough , bur - thistle spreading wide Among the bearded bear , I turned the weeder - clips aside , And spared the symbol dear ! Dr Currie ...
... poor auld Scotland's sake , Some usefu ' plan or beuk could make , Or sing a sang at least . The rough , bur - thistle spreading wide Among the bearded bear , I turned the weeder - clips aside , And spared the symbol dear ! Dr Currie ...
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... poor a notion of the sex , which were designed to crown the pleasures of society . Poor devils ! I don't envy them their happiness who have such notions . For my part , I propose quite other pleasures with my dear partner . TO THE SAME ...
... poor a notion of the sex , which were designed to crown the pleasures of society . Poor devils ! I don't envy them their happiness who have such notions . For my part , I propose quite other pleasures with my dear partner . TO THE SAME ...
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acquaintance afterwards Aiken Amang appears auld Ayrshire baith bard bonnie lass bonny braw brother Burns's canna charms dear deil e'en e'er Edinburgh Epistle fair farm father fear feelings Firth of Clyde fortune frae Gavin Hamilton Gilbert Burns Halloween Hamilton happy heart Heaven Highland honour humble Jean John John Barleycorn Kilmarnock Kirkoswald labour Laird lass lassie letter lived Lochlea Mary Mauchline maun Maybole mind minister monie Mossgiel Muse nae mair ne'er never night o'er owre parish pleasure plough poem poet poet's poetical poor pride rhyme Robert Burns rustic says scene Scotch Scotland Scottish shew sing skelpin song stanza sweet tell thee There's thou thought Torbolton unco verses weary weel Whyles William Burness wretched Ye'll young youth
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Page 165 - 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 230 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, '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.
Page 163 - What makes the youth sae bashfu' an' sae grave ; Weel pleas'd to think her bairn's respected like the lave. O happy love ! where love like this is found ! O heart-felt raptures ! bliss beyond compare ! I've paced much this weary, mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare: — "If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents...
Page 270 - Of a' the airts the wind can blaw I dearly like the West, For there the bonnie lassie lives, The lassie I lo'e best : There wild woods grow, and rivers row, And mony a hill between ; But day and night my fancy's flight Is ever wi' my Jean. I see her in the dewy flowers, I see her sweet and fair : I hear her in the tunefu...
Page 164 - The sire turns o'er with patriarchal grace The big ha' -bible, ance his father's pride ; His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin and bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship GOD !
Page 77 - But thou, that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation : Meek loveliness is round thee spread, A softness still and holy ; The grace of forest charms decayed, And pastoral melancholy.
Page 165 - Compared with this, how poor religion's pride, In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide, Devotion's...
Page 114 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Page 68 - The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard nor saw: Tho' this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, I sigh'd and said amang them a'; — "Ye are na Mary Morison!
Page 72 - Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content ! And O may Heaven their simple lives prevent From Luxury's contagion, weak and vile ; Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous Populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved ISLE. O THOU ! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd thro...