Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, Volume 2William Magee, 1800 |
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... clamouring craiks at clofe o ' day , ' Mang fields o ' flowering claver gay ; And when ye wing your annual way Frae our cauld thore , Tell thae far warlds , wha lies in clay , Wham we deplore , Ye houlets , frae your ivy bower , b In [ 13 ]
... clamouring craiks at clofe o ' day , ' Mang fields o ' flowering claver gay ; And when ye wing your annual way Frae our cauld thore , Tell thae far warlds , wha lies in clay , Wham we deplore , Ye houlets , frae your ivy bower , b In [ 13 ]
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Robert Burns. Now laveracks wake the merry morn ,, Aloft on dewy wing ; The merle , in his noontide bower , Makes woodland echoes ring ; The Mavis wild wi ' many a note , Sings drowsy day to reft : In love and freedom they rejoice , Wi ...
Robert Burns. Now laveracks wake the merry morn ,, Aloft on dewy wing ; The merle , in his noontide bower , Makes woodland echoes ring ; The Mavis wild wi ' many a note , Sings drowsy day to reft : In love and freedom they rejoice , Wi ...
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... wing for ever fled . Awake thy last fad voice , my harp ; < The voice of woe and wild defpair ! Awake , ' refound thy latest lay , Then fleep in filence ever mair ! And thou , my laft , beft , only friend , That filleft an untimely tomb ...
... wing for ever fled . Awake thy last fad voice , my harp ; < The voice of woe and wild defpair ! Awake , ' refound thy latest lay , Then fleep in filence ever mair ! And thou , my laft , beft , only friend , That filleft an untimely tomb ...
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... wing'd their way wi ' pleasure ; Kings may be bleft , but Tam was glorious , O'er a ' the ills o ' life victorious ! But pleafures are like poppies fpread , .. You feize the flower , its bloom is fhed ; Or like the fnow falls in the ...
... wing'd their way wi ' pleasure ; Kings may be bleft , but Tam was glorious , O'er a ' the ills o ' life victorious ! But pleafures are like poppies fpread , .. You feize the flower , its bloom is fhed ; Or like the fnow falls in the ...
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... a dance of witches ! But here my mufe her wing maun cours Sic flights are far beyond her power ; To fing how Nannie lap and flang , A fouple jade fhe was and ftrang , ) And how Tam ftood , like ane bewitch'd , And 160 ]
... a dance of witches ! But here my mufe her wing maun cours Sic flights are far beyond her power ; To fing how Nannie lap and flang , A fouple jade fhe was and ftrang , ) And how Tam ftood , like ane bewitch'd , And 160 ]
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