Rural Poems, Illustrative of the Husbandry, Scenery, and Manners of Scotland: Or, British Georgics |
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... summer gales blew soft , The water lily dipped its lovely flower , Spreads her broad pinions mounting to the sky , Then stretches o'er Craigmillar's ruined towers , And seeks some lonely lake remote from man . Now rival parishes , and ...
... summer gales blew soft , The water lily dipped its lovely flower , Spreads her broad pinions mounting to the sky , Then stretches o'er Craigmillar's ruined towers , And seeks some lonely lake remote from man . Now rival parishes , and ...
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... summer carol short , then ' neath his wing , In trust implicit , veils his little head . May be some ancient volume read aloud Fixes the listening groupe ; perhaps the deeds Of Wallace are the theme , rude though the strain , And ...
... summer carol short , then ' neath his wing , In trust implicit , veils his little head . May be some ancient volume read aloud Fixes the listening groupe ; perhaps the deeds Of Wallace are the theme , rude though the strain , And ...
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... ( unless a spring Oozing , deep - seated , rear a plashy sward ) , ' Tis easily laid dry ; and there the Sun , Great fertilizer ! on the fallow mould Strikes powerfully , when at his summer height , With 34 BRITISH GEORGICS .
... ( unless a spring Oozing , deep - seated , rear a plashy sward ) , ' Tis easily laid dry ; and there the Sun , Great fertilizer ! on the fallow mould Strikes powerfully , when at his summer height , With 34 BRITISH GEORGICS .
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... summer's steady warmth , the autumn's winds And drenching rains , with winter's frost and thaw . These changes break the most obdurate soil , And make it crumble to receive the air . Breathing the breath of vegetable life . Then with ...
... summer's steady warmth , the autumn's winds And drenching rains , with winter's frost and thaw . These changes break the most obdurate soil , And make it crumble to receive the air . Breathing the breath of vegetable life . Then with ...
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... summer music of the groves ; More beautiful to me the vernal bud , Than all the odour - breathing flowers of May . Sometimes , deceived by promise premature Of Spring's approach , or pinched by empty combs , Will fortify your bank ; let ...
... summer music of the groves ; More beautiful to me the vernal bud , Than all the odour - breathing flowers of May . Sometimes , deceived by promise premature Of Spring's approach , or pinched by empty combs , Will fortify your bank ; let ...
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Page 305 - Scrubbed till it shone the day to grace, Bore then upon its massive board No mark to part the squire and lord. Then was brought in the lusty brawn, By old blue-coated serving-man ; Then the grim boar's head frowned on high, Crested with bays and rosemary.
Page 220 - Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier, while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest.
Page 221 - Scotland will serve to convince an unprejudiced observer, that they possess a degree of intelligence not generally found among the same class of men in the other countries of Europe. In the very humblest condition of the Scottish peasants, every one can read, and most persons are more or less skilled in writing and arithmetic ; and, under the disguise of their uncouth appearance, and of their peculiar manners and dialect, a stranger will discover that they possess a curiosity, and have obtained a...
Page 24 - ... Success alternately, from side to side. Changes ; and quick the hours un-noted fly, Till light begins to fail, and deep below, The player, as he stoops to lift his coit, Sees, half incredulous, the rising moon. But now the final, the decisive spell Begins ; near and more near the sounding stones...
Page 19 - By lonely river side is heard at times To break the silence deep, for now the stream Is mute, or faintly gurgles far below Its frozen ceiling. Silent stands the mill, The wheel immoveable and shod with ice.
Page 274 - Benumb'd with cold, and listless of their gain. Soft whispers then, and broken sounds, are heard, As when the woods by gentle winds are stirr'd; 380 Such stifled noise as the close furnace hides, Or dying murmurs of departing tides.
Page 219 - I'll ha'e a' things made ready to his will; In winter, when he toils through wind and rain, A bleezing ingle, and a clean hearthstane ; And soon as he flings by his plaid and staff, The seething pat's be ready to tak aff; Clean hag-a-bag I'll spread upon his board, And serve him wi...
Page 263 - And press the plants with shards of potters' clay. This fence against immoderate rain they found, Or when the dog-star cleaves the thirsty ground. Be mindful, when thou hast entombed the shoot ; With store of earth around to feed the root ; With iron teeth of rakes and prongs, to move The crusted earth, and loosen it above. Then exercise thy sturdy steers to plough Betwixt thy vines, and teach the feeble row To mount on reeds, and wands, and, upward led, On ashen poles to raise their forky head.
Page 279 - O'ertops the ridges of the furrow'd plain ; And drains the standing waters, when they yield Too large a beverage to the drunken field : But most in autumn, and the showery spring. When dubious months uncertain weather bring ; When fountains open, when impetuous rain Swells hasty brooks, and pours upon the plain ; When earth with slime and mud is cover'd o'er, Or hollow places spew their watery store.
Page 64 - Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae ; The hawthorn's budding in the glen, And milk-white is the slae ; The meanest hind in fair Scotland May rove their sweets amang ; But I, the Queen of a...