The Poems of Robert Fergusson: in Two Parts. To which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author, and a Sketch of His Writings; with a Copious Glossary Annexed, Volume 1Benjamin Chapman. A. Small, printer., 1815 - 331 páginas |
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Página 167
... bonny lambies lick the dews of spring , While gaudsmen whistle , or while birdies sing . Geo . " Twas na for weel tim'd verse or sangs alane He bore the bell frae ilka shepherd swain . Nature to him had gi'en a kindly lore , Deep a ...
... bonny lambies lick the dews of spring , While gaudsmen whistle , or while birdies sing . Geo . " Twas na for weel tim'd verse or sangs alane He bore the bell frae ilka shepherd swain . Nature to him had gi'en a kindly lore , Deep a ...
Página 168
... bonny rigs delight the view , An ' thriving hedges drink the caller dew . * Dav . They tell me , Geordie , he had sic a gift , That scarce a starnie blinkit frae the lift , But he wou'd some auld warld name for't find , As gart him keep ...
... bonny rigs delight the view , An ' thriving hedges drink the caller dew . * Dav . They tell me , Geordie , he had sic a gift , That scarce a starnie blinkit frae the lift , But he wou'd some auld warld name for't find , As gart him keep ...
Página 183
... bonny book o ' Fame , Let Merit nae pretension claim To laurel'd wreath , But hap ye weel , baith back an ' wame , In gude Braid Claith . He that some ells o ' this may fa ' , An ' slae - black hat on pow like snaw , Bids bauld to bear ...
... bonny book o ' Fame , Let Merit nae pretension claim To laurel'd wreath , But hap ye weel , baith back an ' wame , In gude Braid Claith . He that some ells o ' this may fa ' , An ' slae - black hat on pow like snaw , Bids bauld to bear ...
Página 184
... bonny mou ' fou ' sair , And scald him baith : Wooers shou'd ay their traval spare Without Braid Claith . Braid Claith lends fock an unco heese , Makes mony kail - worms butterflies , Gies mony a doctor his degrees For little skaith : 184.
... bonny mou ' fou ' sair , And scald him baith : Wooers shou'd ay their traval spare Without Braid Claith . Braid Claith lends fock an unco heese , Makes mony kail - worms butterflies , Gies mony a doctor his degrees For little skaith : 184.
Página 187
... bonny braes , Or banks o ' Tweed , Delight to chaunt their hameil lays , Sin ' music's dead . At glomin now the bagpipe's dumb , Whan weary owsen hameward come ; Sae sweetly as it wont to bum , And Pibrachs skreed ; We never hear its ...
... bonny braes , Or banks o ' Tweed , Delight to chaunt their hameil lays , Sin ' music's dead . At glomin now the bagpipe's dumb , Whan weary owsen hameward come ; Sae sweetly as it wont to bum , And Pibrachs skreed ; We never hear its ...
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The Poems of Robert Fergusson: in Two Parts. To which is Prefixed ..., Volume 1 Robert Fergusson Visualização integral - 1815 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
aften amang Auld Reikie baith bauld beauty blaw blest blyth bonny Braid Claith braw breeze browster busk caller canna canty cauld cheer chiel cottar cou'd dowy e'en e'er ECLOGUE Edina's ev'ry fair Fancy Fergusson Fifan flow'rs fock frae gales gang girn Glour green groves gude Gutcher hail hame hath heart heeze ilka lads lasses loun lyre maun mirth mony morn mourn Muse nae mair ne'er never night numbers o'er plain poortith pow'r reed ROBERT FERGUSSON round SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotland seenil shade shepherd shore shou'd sigh siller simmer sing Skelpin smiles song spring stap strain streams swain sweet thee thir thole thou thro tongue trow Twas unco weel weet Whan Whare Whase Whilk wing Wirrikow woes yence
Passagens conhecidas
Página 62 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 186 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Página 194 - Ferguson, whose irregularities sometimes led him into unpleasant rencontres with these military conservators of public order, and who mentions them so often that he may be termed their poet...
Página 226 - At night, in calmest slumbers dose fu' sound ; Nor doctor need their weary life to spae, Nor drogs their noddle and their sense confound, Till death slip sleely on, and gie the hindmost wound.
Página iv - No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, ' No storied urn nor animated bust ;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
Página 205 - A cauler burn o' siller sheen, Ran cannily out-owre the green ; And whan our gutcher's drouth had been To bide right sair, He loutit down, and drank bedeen A dainty skair. His bairns had a', before the flood, A langer tack o* flesh and blood ; • * And on mair pithy shanks they stood Than Noah's line, Wha still hae been a feckless brood, Wi
Página 179 - HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling.
Página 100 - O great god Pan, to thee Thus do we sing ! Thou that keep'st us chaste and free As the young spring ; Ever be thy honour spoke, From that place the Morn is broke To that place Day doth unyoke...
Página 288 - Wi' thee but wi' a dowy heart; Aft frae the Fifan coast I've seen Thee tow'ring on thy summit green, So glowr the saints when first is given A fav'rite keek o...
Página 267 - That void our test'ments, and can freely gie Sic will and scoup to the ordain'd trustee, That he may tir our stateliest riggins bare, Nor acres, houses, woods, nor fishins spare, Till he can lend the stoitering state a lift Wi...