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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... fears ; Around her orb the stars in clusters shine , And distant planets tend her silver shrine . Am . Hush'd are the busy numbers of the day ; On downy couch they sleep their hours away ; Hail , balmy Sleep , that sooths the troubled ...
... fears ; Around her orb the stars in clusters shine , And distant planets tend her silver shrine . Am . Hush'd are the busy numbers of the day ; On downy couch they sleep their hours away ; Hail , balmy Sleep , that sooths the troubled ...
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... fear her fall , nor court her rise .. When early larks shall cease the matin song ; When Philomel at night resigns her lay ; When melting numbers to the owl belong , Then shall the reed be silent in thy praise . Can he , who with the ...
... fear her fall , nor court her rise .. When early larks shall cease the matin song ; When Philomel at night resigns her lay ; When melting numbers to the owl belong , Then shall the reed be silent in thy praise . Can he , who with the ...
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... is the king that Conscience fears to chide ? Conscience , that candid judge of right and wrong , Will o'er the secrets of each heart preside , Nor aw'd by pomp , nor tam'd by soothing song . DAMON TO HIS FRIENDS . THE billows of life are ...
... is the king that Conscience fears to chide ? Conscience , that candid judge of right and wrong , Will o'er the secrets of each heart preside , Nor aw'd by pomp , nor tam'd by soothing song . DAMON TO HIS FRIENDS . THE billows of life are ...
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... fear ! But thou can'st dart thy streaming ray , And change close night to open day . Health is attendant in thy radiant train , Round her the whisp'ring zephyrs gently play , Behold her gladly tripping o'er the plain , Bedeck'd with ...
... fear ! But thou can'st dart thy streaming ray , And change close night to open day . Health is attendant in thy radiant train , Round her the whisp'ring zephyrs gently play , Behold her gladly tripping o'er the plain , Bedeck'd with ...
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... , By bugbear Conscience thrall'd , enjoys an hour Of undisturb'd repose . - The miser too May brook his golden dreams , nor wake with fear That thieves or kindred ( for no soul he'll trust ) Have broke upon his chest , and strive to stea ...
... , By bugbear Conscience thrall'd , enjoys an hour Of undisturb'd repose . - The miser too May brook his golden dreams , nor wake with fear That thieves or kindred ( for no soul he'll trust ) Have broke upon his chest , and strive to stea ...
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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...