Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem. To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonie Lark, companion meet ! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd... Contributions to the Edinburgh Review - Página 411por Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 páginas
...On turning one down with tin. Plough, In April, 17M* WEE," modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou 'st met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoureP Thy slender stem ; To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it 's noi thy... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 páginas
...beginning, however, is in the poet's happiest manner : — Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou V met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stourb Thy tender stem ; To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bouniec gem. Alas ! its nod thy neebore... | |
| 1845 - 440 páginas
...ere night cut down, it lies TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY, ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUGH. IN APRIL, I786. WEE, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me...slender stem ; To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou honnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neehor sweet, The honny Lurk, companion meet ! Bending thee 'inang the... | |
| John Wilson - 1845 - 236 páginas
...dew-drop nature gathers on its " snawie bosom, sunward spread!" " Wee, modest, crimson-tipped (lower, Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang...slender stem; To spare thee now is past my pow'r. Thou bonuie gem. ' Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie Lark, companion meet, Bending thee 'mang... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 846 páginas
...MOUNTAIN DAISY, ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUGH IN APRIL 1786. WEE, modest, crimson-tipped flower, Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang...stoure Thy slender stem : To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet, Bending thee... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...Warton. TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY. ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUGH." WEE,7 modest, crimson-tipped flower, Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure8 Thy slender stem ; To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonnie9 gem. 1 Kaliburn — The... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 páginas
...turn'd out, for a' thy trouble, But house or hald, To thole the winter's sleety dribble, An' cranrench cauld ! " — vol. iii. p. 147. The verses to a Mountain...slender stem ; To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bounie gem ! " Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie Lark, companion meet ! Bending thee 'mang... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 páginas
...derive their chief beauty from the same tone of sentiment. " Wee. modest, crimson-lipped flow'r, Thon'n met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the...slender stem ; To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bourne gem ! "Al»a! it's no thy nerbor sweet, Thf bonnie Lark, companion meet ! Bending thee 'mane... | |
| 1846 - 374 páginas
...printing was invented. "TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY." On turning one down with the plough, in April, 1786. " Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush among the stoure Thy slender stem ; To spare thee now is past my pow'r Thou bonnie gem !" Mark the... | |
| 1846 - 436 páginas
...TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY, TURNED DOWN BY A PLOUGH. — Bums. WEE, modest, crimson-tipped flower, Thou 's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure 3 Thy slender stem : To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonnie gem ! Alas, it 's not thy neebor... | |
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