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 pagina's |
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Pagina 16
... shade , Which mantling ivy round the oaks hath made ; There we'll retire , and list the warbling note That flows melodious from the blackbird's throat ; Your easy numbers shall his songs inspire , And ev'ry warbler join the gen'ral ...
... shade , Which mantling ivy round the oaks hath made ; There we'll retire , and list the warbling note That flows melodious from the blackbird's throat ; Your easy numbers shall his songs inspire , And ev'ry warbler join the gen'ral ...
Pagina 17
... shades , where scarce a glimm❜ring ray Can dart its lustre thro ' the leafy spray . Yon cooling riv'let where the waters gleam , Where springing flow'rs adorn the limpid stream , Invites us where the drooping willow grows , To guide ...
... shades , where scarce a glimm❜ring ray Can dart its lustre thro ' the leafy spray . Yon cooling riv'let where the waters gleam , Where springing flow'rs adorn the limpid stream , Invites us where the drooping willow grows , To guide ...
Pagina 18
... shade ; Before the gods to thwart my wishes strove , By blasting ev'ry pleasing glimpse of love : For Delia wanders o'er the ANGLIAN plains , Where civil discord and sedition reigns ; There Scotia's sons in odious light appear , Tho ...
... shade ; Before the gods to thwart my wishes strove , By blasting ev'ry pleasing glimpse of love : For Delia wanders o'er the ANGLIAN plains , Where civil discord and sedition reigns ; There Scotia's sons in odious light appear , Tho ...
Pagina 20
... heat invites us at our ease To court the twining shades and cooling breeze ; Our languid joints we'll peaceably recline , And midst the flow'rs and op'ning blossoms dine . PASTORAL III . NIGHT . AMYNTAS . FLORELLUS . AMYNTAS 20.
... heat invites us at our ease To court the twining shades and cooling breeze ; Our languid joints we'll peaceably recline , And midst the flow'rs and op'ning blossoms dine . PASTORAL III . NIGHT . AMYNTAS . FLORELLUS . AMYNTAS 20.
Pagina 21
... awful silence reigns throughout the shade , The peaceful olive bends his drooping head ; No sound is heard o'er all the gloomy maze , Wide o'er the deep the fiery meteors blaze . Flor . The west yet ting'd with SOL's efful- gent.
... awful silence reigns throughout the shade , The peaceful olive bends his drooping head ; No sound is heard o'er all the gloomy maze , Wide o'er the deep the fiery meteors blaze . Flor . The west yet ting'd with SOL's efful- gent.
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The Poems of Robert Fergusson: in Two Parts. To which is Prefixed ..., Volume 1 Robert Fergusson Volledige weergave - 1815 |
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Pagina 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?
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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
Pagina 179 - HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...