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 161
... shou'd Winter's cold confine the sea , An ' lat the sma'est o ' our burns rin free : Sooner at Yule - day shall the birk be drest , Or birds in sapless busses big their nest , Before a tonguey woman's noisy plea Shou'd ever be a cause ...
... shou'd Winter's cold confine the sea , An ' lat the sma'est o ' our burns rin free : Sooner at Yule - day shall the birk be drest , Or birds in sapless busses big their nest , Before a tonguey woman's noisy plea Shou'd ever be a cause ...
Pagina 163
... shou'd the lealest o ' my counsel gie ; But mak or middle betwixt man an ' wife ; Is what I never did in a ' my life . It's wearin ' on now to the tail o ' May , An ' just between the beer - seed and the hay ; As lang's an orrow morning ...
... shou'd the lealest o ' my counsel gie ; But mak or middle betwixt man an ' wife ; Is what I never did in a ' my life . It's wearin ' on now to the tail o ' May , An ' just between the beer - seed and the hay ; As lang's an orrow morning ...
Pagina 177
... Shou'd th ' owner patiently keek round , To view the nature o ' his wound , Dead pussie , draggled thro ' the pond , Taks him a lounder , Whilk lays his honour on the ground As flat's a flounder . The Muse maun also now implore Auld ...
... Shou'd th ' owner patiently keek round , To view the nature o ' his wound , Dead pussie , draggled thro ' the pond , Taks him a lounder , Whilk lays his honour on the ground As flat's a flounder . The Muse maun also now implore Auld ...
Pagina 184
... 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.
... 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.
Pagina 199
... Guard ? Or can our flow'rs at ten hours bell The gowan or the spink excell ? Now shou'd our sclates wi ' hailstanes ring , What cabbage - fauld wad screen your wing ? Say , fluttering fairy ! wer't thy hap To light 199.
... Guard ? Or can our flow'rs at ten hours bell The gowan or the spink excell ? Now shou'd our sclates wi ' hailstanes ring , What cabbage - fauld wad screen your wing ? Say , fluttering fairy ! wer't thy hap To light 199.
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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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Populaire passages
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...