The poems of Alexander Scott

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Society, 1896 - 218 strán (strany)
 

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Strana 157 - DUNCAN GRAY. Duncan Gray came here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't, On blythe yule night when we were fou, Ha, ha, the wooing o't. Maggie coost1 her head fu' high, Looked asklent and unco skeigh", Gart poor Duncan stand abeigh:'; Ha, ha, the wooing o 't.
Strana 158 - DUNCAN GRAY cam here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't, On blythe Yule night when we were fou, Ha, ha, the wooing o't. Maggie coost her head fu' high, Look'd asklent and unco skeigh, Gart poor Duncan stand abeigh; Ha, ha, the wooing o't. Duncan fleech'd, and Duncan pray'd; Ha, ha, the wooing o't; Meg was deaf as Ailsa Craig, Ha, ha, the wooing o't; Duncan sigh'd baith out and in, Grat his een baith bleer't and blin', Spak o' lowpin' o'er a linn ; Ha, ha, the wooing o't.
Strana 101 - For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er is best administered is best; For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight, He can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
Strana 107 - Rhymer, may justly be admired ; having foretold, so many ages before, the union of England and Scotland, in the ninth degree of the Bruce's blood, with the succession of Bruce himself to the crown, being yet a child, and other divers particulars, which the event hath ratified and made good.
Strana 140 - Than doth the sun the candle light Or brightest day the darkest night. And thereto hath a troth as just As had Penelope the fair ; For what she saith, ye may it trust, As it by writing sealed were : And virtues hath she many moe Than I with pen have skill to show.
Strana 115 - Distaffe standing in the mid, And with unwearied fingers drawing out The lines of life, from living knowledge hid. Sad Clotho held the rocke, the whiles the thrid By griesly Lachesis was spun with paine, That cruell Atropos eftsoones undid, With cursed knife cutting the twist in twaine : Most wretched men, whose dayes depend on thrids so vaine ! XLIX.
Strana 140 - In which all colours of the rainbow bee ; Or like faire Phebes garlond shining new, In which all pure perfection one may see. But vaine it is to thinke by paragone Of earthly things, to...
Strana 128 - Then he sets out to catch them. Any one who is taken, cannot run out again with his former associates, being accounted a prisoner ; but is obliged to assist his captor in pursuing the rest. When all are taken, the game is finished ; and he who is first taken is bound to act as catcher in the next game.
Strana 121 - ... synge and daunce, And some for gentilesse or daliaunce, Som for hir handes and hir armes smale : Thus goth al to the devel by thi tale. Thou saist, men may nought kepe a castel- wal, It may so be biseged over al. And if sche be foul, thanne thou saist, that sche Coveitith every man that sche may se ; For, as a spaynel, sche wol on him lepe, Til that sche fynde som man hire to chepe.