 November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The short'ning winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil...  The Edinburgh Review - Strana 2591809Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Garland - 1850 - Počet stránok 152
...black'ning trains o' craws to their repose ; Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping tho morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does homeward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath tho shelter of an aged tree! Th' expectant... | |
 | Walter Colton - 1850 - Počet stránok 492
...returning from his toil, will yet half forget the labors of the day in the greetings of his home : " At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of on aged tree : » Th' expectant taee things^ toddlin', atacher thro' To meet their dad, wp flichtcrin... | |
 | Robert Fergusson, Alexander Balloch Grosart - 1851 - Počet stránok 480
...their repose ; The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks and his hoes, Hoping...weary, o'er the moor his course does hameward bend. With reference to the word ' gloming ' or ' gloamin,' it is certainly a very picturesque and mellifluous... | |
 | Robert Fergusson, Alexander Balloch Grosart - 1851 - Počet stránok 456
...their repose ; The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks and his hoes, Hoping...to spend, And, weary, o'er the moor his course does hamcward bend. With reference to the word ' gloming ' or ' gloamin,' it is certainly a very picturesque... | |
 | John Allan Quinton - 1851 - Počet stránok 210
...generally understood sense of that expression ? that night, on the evening of which he " Collects liis spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn...to spend, And weary o'er the moor his course does homeward bend." Should such time ever come, our labourer may date his account settled with rational... | |
 | 1852 - Počet stránok 782
...their repose : The toil-worn Colter frae his labour goes, Thii night his weekly moil is at an end. Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the sheller of an aged tree ; Th' expectant rcef-thinçg, toddling, slacher thro' To meet their Dad, wi1... | |
 | John Aikin - 1852 - Počet stránok 792
...their repose i The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night bis weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant... | |
 | 1852 - Počet stránok 440
...hoes, Hoping the morn tneaceand rest to flj>end And weary, o'er the mopr, his course does homeward bend, At length his lonely cot appears In view Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; Th' expectant wa-Oiingi, toddlin, stacker thro* To utoet their da d , In fiitchterm noise an' glee, a wee-bit rigle,... | |
 | Henrietta Dumont - 1852 - Počet stránok 330
...o'er the bed, Where thy mates of the garden Lie scentless and dead. Moore. SiLBS....Domestic Virtues. AT length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee things, todlin stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichtering noise and glee ; His wee-bit... | |
 | 1852 - Počet stránok 1170
...his hunger after labour hard/' Fleece, Book I. 120. Burns lias a picture equal to any of these : " At length his lonely cot appears in view Beneath the shelter of an aged tree : Th* expectant wee things, todlin', stacher through To meet their dad with flichterin' noise and glee : His wee-bit... | |
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