And wi' the lave ilk merry morn Could rank my rig and lass, Still shearing, and clearing The tither stocked raw, Wi' claivers, an haivers, Wearing the day awa : Ev'n then a wish, (I mind its power,) A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my... Annual Burns Chronicle and Club Directory - Strana 1601893Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - Počet stránok 1452
...oblivion that was covering it! These were early feelings, and they abode with him to the end: . . . A wish (I mind its power) , A wish, that to my latest hour Will strongly heave my breast, — That I, ¡or poor auld Scotland's sake, Some useful plan or book... | |
| 1884 - Počet stránok 646
...man. sprung from the people, aud one whose highest ambition was to be the poet of his people : — ' That I for poor auld Scotland's sake Some useful plan or book could make, Or sing a sang at least.' Burns, too, had written in the dialect of his fellow peasants, and had succeeded in painting humble... | |
| 1847 - Počet stránok 54
...of his genius, and bodied as follows ; 100 THE CREATIVE ART PHASES OF LITERATURE. [Jan. " E'en then a wish, I mind its power— A wish that to my latest...hour, Shall strongly heave my breast; That I for poor aulil Scotland's sake Some useful plan or book could make, Or sing a sang at least." It is nothing... | |
| Donald A. Low - 1974 - Počet stránok 474
...the oblivion that was covering it ! These were early feelings, and they abode with him to the end: A wish (I mind its power), A wish, that to my latest hour Will strongly heave my breast; That I, for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some useful plan or book could... | |
| Ronald T. Ridley - 1996 - Počet stránok 192
...his virtues and vices; no one has ever been more frank. He expressed his hopes in the famous words: That I for poor auld Scotland's sake Some useful plan or book could make, Or sing a sang at least Until the 1970s the Scots and their descendants constituted the third largest group in the Australian... | |
| Paul Henderson Scott - 1998 - Počet stránok 132
...sing". And in the "Epistle to the Gudewife of Wauchope House": E'en then, a wish (I mind its pow'r), A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave...breast, That I for poor auld Scotland's sake Some usefu plan or book could make Or sing a sang at least That last statement was not a rhetorical flourish,... | |
| Harry Emerson Fosdick - 2007 - Počet stránok 214
...his labor back to his prayer ; "E'en then a wish (I mind its pow'r), A wish that to tny latest hoar Shall strongly heave my breast, That I for poor auld Scotland's sake Some usefu' plan or book could wake, Or sing a song at least." Dominant desire gathers up the scattered... | |
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