 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 846 Seiten
...To misery's brink, Till wrenched of every stay but Heaven, He, ruined, sink ! Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant...ploughshare drives elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom ! -BURNS. PRECEPTS OF FLOWERS. FLOWERS of the... | |
 | 1846 - 436 Seiten
...ruined, sink. 1 Peeped. ! Shelter. » Barren. 118 THE GRATES OF A HOUSEHOLD. E'en thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, That fate is thine, — no distant...ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom ; Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom ! THE GRAVES OF A HOUSEHOLD. — Mrs. Hemans.... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 Seiten
...cunning driv'n To mis'ry's brink, Till wrench 'd of ev'ry stay but Heav'n, He, ruin'd, sink ! Ev'n thou who mourn 'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is...crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom ! " BURNS. ROBEBT HEBBICK is, in his quaint way, a master of this art : — " Fair Daffodils, we weep... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1847 - 704 Seiten
...ev'ry stay but Heav'n, He, ruin'd, sink ! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, Thatjate ii Mne — no distant date ; Stern Ruin's plough-share drives,...beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom !' TO A MOUSE, On turnins ner up In her Nest, vrilh th. Plongrh, WEE, sleekit," cow'rin'," tim'rous beastie,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 Seiten
...year he went to the University of * [A passage imitated by Burns in his poem ' To the Daisy :' — " Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate Full on thy...crush'd beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom.'' Edinburgh, where, after the usual course of attendance, he entered on the study of divinity, intending,... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 Seiten
...misery's brink ! Till wrenched of every stay but heaven, He, ruined, sink ! Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant...ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom ; Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight. Shall be thy doom. SONG. The gloomy night is gathering fast, Loud... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1850 - 508 Seiten
...ruin'd, sink ! E'vn thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate That fate is thine — no distant date ; Stem Ruin's plough-share drives, elate, Full on thy bloom,...the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom ! TO RUIN. Ati, hail ! inexorable lord ! At whose destruction-breathing word, The mightiest empires fall ! Thy... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 Seiten
...misery's brink ! Till wrenched of every stay but heaven, He, ruined, sink ! Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant...ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom ; Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom. SONG. The gloomy night is gathering fast, Loud... | |
 | 1851 - 390 Seiten
...bonnie gem." The poet's moral in the last stanza is also worth recalling : " Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant...crush'd beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom." of the Daisy,—to place before you a weapon for its extirpation?* Ytt so it is : it may be thought... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 Seiten
...To misery's brink, Till wrenched of every stay but Heaven, He, ruined, sink ! Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant...ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight, Shall bo thy doom. TO MARY IN HEAVEN. Thon lingering star, with... | |
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Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine— no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom ! To Ruin ALL hail, inexorable lord ! At whose destruction-breathing... 
