 November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The shortening 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...  Grocott's familiar quotations - Seite 38von J.C. GROCOTT - 1854Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Bell - 1837 - 554 Seiten
...England and in Scotland to signify labour. Thus Burns in his exquisite " Cotter's Saturday Night :" " The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes ; This night his weekly moil is at an end." Mr. Yarrell informs me that in Cornwall the word moyle signifies " barren :" this is a very remarkable... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 Seiten
...retreating frae the plough ; The bltck'ning trains o' craws to their repose: Ibe toU-wora Cotter frae hi» labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, bn mattock«, «ad his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest te spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 Seiten
...frae the pleugh, The blackening trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn cotter frae his lahour charms he was anxious to celebrate in verse. " I was...printed ones, composed hy men who had Greek and La hame ward bend. III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 Seiten
...close í The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh, The blackening trains o' craws to their repos« : bis spades, his mattocks, and his hoes. Hoping the mom in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 872 Seiten
...Burns — The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose ; obert Burns beud.f in. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant... | |
 | 1840 - 368 Seiten
...close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh, The blackening trains o' craws to their repose : The toilworn cotter frae his labour goes, This night...to spend. And weary, o'er the moor, his course does name ward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th'... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 368 Seiten
...retreating frae the pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose ; The toil-worn Cotter ffae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. taste of unlettered criticism. I should be glad to know, if the enlightened mind and refined taste... | |
 | 1840 - 378 Seiten
...close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh, The blackening trains o' craws to their repose : The toilworn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, CollectsTiis spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary,... | |
 | 1841 - 658 Seiten
...retreating frae the pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose ; The toil worn Cottar frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is...ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his cours does hameward bend.' " That one single stanza is in itself a picture, one may say a poem, of... | |
 | 1841 - 306 Seiten
...from the plrvgh, The blackening train of crows to their repone; The toil-worn Cotter, from his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end. Collects...to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does homeward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; The expectant... | |
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