 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
 | John Allan Quinton - 1851 - 210 Seiten
...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 - 782 Seiten
...; The black'ning trains о craws to their repose : The toil-worn Colter frae his labour goes, Thii night his weekly moil is at an end. Collects his spades,...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 - 792 Seiten
...blackening trains o' craws to their repose i The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night bis zM}UhVh> {V~ x III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant... | |
 | 1852 - 782 Seiten
...bend. The black'ning trains о craws to their repot : The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goe», Thit >l?l he hoe». " At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; Th' expectant... | |
 | 1853 - 224 Seiten
...night, in the geaerally understood sense of that expression ? that night, on the evening of which he " Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 Seiten
...stanzas, for instance, whether as they describe human interests, or breathe a lofty devotional spirit " The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night...to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hamcwarJ bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th*... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 Seiten
...frae the pleugh; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose; The toil worn Cottar frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend." That one single stanza is in itself a picture, one may say a poem, of the poor man's life. It is so... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 Seiten
...frae the pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose ; The toil worn Cottar frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend." That one single stanza is in itself a picture, one may say a poem, of the poor man's life. It is so... | |
 | 1854 - 456 Seiten
...beasts retreating frae the pleugh, THE COTTKR S SATURDAY NIGHT. The toil-worn cotter frae his labor goes, — This night his weekly moil is at an end,...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 ; Th'... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 Seiten
...frae the plough; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose; The toil-worn Cotter frae 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 ; Th'... | |
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