 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...  Scotia's Bards - Seite 1401854 - 563 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Anderson - 1722 - 440 Seiten
...worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and...to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hanieward Iv.na. / III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the fhcker of an aged tree... | |
 | 1809 - 530 Seiten
...Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and...tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher thro' To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee. His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 446 Seiten
...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 the morn in ease and...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... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 Seiten
...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 the morn in ease and...appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; The' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their Dud, wi' flitcherin noise an' glee.... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1808 - 338 Seiten
...and his hoes, Hoping the morn in eafe and reft to fpend, And weary, o'er the moor, his courfe dpes hameward bend, At length his lonely cot appears in view. Beneath the fhelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, ftacher through s To meet their Dad, wi'... | |
 | 1809 - 530 Seiten
...pcrufe the following ftanzas without feeling the force of tendernefs and truth. Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and.... ' Th' expectant •wee-things, toddlin, stacher thro r To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee. His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, Does a'... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 Seiten
...toil-worn Cotter firae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and...At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath tin: shelter of an aged tree ; His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearth-stane, bis thriftie... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1809 - 518 Seiten
...Cotter frae his labour goes, . • . This night his weekly moi' is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend." (Currie's Burns, Vol. III. p. 174.) In this description, there is an obvious resemblance to the opening... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 Seiten
...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 the morn in ease and...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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 Seiten
...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 the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the muir, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter... | |
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