The Poems of Robert Fergusson: in Two Parts. To which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author, and a Sketch of His Writings; with a Copious Glossary Annexed, 1. kötetBenjamin Chapman. A. Small, printer., 1815 - 331 oldal |
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... happy lay , While hills responsive waft your songs away . Cor . May plenteous crops your irksome la- bour crown , May hoodwink'd fortune cease her envious frown ; May riches still increase with growing years ; Your flocks be numerous as ...
... happy lay , While hills responsive waft your songs away . Cor . May plenteous crops your irksome la- bour crown , May hoodwink'd fortune cease her envious frown ; May riches still increase with growing years ; Your flocks be numerous as ...
25. oldal
... happy as I , Nor tun'd with more pleasure the reed ; My breast never vented a sigh , Till STELLA approach'd the gay mead . C With mirth , with contentment endow'd , My hours they MORNING A Pastorał Page Noon A Pastoral Night A Pastoral ...
... happy as I , Nor tun'd with more pleasure the reed ; My breast never vented a sigh , Till STELLA approach'd the gay mead . C With mirth , with contentment endow'd , My hours they MORNING A Pastorał Page Noon A Pastoral Night A Pastoral ...
28. oldal
... happy days ? My lot was envied by each humbler swain ; Each bard in smooth eulogium sung my praise , And DAMON listen'd to the guileful strain . FLATTERY , alluring as the Syren's lay , And as deceitful thy inchanting tongue , How have ...
... happy days ? My lot was envied by each humbler swain ; Each bard in smooth eulogium sung my praise , And DAMON listen'd to the guileful strain . FLATTERY , alluring as the Syren's lay , And as deceitful thy inchanting tongue , How have ...
32. oldal
... , if music's gentle lay Hath oft been echo'd by the sounding dome ; If music cannot soothe their griefs away , Or change a wretched to a happy home ? Tho ' Fortune should invest them with her spoils , Against repining at Fortune A Poem.
... , if music's gentle lay Hath oft been echo'd by the sounding dome ; If music cannot soothe their griefs away , Or change a wretched to a happy home ? Tho ' Fortune should invest them with her spoils , Against repining at Fortune A Poem.
35. oldal
... happy he , whose conscience knows no guile ! He to the sable night can bid farewell ; From cheerless objects close his eyes awhile , Within the silken folds of sleep to dwell . Elysian dreams shall hover round his bed , His soul shall ...
... happy he , whose conscience knows no guile ! He to the sable night can bid farewell ; From cheerless objects close his eyes awhile , Within the silken folds of sleep to dwell . Elysian dreams shall hover round his bed , His soul shall ...
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62. oldal - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
186. oldal - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
194. oldal - Ferguson, whose irregularities sometimes led him into unpleasant rencontres with these military conservators of public order, and who mentions them so often that he may be termed their poet...
226. oldal - At night, in calmest slumbers dose fu' sound ; Nor doctor need their weary life to spae, Nor drogs their noddle and their sense confound, Till death slip sleely on, and gie the hindmost wound.
iv. oldal - No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, ' No storied urn nor animated bust ;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
205. oldal - A cauler burn o' siller sheen, Ran cannily out-owre the green ; And whan our gutcher's drouth had been To bide right sair, He loutit down, and drank bedeen A dainty skair. His bairns had a', before the flood, A langer tack o* flesh and blood ; • * And on mair pithy shanks they stood Than Noah's line, Wha still hae been a feckless brood, Wi
179. oldal - HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling.
100. oldal - O great god Pan, to thee Thus do we sing ! Thou that keep'st us chaste and free As the young spring ; Ever be thy honour spoke, From that place the Morn is broke To that place Day doth unyoke...
288. oldal - Wi' thee but wi' a dowy heart; Aft frae the Fifan coast I've seen Thee tow'ring on thy summit green, So glowr the saints when first is given A fav'rite keek o...
267. oldal - That void our test'ments, and can freely gie Sic will and scoup to the ordain'd trustee, That he may tir our stateliest riggins bare, Nor acres, houses, woods, nor fishins spare, Till he can lend the stoitering state a lift Wi...