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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... wing grim darkness soars along , And larks to nightingales resign the song : The weary ploughman flies the waving fields , To taste what fare his humble cottage yields : As bees that daily thro ' the meadows roam : Feed on the sweets ...
... wing grim darkness soars along , And larks to nightingales resign the song : The weary ploughman flies the waving fields , To taste what fare his humble cottage yields : As bees that daily thro ' the meadows roam : Feed on the sweets ...
23. oldal
... wing the ambient air , For him the steer his lusty neck doth bend ; Fishes for him their scaly fins extend . Flor . Wide o'er the orient sky the moon appears , A foe to darkness and his idle fears ; Around her orb the stars in clusters ...
... wing the ambient air , For him the steer his lusty neck doth bend ; Fishes for him their scaly fins extend . Flor . Wide o'er the orient sky the moon appears , A foe to darkness and his idle fears ; Around her orb the stars in clusters ...
35. oldal
... wing , on pleasing fancies borne , To shining vales where flow'rets lift their head , Wak'd by the breathing zephyrs of the morn . But wretched he whose foul reproachful deeds Can thro ' an angry conscience wound his rest ; His eye too ...
... wing , on pleasing fancies borne , To shining vales where flow'rets lift their head , Wak'd by the breathing zephyrs of the morn . But wretched he whose foul reproachful deeds Can thro ' an angry conscience wound his rest ; His eye too ...
50. oldal
... wing , Swift fly the Naiad's from FORTHA'S shores , And to the southern airy mountains bring Their sweet enchantment and their magic powers . Each nymph her favourite willow takes , The earth with fev'rous tremour shakes , The stagnant ...
... wing , Swift fly the Naiad's from FORTHA'S shores , And to the southern airy mountains bring Their sweet enchantment and their magic powers . Each nymph her favourite willow takes , The earth with fev'rous tremour shakes , The stagnant ...
62. oldal
... wing Their flight thro ' fields in verdant hue array'd . The muse in ev'ry season taught to sing Amidst the desart snows by fancy's powers , Can elevated soar , on placid wing , To climes where spring her kindest influence showers ...
... wing Their flight thro ' fields in verdant hue array'd . The muse in ev'ry season taught to sing Amidst the desart snows by fancy's powers , Can elevated soar , on placid wing , To climes where spring her kindest influence showers ...
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aften amang Auld Reikie baith bauld beauty blaw blest blyth bonny Braid Claith braw breeze browster busk caller canna canty cauld cheer chiel cottar cou'd dowy e'en e'er ECLOGUE Edina's ev'ry fair Fancy Fergusson Fifan flow'rs fock frae gales gang girn Glour green groves gude Gutcher hail hame hath heart heeze ilka lads lasses loun lyre maun mirth mony morn mourn Muse nae mair ne'er never night numbers o'er plain poortith pow'r reed ROBERT FERGUSSON round SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotland seenil shade shepherd shore shou'd sigh siller simmer sing Skelpin smiles song spring stap strain streams swain sweet thee thir thole thou thro tongue trow Twas unco weel weet Whan Whare Whase Whilk wing Wirrikow woes yence
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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...