Glints from Over the Waterauthor, 1880 - 443 pagine |
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Glints from Over the Water [Letters, Repr. from the Concord Daily Monitor ... Parsons Brainard Cogswell Anteprima non disponibile - 2016 |
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Pagina 337 - Tam had got planted unco right; Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely, Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely; And at his elbow, Souter Johnny, His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony; Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither; They had been fou for weeks thegither. The night drave on wi...
Pagina 171 - This Grave contains all that was mortal of a YOUNG ENGLISH POET who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his Heart at the Malicious Power of his Enemies Desired these Words to be engraved on his Tombstone 'Here lies One Whose Name Was Writ in Water.
Pagina 138 - The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Pagina 337 - The night drave on wi' sangs and clatter; And ay the ale was growing better: The landlady and Tam grew gracious Wi' favours secret, sweet and precious: The Souter tauld his queerest stories; The landlord's laugh was ready chorus: The storm without might rair and rustle, Tam did na mind the storm a whistle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drown'd himsel amang the nappy. As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure: Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious,...
Pagina 284 - Opposite to this stone, in the same tomb upon which he has so feelingly recorded his grief at the loss of a beloved parent, are deposited the remains of Thomas Gray, the author of the Elegy written in a Country Churchyard.
Pagina 336 - Nae man can tether time or tide ; — • The hour approaches Tarn maun ride; That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hour he mounts his beast in; And sic a night he taks the road in, As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in.
Pagina 285 - In the same pious confidence, beside her friend and sister, here sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her.
Pagina 340 - Again ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not, forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths...
Pagina 171 - Keats ! if thy cherished name be writ in water, Each drop has fallen from some mourner's cheek, A sacred tribute such as heroes seek — Though oft in vain — for dazzling deeds of slaughter. Sleep on ! not honored less for epitaph so meek.
Pagina 336 - And sic a night he taks the road in As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad...