WEE, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem. To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonie Lark, companion meet ! Bending thee... The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns - Pagina 173di Robert Burns - 1909 - 609 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| British essayists - 1823 - 802 pagine
...superior merit, but because its length suits the bounds of my paper. * Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower, Thou's met me in an evil hour, For I maun crush amang...stoure Thy slender stem. To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie Lark, companion meet, Bending thee... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 354 pagine
...merit, but because its length suits the bounds of my paper. , * Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower, Thou's met me in an evil hour, For I maun crush amang...stoure Thy slender stem; To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonie gem. Alas! it's no thy neighbour sweet, The bony Lark, companion meet! Bending thee... | |
| 1847 - 390 pagine
...the Ayrshire plowman, though ignorant of numbers: — " Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou'st met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the...slender stem ; To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! its no thy neeboof sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet ! Bending thee 'mang the... | |
| Amédée Pichot - 1825 - 510 pagine
...poet of effete civilization would the humble Easter daisy have inspired such a song as the ensuing ? Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush nmang the stoure Thy slender stem ; To spare thee now is past my pow r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! its... | |
| Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 pagine
...DAISY.—ON TUENINO ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUGH, IN APRIL, 1 1786. Wee, moidest, crimson-tipped flower, Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang...stoure Thy slender stem; To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonnie gem. Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet, Wi' spreckled breast, When upward springing,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1826 - 272 pagine
...och ! I backward cast my e'e, On prospects drear ! An' forward, tho' I canna see, I guess an' fear, A MOUNTAIN DAISY, On turning one down with the Plough,...in April, 1786. WEE, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou'st met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem ; To spare thee... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 414 pagine
...slew my luvc on the braies of Yarrow. W. Hamilton'! Braa of Ytrf. Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower, Thou's met me in an evil hour , For I maun crush amang...stoure , Thy slender stem. To spare thee now is past my power, Thou tomie gem. RH*BONNY, among miners, a bed of ore, difTerin* only from a squat as being round,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 pagine
...under the pressure of violent Anguish, ..... The first six verses of the Ninetieth Psalm, . . . . . . To a Mountain Daisy, on turning one down with the Plough, in April, 1786, To Ruin, ...... To Miss L - , with Beattie's Poems as a New Year's Gift, Jan. 1, 1787, . Epistle to... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagine
...MOUNTAIN DAISY. On turning one down with the plough, itt April, 1786. WEE, modest, crimson-tipped flower, Thou's met me in an evil hour: For I maun crush amang...stoure Thy slender stem : To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonnie gem. Alas! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet! Bending thee... | |
| 1832 - 206 pagine
...DAISY, TURNINO ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUOH, IN APRIL, 17S6. WEB, modest, crimson tipped flower, Thou 's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy sTender stem. To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonnie gem. 36 Alas ! it 's no thy neebor sweet,... | |
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