 | David Lester Richardson - 1855 - 296 pagine
...fields and grass-plats, is very beautiful." TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY. ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOCGH IN APRIL, 1786. Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r,...met me in an evil hour ; For I maun* crush amang the stouret Thy slender stem ; To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonuie gem. Alas ! its no thy neebor... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 pagine
...flow'r, In beauty's pride array'd ; But long ere night, cut down, it lies All wither'd and decay'd. XLVI. TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY, ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUGH IN APRIL, 1786. [This was not the original title of this sweet poem : I have a copy in the handwriting of Burns entitled... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pagine
...— Jessy ! To a Mountain Daisy, on turning one down with the plough. Wee, modest, crimson - tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun...slender stem ; To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet, Bending thee 'mang the... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pagine
...huilding', stane = stone, histie — dry. cauld = cold. 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 honnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neehor sweet, The honnie lark, companion meet ! Bending thee 'mang the... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1875 - 362 pagine
...feel for it as if it were a beautiful child too rudely treated. 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. But even here he cannot, as "Wordsworth does, leave the daisy and its fate alone.... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pagine
...us, And ev'n Devotion! BLPA; EnRP; FaFP; InvP; LiTB; NAEL-2; NOEC; OxBS; Prim To a Mountain Daisy 59 I bonnie gem. (I. 1—6) 60 Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd:... | |
 | William Roetzheim - 2006 - 760 pagine
...lea'e us, and ev'n Devotion! To A Mountain Daisy1 ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUGH, IN APRIL, I 786 Wee. modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, thou's met me...is past my pow'r, thou bonie gem. Alas! it's no thy neebor sweet, the bonie lark, companion meet, bending thee 'mang the dewy wheat, wi' spreckled breast!... | |
 | Susan Youens - 2007 - 317 pagine
...Burns, ed. J. Logie Robertson (London: Oxford University Press, 1963), pp. 113-114. The full title is "To a Mountain Daisy, on turning one down with the plough, in April, 1786." In the seventh stanza, Burns compares the poet's fate to that of the maid: "Such is the fate of simple... | |
 | Hershel Parker - 2008 - 250 pagine
...lines still unidentified (Parker 2:215). In his first lecture, in 1857, Melville quoted both Burns 's "To a Mountain Daisy, On turning one down with the plough, in April 1786" and Byron's Cbilde Harold's Pilgrimaged At the funeral of his Unitarian father-in-law in 1861 Melville... | |
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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... 
