 | 1853 - 560 pagine
...plough ; The blackening trains o' craws to their repose : BURNS. 397 The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end,...appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; The expectant wee things, toddlin', stacher through, To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise and... | |
 | 1853 - 224 pagine
...night, in the geaerally understood sense of that expression ? that night, on the evening of which he " Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...to spend, And weary o'er the moor his course does homeward bend." Should such time ever come, our labourer may date his account settled with rational... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pagine
...retreating frae the pleugh ; The black 'ning trains o' craws to their repose ; The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end,...tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their Dad, wi' flichtering noise an' glee.' His wee bit ingle, blinkin' bonnily, His... | |
 | 1854 - 606 pagine
...frae the pleugh; The blackening train o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn Cottar frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects...tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise and glee. His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnilie, His... | |
 | 1854 - 608 pagine
...toil-worn Cottar frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, -Collects his spades, Tiis mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and...aged tree; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise and glee. His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnilie, His... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pagine
...tffil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spade, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease...Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee things, toddlin', stacher thro' To meet their dad, wi' flichterin' noise and glee. His wee bit... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pagine
...frae the pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose ; The toil worn Cottar frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend." That one single stanza is in itself a picture, one may say a poem, of the poor man's life. It is so... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pagine
...frae the pleugh; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose; The toil worn Cottar frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend." That one single stanza is in itself a picture, one may say a poem, of the poor man's life. It is so... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 pagine
...they describe human interests, or breathe a lofty devotional spirit " The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end,...to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hamcwarJ bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th*... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 pagine
...frae the plough; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose; The toil-worn Cotter frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects...to spend, And weary o'er the moor his course does homeward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th'... | |
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November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The short'ning winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil... 
