 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - Bookbinding - 1808 - 330 pages
...pride. It's hardly in a body's pow'r To keep, at times, rrae being sour, To see how things are shar'd ; How best o' chiels are whiles in want, While coofs...countless thousands rant, And ken na how to wair't; lint Davie, lad, ne'er fash your head, Tho' we hae little gear, We're fit to win our daily bread, As... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pages
...roomy fire-side; But hanker and canker, To see their cursed pride. II. It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times, frae being sour, To see how things are shar'd ; How best o' chiels are whiles in want, While coofs on countless thousands rant, And ken na... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...roomy fire-side ; But hanker and canker, To see their cursed pride. II. It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times, frae being sour, To see how things are shar'd ; How best o' duels are whiles in want, While coofs on countless thousands rant, And ken na... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 270 pages
...roomy fire-side ; • But hanker and canker, To see their cursed pride. It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times, frae being sour, To see how things are sharM; How best o' chiels are whiles in want, While coofs on countless thousands rant, And kenna how... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 pages
...roomy fire-side ; But hanker and canker, To see their cursed pride. II. It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times, frae being sour, To see how things are shar'd ; How best o' chiels are whiles in want, While coofs on countless thousands rant, And kenna... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - Poetry - 1826 - 226 pages
...hanker and canker, To see their cursed pride. It's hardly in a body's power To keep, at times, ftae being sour, To see how things are shared; How best...want, While coofs on countless thousands rant, And kenna how to wair't: But, Davie, lad, ne'er fash your head, Though we hae little gear, We're fit to... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1826 - 272 pages
...a body's pow'r To keep, at times, Irae being sour, lo see how things are shar'd ; How besto' cheils are whiles in want, While coofs on countless thousands rant , And ken na how to wair't : But Davie.lad, ne'er fash your head, Tho' we hae little gear, We're fit to win our daily bread, As... | |
 | David Booth - 1830 - 516 pages
...written boddy, or buddy. Burns gives us a feeling example of its use : " It's hardly in a body's pow'r To keep, at times, frae being sour, , To see how things are shar'd ; How best o'chiels are whiles in want, While coofs on countless thousands rant, And ken na... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1831 - 484 pages
...roomy fire-side ; But hanker and canker. To see their cursed pride. II. It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times, frae being sour, To see how things are shar'd ; How best o' chiels are whiles in want, While cool's on countless thousands rant, And ken na... | |
 | Robert Burns - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 420 pages
...fortune, as well as those of genius, are divided. " Its hardly in a body's power To keep at times from being sour, To see how things are shared ; How best...want, While coofs on countless thousands rant, And kenna how to wair't." He lived long enough to think more deeply and more darkly on this topic. At present... | |
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How best o' chiels are whiles in want, While coofs on countless thousands rant, And ken na how to wair't... 
