 | 1828 - 722 pages
...the oblivion that was covering it ! These were early feelings, and they abode with him to the end. ' a wish, (I mind its power,) A wish, that to my latest hour Will strongly heave ray breast ; That I, for poor aiild Scotland's sake, Some useful plan or book could... | |
 | Robert Burns - Dialect literature, Scottish - 1808 - 496 pages
...barn, Or haud a yokin at the pleugh, An* tho' fu' foughten sair eneugh, Yet unco proud to learn. Ev'n then a wish (I mind its power) A wish, that to my...breast ; That I for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some useful plan, or beuk could make, Or sing a song at least. The rough bur-thistle spreading wide Amang... | |
 | Scottish uses - Scottish poetry - 1808 - 228 pages
...and clearing, The tither stookcd raw ; With clatters and haivers Wearing the time awa' : Ev'n theft a wish, (I mind its power,) A wish, that to my latest...breast ; That I for poor Auld Scotland's sake Some useful plan or book could make, Or sing a sang at least. The rough bur-thistle spreading wide Amang... | |
 | Robert Burns - English literature - 1809 - 326 pages
...Or haud a yokin at the pleugh, An' tho' fu' foughten sair eneugh, • Yet unco proud to learn. Ev'n then a wish (I mind its power) A wish, that to my latest how must be, though no young poet, nor young soldier's heart, ever l>eat more fondly for fame than... | |
 | Robert Burns - English literature - 1809 - 328 pages
...fine old song of The Mill, Mill, 0, to give 'it a plain prosaic reading it halts prodigiously out of Shall strongly heave my breast; That I for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some useful plan, or beuk could make, Or sing a song at least. The rough bur-thistle spreading wide Amang... | |
 | Robert Burns - English literature - 1809 - 328 pages
...line okl song of The Mill, Mill, O, to give it a plain prosaic reading it halts prodigiously out of Shall strongly heave my breast; That I for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some useful plan, or beuk could make, Or sing a song at least. The rough bur-thistle spreading wide Amang... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1815 - 344 pages
...harn, Or hand a yol,in at the pleugh, An' thp' fu' foughteu sair eneugh, Yet uneo proud to learn. Ev'n then a wish (I mind its power), A wish, that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my hreast ; That I, for poor auld Seotland's sake, Some useful plan or heuk eould make, Or sing a song... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poets, Scottish - 1817 - 502 pages
...pleugh, An' tho' fu' foughten sair eneugh, Yet unco proud to learn. .'...'... •. Ev'n then a wish (L mind its power) A wish, that to my latest hour Shall...breast ; That I for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some useful plan, or beuk could make, Or sing a song at least. The rough bur-thistle spreading wide Amang... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1822 - 440 pages
...barn, Or haud a yokin at the pleugh, An' tho' fu' foughten sair eneugh, Yet unco proud to learn. Ev'n then a wish (I mind its power) A wish, that to my...breast ; That I for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some useful plan, or beuk could make, Or sing a song at least. The rough bur-thistle spreading wide Amang... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 274 pages
...shearing, and clearing The tither stocked raw, Wi' claivers, an' haivers, Wearing the day awa. Ev'n then a wish, (I mind its power,) A wish that to my...breast; That I for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some useful plan, or beuk could make, Or sing a sang at least. The rough bur-thistle, spreading wide Amang... | |
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E'en then a wish (I mind its power) A wish, that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast ; That I for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan, or book could make, Or sing a sang at least. 
