Anster Fair: A Poem in Six Cantos. With Other Poems |
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Anster Fair. a Poem in Six Cantos BiblioBazaar,[Tennant William] 1784-1848 No preview available - 2016 |
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amid ANSTER FAIR ANSTER Loan arms bagpipe bagpipe's beneath blithe bloom bonny bridegroom bright burst CANTO Carnbee ceas'd chair clouds coat Crail crowd Dame drone earth Ev'n ev'ry face feet fiery Fife Fife's fingers fling flung gold golden grace green hand HARIM Hath head heard heart heav'n Heaven's heels Jove jump King kiss'd lady laird laugh laugh'd loud lungs MAGGIE LAUDER MAGGIE's MELVIL merry MICHAEL ANDERSON MICHAEL SCOTT Monarch mouth Muse mustard-pot night nose o'er pepper-box phiz pipers pipes Pittenweem push'd RANTER reel ride ring ROBERT SCOTT round and round sack Satrap scud seem'd SHERAH shone shout silver soul sound Squire stood stout sweet thee thine Thirdpart's thou throat toil Tommy Puck tongue tune turn'd Twas Twill twink vex'd vext wave Whilst whip XXXVIII younker
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Page 86 - New-wash'd, and doubly fulgent from the streams ; The Chaldee shepherd eyes her light afar, And on his knees adores her as she gleams : So shone the stately form of MAGGiE LAUDER, And so th' admiring crowds pay homage, and applaud her.
Page 54 - And some are flushed with horns of pithy ale, And some are fierce with drams of smuggled gin. * * * * And market-maids, and aproned wives, that bring Their gingerbread in baskets to the Fair; And cadgers with their creels, that hang by string From their lean horse ribs, rubbing off the hair; And crook-legg'd cripples that on crutches swing Their shabby persons with a noble air. * * * * Nor only was the land with crowds opprest, That trample forward to th...
Page 57 - FAIR. Comes next from Ross-shire and from Sutherland The horny-knuckled kilted Highlandman ; From where upon the rocky Caithness strand Breaks the long wave that at the Pole began ; And where Lochfyne from her prolific sand Her herrings gives to feed each bord'ring clan, Arrive the brogue-shod men of gen'rous eye, Plaided, and breechless all, with Edom's hairy thigh...
Page 64 - The harrassed ocean had no peace or rest, So many keels her foamy bosom tear; For, into view, now sailing from the west, With streamers idling in the bluish air, Appear the painted pleasure-boats superb.
Page 60 - ... backbone bare, Come Glasgow's merchants, each with money-bag, To purchase Dutch lintseed at ANSTER FAIR ; Sagacious fellows all, who well may brag Of virtuous industry and talents rare ; Th' accomplish'd men o'the counting-room confest, And fit to crack a joke, or argue with the best.
Page 81 - ... change Their barren brown into a ruddy gleam, And, on ten thousand dew-bent leaves and sprays, Twinkle ten thousand suns, and fling their petty rays. Up from their nests and fields of tender corn Full merrily the little skylarks spring, And on their dew-bedabbled pinions borne, Mount to the heaven's blue keystone...
Page 87 - That blockhead's heart was ice thrice bak'd beneath the Pole. Her locks, apparent tufts of wiry gold, Lay on her lily temples, fairly dangling, And on each hair, so harmless to behold, A lover's soul hung mercilessly strangling; The piping silly zephyrs vied t...
Page 151 - O'er the deep sea come pinion-wafted on ; The light-detesting bats now flap above, Scaring the sun with wings to day unknown — Round Robert's head they dance, they cry, they sing, And shear the subtile sky with broad and playful wing. And eke the mermaids that in ocean swim, Drawn by that music from their shelly caves, Peep now unbashful from the salt-sea brim, And flounce and plash exulting in the waves ; They spread at large the white and floating limb, That Neptune amorously clips and laves,...
Page 154 - Nor feel their sinews withered now and shrunk ; Pell-mell, in random couples they engage, And boisterously wag feet, arms, and trunk, As if they strove, in capering so brisk, To heave their aged knees up to the solar disk.