 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1786 - 248 pages
...lefs, and want lefs Their roomy fire-fide ; But hanker, and canker, To fee their curfed pride. II. It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times, frae being four, To fee how things are fhar'd ; How beft d* chiels are whyles in want, While Coofs on countlefs... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1793 - 420 pages
...lefs, and want lefs Their roomy fire-fide ; But hanker, and canker, To fee their curfed pride. II. It's hardly in a body's pow'r To keep, at times, frae being four, To fee how things are fhar'd ; , Hew bed o' chick are whyles in want, While Coofs on countlefs... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 446 pages
...tent less, and want less Their 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,...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... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - Bookbinding - 1808 - 330 pages
...hanker and canker, To see their cursed 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...want, While coofs on 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pages
...tent less, and want less Their 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,...want, While coofs on countless thousands rant, And ken na how to wair 't : But DA VIE, lad, ne'er fash your head, Tho' we hae little gear, We 're fit... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...tent less, and want less, Their roomy fire-side ; But hanker and canker. To see their curs'd pride. It's hardly in a body's pow'r To keep at times frae...are shar'd : How best o' chiels are whiles in want, Whiles coofs on countless thousands rant, And ken na how to wair't ; But, Davie, lad, ne'er fash your... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1815 - 364 pages
...tent less, and want less Their roomy fire-side ; But hanker and eanker, To see their eursed pride, II. It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times,...being sour, To see how things are shar'd ; How best o' ehiels are whiles in want, While eoofs on eountless thousands rant, And ken na how to wair't : But,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...tent less, and want less Their 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,...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 how to wair't : But,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 270 pages
...tent less, and want less Their 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... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 274 pages
...tent less, and want less Their 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, 1 David Sillar, one of the club at Tarbolton, and author of a volume of poems io 'he Scottish dialed.... | |
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