 | Almanacs, English - 1818 - 400 pages
...this month, if the weather permit. To a MOUNTAIN DAISY I On turning one doom with the Plough. Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush among the stoure Thy slender stem ; To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonny gem 1 Alas ! it's... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 270 pages
...withered, atfu decay 'd. TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY, ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUGH, IN APRIL, 1786. WEE, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an...slender stem; To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Alas ' it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie Lark, companion meet! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet!... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 274 pages
...wither'd and decay'd. TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY, ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUGH, IN APRIL, 1786. WEE, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush arming the stoure Thy slender stem; To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ' it's,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 354 pages
...merit, but because its length suits the bounds of my paper. , * Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower, Thou's met me in an evil hour, For I maun crush amang...stoure Thy slender stem; To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonie gem. Alas! it's no thy neighbour sweet, The bony Lark, companion meet! Bending thee... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 802 pages
...superior merit, but because its length suits the bounds of my paper. * Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower, Thou's met me in an evil hour, For I maun crush amang...stoure Thy slender stem. To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie Lark, companion meet, Bending thee... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 356 pages
...paper. * Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower, Thou's met me in an evil hour, For I maun crush arming the stoure Thy slender stem. To spare thee now> is past my power, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie Lark, companion meet, Bending thee... | |
 | Christian literature, English - 1847 - 390 pages
...the Ayrshire plowman, though ignorant of numbers: — " Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou'st met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the...spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! its no thy neeboof sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet ! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet ! J... | |
 | Amédée Pichot - England - 1825 - 510 pages
...of effete civilization would the humble Easter daisy have inspired such a song as the ensuing ? Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush nmang the stoure Thy slender stem ; To spare thee now is past my pow r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! its... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...APRIL, l786. WEE, modest, crimson-tipped flower, Thou 's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amaug the stoure Thy slender stem ; To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it 's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet ! Bending... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1826 - 272 pages
...DAISY, On turning one down with the Plough, in April, 1786. WEE, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou'st met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the...slender stem ; To spare thee now is past my pow'r. Thou bonie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonie Lark, companion meet, Bending thee 'mang the... | |
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Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem. To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonie Lark, companion meet ! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd... 
