| English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...succession raise, her ornament and guard ! TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY. WEE, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou'st met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the...now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's not thy neebor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet ! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckled... | |
| 1841 - 488 pages
...changing hour, And weathers every sky;" or those of the poet Burns, " 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 bounie gem," without feeling a more tender regard for the daisy ? As it is with a fair... | |
| Lucy Hooper - Flower language - 1842 - 304 pages
...BURNS. SMALL, modest, crimson-tipped flower, Thou'st met me in an evil hour, For I must crush among the stoure Thy slender stem : To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonny gem ! Alas! 'tis not thy neighbour sweet, The bonny lark, companion meet, Bending... | |
| English poetry - 1843 - 368 pages
...succession raise, her ornament and guard ! TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY. WEE, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou'st 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 bonnie gem. Alas ! it's not thy neebor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...A MOUNTAIN DAISY, ON TCRNINQ ONE DOWN WITH THE FLOCOB. "Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou 's 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 neebor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet ! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet ! Wi'... | |
| Bourne Hall Draper - 1844 - 504 pages
...piece, Edward ; surely no one can read it without admiration ; " 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. AlasYitS no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet, Bending thee... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...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 bonnie gem. Alas ! its no' thy neebor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet ! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet ! Wi'... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Authors - 1844 - 334 pages
...A MOUNTAIN DAISY, OR TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE FLOOOB. Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou 's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem j To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! its no' thy neebor sweet, The bonnie... | |
| Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 pages
...On turning one down with tin. Plough, In April, 17M* WEE," modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou 'st met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoureP Thy slender stem ; To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it 's noi thy... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...beginning, however, is in the poet's happiest manner : — Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou V met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stourb Thy tender stem ; To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bouniec gem. Alas ! its nod thy neebore... | |
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