 | Electronic journals - 1892 - 688 pages
...genealogical vista will be left to the cold-blooded scientist. Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou 'в met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the atuurc Thy slender stem. To spare thee now is past my pow'r Thou bonie gem. Burns'» Address ' To a... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 pages
...PLOUGH. Wee, 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 gero ! Alas! 'tis not thy neighbour sweet, The bonny lark, companion meet, Bending... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...On turning one down with. the plmigh, in April, 1786. Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower, 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 power, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it 's no thy neibor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet, Bending... | |
 | Flower gardening - 1851 - 390 pages
...turning one down with the plough in April 1786." The first stanza shews the poet's feeling: " Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stourc Thy slender stem ; To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem." The poet's moral in... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...derive their chief beauty from the same tone of sentiment. " Wee. modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Toon's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the...sweet, The bonnie Lark, companion meet ! Bending thee 'mangthe dewy weet! AVi' spreckl'd breast. When upward-springing, blythe lo greel The purpling east.... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1852 - 356 pages
...Itountain On turning one down with the ploiigh in April, 1780. Burns. TYTEE, modest, crimson-tapped flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun...past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem ! Alas ! it's no thy neibor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet, Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet, Wi' speckled breast,... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...heard no more, And the storm has ceas'd to blow. CAMFEKLL. IX.—Extracts from Burns. The Daisy.—Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an...stoure Thy slender stem ; To spare thee now is past my powY, Thou honnie gem. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawy bosom, sun-ward spread, Thou lifts... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...A MOUNTAIN DAISY ; ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUOH. WEK, modest, crimson-tipped flower, 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 power, Thou bonnie gem ! Alas ! it's no thy nebor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet ! Bending... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...asjr, ON TURNINO ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUGH, IN APRIL, 1784. WEE, modest, crimson-tipped flower ! 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 power, Thou bonnie gem ! Alas ! it 's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet, Bending... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY. ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUGH. WEE modest crimson-tipped flower, Thou'st met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stour Thy slender stem ; To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor... | |
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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... 
