 Blythe Jenny sees the visit's no ill ta'en ; The father cracks of horses, pleughs, and kye. The youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi...  Poems - Page 186by Robert Burns - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Margaret E. Sandford - Girls - 1875 - 200 pages
...him ben ; A strappin' youth ; he taks the mother's eye ; Blithe Jenny sees the visit's no ill-ta'en ; The father cracks of horses, pleughs, and kye. The...youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi' joy, But blate and lathefu', scarce can weel behave ; The mother, wi' a woman's wiles, can spy What makes the youth sae... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 654 pages
...7 odds and ends • makes • diligent 10 partly 11 within 1J cows THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT 317 The youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi' joy, But, blate ' and laithfu',* scarce can wee) behave; The mother wi' a woman's wiles can spy 70 What maks the youth sae bashfu' an' sae grave,... | |
 | Grace Eleanor Hadow, William Henry Hadow - English literature - 1908 - 440 pages
...Jenny brings him ben ; A strappin' youth ; he takes the mother's eye ; Blythe Jenny sees the visit 's no ill ta'en ; The father cracks of horses, pleughs,...kye. The youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi' joy, 1 Unknown things ; cf. ' Uncouth way,' Paradise Lost, Bk. II. 1 Makes. 3 Diligent. • Trifle. 6 Partly.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1909 - 692 pages
...it's nae wild, youthfal worthless rake. lovers Wi' kindly welcome Jenny brings him ben ; A strappin youth, he takes the mother's eye ; Blythe Jenny sees...youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi' joy, But blate an' laithfu', scarce can weel behave ; The mother, wi' a woman's wiles, can spy What makes the youth... | |
 | Robert Burns - Ballads, Scots - 1909 - 652 pages
...worthless Wi' kindly welcome, Jenny brings him ben ; A strappin youth, he takes the mother's eye ; BIythe Jenny sees the visit's no ill ta'en ; The father cracks...youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi' joy, But blate an' laithf u', scarce can weel behave ; The mother, wi' a woman's wiles, can spy What makes the youth... | |
 | Robert Burns - Ballads, Scots - 1909 - 640 pages
...worthless T kindly welcome, Jenny brings him ben ; A strappin youth, he takes the mother's eye ; lythe Jenny sees the visit's no ill ta'en ; The father cracks...kye. The youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi' joy, ut blate an' laithfu', scarce can weel behave; The mother, wi' a woman's wiles, can spy rhat makes... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1909 - 632 pages
...Jenny brings him ben'; A strappan youth ; he takes the mother's eye ; Blythe Jenny sees the visit 's no ill ta'en ; The father cracks * of horses, pleughs,...youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi' joy, But, blate 7 and laithfu' 8, scarce can weel behave ; The mother, wi' a woman's wiles, can spy What makes the... | |
 | Robert Burns - Ballads, Scots - 1909 - 646 pages
...him ben; A strappin youth, he takes the mother's eye; BIythe Jenny sees the visit's no ill ta 'en; The father cracks of horses, pleughs, and kye. The...youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi' joy, But blate an" laithfu", scarce can weel behave; The mother, wi' a woman's wiles, can spy What makes the youth... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 pages
...the mother hears, it's nae wild, worthless rake. Wi' kindly welcome, Jenny brings him ben; A strappin youth, he takes the mother's eye; Blythe Jenny sees the visit's no ill ta'en ; But father cracks of horses, pleughs, and kye. The younster's artless heart o'erflows wi' joy, But... | |
 | Charles H.Sylevester - 1909 - 594 pages
...contraction for eye. 23. Hafflins means partly. VII Wi' kindly welcome, Jenny brings him ben:" A strappin' youth; he takes the mother's eye; Blythe Jenny sees the visit's no ill ta'en; 28 The father cracks 27 of horses, pleughs, and kye. 28 The youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi'... | |
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