 November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The short'ning winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2611809Full view - About this book
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...to their repose: The toil-worn cotter frae his lahour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does ha me ward bend. III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects bis spades, his mattocks, and his hoes. Hoping the mom in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hame ward bend. III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...repose : The toilworn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, CollectsTiis spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn...Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee things, tpddlin, stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee. His wee bit... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poets, English - 1840 - 872 pages
...their repose ; The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, lect8 beud.f in. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...to their repose : The toilworn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...to spend. And weary, o'er the moor, his course does name ward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th'... | |
 | 1841 - 306 pages
...to their repone; The toil-worn Cotter, from his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end. Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does homeward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; The expectant... | |
 | Books - 1841 - 658 pages
...their repose ; The toil worn Cottar frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his cours does hameward bend.' " That one single stanza is in itself a picture, one may say a poem, of... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - Children's stories - 1841 - 264 pages
...picture has Burns given us of the return of the cottager to his home, after the labors of the day. " At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree. The expectant wee things, toddling, stagger through, To meet their Dad, with fluttering noise and glee.... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - 1842 - 304 pages
...their repose : The toil-worn cottager from labour goes ; This night his weekly toil is at an end ; Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...rest to spend ; And weary, o'er the moor, his course doth homeward bend. At length, his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree... | |
 | English poetry - 1843 - 368 pages
...to their repose : The toilworn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee. His wee bit... | |
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