 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
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 248 pages
...to their repose; The toil worn Cottar frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend." That one single stanza is in itself a picture, one may say a poem, of the poor man's life. It is so... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 pages
...kiss ? See also Bums' Cotter's Saturday JVtght, where the children are BO beautifully described : — At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath...an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacker thro' To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee. His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily,... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...the morn in ease and rest to spend, At.d weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward hend. III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee things, toddlin, stacher thro' [an' glee. To meet their Dad, wi' flichtcrin' noise His wee hit... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1845 - 480 pages
..."The Cottar's Saturday Night," and the following verses doubtless pourtray the poet's father: — •1 At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' exuectant wee-things, toddlin stacher thro' To meet their Dad, wi' flichterm' noise an' glee. His wee... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...repose : The toil-worn cotter frae 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 ; Th'... | |
 | Baptists - 1744 - 596 pages
...hoes, Hoping the morn iu ease aud rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does homeward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath...shelter of an aged tree ; • Th' expectant wee-things, todlin, stacher thro' To meet their Dad, wi' flichtering noise and glee. His wee bit ingle, blinkin... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...line*. Hoping the morn in rase and rest lo spend, And wrary, o'er the moor, his coarse dot* kta«wnrd bend. " At length his lonely cot appears in view. Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; Th expectant wef-thingt, toddling, alacher thro" To meet their Dud, wi' flic herin noise an'clee. His wee bit ingle,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...their repose ; The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher f through To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin J noise an' glee. • The continued rushing noise of wind... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1847 - 704 pages
...their repose ; The toil-worn 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,"1 todlin," stacher' thro1 To meet their dad wi' (1 ic htci in" noise and glee. e The continued... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...their repose ; The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes. This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bead. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant... | |
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