 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
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 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...to spend, And weary o'er the moor, his course does I untie ward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ;... | |
 | Robert Burns - English poetry - 1849 - 906 pages
...his labour goes, Thit night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and hi* hoes. Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course doe* hameward bend. * Dr. Young. III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1850 - 508 pages
...toil-worn Colter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, 1ns mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. m. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1850 - 764 pages
...his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and bis hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hamewi bend. III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; Th'expectant... | |
 | Walter Colton - History - 1850 - 480 pages
...returning from his toil, will yet half forget the labors of the day in the greetings of his home : " At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; TV expectant wee things, toddlin', stacher thro' To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee.... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 pages
...black'ning trains o' craws to their repose ; Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping tho morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does homeward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath tho shelter of an aged tree! Th' expectant... | |
 | Walter Colton - California - 1850 - 492 pages
...returning from his toil, will yet half forget the labors of the day in the greetings of his home : " At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of on aged tree : » Th' expectant taee things^ toddlin', atacher thro' To meet their dad, wp flichtcrin... | |
 | Robert Fergusson, Alexander Balloch Grosart - English poetry - 1851 - 480 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...weary, o'er the moor his course does hameward bend. With reference to the word ' gloming ' or ' gloamin,' it is certainly a very picturesque and mellifluous... | |
 | Robert Fergusson, Alexander Balloch Grosart - English poetry - 1851 - 456 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...to spend, And, weary, o'er the moor his course does hamcward bend. With reference to the word ' gloming ' or ' gloamin,' it is certainly a very picturesque... | |
 | John Allan Quinton - 1851 - 210 pages
...generally understood sense of that expression ? that night, on the evening of which he " Collects liis spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn...to spend, And weary o'er the moor his course does homeward bend." Should such time ever come, our labourer may date his account settled with rational... | |
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