 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 356 pages
...once more. I have only begun it. Hero's a health to ano I loe dear! Hero's a health to ane I loe dear! Thou art sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, And soft as their parting tear — Jessy! Although thou maun never be mine, j Although even hope is denied : 'Tis sweeter for thee despairing,... | |
 | Ballads, Scots - 1854 - 356 pages
...to them that's awa, hiney." HERE'S a health to ane I lo'e dear, Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear ; Thou art sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, And soft as their parting tear — Jessy ! Although thou maun never be mine, Although even hope is denied ; 'Tis sweeter for thee despairing... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 254 pages
...affection for her he feigned a hopeless passion, and imagined himself the victim of despair ; — " Thou art sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, And soft as their parting tear — Jessy ! Although thou maun never be mine, Although even hope is denied ; "Tis sweeter for thee despairing,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Authors, Scottish - 1854 - 98 pages
...with the sternest ire, or laughs with the loudest or sliest mirth; and yet he is sweet and soft, ' sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, and soft as their parting tear !' If we further take into account the immense variety of his subjects; how, from the loud flowing... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pages
...her he feigned a hopeless passion, and imagined himself the victim of despair ; — " Thou art aweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, And soft as their parting tear— Jessy ! Although thou maun never be mine, Although even hope is denied ; 'Tis sweeter for thee despairing,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pages
...her he feigned a hopeless passion, and imagined himself the victim of despair;— " Thou art aweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, And soft as their parting tear—Jessy ! Although thou maun never be mine, Although even hope is denied; 'Tis sweeter for thee... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1855 - 616 pages
...dear! Here's a health to ane I loe dear ! [meet, Thou art sweet as the srnile when fond lover's Arid soft as their parting tear — Jessy ! Altho' thou...hope is denied : 'Tis sweeter for thee despairing, Then aught in the world beside — Jessy ! I mourn thro' the gay, gaudy day, As hopeless, I muse on... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 pages
...cruel decree ? — Jessy ! Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear ; Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear; Thou art sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, And soft as their parting tear — Jessy ! 310 311 CCLXVIII. FAIREST MAID ON DEVON BANKS. Tune — " Rothemurche." [On the 12th of July, 1796,... | |
 | Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer - Blue Ridge Mountains - 1855 - 456 pages
...Lomax's strong, stiff hand to Lady Ellen Maclntyre. CHAPTER X. Although thou must never be mine, Although even hope is denied, 'Tis sweeter for thee despairing, Than aught in the world beside, Jessy ! BURNS. THINGS went on in the old way. The calm of our days was a mockery to the tumult of our thoughts.... | |
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ALTHO' thou maun never be mine, Altho' even hope is denied ; 'Tis sweeter for thee despairing, Than aught in the world beside — Jessy ! Here's a health, &c. I mourn thro' the gay, gaudy day, As, hopeless, I muse on thy charms : But welcome the dream... 
