 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pages
...worn Cottar frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and...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... | |
 | Scottish ballads and songs - 1854 - 606 pages
...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 the morn in ease and...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pages
...worn Cottar frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...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 the morn in ease and...to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hamcwarJ bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th*... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 pages
...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 the morn in ease and...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'... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...cotter frae his labor goes, — This night his weekly moil is at an end, — Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and...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'... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, Arid weary o'er the moor his course does homeward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath...wee-things, toddlin', stacher thro' To meet their clad, wi' flichterin' noise and glee. His wee bit ingle,' blinkin' bonnily, His clean hearth-stane,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 pages
...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 the morn in ease and...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; ^ Th' expectant wee-things,... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...cotter frae his labor goes, — This night His weekly moil is at an end, — Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and...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'... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...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 the morn in ease and...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; The expectant wee-things,... | |
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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 is... 
