 Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tam o...  Robert Burns: A Memoir - Page 52by James White - 1859 - 100 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English literature - 1823 - 832 pages
...it was the anticipation of the reckoning which awaited him at home, where, probably, sat his sulken dame — " Gathering her brows like gathering storm— Nursing her wrath to keep it warm ;" or whether it was regret for leaving so jovial and good-natured a party, I presume not to know ;... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...the lang Scots miles, The mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like...Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, For honest men and bonnie lasses). O Tam ! hadst thou but been sae wise, As ta'en thy ain wife Kate's advice ! She tauld... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 pages
...'the lang Scots miles, The mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like...wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tam o' Shatter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, •i • !T For... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pages
...dissipation of her help-mate, and often, when Tarn " Was gettin' fu" and unco happy," she sat at home, " Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm." She, like too many in that district at that time, was very superstitious. Thomas took her by the weak... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...the lang Scots miles, The mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like...surpasses, For honest men and bonny lasses.) O Tam ! had thou but been sae wise, As ta'en thy ain wife Kate's advice ! She tauld thce weel thou was a... | |
 | John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...the lang Scots miles, The mosses, wateis, slaps, and styles, That lie between us ana our trame, Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like...gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. 'liii- truth fand honest Tarn o' Shanter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter (Auld Ayr, wham ne'er... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - Poetry - 1826 - 226 pages
...the lang Scots miles, The mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like...Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, For honest men and bonnie lasses). O Tam ! had'st thou but been sae wise, As ta'en thy ain wife Kate's advice ! She tauld... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 328 pages
...dissipation of her help-mate ; and often, when Tam " Was gettin' fu' and unco happy," she sat at home, " Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep It warm." VOL. I. M She, like too many in that district at that time, was very superstitious. Thomas took her... | |
 | Folklore - 1826 - 346 pages
...lamented." — Note to " The Battle of Dryfe Sands," by William M'Vitie. Dumfries, 1815. AYE. M! 1.0 AVI!. " Auld Ayr ! wham ne'er a town surpasses For honest men and bonny lasses." * Burnt. CARSE OF COWRIE. THE CARLES O* THE CARSE. William Lithgow, the celebrated traveller, in his... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 320 pages
...dissipation of her help-mate; and often, when Tarn " Was gettin' fu' and unco happy," she sat at home, " Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm." VOL. I. M She, like too many in that district at that time,, was very superstitious. Thomas took her... | |
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