This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter... Poems, Songs, and Letters: Being [his] Complete Works - Page 44by Robert Burns - 1914 - 636 pagesFull view - About this book
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pages
...kiss 1 See also Bums' Cotter's Saturday Night, where the children are so beautifully described:— At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath...tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher thro' To meet their dad, wi" flichterin noise an' glee. His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean... | |
| Robert Burns - Poets, Scottish - 1840 - 368 pages
...who shall affect to treat as unreal ? yet they shrunk to small in the presence of a spirit thus III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath...stacher through To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise and glee. His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearth-stane, his thriftie wifie's smile, The... | |
| English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee. His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearthstane, his thrifty wifie's smile,...knee, Does a' his weary, carking cares beguile, An' make him quite forget his labour an' his toil. Belyve the elder bairns come drapping in, At service... | |
| Robert Elliott - Elopement - 1842 - 114 pages
...well described by Burns. " His we bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearth-stone, his thriftie wifie's smile, The lisping infant prattling on his...cares beguile An' makes him quite forget his labour and his toil." His " we bit ingle," the hero of my story, one John Templeton a farmer and well to do... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...flichterin2 noise and glee. His wee bit ingle3 blinkin bonnilie, His clean hearth-stane, his thriftie wifie's smile, The lisping infant prattling on his...cares beguile, An' makes him quite forget his labour and his toil. Belyve the elder bairns come drappin in, At service out, amang the farmers roun' ; Some... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...flichterin' noise an' glee. His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearth-stane, his thriftie wifie's smile, The lisping infant prattling on his...carking cares beguile, An' makes him quite forget his labor an' his toil. The poet here goes on to describe the gathering in of the older children, who are... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...flichterin' noise an' glee. His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearth-stane, his thriftie wifie's smile, The lisping infant prattling on his...carking cares beguile, An' makes him quite forget his labor an' his toil. The poet here goes on to describe the gathering in of the older children, who are... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath...stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise and glee. His wee-bit ingle, blinkin bonilie, His clean hearth-stane, his thriftie wifie's smile, The... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...flichterin'4 noise an' glee. His wee bit ingle,5 blinkin' bonnily, His clean hearth-stane, his thriftie wifie's smile, The lisping infant prattling on his...An' makes him quite forget his labour an' his toil. Belyve6 the elder bairns come drapping in, At service out amang the farmers roun' ; Some ca'7 the pleugh,... | |
| 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,... | |
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