 O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate...  Norman Leslie [ed. by N.P. Willis]. - Page 189by Theodore Sedgwick Fay - 1835Full view - About this book
 | 1809 - 530 pages
...Scarce r«ar'd above the parent earth Thy tender form. ' There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head...But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! ' III. p. 201, 202. There are many touches of the same kind in most of the popular and beautiful... | |
 | John Wolcot - 1804 - 178 pages
...stane, Adorns the histie stibble-jidd, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sunward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now .the share up tears thy bed, And low thou lies! Such is .the fate of artless maid, Sweet jluwrct .of the rural... | |
 | Peter Pindar - 1804 - 176 pages
...stane, Adorns the histie stibbh-jield, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sunward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share up tears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flowet of the rural shade... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 446 pages
...stane, Adorns the histie stibble-Jield, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head...But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies Such is the fate of artless Maid, Sweet flow' ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd,... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1808 - 440 pages
...But thou beneath the random bield Of clod or stane, Adorns the histie stubble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snowy bosom...But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! tive ; could, cold ; glinted, peeped ; bield, shelter ; stane, stonr ; wa's, walls ; histic) drj,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 pages
...stahe, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom Sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head...But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate, of artless Maid, Sweet floweret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1808 - 558 pages
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 | 1809 - 530 pages
...Scarce re'ar'd above the parent earth Thy tender form. ' There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head...But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies !' III. p. 201, 202. There are many touches of the same kind in most 6f the popular and beautiful poems... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...stain;, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share upteara thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless Maid, Sweet floweret of the rural... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pages
...stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head...But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow' ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray... | |
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