... 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 at an end, Collects his... The Caledonian - Page 1711916Full view - About this book
| James Anderson - 1722 - 440 pages
...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 rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hanieward Iv.na. / III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the fhcker of an aged tree... | |
| 1809 - 530 pages
...labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend,...lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher thro' To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 446 pages
...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 rest to spend,...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant... | |
| Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 pages
...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 rest to spend,...lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; The' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their Dud, wi' flitcherin... | |
| William Gilpin - 1808 - 338 pages
...and his hoes, Hoping the morn in eafe and reft to fpend, And weary, o'er the moor, his courfe dpes hameward bend, At length his lonely cot appears in view. Beneath the fhelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, ftacher through s To meet their Dad, wi'... | |
| 1809 - 530 pages
...following ftanzas without feeling the force of tendernefs and truth. Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend....lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; . ' Th' expectant •wee-things, toddlin, stacher thro r To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...firae 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 rest to spend,...At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath tin: shelter of an aged tree ; His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearth-stane, bis thriftie... | |
| Richard Cumberland - 1809 - 518 pages
...labour goes, . • . This night his weekly moi' is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend,...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend." (Currie's Burns, Vol. III. p. 174.) In this description, there is an obvious resemblance to the opening... | |
| Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pages
...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 rest to spend,...weary o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant... | |
| Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...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 rest to spend, And weary, o'er the muir, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter... | |
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