Jones's Cabinet Edition of British Poets, Volumen 2Jones & Company, 1831 |
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... fire , And tells the oft - told tales that never tire ; Or where the town's blue turrets dimly rise , And manufacture taints the ambient skies , The pale mechanic leaves the labouring loom , The air - pent hold , the pestilential room ...
... fire , And tells the oft - told tales that never tire ; Or where the town's blue turrets dimly rise , And manufacture taints the ambient skies , The pale mechanic leaves the labouring loom , The air - pent hold , the pestilential room ...
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... fire , The red flame flamed high , ' And round about the cauldron stout They danced right merrily . The second begun : She said she had done The task that Queen Hecat ' had set her ,. And that the devil , the father of evil , Had never ...
... fire , The red flame flamed high , ' And round about the cauldron stout They danced right merrily . The second begun : She said she had done The task that Queen Hecat ' had set her ,. And that the devil , the father of evil , Had never ...
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... fire to hold : So wondrous small , ' twould much it pose To melt the ice - drop on one's nose ; And yet so big , it covers o'er Full half the spacious room and more . A window vainly stuff'd about , To keep November's breezes out , So ...
... fire to hold : So wondrous small , ' twould much it pose To melt the ice - drop on one's nose ; And yet so big , it covers o'er Full half the spacious room and more . A window vainly stuff'd about , To keep November's breezes out , So ...
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... fire , I'll raise my pillow on the desert shore , And lay me down to rest where the wild wave Shall make sweet music o'er my lonely grave . SONNET III . Supposed to have been addressed by a female lunatic to a Lady . LADY , thou weepest ...
... fire , I'll raise my pillow on the desert shore , And lay me down to rest where the wild wave Shall make sweet music o'er my lonely grave . SONNET III . Supposed to have been addressed by a female lunatic to a Lady . LADY , thou weepest ...
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The candles safe , the hearths all clear , And nought from thieves or fire to fear ; Then both to bed together creep , And join the general troop of sleep . TO CONTEMPLATION . COME , pensive sage , who lov'st to dwell In some retired ...
The candles safe , the hearths all clear , And nought from thieves or fire to fear ; Then both to bed together creep , And join the general troop of sleep . TO CONTEMPLATION . COME , pensive sage , who lov'st to dwell In some retired ...
Términos y frases comunes
amang art thou auld bard beauty beneath Birks of Aberfeldy blast bloom blow bonnie bonnie lass bosom braw breast Burns charms claut dark dear death e'en e'er Elegy ev'ry fair fame fancy fate fear flowers frae grace green grove hand hast hear heart Heaven hill honour hope hour Hudibras John Barleycorn lass lassie lonely lyre maid mair maun mind monie morn mourn Muse ne'er never night o'er owre peace plain pleasure poet poor pow'r pride Quoth rill ROBERT BURNS round scene Scotland shade sigh sing skelpin smile song soul sparklin spring stream sweet tear tell thee There's thine thou thought toil trees Tune Twas vale wander wave weary weel whistle whyles wild wind ye'll youth
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Página 27 - An' each for other's weelfare kindly spiers : The social hours, swift-wing'd, unnotic'd fleet ; Each tells the uncos that he sees or hears ; The parents, partial, eye their hopeful years ; Anticipation forward points the view. The mother, wi' her needle an' her sheers, Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new; The father mixes a
Página 92 - I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy, Naething could resist my Nancy; But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love for ever. Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met — or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Página 27 - An' makes him quite forget his labour an' his toil. Belyve the elder bairns come drapping in, At service out, amang the farmers roun', Some ca' the pleugh, some herd, some tentie rin A cannie errand to a neebor town : Their eldest hope, their Jenny, woman grown, In youthfu...
Página 27 - And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide; But, chiefly, in their hearts with Grace Divine preside.
Página 19 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 44 - Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. Coffins stood round, like open presses, That...
Página 27 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Página 56 - YE banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie ! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry; For there I took the last fareweel O
Página 71 - I hear her in the tunefu' birds, I hear her charm the air : There's not a bonnie flower that springs By fountain, shaw, or green, There's not a bonnie bird that sings But minds me o
Página 17 - twill pass for wit; Care not for feeling — pass your proper jest, And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd. And shall we own such judgment? no— as soon Seek roses in December— ice in June; Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that's false, before You trust in critics, who themselves are sore Or yield one single thought to be misled By Jeffrey's heart, or Lambe's Boeotian head.