Reliques of Robert Burns: Consisting Chiefly of Original Letters, Poems, and Critical Observations on Scottish SongsBradford and Inskeep, 1809 - 294 páginas |
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... soul desires Ae fond kiss and then we sever , Here's a health to them that's awa Now bank and brae are claith'd in green O how can I be blythe and glad Out over the Forth , I look to the north As I was a wand'ring ae morning in spring I ...
... soul desires Ae fond kiss and then we sever , Here's a health to them that's awa Now bank and brae are claith'd in green O how can I be blythe and glad Out over the Forth , I look to the north As I was a wand'ring ae morning in spring I ...
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... soul I can- not : and lest you should mistake the cause of my si- lence , I just sit down to tell you so . Don't give your- self credit though , that the strength of your logic scares me the truth is , I never mean to meet you on that ...
... soul I can- not : and lest you should mistake the cause of my si- lence , I just sit down to tell you so . Don't give your- self credit though , that the strength of your logic scares me the truth is , I never mean to meet you on that ...
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... soul in her wanderings through the weary , thorny wilderness of this world - God knows I am ill - fitted for the struggle : I glory in being a Poet , and I want to be thought a wise man - I would fondly be generous , and I wish to be ...
... soul in her wanderings through the weary , thorny wilderness of this world - God knows I am ill - fitted for the struggle : I glory in being a Poet , and I want to be thought a wise man - I would fondly be generous , and I wish to be ...
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... soul is vastly clearer than when I wrote you last . For the first time , yesterday I cross- ed the room on crutches . It would do your heart good to see my bardship , not on my poetic , but on my oaken stilts ; throwing my best leg with ...
... soul is vastly clearer than when I wrote you last . For the first time , yesterday I cross- ed the room on crutches . It would do your heart good to see my bardship , not on my poetic , but on my oaken stilts ; throwing my best leg with ...
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... soul of me , use it to any person for whom I have the twentieth part of the esteem , every one must have for you who knows you . As I leave town in three or four days , 34 To Miss Mn, Saturday noon, St James's Square, Newtown, Edin ...
... soul of me , use it to any person for whom I have the twentieth part of the esteem , every one must have for you who knows you . As I leave town in three or four days , 34 To Miss Mn, Saturday noon, St James's Square, Newtown, Edin ...
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acquaintance Allan Water amang Auld Ayrshire ballad beautiful Blacklock bonie brother Burns Burns's called charms compliments composed copy Currie's Dalswinton Daniel Dow DEAR FRIEND DEAR SIR Dugald Stewart Dumfries e'en Edinburgh Ellisland excise farewel farm feelings frae Gavin Hamilton give Glencairn gude Hamilton hand happy heart Highland Highland Laddie honest honor humble Servant idea kind kirk lady lass lassie letter Lord mair Mauchline maun mind Miss morning muse never night noble o'er old song pleasure poems poet poetic poor present Ragwort river Doon ROBERT BURNS Roslin Castle Scotland Scots Scots Musical Museum Scottish sentiments shew soul stanza sweet tell thee thing thou thought tion tune verses weel wife WILLIAM BURNS Willie Willie's awa wish worth write young
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Página 171 - MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS. MY heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here ; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer ; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Página 211 - THOU unknown, Almighty Cause Of all my hope and fear ! In whose dread presence, ere an hour, Perhaps I must appear! If I have wander'd in those paths Of life I ought to shun ; • As something, loudly, in my breast, Remonstrates I have done; Thou know'st that thou hast formed me With passions wild and strong; And list'ning to their witching voice Has often led me wrong.
Página 209 - There's nought but care on ev'ry han', In every hour that passes, O : What signifies the life o...
Página 212 - Fain promise never more to disobey ; But, should my Author health again dispense, Again I might desert fair virtue's way ; Again in folly's path might go astray ; Again exalt the brute and sink the man ; Then how should I for heavenly mercy pray, Who act so counter heavenly mercy's plan ? Who sin so oft have mourned, yet to temptation ran.
Página 169 - Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, And fill it in a silver tassie; That I may drink before I go A service to my bonnie lassie The boat rocks at the pier o...
Página 149 - My Highland lassie was a warm-hearted, charming < young creature as ever blessed a man with generous love. After a pretty long tract of the most ardent reciprocal attachment, we met by appointment on the second Sunday of May, in a sequestered spot by the banks of Ayr, where we spent the day in taking a farewell before she should embark for the West Highlands, to arrange matters among her friends for our projected change of life.
Página 6 - My Lord Glencairn and the Dean of Faculty, Mr. H. Erskine, have taken me under their wing; and by all probability I shall soon be the tenth worthy, and the eighth wise man of the world.
Página 13 - That sings upon the bough ; Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fause Luve was true. Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird That sings beside thy mate ; For sae I sat, and sae I sang, And wist na o' my fate. Aft hae I roved by bonnie Doon To see the woodbine twine, And ilka bird sang o' its love ; And sae did I o
Página 276 - I'll wage thee! Who shall say that Fortune grieves him While the star of hope she leaves him? Me, nae cheerfu' twinkle lights me, Dark despair around benights me. 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.
Página 12 - Doon, How can ye blume sae fair ! How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae fu' o