| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 250 pages
...Heaven, He ruined sink. To Misery's brink. Ev'n thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, That Jute it thin' No distant date ; Stern Ruin's plough-share drives, elate,...crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom. I have seldom met with an image more truly pastor<tl than tiiat of the lark, in the second stanza.... | |
| John Wolcot - 1804 - 178 pages
...or-cunning driv'n To Mis'ry's brink, Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heaven, He, ruin'd, sink ! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine—-no...crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom! HAFEZ. ODE III. J. HY form has a resistless grace, And gladness is thy dwelling-place, Ah, soft enslaver... | |
| English poetry - 1804 - 260 pages
...cunning driv'n, To mis'ry's brink, Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but heav'n, He, ruin'd, sink ! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, That fate is thine.—no...crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom. **.'. TO A MOUSE, ON TURNING HER UP IN HER NEST, WITH THE PLOUGH, NOV. 1*785. BY THE SAME. "WEE, sleekit,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 468 pages
...or cunning driv'n, To mis'ry's brink, Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heav'n, He, ruin'd, sink! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine—no...crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom ! TO RUIN. I. ALL hail! inexorable lord ! At whose destruction-breathing word, The mightiest empires... | |
| English poetry - 1809 - 488 pages
...wcvd -woes haa striv'n, Till wreuch'd of evetv stay ^" B **^ ROBERT BURNS. 381 Ev'n thou who moura'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine—no distant...beneath the furrow's weight, . . Shall be thy doom ! AFTON WATER. Tj^LOW gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, •*• Flow gently, I'll sing thee... | |
| Robert Burns - 1811 - 510 pages
...or cunning driv'n To mis'ry's brink, Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but heav'n, He, ruin'd, sink! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, That fate is thine—no...thy bloom, Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight. TO RUIN, I. ALL hail! inexorable lord! At whose destruction-breathing word, The mightiest empires fall!... | |
| Robert Burns - 1813 - 444 pages
...or cunning driv'n To mis'ry's brink, Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heaven, He, ruin'd, sink ! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine—no...crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom ! TO RUIN. I. ALL hail! inexorable lord ! At whose destruction-breathing word, The mightiest empires... | |
| Robert Burns - Scotland - 1815 - 364 pages
...daisy's fate, That fate is thine—no distant dat£; Stern ruin's plough-share drives, elate, Fijll on thy bloom, 'Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom ! TO RUIN. I. All hail! inexorable lord ! At whose destruction-breathing word The mightiest empires... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...or cunning driv'n To mis'ry's brink, Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heaven, He, ruin'd, sink! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine—no...crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom! TAM O' SHANTER. A TALE. When chapman billies leave the street, - And drouthy neebors, neebors meet,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 494 pages
...stay but Heaven, He, ruin'd, sink! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thinc.-.-no distant date; Stern Ruin's plough-share drives, elate...crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom! TAM 0' SHANTER. A TALE. WHEN chapman billies leave the street, And drouthy neebors, neebors meet, As... | |
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