Reliques of Robert Burns: Consisting Chiefly of Original Letters, Poems, and Critical Observations on Scottish Songs, Volume 5 |
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... a School - master in Cleish Parish , Fife - shire Address to General Dumourier Elegy on the year 1788 , a Sketch · · Verses written under the Portrait of Fergusson the Poet • III . SONGS . Slow spreads the gloom my soul xxii CONTENTS .
... a School - master in Cleish Parish , Fife - shire Address to General Dumourier Elegy on the year 1788 , a Sketch · · Verses written under the Portrait of Fergusson the Poet • III . SONGS . Slow spreads the gloom my soul xxii CONTENTS .
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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... soul I cannot : and lest you should mistake the cause of my silence , I just sit down to tell you so . Don't give yourself credit though , that the strength of your logic scares me : the truth is , I never mean to meet you on that ...
... soul I cannot : and lest you should mistake the cause of my silence , I just sit down to tell you so . Don't give yourself 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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... necessary appendage to female bliss , A LOVer . Charlotte and you are just two favorite rest- ing places for my soul in her wanderings through the the weary , thorny wilderness of this world- God knows Edinburgh, Nov 21, 1787.
... necessary appendage to female bliss , A LOVer . Charlotte and you are just two favorite rest- ing places for my soul in her wanderings through the the weary , thorny wilderness of this world- God knows Edinburgh, Nov 21, 1787.
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... soul is vastly clearer than when I wrote you last . For the first time , yesterday I crossed 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 crossed 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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Page 428 - I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans 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. 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.
Page ix - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an. open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page 345 - And wi' the lave ilk merry morn Could rank my rig and lass, Still shearing, and clearing The tither stocked raw, Wi' claivers, an' haivers, Wearing the day awa : Ev'n then a wish, (I mind its power,) A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast ; That I for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan, or beuk could make, Or sing a sang at least.
Page 276 - 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.
Page 35 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Page 271 - An' 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...
Page 276 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer, A-chasing the wild deer and following the roe — My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go!
Page 337 - 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.
Page 18 - 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
Page 74 - Nor have I any cause to repent it. If I have not got polite tattle, modish manners, and fashionable dress, I am not sickened and disgusted with the multiform curse of boarding-school affectation ; and I have got the handsomest figure, the sweetest temper, the soundest constitution, and the kindest heart in the county.