| John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...or green, There's not a honnie hird that sings, But minds me o' my Jean. JOHN ANDERSON MY JO. JOHH ANDERSON my jo, John, When we were first acquent; Your locks were like the raven, Your honnie brow was brent; But now your brow is held, John, Your locks are like the snaw; But blessings... | |
| John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...green, There's not a bonnie bird that sings, But minds me o' my Jean. JOHN ANDERSON MY JO. Jomr AHDERSOS the rising piers : Our warlock rhymer instantly descried The sprites that owr bonruc brow was bleat ; But now your brow is held, John, Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings... | |
| Robert Burns - 1841 - 354 pages
...conclude the poems. — M. f This first appeared in Johnson's Museum. The air is by Oswald. — M. JOHN ANDERSON MY JO* JOHN Anderson my jo, John, When we...locks were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent ; * In the first volume of a collection, entitled Poetry Original and Selected, printed by Brash and... | |
| 1843 - 582 pages
...listen, with your attention roused, you will be struck by them as you never have been before : — ' John Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, And your bonnie brow was brent. But now your brow is held, John, Your locks are like the snaw, Yet... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...dribble, drizzle; cranreuclt, hoar frost; lane, alone ; aft, often ; a-gley, wrong. JOHN ANDERSON. My Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent,...the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent ; But now your brow is bald, John, Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson,... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...dribble, drizzle; cranreuch, hoar frost; lane, alone ; aft, often ; a-gky, wrong. JOHN ANDERSON. My Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent,...the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent ; But now your brow is bald, John, Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson,... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Authors - 1844 - 334 pages
...; aft, often ; a-gley, wrong. JOHN ANDERSON. My Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first aequent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent ; But now your brow is bald, John, Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson,... | |
| Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 pages
...cays, 'Every reader of discernment will see they are by an In* feriorhand.' JOHN Anderson, my jo,r John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bounie brow was brent ;• But now your brow is bald, John, Your locks are like the snow ; But blessings... | |
| Archibald Montgomery Maxwell - Italy - 1845 - 378 pages
...the republic, whilst the once FLOWERS. 211 fair Teresa was from another, and she might well sing :— John Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent...the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent ; But now your brow is held, John, Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings on your frosty prow, John Anderson... | |
| General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...archness in his brow, ' Pray, Sir, why did not then your father make, A Gentleman of you ?' JOHN ANDERSON. JOHN ANDERSON my jo, John, When we were first acquent...the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent ; But now your brow is held, John, Your locks are like the snaw : But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson... | |
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