 | British poets - 1822
...black'ning trains o' craws to their repose ; The toH-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks,...to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does nameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th'... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1822
...SATURDAY EVENING IN THE COUNTRY. " The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks,...to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hana-ward bend." BURNS. THERE are, perhaps, some among my readers who are accustomed to laugh at the... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822
...beasts retreating frae the pleugh; The toil-worn Cottet- frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the mom in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 80 pages
...conclusion. COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT. " The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks,...appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree : Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise and glee.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1824
...trains o' craws to their repose ; The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks,...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. in. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things,... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - English essays - 1824
...SATURDAY EVENING IN THE COUNTRY. " The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks,...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend." BURNS. THERE are, perhaps, some among my readers who are accustomed to laugh at the idea of a country... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - American literature - 1824 - 278 pages
...Hiihhath of the. mind." CHAPTER II. " The toil-worn Cotter from his labour goes — This night his weekly moil is at an end ; Collects his spades, his mattocks,...rest to spend ; And weary o'er the moor his course doth homeward bend." Burnt1 Colter's Saturday Night. OUR sketch, commences at the opening of the year... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Connecticut - 1824 - 278 pages
...Sahbath of the mind." CHAPTER II. " The toil-worn Cotter from his labour goes— This night his weekly moil is at an end ; Collects his spades, his mattocks,...his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend ; x And weary o'er the moor his course doth homeward bend.'' Burns' Coffer's Saturday Night. OUR. sketch,... | |
 | 1824
...trains o'craws to their repose ; The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, Th it night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks,...his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, Ah! tho' his own worth unknown, far And weary, o'er the moor, his course happier there I ween ! does... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824
...This night his weekly moil is at nn end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping tne morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his couise does homeward bend. B At length his lonely cot appears in riew, Beneath the shelter of an aged... | |
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November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The short'ning winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil... 
