 | Robert Fergusson, Alexander Balloch Grosart - English poetry - 1851 - 288 pages
...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...to spend, And, weary, o'er the moor his course does hamcward bend. With reference to the word ' gloming ' or ' gloamin,' it is certainly a very picturesque... | |
 | John Allan Quinton - 1851
...generally understood sense of that expression ? that night, on the evening of which he " Collects liis spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn...to spend, And weary o'er the moor his course does homeward bend." Should such time ever come, our labourer may date his account settled with rational... | |
 | English essays - 1852
...trains о craws to their repose : The toil-worn Colter frae his labour goes, Thii night his weekly moil is at an end. Collects his spades, his mattocks,...length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the sheller of an aged tree ; Th' expectant rcef-thinēg, toddling, slacher thro' To meet their Dad, wi1... | |
 | Brian Maidment - Art - 2001 - 190 pages
...wife, cleanliness, thrift, order: The toil-worn COTTER frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks...morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the muir, his course does hameward bend. At length his Lonely Cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter... | |
 | John Richetti - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 945 pages
...their repose: The toil-worn COTTER frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, [toil] Collects his spades, his mattocks and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o er the muir, his course does hameward bend.I8 Burns 's mixing of the Scottish language, climate and... | |
 | Xiaoming Chen - China - 2007 - 156 pages
...world" and "Britain's Tao Yuanming," whose "description of peasants' life" very much touches his heart: At length his lonely cot 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 G. Ingersoll - Literary Collections - 2007 - 516 pages
...the literature of the world, is a description of the poor cotter going from his labor to his home : " At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an agbd tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin', stacher through To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin'... | |
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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... 
