 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 pages
...wind and rain Blaws o'er the house and byre, He sits beside a clean hearth-stane, Before a rousing fire. With nut-brown ale he tells his tale, Which rows him o'er fu' nappy: — Wha'd be a king — a petty thing, When a miller lives so happy ? Sir J. Clerk 24. The... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1910 - 972 pages
...the wind and rain Blows o'er the house and byre, He sits beside a clean hearth stane Before a rousing fire ; With nut-brown ale he tells his tale, Which rows him o'er fou nappy. Who 'd be a king — a petty thing, When a miller lives so happy ? ALLAN RAMSAY 1686-1758 154. Lochaber... | |
 | Poetry - 1912 - 408 pages
...wind and rain Blaws o'er the house and byre, He sits beside a clean hearth-stane, Before a rousing fire. With nut-brown ale he tells his tale, Which rows him o'er fu' nappy: — Wha'd be a king — a petty thing, When a miller lives so happy? John Clerk [1684-1755]... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2030 pages
...wind and rain Blaws o'er the house and byre, He sits beside a clean hearth-stane, Before a rousing fire. With nut-brown ale he tells his tale, Which rows him o'er fu' nappy: — Wha'd be a king — a petty thing, When a miller lives so happy? John Clerk [1684-1755]... | |
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Nor ony thing that's dainty ; And now and then a keckling hen To lay her eggs in plenty. In winter, when the wind and rain Blaws o'er the house and byre, He sits beside a clean hearthstane Before a rousing fire ; With nut-brown ale he tells his tale,... 
