 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...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2611809Full view - About this book
 | Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...to their repose ; The toil-worn cotter frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks and his hoes, Hoping...to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does home« ward bend, At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; The... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...their repose ; The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, todlin, stacher1 thro', To meet their dad wi' flichterin2 noise and glee. His wee bit ingle3 blinkin... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 pages
...their repose : The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...bend. " At length his lonely cot appears in view, His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearth-stane, his thriftie wifie's smile, The lisping... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...to their repose ; The toil-worn cotter frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks and his hoes, Hoping...to spend, And weary, o'er the moor his course does homeward bend. III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ;... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 pages
...their repose ; The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hamcward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th'... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...toil-worn cotter frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, las mattocks and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and...to spend, And weary, o'er the moor his course does homeward bend. III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ;... | |
 | American periodicals - 1872 - 862 pages
...a cottage anywhere. Scotland was the first object of the revelation — but after all the world. " At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree. 'I'll' expectant wet thingi, toddlin,' staoher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin" noise an'... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...devotional spirit " The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...aged tree; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise and glee. His wee-bit ingle, blinkin bonilie, His clean... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...devotional spirit. " The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise and glee. His wee-bit ingle, blinkin bonilie, His clean... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...their repose ; The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; The expectant wee-things, toddlin', stacher3 thro' To meet their dad, wi' flichterin'4 noise an'... | |
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