| British poets - 1822 - 274 Seiten
...morning flow'r, In beauty's pride array'd ; But long ere night cut down it lies All wither'd and decay'd. TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY, ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE...flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush arming the stoure Thy slender stem; To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ' it's,... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 Seiten
...Prayer, under the Pressure of violent Anguish, 182 The first Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm, i*. To a Mountain Daisy. On turning one down, with the Plough, in April, 1786 184 To Ruin 186 To Miss JL , with Beattie's Poems as a Page On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies,... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 802 Seiten
...superior merit, but because its length suits the bounds of my paper. * Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower, Thou's met me in an evil hour, For I maun crush amang...stoure Thy slender stem. To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie Lark, companion meet, Bending thee... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 354 Seiten
...merit, but because its length suits the bounds of my paper. , * Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower, Thou's met me in an evil hour, For I maun crush amang...stoure Thy slender stem; To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonie gem. Alas! it's no thy neighbour sweet, The bony Lark, companion meet! Bending thee... | |
| 1823 - 356 Seiten
...paper. * Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower, Thou's met me in an evil hour, For I maun crush arming the stoure Thy slender stem. To spare thee now> is past my power, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie Lark, companion meet, Bending thee... | |
| 1847 - 390 Seiten
...the Ayrshire plowman, though ignorant of numbers: — " Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou'st met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the...stoure* Thy slender stem ; To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! its no thy neeboof sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet ! Bending... | |
| Amédée Pichot - 1825 - 510 Seiten
...poet of effete civilization would the humble Easter daisy have inspired such a song as the ensuing ? Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush nmang the stoure Thy slender stem ; To spare thee now is past my pow r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! its... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 464 Seiten
...Here heart-struck Grief might heavenward stretch her scan, And injured Worth forget and pardon man. TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY, ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUGH, IN APRIL, l786. WEE, modest, crimson-tipped flower, Thou 's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amaug the... | |
| Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 Seiten
...DAISY.—ON TUENINO ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUGH, IN APRIL, 1 1786. Wee, moidest, crimson-tipped flower, Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang...stoure Thy slender stem; To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonnie gem. Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet, Wi' spreckled breast, When upward springing,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1826 - 272 Seiten
...och ! I backward cast my e'e, On prospects drear ! An' forward, tho' I canna see, I guess an' fear, A MOUNTAIN DAISY, On turning one down with the Plough,...in April, 1786. WEE, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou'st met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem ; To spare thee... | |
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