 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...; The black' ning 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,...length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher thro' To meet their dad, wi' flichterin... | |
 | Agriculture - 1825 - 538 pages
...of crows seek their repose : The toil-worn Cottager from labour goes, This night his weekly toil ig at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and...to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does homeward bend. At length his lonely Cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged ,,. ***'•... | |
 | Henry Phillips - Emblems - 1825 - 414 pages
...leaf for Saturday is therefore filled with fruit. " The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end ; Collects his...hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend." •. Burns. Etymologists disagree respecting the derivation of the word Saturday. Some suppose it to... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - Poetry - 1826 - 226 pages
...pleugh; The blackening 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,...to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does haincward bend. TV expectant wee things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1826 - 272 pages
...labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at llic end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoee, Hoping the morn in ease and rest 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 ;... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 404 pages
...; The blackening 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,...length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; His wee bit ingle, blink in bonnily, His clean hearth-stane, his thriftie... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...with mattocks. Brount. This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattoclu, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. Burnt. MATTRESS, n.«. French matclat ; Belg. and Wei. mattras ; Ital. matriizc ; Lat. unit In . Heb.... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...: The black'ning 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,...At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath tnte shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee things, todlin,5 stacherS thro' To meet their dad,... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...at an end, Or human love or hate, Whilst I here must cry here, At perfidy ingrate! V. Collects bis spades, his mattocks, and his hoes. Hoping the morn...to spend. And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hame~ ward bend. Oh ¡ enviable, early days. When dancing thoughtless pleasure's maze, To care, to... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 370 pages
...: The black'ning 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,...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant... | |
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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... 
