 | English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...bend. The black'ning trains о craws to their repot : The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goe», Thit >l?l he hoe». " At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; Th' expectant... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...blackening trains o' craws to their repose : BURNS. 397 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 ; The expectant wee things, toddlin', stacher through, To meet their dad, wi'... | |
 | Sabbath - 1853 - 224 pages
...night, in the geaerally understood sense of that expression ? that night, on the evening of which he " Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...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... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 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...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'... | |
 | Scottish ballads and songs - 1854 - 606 pages
...pleugh; The blackening train o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn Cottar frae his labor 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 through To meet their Dad, wi'... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pages
...pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose ; The toil worn Cottar frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades,...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend." That one single stanza is in itself a picture, one may say a poem, of the poor man's life. It is so... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pages
...pleugh; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose; The toil worn Cottar frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades,...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend." That one single stanza is in itself a picture, one may say a poem, of the poor man's life. It is so... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...tffil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spade, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease...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'... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...retreating frae the pleugh, THE COTTKR S SATURDAY NIGHT. The toil-worn cotter frae his labor goes, — This night his weekly moil is at an end, — Collects his...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 tree ; Th'... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...human interests, or breathe a lofty devotional spirit " 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 hamcwarJ bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th*... | |
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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... 
