O clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies! Such is the fate... Lays and Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century - Pagina 851863Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 446 pagina’s
...Such is the fate of artless Maid, Sweet flow' ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i' the dust. Such Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd ! Unskilful he to note the... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 356 pagina’s
...walls j kistie, dry, chapt, barren. Thou lifts thy unassuming head, In humble guise; But now the start uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate...flow'ret of the rural shade ! By Love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, I Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low in the dust. Such is... | |
| Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 pagina’s
...There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom Sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed,...thou lies ! Such is the fate, of artless Maid, Sweet floweret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, lite thee,... | |
| Henry Mackenzie - 1808 - 440 pagina’s
...There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snowy bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head, In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! tive ; could, cold ; glinted, peeped ; bield, shelter ; stane, stonr ; wa's, walls ; histic) drj,... | |
| 1809 - 530 pagina’s
...There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies !' III. p. 201, 202. There are many touches of the same kind in most 6f the popular and beautiful poems... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 pagina’s
...snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share upteara thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless Maid, Sweet floweret of the rural shade! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pagina’s
...There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed,...thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow' ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray 'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like... | |
| Ezra Stiles Ely - 1813 - 278 pagina’s
...speak to me. Of this person Burns might have sung, in his tenderest strains, to the "mountain daisy;" " Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, In guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all spoil'.1. is laid Low i' the dust." When the... | |
| Robert Burns - 1815 - 364 pagina’s
...bield O' elod or stane, Adornt the histie stibble-Jield, Unseen, alane. Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; • But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Sueh is the fate of artless maid, Sweet Jiom'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplieity betray'd,... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pagina’s
...There in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snowy bosom sunward spread, Thou lii't'st thy unassuming head In humble guise; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! SIMPLICITY. BY HANNAH MORE. HAIL, artiest- Simplicity, beautiful maid, In the genuine attractions... | |
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