 | 1852 - 782 页
...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... | |
 | 1853 - 560 页
...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'... | |
 | 1853 - 224 页
...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 页
...; 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'... | |
 | 1854 - 606 页
...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 页
...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 页
...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 页
...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'... | |
 | 1854 - 456 页
...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 - 1854 - 980 页
...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... 
