 | 1841 - 658 sider
...black'ning trains o' craws to their repose ; The toil worn Cottar frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his...ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his cours does hameward bend.' " That one single stanza is in itself a picture, one may say a poem, of... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - 1841 - 264 sider
...picture has Burns given us of the return of the cottager to his home, after the labors of the day. " At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree. The expectant wee things, toddling, stagger through, To meet their Dad, with fluttering noise and glee.... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - 1842 - 304 sider
...trains of crows to their repose : The toil-worn cottager from labour goes ; This night his weekly toil is at an end ; Collects his spades, his mattocks,...rest to spend ; And weary, o'er the moor, his course doth homeward bend. At length, his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree... | |
 | 1843 - 368 sider
...blackening trains o' craws to their repose : The toilworn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his...Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee. His wee bit... | |
 | 1843 - 184 sider
...blackening trains of crows to their repose ; The toil-worn cotter frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his...to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does home« ward bend, At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; The... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 sider
...black'ning trains o' craws 4 to their repose: The toil-worn cotter 5 frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil" is at an end Collects his spades, 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' expectant... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 sider
...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, his...shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, todlin, stacher1 thro', To meet their dad wi' flichterin2 noise and glee. His wee bit ingle3 blinkin... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 sider
...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, his...bend. " At length his lonely cot appears in view, His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearth-stane, his thriftie wifie's smile, The lisping... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 sider
...blackening trains o' craws to their repose ; The toil-worn cotter frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his...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 ;... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 sider
...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, his...to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hamcward 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... 
