 | Robert Burns, James Currie - Scotland - 1870 - 642 pages
...lowly train in life's sequester'd scene ; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What Aiken in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! tho' his worth...there, I ween. November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ;i The shortening winter-day is near a close; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh ; The... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...The native feelings strong, the guileless ways; What Aiken in a cottage would have been : Ah ! though his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween ! November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The shortening winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh : The... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1871 - 516 pages
...Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's sequester'd scene ; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways, What A**** in a Cottage would have been ; Ah...there I ween ! November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The short'ning winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh ; The... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What Aiken in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! though his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween ! November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The shortening winter day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the plough, The... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...lowly train in life's sequester'd scene ; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What Aiken in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! tho' his worth...there, I ween. November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; 10 The short'ning winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh ;... | |
 | American literature - 1872 - 660 pages
...native feelings strong, the guileless ways, — What Aiken in a cottage would have been : Ah ! though his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween. November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The shortening winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae1 the pleugh ; The... | |
 | Scottish readings - 1872 - 252 pages
...The native feelings strong, the guileless ways; \Vhat Aiken in a cottage would have been; Ah ! though his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween. November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh; The shortening winter day is near a close; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugli, The blackening... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 pages
...The native feelings strong, the guileless ways; What Aiken in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! though his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween. November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh — The shortening winter-day is near a close; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh, The... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...train in life's (••eqnester'd scene ; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways — What AiVen ill re sugh ; The short'ning winter day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae tho plough, Tho... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 564 pages
...lowly train in life's sequestered scene ; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways — What Aiken in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! tho' his worth...there, I ween! November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The shortening winter day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh, The... | |
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No mercenary bard his homage pays: With honest pride, I scorn each selfish end; My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise: To you I sing, in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's sequester'd scene; The native feelings strong, the guileless... 
