 | American poetry - 1875 - 210 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 pleugh, The... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1875 - 622 pages
...in life's sequestered seene; The native feeling strong, the guileless ways What Aiken in a eottage would have been; Ah! tho' his worth unknown, far happier there, I weeo. November ehill blawa loud wi' angry sugh; The shortening winter day is near a elose; The miry... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1876 - 626 pages
...lowly train in life's sequester'd scene; The native feeling atroné:, the guileless ways; What Aikcn in a cottage would have been; Ah ! tho' his worth...there, I ween ! November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh; The short'ning winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frac the plough : The... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1876 - 604 pages
...life's sequestered scene; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways — What Aiken in a cott^ige would have been; Ah! tho' 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 black'ning... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1876 - 540 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...tho' his worth unknown, far happier there I ween! * Robert Aiken, writer in Ayr, one of the poet's early friends and patrons. k K ( 66 ) November chill... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 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... | |
 | P. F. Aiken - 1876 - 454 pages
...native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What Aiken in a cottage would have been : Ah ! though his w'orth 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 plcugh ; The... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1876 - 468 pages
...native feelings strong, the guileless ways; What Aiken in a cottage would have been : All ! though his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween. November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ;1 The shortening winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh ; The... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Melville Bell - 1876 - 184 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 unknown, far happier there, l ween. 9 November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The shortening winter-day is near a close ; The... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1880 - 1024 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 ; note The short'ning winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh,... | |
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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... 
