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 labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at... The poetical works of Robert Burns - Page 90by Robert Burns - 1814 - 264 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Burns - English poetry - 1920 - 272 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...winter-day is near a close; The miry beasts retreating f rae the pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose: The toil-worn Cottar frae his labor... | |
 | Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - American literature - 1922
...scene, The native feelings strong, the guileless ways, What Aiken in a cottage would have been; Ah! tho' his worth unknown, far happier • there, I ween!...angry sugh; The short'ning winter-day is near a close; ll The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose; The... | |
 | 1916
...loud wi' angry sugh; The short'ning winter-day is nea.1 u close ; The miry beasts retreating frae th« pleugh: The black'ning 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 mattacks, ami his hoes,... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scottish poetry - 188? - 255 pages
...unknown, far happier 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...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 mattocks, and his hoes,... | |
 | John Richetti - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 945 pages
...those whose lives are depicted in his poem: November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh; [whistling windj The short'ning winter-day is near a close; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh; [dirty] [plough] The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose: The toil-worn COTTER frae his labor... | |
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