 | Robert Fergusson, Alexander Balloch Grosart - 1851 - Страниц: 480
...pleugh ; 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...weary, o'er the moor his course does hameward bend. With reference to the word ' gloming ' or ' gloamin,' it is certainly a very picturesque and mellifluous... | |
 | Robert Fergusson, Alexander Balloch Grosart - 1851 - Страниц: 456
...pleugh ; 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...to spend, And, weary, o'er the moor his course does hamcward bend. With reference to the word ' gloming ' or ' gloamin,' it is certainly a very picturesque... | |
 | John Allan Quinton - 1851 - Страниц: 210
...generally understood sense of that expression ? that night, on the evening of which he " Collects liis spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn...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... | |
 | 1852 - Страниц: 782
...; The black'ning trains о craws to their repose : The toil-worn Colter frae his labour goes, Thii night his weekly moil is at an end. Collects his spades,...bend. " At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the sheller of an aged tree ; Th' expectant rcef-thinçg, toddling, slacher thro' To meet their... | |
 | John Aikin - 1852 - Страниц: 792
...blackening trains o' craws to their repose i The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night bis zM}UhVh> {V~ x III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant... | |
 | 1853 - Страниц: 560
...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...hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; The expectant wee things, toddlin', stacher through, To meet... | |
 | 1853 - Страниц: 224
...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 - Страниц: 332
...pleugh ; 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...hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their... | |
 | 1854 - Страниц: 606
...the 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...hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - Страниц: 252
...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...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... | |
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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... 
