 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...  Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since - Page 15by Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1824 - 278 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1786 - 610 pages
...clofe ; The miry beads retreating from the pleugh ; The black'ning trains of craws h to their repofe : The toil-worn Cotter from his labour goes, . This night his weekly moil ' is at an end, Collects hisfpades, his mattocks, and his bats, Hoping the morn in eafe and reft to fpend, And weary, o'er the... | |
 | James Anderson - 1722 - 440 pages
...retreating frae the pleugh ; The black'mng trains o' craws to their repose : The toil worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at...his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hanieward Iv.na. / III. At length his lonely cot appears... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1794 - 300 pages
...retreating frae the pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repofe: The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects Collefts his fpades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in eafe and reft to fpend, And weary,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1798 - 302 pages
...retreating frae the pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repofe : The toil worn Cotter frae his labour goes, ' This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his fpades, his mattocks, and his hoes» Hoping the morn in eafe and reft to fpend, And weary, o'er the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 300 pages
...retreating frae the pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repofe : The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his fpades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in eafe and reft to fpend, And weary, o'er the... | |
 | 1809 - 530 pages
...retreating f'rae the pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose . The toil-wom Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 446 pages
...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 is at...his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. III. At length his lonely cot appears in view,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 pages
...retreating frae the plengb ; The blackening trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at...his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. ••. At length his lonely cot appears in... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...retreating frae the plengh , The blackening trains o' craws to their repose: The toil-worn Cotter firae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at...his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view,... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1809 - 518 pages
...craws to their repose : The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, . • . This night his weekly moi' is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and...his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend." (Currie's Burns, Vol. III. p. 174.) In this... | |
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