 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1842 - 598 pages
..." Thou lingering star, with lessening ray, That lovest to greet the early morn, Again thou usherest in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O, Mary...laid, Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast ?" &c. According to unvarying tradition, Coilsfield derives its name from " Auld King Coil," who is... | |
 | Mrs. Gordon Smythies - 1842 - 314 pages
...reminiscences, not of the old one-eyed tobac> conist, but o' the bonny Heeland officer, CHAPTER LXXII. " Oh, Mary ! dear, departed shade ! Where is thy place of...laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?" BURNS. The evening sun was pouring his slanting rays through the windows of a room, the solemn stillness... | |
 | Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies - 1842 - 966 pages
...reminiscences, not of the old one-eyed tobacconist, but o' the bonny Heeland officer. CHAPTER LXXII. " Oh, Mary! dear, departed shade! Where is thy place of...laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?" BURNS. The evening sun was pouring his slanting rays through the windows of a room, the solemn stillness... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...Combe, Esq. of Edinburgh. TO MARY IN HEAVEN. 1. Thou lingering star, with less'ning ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the...of blissful rest ? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid 1 Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast ? 2. That sacred hour can I forget, Can I forget the... | |
 | 1843 - 322 pages
...As streams their channels deeper wear. My Mary, dear departed shade! Where is thy blissful place of rest ? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast ? The bible is, as we said before, the property of a descendant of Mrs, •Campbell, the mother of... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 pages
...Heaven.' Tune.— Miss Forba's Farewell to Banff. THOU ling'ring star, with less'ning ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the...departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest 1 Seest thou thy lover lowly laid ] Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast 1 That sacred hour... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 pages
...Thai loves to greet the early morn, Again thou usherest in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. О Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of...laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast ?" The circumstances under which ' Tam O'Shanter' was produced were of a very different character.... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 pages
...with miser care ; Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. " My Mary, dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of...laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast ?" — Vol. ip 125, 126. Of his pieces of humour, the tale of Tarn o' Shanter is probably the best... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...memory, the sublime and pathetic verses :"* " Thou lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. Oh, Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...broods with miser care; Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. My Mary! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hearest thou the groans that rend his breast ? TO THE PEIMEOSE. MILD offspring of a dark and sullen... | |
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THOU lingering star, with less'ning ray That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest! Seest thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou... 
