The Book of Scottish Poems: Ancient and ModernJohn Ross Edinburgh Publishing Company, 1878 - 760 sider |
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Side 35
... noble fellow ; thy answer is so fine . Myself and my horse are well - nigh worn out with cold and fatigue ; for the love of Saint July , direct us to some hostelry where we may pass the night . " " I know of none hereabout , " said the ...
... noble fellow ; thy answer is so fine . Myself and my horse are well - nigh worn out with cold and fatigue ; for the love of Saint July , direct us to some hostelry where we may pass the night . " " I know of none hereabout , " said the ...
Side 39
... noble king , and could hardly help calling aloud , " Yon's Wymond . I ken him right well , though he be more splendidly clad than when he lived with me . than he told me . He is of more state Alas ! I fear I have been misled . " But the ...
... noble king , and could hardly help calling aloud , " Yon's Wymond . I ken him right well , though he be more splendidly clad than when he lived with me . than he told me . He is of more state Alas ! I fear I have been misled . " But the ...
Side 43
... noble man , He wan through battle France all free ; And Lucius Yber vanquished he , That then of Rome was emperour ; Bot yet for all his great valour , Modred , his sister's son him slew And good men als may then anew , Through treason ...
... noble man , He wan through battle France all free ; And Lucius Yber vanquished he , That then of Rome was emperour ; Bot yet for all his great valour , Modred , his sister's son him slew And good men als may then anew , Through treason ...
Side 44
... noble thing ! Freedom makes man to have liking ! Freedom all solace to man gives ! He lives at ease , that freely lives ! A noble heart may have none ease , Na ellys nought that may him please , If freedom fail : for free liking Is ...
... noble thing ! Freedom makes man to have liking ! Freedom all solace to man gives ! He lives at ease , that freely lives ! A noble heart may have none ease , Na ellys nought that may him please , If freedom fail : for free liking Is ...
Side 50
... noble king did fare ; His galleys launch'd , aboard there were Scarce full three hundred men - the while He steer'd his course from Arran's isle . ANDREW WYNTOUN . 1355 ? -1427 ? IF John Barbour be designated poet to rival , nor even to ...
... noble king did fare ; His galleys launch'd , aboard there were Scarce full three hundred men - the while He steer'd his course from Arran's isle . ANDREW WYNTOUN . 1355 ? -1427 ? IF John Barbour be designated poet to rival , nor even to ...
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Side 441 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Side 689 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind!
Side 440 - The impetuous song, and say from whom you rage. His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills ; And let me catch it as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents, rapid and profound ; Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound his stupendous praise whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall.
Side 440 - Great Source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam his praise.
Side 606 - How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow; There oft as mild Evening weeps over the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me.
Side 519 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Side 366 - The Evergreen. Being a Collection of Scots Poems, Wrote by the Ingenious before 1600.
Side 441 - There let the shepherd's flute, the virgin's lay, The prompting seraph, and the poet's lyre, Still sing the God of Seasons, as they roll.
Side 439 - And every sense, and every heart, is joy. Then comes thy glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year...
Side 446 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...