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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... "
The Modern British Essayists: Jeffrey, Francis. Contributions to the ... - Page 340
1852
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The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer, Volume 18

James Anderson - Scotland - 1722 - 440 pages
...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 an end, Collects his spades,...to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hanieward Iv.na. / III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the fhcker of an aged tree...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 13

1809 - 530 pages
...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...length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher thro' To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin...
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The Works of Robert Burns: Poems formerly published, with some additions ...

Robert Burns - 1806 - 446 pages
...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 his spades,...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Burns: Collated with the Best Editions, Volumes 1-2

Robert Burns, Thomas Park - Bookbinding - 1808 - 330 pages
...; The blackening trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades,...length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; The' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their Dud, wi'...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
..., The blackening trains o' craws to their repose: The toil-worn Cotter firae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades,...At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath tin: shelter of an aged tree ; His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearth-stane, bis thriftie...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 13

English literature - 1809 - 530 pages
...it is impoffible to pcrufe the following ftanzas without feeling the force of tendernefs and truth. Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; . ' Th' expectant •wee-things, toddlin, stacher thro r To meet their Dad,...
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The London review, conducted by R. Cumberland, Volume 1

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...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend." (Currie's Burns, Vol. III. p. 174.) In this description, there is an obvious resemblance to the opening...
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Poems, Volume 1

Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pages
...; 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 his spades,...weary o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant...
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The poetical works of Robert Burns

Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...; 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 his spades,...morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the muir, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter...
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The Youth's magazine, or Evangelical miscellany

1845 - 624 pages
...in the generally-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...
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