 | Robert Burns, James Wilson - Ayrshire (Scotland) - 1925 - 372 pages
...lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now, the share uptears thy bed, And low t IK MI lies ! Such is the fate of artless Maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By Love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i' the dust. Such is the... | |
 | George William McClelland - English Literature (selections: Extracts, Etc.) - 1925 - 1180 pages
...Thy snawie bosom sunward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise; But now the share Of rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring To set himself in glory above his peers, floweret of the rural shade 1 By love's simplicity betrayed, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee,... | |
 | Robert Burns - English poetry - 1926 - 734 pages
..."simple bard" TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guiso ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies I Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'rct of the rural shade I By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust ; Till she, like thee,... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 906 pages
...now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet floweret of the rural shade! By love's simplicity betrayed, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soiled, is laid Low i' the dust. Such is the fate of simple bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starred!... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! 30 'Tis silence all, 161 And pleasing expectation. Herds and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and, betray'd And guileless trust ; Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid 35 Low i' the dust. Such is... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies! 30 urned, and true fited lines; In each of which he seems...eyes of ignorance. 70 Sweet Swan of Avon! what a si soiled, is laid 35 Low i' the dust. Such is the fate of simple Bard, On Life's rough ocean luckless... | |
 | American poetry - 1927 - 490 pages
...Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless Maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd:... | |
 | William Roetzheim - Poetry - 2006 - 760 pages
...thou lifts thy unassuming head in humble guise; but now the share uptears thy bed, and low thou lies! Such is the fate of artless Maid, sweet flow'ret of...betrayed, and guileless trust, till she, like thee, all soiled, is laid low i' the dust. Such is the fate of simple Bard, on Life's rough ocean luckless starred!... | |
 | Susan Youens - Music - 2007 - 317 pages
...often evoked in floral guise, as in the sixth stanza of Robert Burns 's poem "To a Mountain Daisy": Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade! By love's simplicity betray 'd And guileless trust. Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i' the dust.16 Goethe's... | |
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O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sunward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate... 
