 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...human interests, or breathe a lofty devotional spirit " 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; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their dad, wi'... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 266 pages
...pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose ; The toil worn Cottar frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades,...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend." That one single stanza is in itself a picture, one may say a poem, of the poor man's life. It is so... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...hlack'ning trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn Culler frae his lahour goes, This uight his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and hi* hoes, * Dr Younir. BURNS' WORKS. Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, At.d weary, o'er the... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 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,...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... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 682 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,...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... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...The blackening trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn cotter frae his labor goes, — This night his weekly moil is at an end, — Collects his...to spend, And weary o'er the moor his course does homeward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th'... | |
 | Baptists - 1744 - 596 pages
...pleugh ; The blackening train 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, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn iu ease aud rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does homeward bend. At length his lonely... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1847 - 704 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,...length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things,"1 todlin," stacher' thro1 To meet their dad wi'... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 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,...length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher f through To meet their Dad, wi'... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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,...And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bead. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant... | |
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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... 
