 If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the ev'ning gale.  Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect - Page 132by Robert Burns - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 446 pages
...milk-white thorn that scents the ev'ning gale.' X. Is there, in human form, that bears a heart — A wretch ! a villain ! lost to love and truth ! That...ensnaring art, Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth? C urse on his perj u r'd arts ! dissembling smooth ! Are honour, virtue, conscience, all exil'd! Is... | |
 | Young gentleman - 1807 - 314 pages
...unfofpecVmg youth ? Curfe on his per;ur'd airts, diffemhling finoo'.h ! Are honour, virtue, confcience, all exil'd ? Is there no pity, no relenting ruth,...Points to the parents fondling o'er their child ? Then painls the ruin'd maid, and their diffraction wild ? But now the fopper crowns their fimple hoard,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - Bookbinding - 1808 - 330 pages
...'the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.' Is there, in human form, that bears a heart — A wretch ! a villain ! lost to love and truth ! That...dissembling smooth! Are honour, virtue, conscience, all exil'cl ? Is there no pity, no relenting ruth, Points to the parents fondling o'er their child? Then... | |
 | William Gilpin - England - 1808 - 338 pages
...unfufpecting youth ? Curfe on his perjur'd art ! diflembling fmooth ! Are hopor, virtue, confcience, all exil'd ? Is there no pity, no relenting ruth,...their child ? Then paints the ruin'd maid, and their diftraction wild ! [ But now the fupper crowns their fimple board, The healfome parritch 3, chief of... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...the milk-white thorn that scents tin- evening gale.' Is there, in human form, that bears a heart— A wretch! a villain! lost to love and truth! That can, with stndied, sly, ensnaring art, Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth ? Curse on his perjur'd arts !... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pages
...milk-white thorn that scents the ev'ning gale !' X. Is there, in human form, that bears a heart — A wretch ! a villain ! lost to love and truth ! That...But now the supper crowns their simple boar"d, The healsome parritch, chief o' Scotia's food : The soupe their only Hawkie does afford, That 'yont the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1813 - 444 pages
...milk-white thorn that scents the ev'ning gale.' X. Is there, in human form, that bears a heart — A wretch ! a villain ! lost to love and truth ! That...paints the ruin'd maid, and their distraction wild ? VOL. III. N XI. > XI. But now the supper crowns their simple board, The \\a\esomeparrilch, chief... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...the milk-whitethorn that scents the evening gale.' Is there, in human form, that bears a heart — A wretch ! a villain ! lost to love and truth ! That...paints the ruin'd maid, and their distraction wild? But now the supper crowns their simple board, The healsome parritch, chief o' Scotia's food : The soupe... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...milk-white thorn that scents the evening* gale." X. Is th-ere, in human form, that bears a heart — A wretch ! a villain ! lost to love and truth ! That...Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth ? Curse on his perjured arts ! dissembling smooth ! Are honor, virtue, conscience, all exiled ? 1st there no pity,... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1815 - 364 pages
...youth ? Curse on his perjuv'd arts ! dissembling smooth I Are honour, virtue, eonseienee, all rxil'd ? Is there no pity, no relenting ruth, Points to the parents fondling o'er their ehild? Then paints the ruin'd maid, and their distraetion XI. But now the supper erowns their simple... | |
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