 November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The shortening 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...  Scotia's Bards - Page 1401854 - 563 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Brian Maidment - Art - 2001 - 212 pages
...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 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... | |
 | John Richetti - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 974 pages
...COTTER frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, [toil] Collects his spades, his mattocks and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o er the muir, his course does hameward bend.I8 Burns 's mixing of the Scottish language, climate and... | |
 | Xiaoming Chen - China - 2008 - 170 pages
...world" and "Britain's Tao Yuanming," whose "description of peasants' life" very much touches his heart: At 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'flichterin noise and glee,... | |
 | James R. Simmons, Jr - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 500 pages
...following beautiful description of a cottager's Saturday night, by Burns:—1 "At length his lonely cot2 appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher3 through To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin4 noise and glee. 1 beautiful description ... by... | |
 | 532 pages
...the literature of the world, is a description of the poor cotter going from his labor to his home : " At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an agbd tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin', stacher through To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin'... | |
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