Bibliotheca Burnsiana: Life and Works of Burns: Title Pages and Imprints of the Various Editions in the Private Library of James M'Kie, Kilmarnock, Prior to Date 1866

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Страница 17 - And wi' the lave ilk merry morn Could rank my rig and lass, Still shearing, and clearing The tither stocked raw, Wi' claivers, an' haivers, Wearing the day awa : Ev'n then a wish, (I mind its power,) A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast ; That I for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan, or beuk could make, Or sing a sang at least.
Страница 22 - Tam had got planted unco right; Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely, Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely; And at his elbow, Souter Johnny, His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony; Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither; They had been fou for weeks thegither. The night drave on wi...
Страница 36 - I have no dearer aim than to have it in my power, unplagued with the routine of business, for which, heaven knows ! I am unfit enough, to make leisurely pilgrimages through Caledonia ; to sit on the fields of her battles ; to wander on the romantic banks of her rivers ; and to muse by the stately towers or venerable ruins, once the honoured abodes of her heroes.
Страница 7 - Poems ascribed to Robert Burns, the Ayrshire bard, not contained in any edition of his works hitherto published.
Страница 30 - There have been loftier themes than his, And longer scrolls, and louder lyres, And lays lit up with Poesy's Purer and holier fires: Yet read the names that know not death; Few nobler ones than Burus are there; And few have won a greener wreath Than that which binds his hair.
Страница 10 - Ordain'd to fire th' adoring sons of earth, With every charm of wisdom and of worth ; Ordain'd to light, with intellectual day, The mazy wheels of nature as they play, Or, warm with Fancy's energy, to glow, And rival all but Shakspeare's name below.
Страница 7 - REAR high thy bleak majestic hills, Thy shelter'd valleys proudly spread, And, SCOTIA, pour thy thousand rills, And wave thy heaths with blossoms red ; But, ah ! what poet now shall tread Thy airy heights, thy woodland reign, Since he the sweetest bard is dead That ever...
Страница 13 - ... in glory and in joy, Behind his plough, upon the mountain side!
Страница 36 - A Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns ; occasioned by an intended Republication of the Account of the Life of Burns, by Dr Currie ; and of the Selection made by him from his Letters.
Страница 26 - THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS. Edited from the best printed and manuscript Authorities, with Glossarial Index and a Biographical Memoir, by ALEXANDER SMITH.

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