The Book of Scottish Poems: Ancient and ModernJohn Ross Edinburgh Publishing Company, 1878 - 760 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة iii
... Poetry of Scotland was announced . To exhibit Scottish poetry as an exponent of the breadth and depth of the national character , was laid down as the leading aim of the work . But while holding that its influence as a purifying , con ...
... Poetry of Scotland was announced . To exhibit Scottish poetry as an exponent of the breadth and depth of the national character , was laid down as the leading aim of the work . But while holding that its influence as a purifying , con ...
الصفحة iv
... poetry of our ancient bards , need not be here pointed out . In the Modern Section , beginning with Ramsay , a more general acquaintance with the subject has been presumed , and the texts are left untouched ; for , except Ramsay , the ...
... poetry of our ancient bards , need not be here pointed out . In the Modern Section , beginning with Ramsay , a more general acquaintance with the subject has been presumed , and the texts are left untouched ; for , except Ramsay , the ...
الصفحة v
... POETRY- The Cock and the Jasp , 151 Ralph the Collier , . 34 The Dog , Wolf , and Sheep , 153 JOHN BARBOUR- The Twa Mice , 4I Tale of the Paddock and the Mouse , 161 Preface to the Bruce , 44 The Value of Freedom , The Preaching of the ...
... POETRY- The Cock and the Jasp , 151 Ralph the Collier , . 34 The Dog , Wolf , and Sheep , 153 JOHN BARBOUR- The Twa Mice , 4I Tale of the Paddock and the Mouse , 161 Preface to the Bruce , 44 The Value of Freedom , The Preaching of the ...
الصفحة vi
... POETRY- Lady Anne Bothwell's Balow , 382 Where Helen Lies , Tak ' Your Auld Cloak About Ye , 383 384 ALLAN RAMSAY- . 385 The Legend of the Gentle Shepherd , The Gentle Shepherd , . 394 395 O Lustie May , Christ's Kirk on the Green , 407 ...
... POETRY- Lady Anne Bothwell's Balow , 382 Where Helen Lies , Tak ' Your Auld Cloak About Ye , 383 384 ALLAN RAMSAY- . 385 The Legend of the Gentle Shepherd , The Gentle Shepherd , . 394 395 O Lustie May , Christ's Kirk on the Green , 407 ...
الصفحة vii
... POETRY- The Grave , Todlin ' Hame , Muirland Willie , DAVID MALLET- Dumbarton's Drums , William and Margaret , MICHAEL BRUCE- Edwin and Emma , Sir James the Ross , WILLIAM HAMILTON- The Braes of Yarrow , JOHN ARMSTRONG- Elegy in Spring ...
... POETRY- The Grave , Todlin ' Hame , Muirland Willie , DAVID MALLET- Dumbarton's Drums , William and Margaret , MICHAEL BRUCE- Edwin and Emma , Sir James the Ross , WILLIAM HAMILTON- The Braes of Yarrow , JOHN ARMSTRONG- Elegy in Spring ...
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الصفحة 441 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
الصفحة 689 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind!
الصفحة 440 - The impetuous song, and say from whom you rage. His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills ; And let me catch it as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents, rapid and profound ; Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound his stupendous praise whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall.
الصفحة 440 - Great Source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam his praise.
الصفحة 606 - How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow; There oft as mild Evening weeps over the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me.
الصفحة 519 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
الصفحة 366 - The Evergreen. Being a Collection of Scots Poems, Wrote by the Ingenious before 1600.
الصفحة 441 - There let the shepherd's flute, the virgin's lay, The prompting seraph, and the poet's lyre, Still sing the God of Seasons, as they roll.
الصفحة 439 - And every sense, and every heart, is joy. Then comes thy glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year...
الصفحة 446 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...