 | 1828 - 722 pages
...plover,' the ' solitary curlew,' all are dear to him ; all live in this Earth along with him, and to all he is knit as in mysterious brotherhood. How touching...gloom of personal misery, brooding over the wintry desol»tion without him and within him, he thinks of the ' ouric cattle' and ' silly sheep,' and their... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 pages
...swirl, Or thro' the mining outlet booked, Down headlong hurl. List'ning, the doors an' winnocks rattle, I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war, And thro' the drift, deep-lairing sprattle, ilk happing bird, wee, helpless... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...swirl, Or thro* the mining outlet bocked, Down headlong hurl. List'ning, the doors an' winnocks rattle, I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war, And thro' the drift, deep-Iairiog sprattle, Beneath a scar. Ilk happing bird,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pages
...swirl, Or thro' the mining outlet bocked, Down headlong hurl. List'ning, the doors an' wiunocks rattle, I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war, And thro' the drift, deep-lairing sprattle, Beneath a scar. Uk happing bird,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 pages
...swirl, Or thro' the mining outlet bocked, Down headlong hurl. List'ning, the doors an' winnocks rattle, I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war, And thro' the drift, deep-lairing sprattle, Beneath a scar. Ilk happing bird,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 pages
...swirl. Or thro' the mining outlet bocked, Down headlong hurl. List'ning, the doors an' winnocks rattle, I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war, And thro' the drift, deep-lairing sprattle, Beneath a scar. Ilk happing bird,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...Or through the mining outlet hocked, Down headlong hurl. Listening, the doors an' winnocks rattle, I thought, me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war, And through the drift, deep-lairing sprattle, Beneath a scar. Ilk happing bird,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 pages
...swirl, Or through the mining outlet bocked, Down headlong hurl. Listening the doors an' winnocks rattle, I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war, And through the drift, deep-lairing sprattle, Beneath a scar. Ilk happing bird,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1826 - 272 pages
...' Wild-eddying swirl, Or thro' the mining outlet booked, List'ning, the doors an' winnocks rattle 1 thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war, And thro' the drift, deep-lairing sprattle, Beneath a scar, Ilk happing bird,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 206 pages
...up-chocked, Wild-eddying swirl, Or ttno' the mining outlet bocked, List'ning, the doors an' winnocka rattle, I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war, And thro1 the drift, deep-lairing sprattle, Beneath a scar. Ilk happing bird,... | |
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Ilk happing bird, wee helpless thing, That in the merry months o' spring Delighted me to hear thee sing, What comes o 
