The Memory of Burns: Brief Addresses Commemorating the Genius of Scotland's Illustrious BardJohn Dawson Ross W. Hodge, 1899 - 205 страници |
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Address delivered admiration ANDREW LANG Auld Auld Lang Syne awkward squad ballads bard beautiful better bonnie born braes Burns's character charm Cotter's Saturday Night critics daisy death divine Dugald Stewart Dumfries EDINBURGH BURNS CLUB Ellisland fame farm father feeling flowers genius gift grave heart heaven honour human humble humour imagination Immortal Memory inspired January January 25 John Anderson Jolly Beggars kennin knew labour land language liberty literature lived look lover man's melancholy memory of Burns mind moral mother mountain daisy nature never noble passion patriotism peasant perhaps poems poetic poetry poor Robert Burns Scotch Scotland Scots Wha Hae Scotsmen Scottish Scottish literature Shakespeare Shanter sing songs sorrow soul speak spirit sweet sympathy tell tender things thought to-day to-night touch true truth verse voice Wallace Whyles wonderful words written wrote
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Страница 122 - Let him follow me! By oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free!
Страница 98 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Страница 153 - Is there a man, whose judgment clear Can others teach the course to steer, Yet runs, himself, life's mad career, Wild as the wave ; Here pause— and, through the starting tear, Survey this grave. The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn, and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glow, And softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name...
Страница 150 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious ! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow...
Страница 143 - The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard nor saw: Tho' this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, I sigh'd and said amang them a'; — "Ye are na Mary Morison!
Страница 180 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that. For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that ; The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Страница 149 - John Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi...
Страница 122 - Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast...
Страница 149 - See yonder poor, o'erlabour'd wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil ; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn.
Страница 15 - I had usually half a dozen or more pieces on hand ; I took up one or other, as it suited the momentary tone of the mind, and dismissed the work as it bordered on fatigue. My passions, when once lighted up, raged like so many devils, till they got vent in rhyme; and then the conning over my verses, like a spell, soothed all into quiet...