| Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 pàgines
...s!ii v'n, By human pride or cunning driv'n To misery's brink, Till wrench'd of every stay but Heav'n^ Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate...Ruin's plough-share drives, elate, Full on thy bloom. Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom ! EPISTLE TO A YOUNG FRIEND '. M»y ,I7gS.... | |
| Henry Mackenzie - 1808 - 440 pàgines
...driven To misery's brink, Till, wrenched of every stay but heaven, He ruined sink. Ev'n thou who mown'st the daisy's fate, That fate is thine No distant date...Ruin's plough-share drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom. I have seldom met with an image more truly... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 366 pàgines
...wrench'd of every stay but Heaven, He ruined sink. Ev'n thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, Tbatfnte Is thine • No distant date ; Stern Ruin's plough-share drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crush'd beneath the furrows weight, Shall be thy doom. I have seldom met with an image more truly... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 pàgines
...Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth is giv'n, Who long with wants and woes has striv'n, By human pride or cunning driv'n To misery's brink, Till wrench'd of every stay but Heav'n, Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That... | |
| Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pàgines
...Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth is giv'n, Who long with wants and woes has striv'n, By human...sink ! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, That f ale is thine — no distant date ; Stern ruin/s plough-share drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till... | |
| Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pàgines
...And whelm him o er ! Such fate to suff'ring worth is giv'n, Who long with wants and woes has stnv i), By human pride or cunning driv'n To mis'ry's brink,...That fate is thine — no distant date; Stern Ruin's pleugh.share drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy... | |
| Robert Burns - 1813 - 444 pàgines
...Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth is giv'n, Who long with wants and woes has striv'n, By human...To mis'ry's brink, Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heaven, He, ruin'd, sink ! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pàgines
...rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering Worth is giv'n, Who long witn wants and woes has striv'n, By human pride or cunning...To Mis'ry's brink, Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heaven, He ruin'd MDK ! E'en thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant... | |
| 1818 - 400 pàgines
...now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! » * * * Such fate to suffering worth is giv'n, Who long with wants and woes has striv'n, By human pride or cunning driv'n To misery's brink; Till, wrenched of every stay but Heatv'n, He, ruined, sink. Ev'n thou, who mourn'st... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 pàgines
...Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, i And whelm him o'er! Such fate to suffering worth is giv'n, Who long with wants and woes has striv'n, By human...To mis'ry's brink, Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heaven, He, ruin'd, sink ! Stern Ruin's plough-share drives, elate Full on thy bloom, Till crush'd... | |
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