The Poems and Songs of William Hamilton of Bangour: Collated with the Ms. Volume of His Poems, and Containing Several Pieces Hitherto Unpublished; with Illustrative Notes, and an Account of the Life of the AuthorT. G. Stevenson, 1850 - 192 ページ |
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Allan Ramsay amorous song Anacreon appear arms BAILLIE OF JERVISWOOD beauteous beauty bless blest bloom blushing bonnie Braes of Yarrow breast breath Busk ye charms chief daring daughter dear death decreed deed delight dire e'er East Lothian Edinburgh editions of Hamilton's Eglintoun eyes fair fame Fancy fate father fear fierce fight Fingask Castle flame flowers Gallowshiels Gavin Hamilton gentle Glasgow glory glowing grace Hamilton of Bangour Hamilton's Poems happy hear heart heaven honours hopes hour James Chalmers kind kings Lady Latian Lord Love's lyre maid Mezentius mind mirth Miss MONIMIA mourn muse native ne'er night nymph o'er peace Piper plain pleasing poet pow'r praise race rage round sacred Scots Magazine shade shine sighs sire smiles soft song sorrow soul sweet Tea-Table Miscellany tender thee thine thou thro toil train verses virgin virtue weep William Hamilton wing woes youth
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172 ページ - Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
172 ページ - Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.
11 ページ - But who the expected husband, husband is ? His hands, methinks, are bathed in slaughter. Ah me ! what ghastly spectre's yon, Comes in his pale shroud bleeding after? ' Pale as he is, here lay him, lay him down ; O lay his cold head on my pillow : Take aff, take aff these bridal weeds, And crown my careful head with willow.
4 ページ - So fatally beguiling ; Thy every look, and every grace, So charm, whene'er I view thee, Till death o'ertake me in the chase Still will my hopes pursue thee. Then, when my tedious hours are past, Be this last blessing given, Low at thy feet to breathe my last, And die in sight of heaven.* OWER THE MUIR TO MAGGY.
11 ページ - O stay at hame, my noble lord ! " O stay at hame, my marrow! '' My cruel brother will you betray " On the dowie houms of Yarrow." " O fare ye weel, my ladye gaye ! " O fare ye weel, my Sarah ! " For I maun gae, though I ne'er return,
10 ページ - O Yarrow fields ! may never, never rain Nor dew thy tender blossoms cover, For there was basely slain my love, My love, as he had not been a lover.
15 ページ - Eglintoun ! thy happy breast, Calm and serene enjoys the heavenly guest; From the tumultuous rule of passions freed, Pure in thy thought, and spotless in thy deed. In virtues rich, in goodness unconfin'd, Thou shin'st a fair example to thy kind...
47 ページ - For soon this venerable gloom Will yield a weary sufferer room ; No more a slave to Love decreed, At ease and free among the dead. Come then, ye tears, ne'er cease to flow, In full satiety of woe : , Though now the maid my heart alarms, Severe and mighty in her charms, Doom'd to obey, in bondage prest...
8 ページ - Lang maun she weep, lang maun she, maun she weep, Lang maun she weep with dule and sorrow ; And lang maun I nae mair weil be seen Pu'ing the birks on the braes of Yarrow.
184 ページ - ON A DIAL IN MY GARDEN. ONCE at a potent leader's voice it stay'd, Once it went back when a good monarch pray'd: Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore, The flying shadow shall return no more. ON AN OBELISK IN MY GARDEN. VIEW all around, the works of Power Divine, Inquire, explore, admire, extol, resign ; This is the whole of human kind below, Tis only giv'n beyond the grave to know.