 An' getting fou and unco happy, We think na on the lang Scots miles, The mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm....  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Page 961831Full view - About this book
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tam o' Shanter, As he frae Ayr, ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr whom ne'er a... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...mosses, waters, slaps, and stiles, That lie between us and our name, Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tarn O'Shanter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr, whom ne'er a... | |
 | Charles Delucena Meigs - 1854 - 710 pages
...electrified thundercloud, requires hut the point to draw the flash. She sits, like Tarn O'Shanter's wife, " Gathering her brows, like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm ;" •when, suddenly and unexpectedly, some word, sign, or gesture, or the want of some word, sign,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 pages
...mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows, like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tam O'Shanter, As he, frae Ayr, ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 pages
...mosses, waters, slaps, and stiles, That lie between us and our hame, Where sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tarn 0' Shanter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 746 pages
...mosses, waters, slaps, and stiles, That lie between us and our hanic, Where sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tarn o' Shanter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a... | |
 | L. J. - 1856 - 184 pages
...and shouting, " Dog in the manger, dog in the manger." Leaving Mrs. Evans, as I scoffingly said, " Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm." I sat down with my back to the water, and contented myself with reminding the children, that they were... | |
 | James White - Authors, Scottish - 1858 - 316 pages
...mosses, waters, slaps, and stiles, That lie between us and our hame, Where sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tarn o' Shanter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a... | |
 | James White - 1859 - 108 pages
...mosses, waters, slaps, and stiles, That lie between us and our hame, AVhere sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tam o' Shanter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a... | |
 | Robert Burns - English letters - 1859 - 736 pages
...waters, slaps, and stiles, gaps That lie between us and onr hame, bome Where sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tam o' Shantcr, found As he frae Ayr ae night did canter, from, one (Auld Ayr,... | |
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