 Whyles owre a linn the burnie plays, As thro' the glen it wimpl't; Whyles round a rocky scar it strays; Whyles in a wiel it dimpl't; Whyles glitter'd to the nightly rays, Wi' bickerin, dancin dazzle ; Whyles cookit underneath the braes, Below the spreading...  Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect - Page 191by Robert Burns - 1800 - 287 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Burns - 1896 - 360 pages
...scrievin', Whare three lairds' lands met at a burn, To dip her left sark-sleeve in, Was bent that night. Whyles owre a linn the burnie plays, As thro' the glen it wimpl't; Whyles glitter' d to the nightly rays, Wi' bickering, dancing dazzle ; Whyles cookit underneath the braes,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1896 - 330 pages
...; f Whare three lairds' lan's met at a burn,1 To dip her left sark sleeve in, Was bent that night. Whyles owre a linn the burnie plays, As thro' the glen it wimpl't ; J Whyles round a rocky scaur § it strays, Whyles in a wiel II it dimpl't ; Whyles glitter'd to the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1896 - 520 pages
...scrievin ; Whare three Lairds' lan's meet at a burn,* To dip her left sark-sleeve in, Was bent that night. Whyles owre a linn the burnie plays, As thro' the glen it wiuipl't ; Whylea round a rocky scaur it strays ; Whyles in a wiel it dimpl't ; Whyles glitter'd to... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1896 - 674 pages
...scrievin' ; Where three laird's k1nds met at a burn, To dip her left sark-sleeve in, Was bent that night. Whyles owre a linn the burnie plays, As thro' the glen it wimpled ; Whyles round a rocky scaur it strays : Whyles in a wiel it dimpled ; Whyles glitter'd to... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - 1898 - 74 pages
...misadventure to give a graphic picture of one of his brooks in the calm moonlight of an autumn evening. Whyles owre a linn the burnie plays, As thro' the glen it wimpl't ; Whyles round a rocky scaur it strays Whyles in a wiel it dimpl't ; 1 ' Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson.' " ' Poem on... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1898 - 394 pages
...scrievin, Whare three lairds' lands met at a burn, To dip her left sark-sleeve in, 215 Was bent that night. Whyles owre a linn the burnie plays, As thro' the glen it wimpl't ; Whyles round a rocky scar it strays ; Whyles in a wiel it dimpl't ; 220 Whyles glitter'd to the nightly rays, Wi' bickering,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1898 - 396 pages
...scrievin, Whare three lairds' lands met at a burn, To dip her left sark-sleeve in, 215 Was bent that night. Whyles owre a linn the burnie plays, As thro' the glen it wimpl't ; Whyles round a rocky scar it strays ; Whyles in a wiel it dimpl't ; 220 Whyles glitter'd to the nightly rays, Wi' bickering,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1898 - 358 pages
...Whare three lairds' lan's met at a burn, To dip her left sark-sleeve in Was bent that night. Whiles owre a linn the burnie plays, As thro' the glen it wimpl't ; Whiles round a rocky scaur it strays, Whiles in a wiel it dimpl't ; The end Whiles glitter'd to the... | |
 | John Dawson Ross - 1899 - 222 pages
...depicted in his poem " Hallowe'en," in which, by the way, the inimitable descriptive lines occur : Whyles owre a linn the burnie plays, As thro' the glen it wimpl't ; Whyles round a rocky scaur it strays ; Whyles in a wiel it dimpl't ; Whyles glitter'd to the nightly rays, Wi' bickerin',... | |
 | 1899 - 666 pages
...Take only two examples. Here is the well-known way he describes the burn in his Halloween — Whylea owre a linn the burnie plays, As thro' the glen it wimpl't ; Whyles round a rocky scaur it strays, Whyles in a wiel it dimpl't ; Whyles glitter'd to the nightly rays, Wi' biokerin',... | |
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