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, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1900 - 490 pages
...gaed scrievin ; Whare three lairds' lands met at a 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 round a rocky scaur it strays, Whyles in a wiel it dimpl't ; Whyles glitter'd to the nightly rays, Wi' bickerin,... | |
| John Dawson Ross - 1901 - 142 pages
...rhythm of " The Brook " ready made, and applied to the same purpose, in Burns's " Hallowe'en " (stanza xxv.) : — " 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,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1901 - 444 pages
...scrievin, Whare three lairds' lands met at a burn,3 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 round a rocky scar it strays; Whyles in a wiel it dimpl't ; Whyles glitter'd to the nightly rays, Wi' bickering,... | |
| John Campbell Shairp - 1901 - 224 pages
...him! Take only two examples. Here is the well-known way he describes the burn in his Halloween — " Whyles owre a linn the burnie plays, As thro' the glen it wimpl't ; Whylea round a rocky scaur it strays, Whyles in a wiel it dimpl't ; Whyles glitter'd to the nightly... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1903 - 644 pages
...schwebt so mild Des blauen Himmels freundlich Bild'"; or from Burns's " Halloween," st. 25 : — " 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' bickering,... | |
| Stewart F. Butchart - 1903 - 80 pages
...in anderen Versen wieder finden. In „Halloween" (Henley IS 98) lautet die 25. Strophe: „Whiles owre a linn the burnie plays As thro' the glen it wimpl't : Whiles round a rocky scar it strays Whiles in a wiel it dimpl't; Whiles glitter'd to the nightly... | |
| Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1904 - 644 pages
...familiar with the Scottish Doric may remember in his " Hallowe'en " the following description : — " 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',... | |
| Archibald Geikie - 1905 - 368 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. 2 Poem on Pastoral... | |
| 1903 - 68 pages
...in anderen Versen wieder finden. In „Halloween" (Henley IS 98) lautet die 25. Strophe: „Whiles owre a linn the burnie plays As thro' the glen it, wimpl't: Whiles round a rocky scar it strays Whiles in a wiel it dimpl't; Whiles glitter'd to the nightly rays... | |
| Myra Reynolds - 1896 - 312 pages
...were, in the midst of some vivid human interests. One of the most beautiful is a stanza in Halloween* " 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 ta the nightly rays, Wi' bickerin,... | |
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