 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
 | Donald A. Low - 1974 - 474 pages
...the temptation to describe so beautiful a natural object by moon-light, was not to be resisted — 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, dancing... | |
 | 532 pages
...touch the heart." BURNS, THE ARTIST. He was an artist — a painter of pictures. This of the brook : " 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's to the nightly rays, Wi' bickering,... | |
 | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1925 - 448 pages
...regularly as the result of that vivification, sometimes by mere chance, as it were. So in "Hallowe'en": 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, dancin... | |
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