 If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the ev'ning gale.  Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect - Page 132by Robert Burns - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 pages
...Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale." Is there a human form that bears a heart,— A wretch! a villain! lost to love and truth! That...Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth? Curse on his perjured arts! dissembling smooth! Are honour, virtue, conscience, all exiled? Is there no pity, no... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 pages
...Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the ev'ning gale. Is there in human form that bears a heart — A wretch ! a villain ! lost to love and truth ' That...ensnaring art, Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth 1 • Parti;. l Into the country parlour. u Bashful, w Sheepish. x Child. y The rest, the other*. Curse... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...milk-white thorn that scents the ev'ning gale.' X. Is there, in human form, that hears a heart — A wretch ! a villain ! lost to love and truth ! That...Jenny's unsuspecting youth ? Curse on his perjur'd arts ! dissemhling smooth ! Are honour, virtue, conscience all exil'd ? Is there no pity, no relenting ruth,... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale." Is there, in human form, that bears a heart — A wretch ! a villain ! lost to love and truth ! That...ensnaring art, Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth ? Woe to his perjured arts ! dissembling smooth ! Are honour, virtue, conscience, all exiled ? Is there... | |
 | 1845 - 480 pages
...reduced to the lowest depths of misery and despair. • " Is there in human form that bears a heart, A wretch, a villain, lost to love and truth. That...can, with studied, sly, ensnaring art. Betray sweet 'woman's' unsuspecting youth ? Curae on his perjur'd arts, dissembling smooth ! Are honour, virtue,... | |
 | 1744 - 596 pages
...the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. Is there, in human form, that bears a heart — A wretch ! a villain ! lost to love and truth ! That...parents fondling o'er their child ! Then paints the rnin'd maid, and their distraction wild ! But now the supper crowns their simple board ! The halesome... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale." Is there, in human form, that bears a heart, — A wretch ! a villain ! lost to love and truth ! —...Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth ? Curse on his perjured arts ! dissembling smooth ! Are honor, virtue, conscience, all exiled ? Is there no pity,... | |
 | Parlour novelist - 1846 - 412 pages
...cannot comprehend." CHAPTER XIII. " la there in human form that bears a heart, A wretch! avillian! lost to love and truth! That can, with studied, sly, ensnaring art, Uetray n\veet Jenny's unsuspecting youth?" — BURNS. Gerald Roscoe to Mrs. Layton. " ON looking over... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...the milk-white thorn that scents the ev'ning gale." Is there, in human form, that bears a heart — A wretch ! a villain ! lost to love and truth ! •...dissembling smooth ! Are honour, virtue, conscience, all exiled? Is there no pity, no relenting ruth, Points to the parents fondling o'er their child ? Then... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1847 - 704 pages
...Beneath the mil k-white thorn that scents the ev'ning gale. Is there in human form that bears a heart — A wretch ! a villain ! lost to love and truth ' That can, with studied, sly, ensnariag art, Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth 1 • Partly. t lito the country parlour. «... | |
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