 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 460 pages
...tint as win. * By heedless chance I turn'd mine eyes, And, by the moon-beam, shook, to see A stern and stalwart ghaist arise, Attir'd as minstrels wont to be. Had I a statue been o' stane, His darin look had daunted me ; And on his bonnet grav'd was plain, The sacred posy—Libertie ! And... | |
 | 1809 - 530 pages
...favours, tint as win. ' By heedless chance I turn'd mine eyes, And by the moon-beam, shook, to see A stern and stalwart ghaist arise, Attir'd as minstrels wont to be, ' Had I a statue been o' stane, His darin look had daunted me ; And on his bonnet grav'd was plain, The sacred posy— Liberty ! f... | |
 | English literature - 1809 - 530 pages
...tint as- win. ' By heedless chance I turn'd mine eyes, And by the moon-beam, shook, to sec A stern and stalwart ghaist arise, Attir'd as minstrels wont to be. ' Had I a statue been o' stane, His darin look had daunted me; And on his bonnet grav'd was plain, The sacred posy—Liberty ! ' And... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 458 pages
...I turn'd mine eyes, And by the moon-beam, shook, to see A stern and stalwart ghaist arise, Attired as minstrels wont to be. Had I a statue been o' stane, His darin look had daunted me ; And on. bis bonnet graved was plain, The sacred posy — Liberty !... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...favours, tint as win. By heedless chance I turn'd mine eyes, And by the moonbeam, shook, to see A stern and stalwart ghaist arise, Attir'd as minstrels wont to be. Had I a statue been o' stane, His darin look had daunted me; And on his bonnet grav'd was plain, The sacred posy — Libertie ! And... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1822 - 440 pages
...favours, tint as win. By heedless chance I turn'd mine eyes, And by the moon-beam, shook, to see A stern and stalwart ghaist arise, Attir'd as minstrels wont to be. Had I a statue been o' stane, His darin look had daunted me ; And on his bonnet grav'd was plain, The sacred posy — Libertie !... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 274 pages
...favours, tint as won. By heedless chance I turn'd mine eyes, And, by the moon-beam, shook to see A stern and stalwart ghaist arise, Attir'd as minstrels wont to be. Had I a statue been i>' stane, His darin look had daunted me ; And on his bonnet grav'd was plain The sacred posy — Libertie... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1825 - 388 pages
...favours, tint as won. By heedless chance I turn'd mine eyes, And, by the moon-beam, shook to see A stern and stalwart ghaist arise, Attir'd as minstrels wont to be. Had I a statue been o' stane, His daring look had daunted me ; And on his bonnet grav'd was plain The sacred posy — Libertie. And... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 756 pages
...hissing eerie din ; Athort the lift they start and shift, Like fortune's favours, tint as won. A stern and stalwart ghaist arise, Attir'd as minstrels wont to be. Had I a statue been o' stane, His daring look had daunted me ; And on his bonnet grav'd was plain The sacred posy—Libertie. And... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - Poetry - 1826 - 226 pages
...I turn'd mine eyes, And, by the moon-beam, shook to see A stern and stalwart ghaist arise, Attired as minstrels wont to be. Had I a statue been o' stane, His darin look had daunted me; And on his bonnet graved Was plain The sacred posy—Libertie! And frae... | |
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I a statue been o' stane, His darin look had daunted me : And on his bonnet grav'd was plain The sacred posy — Libertie ! And frae his harp sic strains did flow, Might rous'd the slumbering dead to hear; But oh, it was a tale of woe, As ever met a Briton's... 
