Miscellaneous poems, some of which are in the Cumberland dialectBorrowdale, 1805 - 237 páginas |
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Miscellaneous Poems: Some of Which Are in the Cumberland Dialect John Stagg Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Página v - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Página xi - Immodest words admit of no defence ; For want of decency is want of sense.
Página 67 - In vain the Tyrians on their arms rely, In vain attempt to fight, in vain to fly: All their endeavours and their hopes are vain ; Some die entangled in the winding train ; Some are devour'd; or feel a loathsome death, Swoln up with blasts of pestilential breath.
Página 133 - At owr the leave laid th' capsteane, For some they said eat lumps as big As Sammy Liank's lapsteane, I'th" barn that day. They're keyte's weel trigg'd wi' solid geer, They now began to guzzle, Wheyle yell in jugs an
Página 116 - An' down his boozy burden fell. Auld Nick and Scot yence kempt, they say, Whea best a reape frae saun cud tweyne, Clouts begg'd some caff; quo' Mitchell, " Nay." Sae bang'd the de'il at that lang seyne. Wi' clish-ma-clatter, cracks, and jwokes, My friend and me the evenings past, Unenvying finger-fed feyne fwoaks, Unmeyndfu' o' the whustlin
Página 125 - ... appear the fanciful embellishments of this pastoral. It is a fact well known to the inhabitants of this county, that when a youthful couple conceive a disposition to venture on the voyage of matrimony, with perhaps more of the assurances of the blind god, than the blind goddess, or in plain English, with more love than money, the bridegroom generally engages two or three of his companions to assist him in canvassing round ten or a dozen of the adjacent parishes, where they invite all, indiscriminately,...
Página 200 - ... which might endanger the Directory, his employers. The object propofed by this expedition was, firft, to fail with a well-appointed army, conveyed in a powerful fleet to the...
Página 125 - POEMS, &c. BY JOHN STAGG.* THE BRIDEWAIN. The subject of the following poem, with many of the incidents it contains, may, perhaps, to some of our remoter countrymen, appear rather romantic and ludicrous, whilst others may be disposed to object entirely to the verity of such a narrative ; but to those who are more intimately acquainted with the rural manners and simple customs of the county of Cumberland, I am confident of their acknowledging...
Página 139 - Tho' guidness wi' this new year gift ye, Another eken to your fifty, As tho' by stap an' stap 'twad lift ye Clean owr the deyke ; Yet let nae snafflin' cares e'er drift ye To pleen an
Página 125 - ... the blind goddess, or in plain English, with more love than money, the bridegroom generally engages two or three of his companions to assist him in canvassing round ten or a dozen of the adjacent parishes, where they invite all, indiscriminately, to assemble on such a day, to assist in solemnizing the nuptials of On the day appointed, which is generally a week or fortnight after the day of invitation, the country people, for many miles round, repair to the house of the young couple, or place...