 Their groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers, Where...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2691809Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1801
...Summers exalt the perfume ; Far dearer to me yon lone glen of green breckant, WY the burnj Healing under the lang yellow broom. Far dearer to me are yon humble brown bowers, Where the blue bell and gowanj lurk lowly unfeen ; For there lightly tripping amangj)... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Nationalism - 1805 - 193 pages
...that if any truly honest people exist in the world, it is they. Far dearer to me are yon humble brown bowers, Where the blue-bell and gowan lurk lowly unseen...For there lightly tripping amang the wild flowers, A list'ning the linnet, aft wanders my Jean. Though rich is the breeze of their gay sunny Tallies, And... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806
...have written for it as follows : SONG. Tune — " HUMOURS OF GLEN." TH E i R groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers...the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. Far Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers, Where the blue-bell and gowan lurk lowly unseen : For... | |
 | History - 1807
...Humours of Glen. THEIR groves o' fweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright beaming fummers exalt the perfume ; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green brcckan, With the burn ftealing under the lang yellow broom : Far dearer to me yon humble broom-bowers,... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809
...groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume ; Par dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan, Wi' the...dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers, Where the blue bell and gowan lurk lowly unseen ; For there, lightly tripping amang the wild flowers, A listening... | |
 | 1809
...the Scottish song writer was not habitually negligent of his numbers. " Their groves o" sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers...green breckan, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellflw broom. Far dpareiť to me are yon humble broom bowers, Where the blue bell and go wan lurk... | |
 | English literature - 1809
...reckon, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers, Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume ; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan, Where the blue-bell and gowan lurk lowly unseeni For there, lightly 'tripping amang the wild flowers,... | |
 | 1809
...negligent of his numhers. " Their groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where hright-heaming summers exalt the perfume ; far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green hrcckan, Wi' the hurn stealing under the lang yellow hroom. Far dearer to me are yon humhle hroom howers,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 648 pages
...CALEDONIA. THI EIR groves o' sweet myrtles let foreign land* reckon, / Where bright-beaming summers exhale the perfume; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green...stealing under the lang yellow broom. Far dearer to me yon low-humble broom bow'rs, Where the blue bell and gowan lurk lowly unseen; For there, lightly tripping... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1813
...dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. Far Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers, Where the blue-bell and govvan lurk lowly unseen : For there, lightly tripping amang the wild flowers, A listening the linnet,... | |
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