 | John Wilson - 1840 - 372 pages
...from my soul was torn. О Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy blissful place of reet ? Senst thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans...his breast ? " That sacred hour can I forget, Can 1 forget the hallow'd grove, Where by the winding Ayr we met. To live one day of parting love ? Eternity... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1841 - 354 pages
...less'ning ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is...laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast? * White at Ellisland, Burnt composed thi> noblest of all his lyrics. " This celebrated poem," says... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1842 - 598 pages
...lessening ray, That lovest to greet the early morn, Again thou usherest in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O, Mary ! dear departed shade, Where is...laid, Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast ?" &c. According to unvarying tradition, Coilsfield derives its name from " Auld King Coil," who is... | |
 | Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies - 1842 - 966 pages
...reminiscences, not of the old one-eyed tobacconist, but o' the bonny Heeland officer. CHAPTER LXXII. " Oh, Mary! dear, departed shade! Where is thy place of...laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?" BURNS. The evening sun was pouring his slanting rays through the windows of a room, the solemn stillness... | |
 | Mrs. Gordon Smythies - 1842 - 314 pages
...reminiscences, not of the old one-eyed tobac> conist, but o' the bonny Heeland officer, CHAPTER LXXII. " Oh, Mary ! dear, departed shade ! Where is thy place of...laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?" BURNS. The evening sun was pouring his slanting rays through the windows of a room, the solemn stillness... | |
 | 1843 - 322 pages
...less'ning ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary ! dear departed shade! Where is thy...winding Ayr we met, To live one day of parting love ? Those records dear of transports past; x Thy image at our last embrace ; Eternity will not efface... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...less'ning ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O, Mary ! dear, departed shade ! Where is...of blissful rest ? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid 1 Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast ? 2. That sacred hour can I forget, Can I forget the... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 pages
...with miser care ; Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. " My Mary, dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of...laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast ?" — Vol. ip 125, 126. Of his pieces of humour, the tale of Tarn o' Shanter is probably the best... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 pages
...Thai loves to greet the early morn, Again thou usherest in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. О Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of...laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast ?" The circumstances under which ' Tam O'Shanter' was produced were of a very different character.... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...impression stronger makes, • As streams their channels deeper wear. My Mary, dear departed shade ! VVhere is thy place of blissful rest ? See'st thou thy lover...laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast ?" It was impossible for any one to be the theme of such verses without becoming an object of profound... | |
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THOU lingering star, with lessening ray That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my heart was torn. O Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st... 
