 O why should fate sic pleasure have, Life's dearest bands untwining ? Or why sae sweet a flower as love Depend on Fortune's shining ? This warld's wealth when I think on, Its pride, and a' the lave o't ; Fie, fie on silly coward man, That he should be...  Temptation and atonement - Page 114by Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1859Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 460 pages
...poortith a' I could forgive, An' 'twere na' for my Jeanie. , . O why should fate sic pleasure have, Life's dearest bands untwining ? Or why sae sweet a flower as love. Depend on Fortune's shining ? This warld's wealth when I think on, It's pride, and a' the lave o't; Fie, fie on silly coward man,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 468 pages
...could forgive, An' 'twere na for my Jeanie. O why should fate sic pleasure have, Life's dearest band's untwining ? Or why sae sweet a flower as love, Depend on Fortune's shining ? This warld's wealth when I think on, Its pride, and a' the leave o't ; Fie, fie en silly coward man,... | |
 | England - 1839 - 870 pages
...1 Yet pooitith a* 1 could for^iV, An* 'twere na for my Je.inie. O wby should Fate sic pleasure have Life's dearest bands untwining ? Or why sae sweet a flower as love D'peud on fortune's shining? " This warld's wealth, when I think on It's pride and a' the lave o't... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...Yet poortith a* I could forgive, An' 'twere na for my Jeanie. O why should fate sic pleasure have, Life's dearest bands untwining ? Or why sae sweet a flower as love, Depend on Fortune's shining ? This world's wealth when I think on, Its pride, and a' the lave o't ; Fie, fie on silly coward man,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...Yet poortith a' I could forgive, An' 'twere na for my Jeanie. O why should fate sic pleasure have, Life's dearest bands untwining ? Or why sae sweet a flower as love, Depend on Fortune's shining ? This warld's wealth when I think on, Its pride, and a' the lave o't ; Her een sae bonnie blue betray... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1825 - 388 pages
...The sillie bogles, wealth and state, Can never make them eerie. O why should Fate sic pleasure have Life's dearest bands untwining ? Or why sae sweet a flower as love Depend on Fortune's shining? " Poortith cauld" was sent to George Thomson unaccompanied by any remarks from Burns : it is a sweet... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...The sillie bogles, wealth and state, Can never make them eerie. O why should fate sic pleasure have, Life's dearest bands untwining ? Or why sae sweet a flower as love Depend on Fortune's shining ? LIV. BONNIE LESLEY. TUNE— The Comer's bonnie Dochter. O SAW ye bonnie Lesley As she gaed o'er the... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 756 pages
...ye; Yet poortith a' I could forgive, An 't werena for my Jeanie. O why should fate sic pleasure have, Life's dearest bands untwining ? Or why sae sweet a flower as love Depend on Fortune's shining ? This warld's wealth when I think on, Its pride, and a' the lave o't; Fie, fie on silly coward man,... | |
 | Harriet Vaughan Cheney - Massachusetts - 1826 - 324 pages
...inspired, vol. i. 23 CHAPTER XV. Oh why should fate sic pleasure have, Life's dearest bands entwining? Or why sae sweet a flower as love, Depend on Fortune's shining? BURKS. MAJOR ATHEETON was among the last who quitted Mr. Grey's ; and, as the evening was rather advanced,... | |
 | 1822 - 608 pages
...fancy of the poet prevailing over his greatest fault : — " Oh, why shouldLFate sic pleasure have, Life's dearest bands untwining ; Or why sae sweet a flower as Love Depend on Fortune's shining!" In his songs Burns was particularly happy, if we except certain awkward English attempts to. exceed... | |
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