 That wee bit heap o' leaves an' stibble Has cost thee mony a weary nibble! Now thou's turn'd out, for a' thy trouble, But house or hald, To thole the winter's sleety dribble, An' cranreuch cauld! But Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight...  The Works of Robert Burns - Stran 222avtor: Robert Burns - 1840 - 820 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Robert Burns - 1871 - 516 strani
...cruel coulter past Out thro' thy cell. That wee-bit heap o' leaves an' stibble, Has cost thee monie a weary nibble ! Now thou's turn'd out, for a' thy trouble, But house or hald, To thole the Winter's sleely dribble, An' craureuch canld ! But Mousie, thou art no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be... | |
 | James Waddel Alexander - 1872 - 296 strani
...boys, and even sang part of Burns's lines to the Mouse, whose nest was turned up by his plough : — " But, mousie, thou art no thy lane,* In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley,t And leave us nought but giief and pain For promised joy." It was finally,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1872 - 778 strani
...hald, To thole the winter's sleety dribble, And cranreuch cauld I 7 But, Mousie, thou art no thy laue, In proving foresight may be vain : The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And lca:e us naught but grief and pain, For promised joy. 8 Still thou art blest, compared wi' me !... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 strani
...cell. That wee bit heap o' leaves an' stibble Has cost thee mony a weary nibble ! Now thou 'a turned At times a stifled hum, Told England, from his mountain-throne...they hear or see their foes, l'util at weapon-point best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, An' lea'e us naught but grief and pain, For promised... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 strani
...In the unprosperous farm Burns was thinking of emigration from his native land when he wrote — ** But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain ; The best laid schemes of mice and men Gang oft agley. And leave us nought but grief and pain For promised joy. " Still thou... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1874 - 396 strani
...mortal ! But here, again, he cannot help, like Gray, moralizing, nor in the end getting back to himself. But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight...men Gang aft a-gley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promised joy. Still thou art blest, compared wi' me, The present only toucheth thee.... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 strani
...dwell, Till, crash! the cruel coulter past Out thro' thy cell. That wee bit heap o' leaves an' stibble Has cost thee mony a weary nibble! Now thou's turn'd...no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain: The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, An' lea'e us nought but grief and pain, For promis'd... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1875 - 374 strani
...mortal! But here, again, he cannot help, like Gray, moralizing, nor in the end getting back to himself. But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight...men Gang aft a-gley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promised joy. Still thou art blest, compared wi' mo, The present only toucheth thee.... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1875 - 660 strani
...trouble, But' l house or hald, 1* To thole 13 thj winter's sleety dribble, 14 An' cranreuch cauld ! IS But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, ! In proving foresight...best laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, 10 An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promised joy. Still thou art blest, compared wi' me... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 strani
...cell. That wee bit heap o' leaves an' stibhle Has cost thee mony a weary nibble! Now thou's turned out, for a' thy trouble, But house or hald, To thole...winter's sleety dribble, An' cranreuch cauld ! But, Mousio, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men,... | |
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