 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 sidor
...Sweet floweret of the rural shade ' By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i' the dust. Such is...fate of simple bard, On life's rough ocean luckless stnrr'd I Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows riige, and gales blow hard. And... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 sidor
...rural shade ! By love's simplicity betrayed, And guileless trust, Till she, like tliec, all soiled, is laid Low i' the dust. Such is the fate of simple bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starred! Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard. And... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 sidor
...shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd And guileless trust ; Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid 35 difficulty and danger should long since have been considered. Judging truly of starr 'dl Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, 40 Till billows rage and gales blow hard,... | |
 | 1927 - 490 sidor
...artless Maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean...And whelm him o'er! Such fate to suffering worth is giv'n, Who long with wants and woes has striv'n, By human pride or cunning driv'n To mis'ry's brink,... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 sidor
...shade! By love's simplicity betrayed, And guileless trust; Till she, like thee, all soiled, is laid 35 Low i' the dust. Such is the fate of simple Bard, On Life's rough ocean luckless starred! Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, 40 Till billows rage, and gales blow hard,... | |
 | 1897 - 478 sidor
...reference to himself: "Such is the fate of simple bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starred, Unskillful he to note the card of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er." A man so lacking in a knowledge of "prudent lore" is always unfortunate, and Burns knew it; but this... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sidor
...amang the stoure Thy slender stem: To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. (I. 1—6) 60 ry main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have see (1. 37—38) 61 Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant date; Stem... | |
 | William Roetzheim - 2006 - 760 sidor
...the rural shade! By love's simplicity betrayed, and guileless trust, till she, like thee, all soiled, is laid low i' the dust. Such is the fate of simple Bard, on Life's rough ocean luckless starred! Unskillful he to note the card of prudent lore, till billows rage, and gales blow hard, and... | |
 | Susan Youens - 2007 - 317 sidor
...plough, in April, 1786." In the seventh stanza, Burns compares the poet's fate to that of the maid: "Such is the fate of simple bard, / On life's rough...rage, and gales blow hard, / And whelm him o'er!" 17. Luise Hensel, Lieder von Luise Hensel, ed. Hermann Cardauns (Regensburg: np, 1923), p. 239. 18.... | |
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Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er! Such fate to suffering worth is... 
