| Robert Burns - 1800 - 460 pages
...only begun it. CHORUS. Here's a health to ane I loe dear, Here's a health to ane I loe dear ; Thou art sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet. And soft as their parting tear—Jessy ! • Although thou maun never be mine, Although even hope is denied ; 'Tis sweeter for... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 450 pages
...begun it. CHORUS. Here's a health fa ane I lo'e dear, Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear; Thou art sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, And soft as their parting tear — Jessy! Altho' Altho' thou maun never be mine, Altho' even hope is denied ; Tis sweeter for thee... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1822 - 440 pages
...l.iiu -. CHOBUS. Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear, Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear ; Thou art sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, And soft as their parting tear — Jessy! ALTHO' thou maun never be mine, Altho' even hope is denied ; 'Tis sweeter for thee despairing,... | |
| Barry Cornwall - Poets, English - 1824 - 132 pages
...measure makes us amends for the other quality. What a delightful song is that " To Jessy" — " Thou art sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, And soft as their parting tear — Jessy !" And those two exquisite lines (in the same song) " 'Tia sweeter for thee despairing Than... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...CHORUS. Here '» a health to ane I lo'e dear, Here '» a health to ane I lo'e dear ; Thou art tweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, And soft as their parting tear—Jessy ! ALTHO' thou maun never be mine, Altho' even hope is denied ; •Tis sweeter for thee... | |
| Robert Burns - 1826 - 288 pages
...that's awa, hiney." HERE'S a health to ane I lo'e dear, Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear ; Thou art sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, And soft as their parting tear — Jessy ! Altho' ihim maun never be mine, Altho' even hope is denied ; 'Tis sweeter for thee despairing,... | |
| Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - Poetry - 1826 - 226 pages
...hiney. CHORUS. Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear, Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear; Thou art as sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, And soft as their parting tear—Jessy ! Although thou maun never be mine, Although even hope is denied ; 'Tis sweeter for thee... | |
| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...o' his Jean. SONG. HERE'S a health to ane I lo'e dear, Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear ; Thou art sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, And soft as their parting tear — Jessy ! Although thou maun never be mine, Although even hope is denied ; 'Tis sweeter for thee... | |
| 1829 - 576 pages
...vehemence and entireness ! There is a piercing wail in his sorrow, the purest rapture in his joy ; he hurns with the sternest ire, or laughs with the loudest...farther take into account the immense variety of his suhjects; how, from the flowing revel in Willie hrcw'da peck o' Maul, to the still, rapt enthusiasm... | |
| William Cox - American literature - 1833 - 330 pages
...commencing — " Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear, Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear ; Thou art sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, And soft as their parting tear — Jessy !" Burns has done for Scottish song what Scott has done for Scottish history — made it... | |
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