"You've seen me round the bickers reel / Wi' heart as hale as temper'd steel,"
— Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774)
Work Title
Date
November 25, 1773
Metaphor
"You've seen me round the bickers reel / Wi' heart as hale as temper'd steel,"
Metaphor in Context
You've seen me round the bickers reel
Wi' heart as hale as temper'd steel,
And face sae apen, free and blyth,
Nor thought that sorrow there cou'd kyth;
But the niest mament this was lost,
Like gowan in December's frost.
Wi' heart as hale as temper'd steel,
And face sae apen, free and blyth,
Nor thought that sorrow there cou'd kyth;
But the niest mament this was lost,
Like gowan in December's frost.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "head" and "mint" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Fergusson, Robert. The Works of Robert Fergusson. Ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart. Edinburgh: Fullarton and Macnab, 1851.
Date of Entry
04/14/2005
