Rhymes For The Times: III (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Again I ha'e ta'en to the clinkin' o' rhymes—It's no on the signs, it's the deeds o' the timesO' whilk ...
Poems about breeks (21 Poems)
My Johnnie (John Mayne Poems)
AIR--_"Johnnie's Gray Breeks."_ Jenny's heart was frank and free, And wooers she had mony, yet The sang was aye, "Of a' I see, Commend ...
Fae France (Charles Murray Poems)
Dear Jock, - Like some aul' cairter's mear I'm foonert i' the feet,An' oxter-staffs are feckless things fan a' the ...
May Middleton’s Tam (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Frae the schulehoose that sat at the heid o' the green,To the fit o' the toon where the smiddy was ...
Ledgie Cooper (Alexander Anderson Poems)
By the bend of the stream stood the house of old Ledgie Cooper, a worthy man, who about a hundred ...
The Ballad of Bill’s Breeches (C J Dennis Poems)
Once on a time, a party by the name of Mr. BULLDiscovered that with many schemes his hands were pretty ...
The Deil’s Forhooit His Ain (George MacDonald Poems)
The Deil's forhooit his ain, his ain!The Deil's forhooit his ain!His bairns are greitin in ilka neuk,For the Deil's forhooit ...
Oor Sis (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Oor Sis is a mitherly sort o' a bairn,An unco gleg thing, an' sae easy to learn,That let her see ...
The Bane-Setter (David Rorie Poems)
Oor Jock's gude mither's second manAt banes was unco skilly;It cam' by heirskep frae an aunt,Leeb Tod o' Nether Tillie.An' ...
The Postman (Billy Bennett Poems)
Three cheers for the postman, the jolly old postman,With letters for Smith, Brown and Kelly, A load in his sack, ...
The Auld Wife (Charles Stuart Calverley Poems)
PART IThe auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing ...
Wauken Up (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Wull I ha'e to speak again To thae weans o' mine?Eicht o'clock, an' weel I ken The schule gangs in ...
Public Waste (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
By the Laws of the Family Circle 'tis written in letters of brass That only a Colonel from Chatham can ...
The Fall of Jock Gillespie (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
This fell when dinner-time was done -- 'Twixt the first an' the second rub -- That oor mon Jock cam' ...
10. The Ronalds of the Bennals (Robert Burns Poem)
IN Tarbolton, ye ken, there are proper young men, And proper young lasses and a', man; But ken ye the ...
273. Song-Tam Glen (Robert Burns Poem)
MY heart is a-breaking, dear Tittie, Some counsel unto me come len', To anger them a' is a pity, But ...
258. Epistle to James Tennant of Glenconner (Robert Burns Poems)
AULD comrade dear, and brither sinner, How's a' the folk about Glenconner? How do you this blae eastlin wind, That's ...
310. Tam o’ Shanter: A Tale (Robert Burns Poems)
WHEN chapman billies leave the street, And drouthy neibors, neibors, meet; As market days are wearing late, And folk begin ...
Tam O’Shanter (Robert Burns Poems)
A Tale "Of Brownyis and of Bogilis full is this Buke." -Gawin Douglas. When chapman billies leave the street, And ...
A Song For Kilts (Robert William Service Poems)
How grand the human race would be If every man would wear a kilt, A flirt of Tartan finery, Instead ...
Look What You Did, Christopher! (Ogden Nash Poems)
In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Someone sailed the ocean blue. Somebody borrowed the fare in Spain For a business trip ...