Lassie Wi’ The Gowden Hair (Hector MacNeill Poems)
'Lassie wi' the gowden hair,Silken snood, and face sae fair;Lassie wi' the yellow hair, Think nae to deceive me!Lassie wi' the ...
'Lassie wi' the gowden hair,Silken snood, and face sae fair;Lassie wi' the yellow hair, Think nae to deceive me!Lassie wi' the ...
'O Listen! listen and I'll tell yeHow this fair maid's play'd her part :--First she vow'd and promis'd to me,Now ...
O Johnie! can you pity ony!Is your heart yet turn'd to stane?Can ye calmly hear that MenieNe'er will see your ...
Now Liddisdale has ridden a raid,But I wat they had better staid at hame;For Mitchell o Winfield he is dead,And ...
AIR--_"Heigh-ho! for Somebody."_ A wee bird sits upon a spray, And aye it sings o' Menie Hay, ...
I COFT a stane o' haslock woo', To mak a wab to Johnie o't; For Johnie is my only jo, ...
GUID speed and furder to you, Johnie, Guid health, hale han's, an' weather bonie; Now, when ye're nickin down fu' ...
IN simmer, when the hay was mawn, And corn wav'd green in ilka field, While claver blooms white o'er the ...
FRIDAY first's the day appointed By the Right Worshipful anointed, To hold our grand procession; To get a blad o' ...
FY, let us a' to Kirkcudbright, For there will be bickerin' there; For Murray's light horse are to muster, And ...
AULD comrade dear, and brither sinner, How's a' the folk about Glenconner? How do you this blae eastlin wind, That's ...
HEAR, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;- If there's a hole in a' your coats, ...
WHEN first my brave Johnie lad came to this town, He had a blue bonnet that wanted the crown; But ...
SWEET closes the ev'ning on Craigieburn Wood, And blythely awaukens the morrow; But the pride o' the spring in the ...
WHOE'ER thou art, O reader, know That Death has murder'd Johnie; An' here his body lies fu' low; For saul ...
NOW, Kennedy, if foot or horse E'er bring you in by Mauchlin corse, (Lord, man, there's lasses there wad force ...
HERE lies Johnie Pigeon; What was his religion? Whae'er desires to ken, To some other warl' Maun follow the carl, ...
WHEN chapman billies leave the street, And drouthy neibors, neibors, meet; As market days are wearing late, And folk begin ...
UPON that night, when fairies light On Cassilis Downans 2 dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, On sprightly ...
SOME books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn'd: Ev'n ministers they hae been ...
OUR Johnie's deid. The mair's the pity! He's deid, an' deid o' Aqua-vitae. O Embro', you're a shrunken city, Noo ...
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