The Deil’s Stane (Alexander Anderson Poems)
O whaur hae ye been, my bonnie, bonnie bairns, Sae lang awa' frae me?Come in, come in, for I'm weary ...
O whaur hae ye been, my bonnie, bonnie bairns, Sae lang awa' frae me?Come in, come in, for I'm weary ...
Daft Ailie cam' in by the auld brig-en' As the sunlicht, saft an' sweet,Fell doon on the laigh, white wa's ...
Frae the schulehoose that sat at the heid o' the green,To the fit o' the toon where the smiddy was ...
Let me lie upon the heather Where the heath fowl have abode,In my hand the open Bible, On my lip ...
You were dead, they said; In the churchyard had been laid,Many weeks ago, the dust whose youth was in ...
"Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke,Forget the spreading of the hideous town."—The Earthly ParadiseYes, William Morris, it were well ...
I lay beneath the long slim wires,And heard them murmur like desires,Till, drowsy with the heat, my thoughts Set ...
I'm growin' auld, an' no' sae yauld, Nor yet sae gleg as I ha'e been;But whiles, when I am a' ...
The sea, as by some inner demon stung, Hath burst its glassy prison, and on highA thousand waves in black ...
Ah me! for all my toil and search, And rhyming, till the muse grow surly,I doubt I ne'er shall hook ...
You want to see Wylie's stone—look here;But stop where you are till the line is clear;Pullman express from the south ...
Ah, the stream by the ruin in the wood Has long ago run dry,And the only voice in the solitude ...
In the chamber of death underground, Came these words to touch men to the heart,Bring tears to the eyes, and ...
Like mists that trail along the hill, Dim playthings for the winds to toss,We pass away, and all is still, ...
There are some things still in this life of ours The years weed not away,But reverse the fate of dying ...
The splendid demon with the lurid eyes, Wherein, as when a serpent bites its coil Nearing its death—hate having felt ...
A Faust in colours with the good and ill For ever at their conflict, dumb of speech, Nor drawing gladiator-like ...
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