The Landlord’s Best (Alexander Anderson Poems)
A Humorous Reading A strappin', sonsie, weel-matched pairWere Jock Macree an' Maggie Blair,An' mony wusses, said an' thinkit,They had that ...
A Humorous Reading A strappin', sonsie, weel-matched pairWere Jock Macree an' Maggie Blair,An' mony wusses, said an' thinkit,They had that ...
O meines Lebens goldne zeit.—SchillerO the youth of love and madness! let me sing another songEre the cynic grows upon ...
Daft Ailie cam' in by the auld brig-en' As the sunlicht, saft an' sweet,Fell doon on the laigh, white wa's ...
Come in, gudeman, to your ain fireside, There's a cauld, cauld grup in the air,An' the win' blaws snell frae ...
"Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, ...
Young Eliore lay dreaming, and the lightOf the young sun came in, and angel brightIt made her, as within her ...
By the bend of the stream stood the house of old Ledgie Cooper, a worthy man, who about a hundred ...
I hear the winds of summer rush Above my head to-day,As here I sit by Connelbush To dream one hour ...
I am auld an' frail, an' I scarce can gang, Though whiles when I tak' a turn,It's only when the ...
To Sir Noel PatonI lay in the depths of dreamland, Above me the sky was clear,And only a single blue-bell ...
The little village sleeps to-day,Save but for children at their play.The white clouds show their snowy breastAbove Glen-Aylmer's grassy crest.And ...
You smile, and half in jest you askA song from me. A simple task,If he who sings had all the ...
At God's right hand the angels stand In the courts of Heaven above,They bow with folded wings ere they fly ...
I sat—in church, of course—and heard The parson thunder forth his sermon."The text!" you say—well that's absurd, You ask me ...
I take the letter up with anxious eyes, And open it with beating heart, and there,Within the folded sheet before ...
Little lame Katie, with her golden hair, And her dead mother's eyes, comes in to me,Lays with a smile her ...
All its innocent thoughts,Like rose leaves scattered.~~There is an angel sleeping in this room,A little angel, with the quietest bloomOf ...
I stood in a dream between Life and Death, And I whisper'd to the twain—"Now, which of you has the ...
Have you so forgot the time, dear love, When we sat by the stream in the woodWith our hearts as ...
On to Bill's length, said my mate to me. Bill was his brother, had charge of the plates From Horsely's ...
I see him yet, that grey old man, Whose fiddle made many a winter nightPass by as only fiddlers can, ...
lie an' look doon on the clachan, This best o' a' simmer days,An' doon by the side o' the burnie ...
Wee tottie's the smile that lichts up oor hearthstane—A dumpy bit thing that can scarce gang her lane;Yet what aul'-farrant ...
What fretting loads we mortals bear Through life, whose fading rainbows mockAnd Time, who drives a splendid pair Of steeds ...
Why, hang it all, let life go by, It is but bubbles we pursue;They burst at last, and then we ...
"And the sea gave up the dead which were in it."Two sisters stood by the window, The winds were in ...
The hills remain; they lift their brows Against the splendour of the skies;The dawn a paler crimson grows, Each night ...
Sweet Jenny by the Solway Sands, Fair Jenny by the Cree;This rose that once lay in thy hands, Still speaks ...
We left the dear old house behind, And where the moon was glancing,We stood amid the low soft wind, To ...
Spring, come with all thy sweetest looks, With dewy violets in thy hair; Breathe balmy incense every where,And strike a ...
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