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 ...
He saw through his own soul.—TennysonAlexis grew up, and through all his youthRan dreams and splendours, as a summer bowLighting ...
Two angels, as I grew up glad and gay From golden infancy,Were with me, walking all along the way On ...
A pure sweet life, that came upon our earth,Stay'd for a space, and then went back to heaven.I know not ...
Young Eliore lay dreaming, and the lightOf the young sun came in, and angel brightIt made her, as within her ...
Into all the onward current and this iron time that feels Its own way with din and clamour through this ...
Bless her dear little heart!" said my mate, and he pointed out to me, Fifty yards to the right, in ...
I hear the winds of summer rush Above my head to-day,As here I sit by Connelbush To dream one hour ...
Rachel, soft and shy and blushing, pass'd into the angel wife, Tears of joy within the rapture of her sweetly-drooping ...
Bright the firelight touch'd his portrait hanging on our humble wall, But a sweeter light was in us, with a ...
I lay beneath the long slim wires,And heard them murmur like desires,Till, drowsy with the heat, my thoughts Set ...
The snawdrap was oot, and the primrose was seenIn the cleuch, while the side o' the burnie was green;The mavis ...
Grey tree within the churchyard old, Why stir thy leaves to-night?Why moan thy branches in the cold And shake as ...
I stood upon the four-foot way Amid the haunts I knew so well,The sunshine of an April day Was over ...
Come forth, and bring with thee a mind That rises to the poet's mood;And leave the village far behind, And ...
I ken'd Maggie weel ere she grew to a wife,An' smiled in the sunshine o' a' its sweet life;But, wae's ...
A worker on the rail, where, day by day, The engine storms along,And sends forth, as he thunders on his ...
Du Wonne der Natur.—Schiller.O come away to the woodland bowers, Where the shade is soft and sweet,And pillow the head ...
No book to-night; but let me sitAnd watch the firelight change and flit,And let me think of other laysThan those ...
I stood in a dream between Life and Death, And I whisper'd to the twain—"Now, which of you has the ...
The dead man in the chamber dimLay, with the silence over him.The weary feet and weary breastOf eighty-five were now ...
Oh, glorious time! (my spirit thus must speak). The incensed breeze from every nook is blown,And soft, as if a ...
Have you so forgot the time, dear love, When we sat by the stream in the woodWith our hearts as ...
I sat in the house of the master, With the Pentland Hills in view,And in at the open window The ...
One night, returning from my work, I saw A woman standing by the churchyard gate,And in her eyes a look ...
Auld Granny Grey Pow, Fetch the bairnies in;Bring them frae the Scaur Heid, Where they mak' sic din.Chase them frae ...
As soft as an autumn leaf will light When the winds are hush'd and still,Fell your hand into mine that ...
I lay in the quiet sunshine Of the summer's golden heat;In my heart was the music of Schiller, And the ...
Like the songs I have heard in childhood Comes thy voice, O thrush, to me,And again in my heart leaps ...
I hear the lark to-day; he sings Against a hazy April cloud—The glorious little soul with wings! Who sings so ...
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