A Wheen Aul’ Memories (Janet Hamilton Poems)
I.— COATBRIDGEWi' my haun on my haffit I sit by the fire,An' think that for nocht I hae sic a ...
I.— COATBRIDGEWi' my haun on my haffit I sit by the fire,An' think that for nocht I hae sic a ...
Dochter Peggy sat on the kiln, An' watch'd owre her faither's life,For he had been at Both'ell brig, An' joined in the ...
It's fifty towmonds since, an' mair, Wi' lichtsome fit an' richt guid-wull,Ae simmer day I teuk the gate Oot ower the muirs ...
He donn'd his bannet braid and blue, His hame-spun suit o' hodden grey,His blue boot-hose drew ower his knees, An' teuk the ...
Frien' Tammie, I thocht that I coudna dae betterThan rhyme a bit scrift in reply to yer letter,Sae I juist ...
I.There was John Gordon an' Archibold,An' a yerl's twin sons war they;Quhan they war are an' twenty year auldThey fell ...
Now Liddisdale has ridden a raid,But I wat they had better staid at hame;For Mitchell o Winfield he is dead,And ...
Frae the schulehoose that sat at the heid o' the green,To the fit o' the toon where the smiddy was ...
By the bend of the stream stood the house of old Ledgie Cooper, a worthy man, who about a hundred ...
Oh! the bonny, bonny dell, whaur the yorlin sings,Wi' a clip o' the sunshine atween his wings;Whaur the birks are ...
San' man frae the quarry hole, Bring a pouk o' san';Stan' ahint my back, an' tak' A neivefu' in your ...
" THERE was a jolly beggar, and a begging he was bound, And he took up his quarters into a ...
I ALLUS hated goin' to t' kirk, An' preachin' doant do owtTo help a man 'at's gone astray; To sermons, ...
Ane by ane they gang awa;The getherer gethers grit and sma':Ane by ane maks ane and a'!Aye whan ane sets ...
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