The Famous Historie: Cap. XVI (Patrick Gordon Poems)
The Argument.The English armie furth before their KingTo mater comes and all their foraigne aidDouglas returnd recounteth eurie thingDitchis t'intrap ...
The Argument.The English armie furth before their KingTo mater comes and all their foraigne aidDouglas returnd recounteth eurie thingDitchis t'intrap ...
The Argument.By Fortune Valor and aduentrous chanceThe Douglas doth releiue thrie Scottish DamesIn Arrans Ile and doth from thence aduanceWhill ...
The Argument.First at Glentroll doth Scotts renowned PrinceGet victorie aboue the English foeDouglas at Ederfoord with valiaunceBy fourtie doth a ...
The Argument.The south and North crownes ioynd by that great KingWho of all Kinges hea'uns blissinges most embraceHis works his ...
The Argument.Scotlands great King from treasone ill contriuedBy heauens and his oune valour is relieuedInspight of twyce two hundreth he ...
The Argument.Hells damnd fiends finds Scots renouned KingAnd by three theeues works him a niew dispight,To God he praies who ...
Thogh brutal beestes be irrational,That is to say, wantand, discretioun,Yit ilk ane in their kindes naturalHas many divers inclinatioun:The bair ...
...Thus chydand with her drerie destenye,Weiping, scho woik the nicht fra end to end;Bot all in vane; hir dule, hir ...
This hindir zeir i hard be taldThair was a worthy kingDukis erlis and barronis baldHe had at his biddingThe lord ...
Schelynlaw Toweris fair on the braeIts muirs are green and wide,And Schelynlaw's ewes are the brawest ewesIn a' the countryside.The ...
I.There was John Gordon an' Archibold,An' a yerl's twin sons war they;Quhan they war are an' twenty year auldThey fell ...
Gil Morrice was an erles son,His name it waxed wide:It was nae for his great riches,Nor zet was mickle pride;Bot ...
Dear Jock, - Like some aul' cairter's mear I'm foonert i' the feet,An' oxter-staffs are feckless things fan a' the ...
They were a' roun' aboot us, their hearts licht wi' glee,An' the pride an' the talk o' their faither an' ...
Up cam the tide wi' a burst and a whush,And back gaed the stanes wi' a whurr;The king's son walkit ...
O lat me in, my bonny lass!It's a lang road ower the hill,And the flauchterin snaw begud to fa'On the ...
What gars ye sing, said the herd-laddie,"What gars ye sing sae lood?""To tice them oot o' the yerd, laddie,The worms ...
I dinna ken what's come ower me!There's a how whaur ance was a hert!I never luik oot afore me,An' a ...
What gars ye sing sae, birdie,As gien ye war lord o' the lift?On breid ye're an unco sma' lairdie,But in ...
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