The Ode of Tarafah (Tarafah ibn al Abd Poems)
A young gazelle there is in the tribe, dark-lipped, fruit-shaking,flaunting a double necklace of pearls and topazes,holding aloof, with the ...
A young gazelle there is in the tribe, dark-lipped, fruit-shaking,flaunting a double necklace of pearls and topazes,holding aloof, with the ...
They went to the January house, A house made all of snow, With windows of ice, and chandeliers Of icicles all in a ...
Dear honest hearted, canty Charlie!To whom I'd trust baith late and earlie;Accept, in token o' regard,Frae rhyming Mac, your friend ...
I had auchteen months o' the war,Steel and pouther and reek,Fitsore, weary and wauf, -Syne I got hame for a ...
Smoorin' wi' reek an' blacken'd wi' soot,Lowin' like Etna an' Hecla to boot,Ought o' our malleables want ye to learn?—There's ...
Lord, said David, since you do not need us,why did you create these two worlds?Reality replied: O prisoner of time,I ...
Oh for a breath o' the moorlands,A whiff o' the caller air!For the smell o' the flowerin' heatherMy very heart ...
Get up!" the caller calls, "Get up!" And in the dead of night, To win the bairns their bite and sup, I rise ...
Our Skeeta was married, our Skeeta! the tomboy and pet of the ...
Before the war, she sighs. "Before the war." Then blinks 'er eyes, an' tries to work a smile."Ole scenes," she ...
Air by Neil Gow.Wha'll buy my caller herrin'?They're bonny fish and halesome farin';Wha'll buy my caller herrin',New drawn frae the ...
There is no music quite so sweetAs patter of a baby's feet.Who never hears along the hallThe sound of tiny ...
And we go on and on,Neither sleeping nor awake,Towards the meeting, unawareThat we are already there.That the silence is perfect,And ...
Some say the spot is banned; that the pillar Cross-and-Hand Attests to a deed of hell; But of else than ...
O LEEZE me on my spinnin' wheel, And leeze me on my rock and reel; Frae tap to tae that ...
UPON 1 a simmer Sunday morn When Nature's face is fair, I walked forth to view the corn, An' snuff ...
The band was playing a waltz-quadrille, I felt as light as a wind-blown feather, As we floated away, at the ...
Said President MacConnachie to Treasurer MacCall: "We ought to have a piper for our next Saint Andrew's Ball. Yon squakin' ...
MANY things I might have said today. And I kept my mouth shut. So many times I was asked To ...
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