Grannie Mirk: A Stirling Grannie (Janet Hamilton Poems)
A clever young dominie—noo in a kirk—Was keepin' a schule near to auld Grannie Mirk—A couthie auld grannie as e'er ...
A clever young dominie—noo in a kirk—Was keepin' a schule near to auld Grannie Mirk—A couthie auld grannie as e'er ...
Hear me, mithers, oh! mithers, Wives o' puir workin' men,Wha toil baith late an' early— Little to spare or spen';Weel ken I, ...
Leaning against the wind across the paddock wayscomes Dan home with forward stoop like a man bent and old,clashes the ...
When my old heart was young, my dear, The Earth and Heaven were so near That in my dreams I oft could ...
My lemon-coloredwhisper-weight blousewith keyhole closureand sweetheart neckline is tuckedinto a pastel silhouette skirtwith side-slit ventsand triplicate pleatswhen I realize in ...
GOD help him! Ay, and let us help him, too,Help him with our one hundred million mindsMolded to loyalty, so ...
Part 02: His Futile Preoccupations - 01I am a house, says Senlin, locked and darkened, Sealed from the sun with ...
ILeave me; oh! leave me,Lest I find this low earth sweeter than the skies.Leave me lest I deem Faith's white ...
IOh, I am wild—wild!Angels of the weary-hearted, come to thy child.Spread your white wings over me!Tenderly, tenderly,Lovingly, lovingly,Plead for me, ...
'Tis the midnight hour; I heardThe Abbey-bell give out the word.Seldom is the lamp-ray shedOn some dwarfed foot-farer's headIn the ...
Alfred Ebenezer Jackson was a very earnest man,Who aspired to be a statesman, and he consequently ranAt a general election ...
I walked out with an alderman, all on a bright spring day.He was an august alderman, and much had he ...
I My turn to embark. A steep gangplank expects me. An obedient child, I follow my father down. It happens ...
I stand aloft on the balcony, The starlings around me crying, And let like maenad my hair stream free ...
When gorse-pods are popping And heather's in bloomAnd nuts begin dropping In coppice and cwm,Then down through the valleysThat echoed ...
Toward the lastThe truth of others was untruth to me;The justice of others injustice to me;Their reasons for death, reasons ...
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
THE LADY in red, she in the chile con carne red, Brilliant as the shine of a pepper crimson in ...
WHEN the jury files in to deliver a verdict after weeks of direct and cross examinations, hot clashes of lawyers ...
EMILY DICKINSON: You gave us the bumble bee who has a soul, The everlasting traveler among the hollyhocks, And how ...
Toward the last The truth of others was untruth to me; The justice of others injustice to me; Their reasons ...
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