The Piper’s Tree (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Come in, gudeman, to your ain fireside, There's a cauld, cauld grup in the air,An' the win' blaws snell frae ...
Come in, gudeman, to your ain fireside, There's a cauld, cauld grup in the air,An' the win' blaws snell frae ...
Daft Ailie cam' in by the auld brig-en' As the sunlicht, saft an' sweet,Fell doon on the laigh, white wa's ...
I.Faith, there's a hantle queer complaintsTo cheenge puir sinners into saints,An' mony divers ways o' deein'That doctors hae a chance ...
Willie stands in his stable door, And clapping at his steed, And over his white fingers His nose ...
Neaw lads where ar yo beawn so fast,Yo happun ha no yerd whot's past;Au gettun wed sin au'r here last, ...
The snawdrap was oot, and the primrose was seenIn the cleuch, while the side o' the burnie was green;The mavis ...
They were a' roun' aboot us, their hearts licht wi' glee,An' the pride an' the talk o' their faither an' ...
There cam a man to oor toon-en',And a waesome carl was he,Snipie-nebbit, and crookit-mou'd,And gleyt o' a blinterin ee.Muckle he ...
I ken'd Maggie weel ere she grew to a wife,An' smiled in the sunshine o' a' its sweet life;But, wae's ...
As I was walkin on the strand,I spied ane auld man sitOn ane auld black rock; and aye the wavesCam ...
It was an' aboot the Lammas time,In sixteen forty-three, sirs,That there fell oot the awfu' fecht'Twixt Macfadden an' Macfee, sirs.Macfadden, ...
When ye gang awa, JamieFar across the sea, laddie,When ye gang to Germanie,What will ye send to me, laddie?I'll send ...
When the sheep are in the fauld, and the kye at hame,And a' the warld to rest are gane,The waes ...
YE are twa laddies unco gleg, An' blithe an' bonnie: As licht o' heel as Anster's Meg;-- Gin ye'd a ...
He's a muckle man, Sandy, he's mair nor sax fitA size that's no' handy for wark i' the pit,But frae ...
The corn was turnin', hairs t was near,But lang afore the scythes could startA sough o'war gaed through the landAn' ...
Cauld blew the blast frae East to Wast,A blast wi' a smirr o' snaw,An' it took the doctor's guid lum ...
The King has called for priest and cup, The King has taken spur and blade To dub True Thomas a ...
This fell when dinner-time was done -- 'Twixt the first an' the second rub -- That oor mon Jock cam' ...
O, WERE I on Parnassus hill, Or had o' Helicon my fill, That I might catch poetic skill, To sing ...
TO you, sir, this summons I've sent, Pray, whip till the pownie is freathing; But if you demand what I ...
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