O Wha’s Been Here Afore Me, Lass (Hugh MacDiarmid Poems)
O wha's the bride that cairries the bunchO' thistles blinterin white?Her cuckold bridegroom little dreidsWhat he sail ken this nicht.For ...
O wha's the bride that cairries the bunchO' thistles blinterin white?Her cuckold bridegroom little dreidsWhat he sail ken this nicht.For ...
A fiddler sits, wha has never been seen, On the ledgin' o' Boglebriggs;An' aye when the clock strikes the midnicht ...
Now Liddisdale has ridden a raid,But I wat they had better staid at hame;For Mitchell o Winfield he is dead,And ...
Neaw lads where ar yo beawn so fast,Yo happun ha no yerd whot's past;Au gettun wed sin au'r here last, ...
I still min' Jock Buchan, the lang gawkie fule,He was nearly man muckle though still at the schule,While I was ...
The night-wind's shriek is pitiless and hollow, The boding bat flits by on sullen wing, And I sit ...
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 ...
Ane sings the lassie that he lo'es, Gangs daft aboot her lips an' een;Anither, burns, an' heichts, an' howes, An' ...
Leddy"Ye'll mount, gudeman; ye'll mount and ride;Ye'll cross the burn syne doun the loch side,Then up 'mang the hills, thro' ...
When the sheep are in the fauld, and the kye at hame,And a' the warld to rest are gane,The waes ...
The deil's in that bit bairn o' mine, for every noo and thanHe gies me siccan frichts, that whiles for ...
O hae ye heard the latest newsO' Mistress Mucklewame?Her doctor hadna pickit upHer trouble here at hame,Sae they took her ...
I stayed the night for shelter at a farm Behind the mountains, with a mother and son, Two old-believers. They ...
The ladye she stood at her lattice high, Wi' her doggie at her feet; Thorough the lattice she can spy ...
WHAT ails ye now, ye lousie bitch To thresh my back at sic a pitch? Losh, man! hae mercy wi' ...
IN Tarbolton, ye ken, there are proper young men, And proper young lasses and a', man; But ken ye the ...
THERE was a lass, and she was fair, At kirk or market to be seen; When a' our fairest maids ...
THERE was five Carlins in the South, They fell upon a scheme, To send a lad to London town, To ...
A Tale "Of Brownyis and of Bogilis full is this Buke." -Gawin Douglas. When chapman billies leave the street, And ...
Says Bauldy MacGreegor frae Gleska tae Hecky MacCrimmon frae Skye: "That's whit I hate maist aboot fechtin' -- it makes ...
I SEND to you, commissioners, A paper that may please ye, sirs (For troth they say it might be worse ...
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