The Author’s Farewell To Edinburgh.-1810. (Margaretta Wedderburn Poems)
EDINA'S cloud-cap'd hills and spires,With castle-rocks, and cannon's roar,These fortresses which guard your coast,Encompass'd by the sea-girt shore.Your public domes ...
EDINA'S cloud-cap'd hills and spires,With castle-rocks, and cannon's roar,These fortresses which guard your coast,Encompass'd by the sea-girt shore.Your public domes ...
Beauty deserves the homage of the muse:Shall mine, rebellious, the dear theme refuse?No; while my breast respires the vital air,Wholly ...
See Clinchie to the hen approach,A scoundrel screen'd in gilded coach.Near to Edina's lofty town,Upon a worthy Baron's ground,A poor ...
Discord, fly on sooty pinions,To your gloomy dire dominions;For LAURIE, now our potent Lord,Engageth all to sweet concord.Let palms of ...
O had you well frae Geordie Bell,Ye go and ago;There's few folks dafter than himsel',Irum corum dago.As thro' Edina's streets ...
JOYFUL, in Scotland's royal city,Thousands hailed the infant year;*And, with welcome warm and witty,Poured around the maddening cheer.All was joy ...
The hoop, the darling justly of the fair,Of every generous swain deserves the care.It is unmanly to desert the weak,'Twould ...
We took a walk to Pamphy linns— Three other friends and I,Glad-hearted as when day begins With summer in the ...
Enigma I. P eter I. L eonidas A lexander N icholas III. E dward T hompson S apphira Enigma II. ...
DAUGHTER of Exercise and calm Content,By Temperance nourish'd in the shady vale,Where Dian's nymphs resort with bows unbent,To taste the ...
EDINA! Scotia's darling seat! All hail thy palaces and tow'rs, Where once, beneath a Monarch's feet, Sat Legislation's sov'reign pow'rs: ...
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