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 ...
'BUSK ye, busk ye, my bonnie, bonnie bride!Busk ye, busk ye, my winsome marrow!Busk ye, busk ye, my bonnie, bonnie ...
The pride o' the clachan, the rose o' the glen,The flower o' oor lasses was Mary Muiren;Sae modest, an' mensefu', ...
THE gowan glitters on the sward,The lavrock's in the sky,And collie on my plaid keeps ward,And time is passing by.Oh ...
I CANNOT forget my Joe,I bid him be mine in sleep;But battle and woe have changed him soThere 's nothing ...
A Humorous Reading A strappin', sonsie, weel-matched pairWere Jock Macree an' Maggie Blair,An' mony wusses, said an' thinkit,They had that ...
Whereas, good friend, it doth appear You do possess the notion To his awhile away from here To ...
St. Leonard's hill was lightsome land,Where gowan'd grass was growin',For man and beast were food and rest,And milk and honey ...
O say, is there ane wha does nae rejoice,To hear the first note o' the wee birdie's voice;When in the ...
MAXWELTON braes are bonnie, Where early fa's the dew; An' it's there that Annie Laurie Gi'ed me her ...
The mitherless lammie ne'er miss'd its ain mammie,—We tentit it kindly by nicht and by day;The bairnies made game o't, ...
THEIR groves o' sweet myrtle let Foreign Lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume; Far dearer to me yon ...
BEHIND yon hills where Lugar flows, 'Mang moors an' mosses many, O, The wintry sun the day has clos'd, And ...
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