The Fever-Cloud (Janet Hamilton Poems)
The fever-cloud hung owre the toun, Dark drippin' wi' the dews o' death,That fell on mony a lowly hame Wi' silent, stealin,' ...
Poems about hingin (21 Poems)
Rhymes For The Times: I (Janet Hamilton Poems)
I've juist been thinkin', neebour Johnie,Gif that the warl had mendit ony—Since, for the wurkin' man's disasters,We've got sae mony ...
To Mithers (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Hear me, mithers, oh! mithers, Wives o' puir workin' men,Wha toil baith late an' early— Little to spare or spen';Weel ken I, ...
Neebour Johnnie’s Complaint (Janet Hamilton Poems)
My aul' neebour Johnnie had lang been awa',Twa towmonds an' mair I kent naething avaO' what he was daein', or ...
Soa Bonny (John Hartley Poems)
Aw've travell'd o'er land, an aw've travell'd o'er sea,An aw've seen th' grandest lasses 'at ivver can be;But aw've nivver ...
The Hint o’ Hairst (Hew Ainslie Poems)
It's dowie in the hint o' hairst,At the wa-gang o' the swallow,When the wind grows cauld, and the burns grow ...
The Fiddler O’ Boglebriggs (Alexander Anderson Poems)
A fiddler sits, wha has never been seen, On the ledgin' o' Boglebriggs;An' aye when the clock strikes the midnicht ...
Ledgie Cooper (Alexander Anderson Poems)
By the bend of the stream stood the house of old Ledgie Cooper, a worthy man, who about a hundred ...
The Guidwife Of Waukhope-House To Robert Burns, The Airshire Bard. Feb. 1787 (Elizabeth Scot Poems)
MY canty, witty, rhyming plughman,I haftin's dout, it is na' true, man,That ye between the stilts was bred,Wi' plughman school'd ...
Oor Rab (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Oor Rab's in his bed, an' he's sleepin' sae soun'That afore he wad wauken the hoose micht fa' doon.Sae I'll ...
The Whussle (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Plague tak' his auld grannie, wha brocht frae the toonThat whussle, an' gie'd him't to deave us wi' soun';For frae ...
Blythe Willie Stewart (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I'm growin' auld, an' no' sae yauld, Nor yet sae gleg as I ha'e been;But whiles, when I am a' ...
The Last Wooin (George MacDonald Poems)
O lat me in, my bonny lass!It's a lang road ower the hill,And the flauchterin snaw begud to fa'On the ...
The Love-Lilt O’ The Lark (Alexander Anderson Poems)
A lark lap up frae the daisied field, An', O, but his sang was sweet;His wee wings shook till the ...
Fareweel To My Hame (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Fareweel to my hame at the fit o' the glen,To the red rowan tree hingin' owre at the en',To the ...
The Brig O’ Glenairelie (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I dream this nicht, an' my thochts gae back To that happy time sae early,When we twa stood in the ...
Row, Kello, Row (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Row, Kello, row frae rocky linns, An' through amang thy grassy braes,Where gowans grow an' hawthorns blaw, An' sunshine sleeps ...
She’s An Awfu’ Lassie Jenny (Alexander Anderson Poems)
She's an awfu' lassie, Jenny, No' her like in a' the toon,For her heid is fu' o' mischief, And her ...
301. Lines to a Gentleman who sent a Newspaper (Robert Burns Poem)
KIND Sir, I've read your paper through, And faith, to me, 'twas really new! How guessed ye, Sir, what maist ...
155. Epistle to Mrs. Scott of Wauchope House (Robert Burns Poems)
GUDEWIFE,I MIND it weel in early date, When I was bardless, young, and blate, An' first could thresh the barn, ...
57. Holy Willie’s Prayer (Robert Burns Poems)
O THOU, who in the heavens does dwell, Who, as it pleases best Thysel', Sends ane to heaven an' ten ...