There Grows a Bonnie Brier Bush (Carolina Oliphant Poems)
Air — "The Brier Bush."There grows a bonnie brier bush in our kail-yard,And white are the blossoms o't in our ...
Air — "The Brier Bush."There grows a bonnie brier bush in our kail-yard,And white are the blossoms o't in our ...
Oh, weel may the boatie row,And better may she speed;And liesome may the boatie rowThat wins the bairnies' bread.The boatie ...
Oh! Rowan Tree, Oh! Rowan Tree, thou'lt aye be dear to me,Intwin'd thou art wi' mony ties o' hame and ...
A Song.Oh, Jamie brewed a bowl o' punch,And a' his friends to help cam' in; A jollier set of chiels ...
THOU hast left me ever, Jamie, Thou hast left me ever; Thou has left me ever, Jamie, Thou hast left ...
DEAR SMITH, the slee'st, pawkie thief, That e'er attempted stealth or rief! Ye surely hae some warlock-brief Owre human hearts; ...
YOUNG JAMIE, pride of a' the plain, Sae gallant and sae gay a swain, Thro' a' our lasses he did ...
BELOW thir stanes lie Jamie's banes; O Death, it's my opinion, Thou ne'er took such a bleth'rin bitch Into thy ...
AULD comrade dear, and brither sinner, How's a' the folk about Glenconner? How do you this blae eastlin wind, That's ...
THE LADDIES by the banks o' Nith Wad trust his Grace 1 wi a', Jamie; But he'll sair them, as ...
YE Irish lords, ye knights an' squires, Wha represent our brughs an' shires, An' doucely manage our affairs In parliament, ...
Chorus.-Jamie, come try me, Jamie, come try me, If thou would win my love, Jamie, come try me. IF thou ...
ORTHODOX! orthodox, who believe in John Knox, Let me sound an alarm to your conscience: A heretic blast has been ...
UPON that night, when fairies light On Cassilis Downans 2 dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, On sprightly ...
BY yon Castle wa', at the close of the day, I heard a man sing, tho' his head it was ...
KILMARNOCK wabsters, fidge an' claw, An' pour your creeshie nations; An' ye wha leather rax an' draw, Of a' denominations; ...
The Poetry School, The Poetry Book Society, The Poetry Business: So much poetry about you'd think I'd want to shout, ...
To Simon Jenner NO ARMITAGE (I'd like to see his rage) NO DUHIG (one dig long overdue) NO GREENLAW (M ...
You were the one I wanted most to know So like yet unlike, like fire and snow, The casual voice, ...
Ither laddies may ha's finer claes, and may be better fed, But nane o' them a'has sic a bonnie curly ...
'Twas in the year of 1746, on a fine summer afternoon, When trees and flowers were in full bloom, That ...
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