Ballad of The New Monkland Martyr (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Dochter Peggy sat on the kiln, An' watch'd owre her faither's life,For he had been at Both'ell brig, An' joined in the ...
Poems about kenn (21 Poems)
Eclogue The Third (Thomas Chatterton Poems)
Wouldst thou kenn Nature in her better parte?Goe, serche the logges and bordels of the hynde ;Gyfe theye have anie, ...
The Haggis (Joseph Johnston Lee Poems)
To Mrs M___, to whom we were indebted for a haggis,whose amplitude was in somewise commensurate with the largeness of ...
The Angel’s Treasure (Janet Hamilton Poems)
There stude a wee house on a lanely muirside,Whaur mony lang years a puir widow did bide—A decent, douce bodie, ...
Leddy Mary: A Ballad (Janet Hamilton Poems)
O! mirk was the nicht, an' the hour it was late,Whan a bonnie young leddy gaed up the gate;Sae slow ...
A Gallery To The Temple. The Navigation (Ralph Knevet Poems)
The modest sinner stood behind, Who whilome wont with amorous belgardes, To captivate each wanton mind; But now in humble sort, she earth ...
The Magic Shoes (Charles Godfrey Leland Poems)
IT was stiller, dimmer twilight - amber toornin' into gold, Like young maidens' hairs get yellow und more dark as ...
Johnnie Armstrang (Andrew Lang Poems)
Some speak of lords, some speak of lairds,And sic like men of high degree;Of a gentleman I sing a sang,Some ...
Pictura Poesis (Archbishop William Alexander Poems)
GENOA, 1872Two sunny winter days I sped alongThe Riviera's winding mountain way;Scarcely I caught the blue sea's faint far song,By ...
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 ...
Jenny’s Bawbee (Alexander Boswell Poems)
I met four chaps yon birks amang, Wi' hanging lugs and faces lang; I spier'd at neighbour Bauldy ...
Oor Sis (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Oor Sis is a mitherly sort o' a bairn,An unco gleg thing, an' sae easy to learn,That let her see ...
Verses On Mrs Rowe (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
SUCH were the notes our chaster SAPPHO sung,And every muse dropt honey on her tongue.Blest shade ! how pure a ...
Hey the Rantin’ Murray’s Ha’ (Carolina Oliphant Poems)
Air — "Hey the Rantin' Murray's Ha'."Hey the rantin' Murray's ha'!Mirth and glee amang them a'!The courtly laird, the leddy ...
Ode (John Dryden Poem)
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
Eclogues (Thomas Chatterton Poem)
Eclogue the First. Whanne Englonde, smeethynge from her lethal wounde, From her galled necke dyd twytte the chayne awaie, Kennynge ...
535. Song-The Braw Wooer (Robert Burns Poem)
LAST May, a braw wooer cam doun the lang glen, And sair wi' his love he did deave me; I ...
55. The Twa Herds; or, The Holy Tulyie (Robert Burns Poems)
O A' ye pious godly flocks, Weel fed on pastures orthodox, Wha now will keep you frae the fox, Or ...
224. Epistle to Hugh Parker (Robert Burns Poems)
IN this strange land, this uncouth clime, A land unknown to prose or rhyme; Where words ne'er cross't the Muse's ...
59. Death and Dr. Hornbook (Robert Burns Poems)
SOME books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn'd: Ev'n ministers they hae been ...
The Maid of Neidpath (Sir Walter Scott Poems)
O lovers' eyes are sharp to see, And lovers' ears in hearing; And love, in life's extremity, Can lend an ...