A Plea For The Deric (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Forgi'e, O forgi'e me, auld Scotlan', my mither!Like an ill-deedie bairn I've ta'en up wi' anither;And aft thy dear Doric ...
Forgi'e, O forgi'e me, auld Scotlan', my mither!Like an ill-deedie bairn I've ta'en up wi' anither;And aft thy dear Doric ...
Auld Scotlan' gangs yirmin an' chanerin' alane;She wunners whaur a' her trig lassocks ha'e gane;She's trampit the kintra, an' socht ...
At The Laying Of The Foundation Stone Of The Wallace Monument At Stirling, 1861Auld Scotlan's hert an' baith her lugs ...
A fiddler sits, wha has never been seen, On the ledgin' o' Boglebriggs;An' aye when the clock strikes the midnicht ...
I.Faith, there's a hantle queer complaintsTo cheenge puir sinners into saints,An' mony divers ways o' deein'That doctors hae a chance ...
Frae the schulehoose that sat at the heid o' the green,To the fit o' the toon where the smiddy was ...
The wind it blew, and the ship it flew,And it was "Hey for hame!"But up an' cried the skipper til ...
I.—THIS SIDE AN' THAT.The rich man sat in his father's seat—Purple an' linen, an' a'thing fine!The puir man lay at ...
He's a deil o' a wean—what ava can he mean?Lod, he'll ow'r-gang us a' yet, an' that'll be seen;Here's his ...
Plague tak' his auld grannie, wha brocht frae the toonThat whussle, an' gie'd him't to deave us wi' soun';For frae ...
I ken'd Maggie weel ere she grew to a wife,An' smiled in the sunshine o' a' its sweet life;But, wae's ...
HE sits in bivouacke, By fire, peneat' de drees; A pottle of champagner Held shently on his knees; His lange ...
A weddin', a woo, A clog an' a shoe,A pot full o' porridge; away we go! ...
I miss my bonnie bairn, I miss him unco sair,I miss him stan'in' at the door, I miss him up ...
What gars the Embro' man feel prood?When a' is said ad duneIt's no St Giles or Holyroodbut thon big, noisy ...
Says Bauldy MacGreegor frae Gleska tae Hecky MacCrimmon frae Skye: "That's whit I hate maist aboot fechtin' -- it makes ...
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