Grannie’s Crack Aboot The Famine In Auld Scotlan’ In 1739-40 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"Oh saw ye e'er sic witless bairns, Sic wasterie o' blessin's gien?Oh had they dree'd what we ha'e dree'd, Oh had they ...
"Oh saw ye e'er sic witless bairns, Sic wasterie o' blessin's gien?Oh had they dree'd what we ha'e dree'd, Oh had they ...
BOCCACE alone is not my only source;T'another shop I now shall have recourse;Though, certainly, this famed Italian witHas many stories ...
Sparabella.The wailings of a maiden I recite,A maiden fair, that Sparabella hight.Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat,Nor the ...
...Thy Sabbaths I profanely spentIn riot and vain merriment,Or, which is worse, in drunkenness,And ev'ry blameable excess.When other folks, of ...
'Hech! lass, but ye're canty and vogie!Wow! but your e'en look pauky and roguie!What war ye doing, Kate, down in ...
IN royal Anna's golden days,Hard was the task to gain the bays:Hard was it then the hill to climb;Some broke ...
Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen;Here's to the widow of fifty;Here's to the flaunting extravagant quean,And here's to the ...
No longer could the Day nor Destinies Delay the Night, who now did frowning rise Into her throne; ...
An excellent ballad of George Barnwell, an Apprentice of London, who…thrice robbed his master and murdered his vncle in Ludlow. ...
The wassail had reached its stormy height, The feast was over in hall, When there came and stood at the ...
THE Sun is set, and gone to sleep With the fair princess of the deep, Whose bosom is his cool ...
I.In ev'ry Town, where Thamis rolls his Tyde,A narrow pass there is, with Houses low;Where ever and anon, the Stream ...
She's an awfu' lassie, Jenny, No' her like in a' the toon,For her heid is fu' o' mischief, And her ...
Life's all getting and giving, I've only myself to give. What shall I do for a living? I've only one ...
GUDEWIFE,I MIND it weel in early date, When I was bardless, young, and blate, An' first could thresh the barn, ...
O THOU! whatever title suit thee- Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie, Wha in yon cavern grim an' sootie, Clos'd ...
Chor.-O Tibbie, I hae seen the day, Ye wadna been sae shy; For laik o' gear ye lightly me, But, ...
Careful Observers may fortel the Hour (By sure Prognosticks) when to dread a Show'r: While Rain depends, the pensive Cat ...
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