A Lay of The Loch An’ The Muirlan’ (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"The Short And Simple Annals of The Poor"A lanely loch, a muirlan' broon, A warl' o' whins an' heather,Whaur aft, whan ...
"The Short And Simple Annals of The Poor"A lanely loch, a muirlan' broon, A warl' o' whins an' heather,Whaur aft, whan ...
(FOUNDED ON AIN OLD SCOTCH SONG.)OH , neighbours! what had I a-do for to marry!My wife she drinks possets and ...
Hear me, mithers, oh! mithers, Wives o' puir workin' men,Wha toil baith late an' early— Little to spare or spen';Weel ken I, ...
Frae Dunidier as I cam throuch,Doun by the hill of Banochie,Allangst the lands of Garioch.Grit pitie was to heir and ...
By the bend of the stream stood the house of old Ledgie Cooper, a worthy man, who about a hundred ...
Weary wi' roamin', I sit in the gloamin', I sit ...
Air — "Martyrdom"—"Dundee."The pilgrim's feet here oft will treadO'er this sequestered scene,To mark whare Scotland's Maryrs lieIn lonely Rullion Green,—To ...
In the heicht o' the foraySir Raif got a clour,Sir Raif the regairdless,In battle sae dour.O cleanly the saddleThey ca'ed ...
I dream this nicht, an' my thochts gae back To that happy time sae early,When we twa stood in the ...
'Twas in a wee bit but-an'-benShe bade when first I kent her,Doon the side roadie by the kirkWhaur Andra was ...
There's a wee, wee glen in the Hielan's, Where I fain, fain would be; There's an auld kirk there on ...
THE BAIRNS gat out wi' an unco shout, The deuks dang o'er my daddie, O! The fien-ma-care, quo' the feirrie ...
WHAT ails ye now, ye lousie bitch To thresh my back at sic a pitch? Losh, man! hae mercy wi' ...
FRIEND of the Poet, tried and leal, Wha, wanting thee, might beg or steal; Alake, alake, the meikle deil Wi' ...
A' YE wha live by sowps o' drink, A' ye wha live by crambo-clink, A' ye wha live and never ...
HA! whaur ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie? Your impudence protects you sairly; I canna say but ye strunt rarely, Owre ...
CAULD blaws the wind frae east to west, The drift is driving sairly; Sae loud and shill's I hear the ...
UPON that night, when fairies light On Cassilis Downans 2 dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, On sprightly ...
GUID-MORNIN' to our Majesty! May Heaven augment your blisses On ev'ry new birth-day ye see, A humble poet wishes. My ...
ON SEEING ONE ON A LADY'S BONNET AT CHURCH Ha! whare ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie! Your impudence protects you ...
"Hae ye heard whit ma auld mither's postit tae me? It fair maks me hamesick," says Private McPhee. "And whit ...
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