Mary Lee: A Ballad (Janet Hamilton Poems)
What ails ye, bonnie Mary Lee? What gars ye greet an' pine?Your e'e is dim, your cheek is wan— What ails ye, ...
What ails ye, bonnie Mary Lee? What gars ye greet an' pine?Your e'e is dim, your cheek is wan— What ails ye, ...
Ae day short syne, whan gaun afiel,A douce aul' farrant eldrin chielCam' yont the burn tae hae a crack,For John ...
A clever young dominie—noo in a kirk—Was keepin' a schule near to auld Grannie Mirk—A couthie auld grannie as e'er ...
Ich singe nicht fuer kleine Knaben,Die voller Stolz zur Schule gehn,Und den Ovid in Haenden haben,Den ihre Lehrer nicht verstehn.Ich ...
O whaur hae ye been, my bonnie, bonnie bairns, Sae lang awa' frae me?Come in, come in, for I'm weary ...
Daft Ailie cam' in by the auld brig-en' As the sunlicht, saft an' sweet,Fell doon on the laigh, white wa's ...
Frae the schulehoose that sat at the heid o' the green,To the fit o' the toon where the smiddy was ...
By the bend of the stream stood the house of old Ledgie Cooper, a worthy man, who about a hundred ...
I still min' Jock Buchan, the lang gawkie fule,He was nearly man muckle though still at the schule,While I was ...
The Man says:Laverock i' the lift,Hae ye nae sang-thrift,'At ye scatter 't sae heigh, and lat it a' drift?Wasterfu laverock!Dinna ...
Wull I ha'e to speak again To thae weans o' mine?Eicht o'clock, an' weel I ken The schule gangs in ...
O, there's nocht can tak' us back like the broom upon the brae,In the auld, auld times that are noo ...
That nicht the dancin' schule was dune, We had a ball to end the spree;An' Willie Stewart played the tune, ...
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