John Stuart Blackie (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Last of the Scots his country knew so well, And loved and honoured, ripe and full of years He slips ...
Last of the Scots his country knew so well, And loved and honoured, ripe and full of years He slips ...
First of the Nations! Britain, from her townsAnd country fields flock forth much youth to arms.O'er seas, warbound, sail many ...
The boy cleared out to the city from his home at harvest time -- They were Scots of the Riverina, ...
The King has called for priest and cup, The King has taken spur and blade To dub True Thomas a ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
HEAR, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;- If there's a hole in a' your coats, ...
THERE was five Carlins in the South, They fell upon a scheme, To send a lad to London town, To ...
WHEN chapman billies leave the street, And drouthy neibors, neibors, meet; As market days are wearing late, And folk begin ...
SCOTS, wha hae wi' WALLACE bled, Scots, wham BRUCE has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to Victorie! ...
THE SIMPLE Bard, rough at the rustic plough, Learning his tuneful trade from ev'ry bough; The chanting linnet, or the ...
Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory! ...
A Tale "Of Brownyis and of Bogilis full is this Buke." -Gawin Douglas. When chapman billies leave the street, And ...
Here is the shadow of truth, for only the shadow is true. And the line where the incoming swell from ...
HE lived on the wings of storm. The ashes are in Chihuahua. Out of Ludlow and coal towns in Colorado ...
With eyes that searched in the dark, Peering along the line, Stood the grim Scotsman, Hector Clark, Driver of "Forty-nine". ...
'Twas at the Seige of Matagarda, during the Peninsular War, That a Mrs Reston for courage outshone any man there ...
King Robert the Bruce's deadly enemy, John of Lorn, Joined the English with eight hundred Highlanders one morn, All strong, ...
Immortal Robert Burns of Ayr, There's but few poets can with you compare; Some of your poems and songs are ...
Sir Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn Beat the English in every wheel and turn, And made them fly in great ...
'Twas in the year of 1746, and in April the 14th day, That Prince Charles Stuart and his army marched ...
Alas! Prince Henry of Battenberg is dead! And, I hope, has gone to heaven, its streets to tread, And to ...
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