Grannie’s Tale: A Ballad o’Memorie (Janet Hamilton Poems)
The days o' langsyne, O! the days o' langsyne,Sweet thochts o' the bygane, I never sall tyne;Tho' darklin' I sit ...
The days o' langsyne, O! the days o' langsyne,Sweet thochts o' the bygane, I never sall tyne;Tho' darklin' I sit ...
My young heart's luve! twal' years ha'e been A century to me; I ha'e na seen thy smile, nor heard Thy voice's melodie. The ...
It's little I can tell o' classic things,Homer an Dante strangers are to me,That Troy an Tyre wis places ower ...
Gil Morrice was an erles son,His name it waxed wide:It was nae for his great riches,Nor zet was mickle pride;Bot ...
By the bend of the stream stood the house of old Ledgie Cooper, a worthy man, who about a hundred ...
The snawdrap was oot, and the primrose was seenIn the cleuch, while the side o' the burnie was green;The mavis ...
I was gaun to my supper richt hungert an' tired,A' day I'd been hard at the pleugh;The snaw wi' the ...
I ken'd Maggie weel ere she grew to a wife,An' smiled in the sunshine o' a' its sweet life;But, wae's ...
Oor Sis is a mitherly sort o' a bairn,An unco gleg thing, an' sae easy to learn,That let her see ...
Her faither says aften fu' plainly to me,'The wean, woman, 's juist like oor neebors, we see,An' naething ava to ...
Bauld Robin Ford, frae Glasgow toon, Cam' here an' spent a nicht wi' me;An' wow, he is an unco chield, ...
O, wad that my time were owre but, Wi' this wintry sleet and snaw,That I might see our house again, ...
I dream this nicht, an' my thochts gae back To that happy time sae early,When we twa stood in the ...
Row, Kello, row frae rocky linns, An' through amang thy grassy braes,Where gowans grow an' hawthorns blaw, An' sunshine sleeps ...
O, Cairn row saft where Maudie bides, Row saft as saft can be,There's no' a flower upon thy banks Can ...
How sweet was life langsyne, langsyne, When youth was in its May;When tears were tears, and love was love, An' ...
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