A Walk To Pamphy Linns (Alexander Anderson Poems)
We took a walk to Pamphy linns— Three other friends and I,Glad-hearted as when day begins With summer in the ...
Alexander Anderson Poems on Education (34 Poems)
The Two Angels (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Two angels, as I grew up glad and gay From golden infancy,Were with me, walking all along the way On ...
To An Old Schoolfellow (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Der Schulfreund wird nie vergessen."—Jean PaulYour Edinburgh is well enough— Stone picture of the past and present;But we have in ...
Books (Alexander Anderson Poems)
The beings of the mind are not of clay; Essentially immortal, they createAnd multiply in us a brigher ray, And ...
Agnes Died (Alexander Anderson Poems)
A pure sweet life, that came upon our earth,Stay'd for a space, and then went back to heaven.I know not ...
Erratic Musings (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Alone. For Jack has gone away, To hide his head in proofs and letters;And left me here to spend the ...
City And Village (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Once again within the city, 'mid its multitudinous din, Stand I, while, as sinks a leaf when left by the ...
Chateaux En Espagne (Alexander Anderson Poems)
It is a pleasant thing to rhyme, Providing it but bring you money;But sweeter still to pass the time In ...
Ledgie Cooper (Alexander Anderson Poems)
By the bend of the stream stood the house of old Ledgie Cooper, a worthy man, who about a hundred ...
Blood On The Wheel (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Bless her dear little heart!" said my mate, and he pointed out to me, Fifty yards to the right, in ...
Carlyle (Alexander Anderson Poems)
England, amid thy great in this great time One man, white-haired, with misty, flashing eyesLooms from the rest, in his ...
A Retrospectiv (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I see yet, bright as summer beams, The spot where all my childhood wander'd,And where, in rich Arabian dreams, I ...
In Memoriam (Alexander Anderson Poems)
The Rev. John Donaldson, M.A., Kirkconnel. "Ave Atque Vale."A brooding quiet rests to-day On all the well-known hills around;Spring lingers ...
A Dreamer’s Paradise (Alexander Anderson Poems)
"Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke,Forget the spreading of the hideous town."—The Earthly ParadiseYes, William Morris, it were well ...
Rabelais (Alexander Anderson Poems)
J'aime Monsieur Francois Rabelais, that Rough, shoulder-shrugging, laughing Frenchman,Who struts about, broad, red, and fat, With humour for his constant ...
Janet (Alexander Anderson Poems)
On what part of this rough and toiling planet Are you now this lonely hour—sweet Janet, say?O, tell me if ...
David Gray (Alexander Anderson Poems)
In Eden every flower is blown. Amen.—His own epitaphA happy time in my young life—when dreams Ran in sweet thrills ...
The Summer Day (Alexander Anderson Poems)
"I speak of one, from many singled out—One of those heavenly days that cannot die."—WordsworthThere is a lustre in the ...
Oor Sis (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Oor Sis is a mitherly sort o' a bairn,An unco gleg thing, an' sae easy to learn,That let her see ...
Jenny (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I sat—in church, of course—and heard The parson thunder forth his sermon."The text!" you say—well that's absurd, You ask me ...
Poetic Aspirations (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Ah me! for all my toil and search, And rhyming, till the muse grow surly,I doubt I ne'er shall hook ...
Past Spasmodics (Alexander Anderson Poems)
A life I thought had pass'd away, With all its old, spasmodic thinking,When I read Schiller's "Robber" play, Came back ...
The Preacher (Alexander Anderson Poems)
The spirit of God fell on him, and he pass'd From out the common bounds wherein we move,And like a ...
Life and Death (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I stood in a dream between Life and Death, And I whisper'd to the twain—"Now, which of you has the ...
The Open Secret (Alexander Anderson Poems)
God said, "I take my stand behindMen, Nature, and the shaping mind.And cry, 'The open secret liesTo him who reads ...
Thinking Of Michael (Alexander Anderson Poems)
In the chamber of death underground, Came these words to touch men to the heart,Bring tears to the eyes, and ...
Sterne (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I hate your Sterne, though still at times, When for a lighter half-hour yearning,I toss aside unfinish'd rhymes For Uncle ...
A Memory (Alexander Anderson Poems)
As soft as an autumn leaf will light When the winds are hush'd and still,Fell your hand into mine that ...
The Deil’s In That Bit Bairn (Alexander Anderson Poems)
The deil's in that bit bairn o' mine, for every noo and thanHe gies me siccan frichts, that whiles for ...
I Miss My Bonnie Bairn (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I miss my bonnie bairn, I miss him unco sair,I miss him stan'in' at the door, I miss him up ...