The Weary Weird (Alexander Anderson Poems)
The Nith has a weird, weird soun' the nicht, As it swurls through the big black pool,An' the win' comin' ...
The Nith has a weird, weird soun' the nicht, As it swurls through the big black pool,An' the win' comin' ...
A fiddler sits, wha has never been seen, On the ledgin' o' Boglebriggs;An' aye when the clock strikes the midnicht ...
O meines Lebens goldne zeit.—SchillerO the youth of love and madness! let me sing another songEre the cynic grows upon ...
Once again within the city, 'mid its multitudinous din, Stand I, while, as sinks a leaf when left by the ...
Into all the onward current and this iron time that feels Its own way with din and clamour through this ...
In the shake and rush of the engine, In the full, deep breath of his chest,In the swift, clear clank ...
You were dead, they said; In the churchyard had been laid,Many weeks ago, the dust whose youth was in ...
Plague tak' his auld grannie, wha brocht frae the toonThat whussle, an' gie'd him't to deave us wi' soun';For frae ...
You smile, and half in jest you askA song from me. A simple task,If he who sings had all the ...
A worker on the rail, where, day by day, The engine storms along,And sends forth, as he thunders on his ...
A dream of youth has grown to fruit, Though years it was in blossom;It lay, like touch of summer light, ...
The simmer day was sweet an' lang, It had nae thocht o' sorrow,As my true love and I stood on ...
The poet looks on human things,And, as his mood is, so he sings,And lets his fingers touch the strings.And as ...
Voltaire, D'Alembert, and Dider?t.Three spirits linking made a triple mind, Then scorning customs shook the stars apart, And but with ...
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