Jamie Telfer (Andrew Lang Poems)
It fell about the Martinmas tyde,When our Border steeds get corn and hayThe captain of Bewcastle hath bound him to ...
It fell about the Martinmas tyde,When our Border steeds get corn and hayThe captain of Bewcastle hath bound him to ...
Frae Dunidier as I cam throuch,Doun by the hill of Banochie,Allangst the lands of Garioch.Grit pitie was to heir and ...
Now Liddisdale has ridden a raid,But I wat they had better staid at hame;For Mitchell o Winfield he is dead,And ...
Some speak of lords, some speak of lairds,And sic like men of high degree;Of a gentleman I sing a sang,Some ...
O wha will shoe my fu' fair foot?And wha will glove my hand?And wha will lace my middle jimp,Wi' the ...
In London city was Bicham born,He longd strange countries for to see,But he was taen by a savage Moor,Who handld ...
Lord Bateman was a noble lord,A noble lord of high degree;He shipped himself all aboard of a ship,Some foreign country ...
O May she comes, and may she goes,Down by yon gardens green,And there she spied a gallant squireAs squire had ...
1731BEAUTIFUL face of a child, Lighted with laughter and glee, Mirthful, and tender, and wild, My heart is ...
Clavers and his HighlandmenCame down upo' the raw, man,Who being stout, gave mony a clout;The lads began to claw then.With ...
Still sing the mocking fairies, as of old,Beneath the shade of thorn and holly-tree;The west wind breathes upon them, pure ...
THERE'S a joy without canker or cark, There 's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze ...
The hours are passing slow,I hear their weary treadClang from the tower, and goBack to their kinsfolk dead.Sleep! death's twin ...
Here stand my books, line upon lineThey reach the roof, and row by row,They speak of faded tastes of mine,And ...
There are laddies will drive ye a ba'To the burn frae the farthermost tee,But ye mauna think driving is a',Ye ...
When Lent and Responsions are ended,When May with fritillaries waits,When the flower of the chestnut is splendid,When drags are at ...
The ferox rins in rough Loch Awe,A weary cry frae ony toun;The Spey, that loups o'er linn and fa',They praise ...
Fair islands of the silver fleece,Hoards of unsunned, uncounted gold,Whose havens are the haunts of Peace,Whose boys are in our ...
The dust of Carthage and the dustOf Babel on the desert wold,The loves of Corinth, and the lust,Orchomenos increased with ...
Ye giant shades of RA and TUM,Ye ghosts of gods Egyptian,If murmurs of our planet comeTo exiles in the precincts ...
We built a castle in the air,In summer weather, you and I,The wind and sun were in your hair, -Gold ...
Not Jason nor Medea wise,I crave to see, nor win much lore,Nor list to Orpheus' minstrelsies;Nor Her'cles would I see, ...
Dead--he is dead! The rouge has left a trace On that thin cheek where shone, perchance, a tear, Even while ...
DARK Lily without blame, Not upon us the shame, Whose sires were to the Auld Alliance true; They, ...
I went to the mill, but the miller was gone,I sat me down, and cried ochone!To think on the days ...
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