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Columba, St
Aneirin, -
Anon. ?8th Century, -
Mugron, -
Anon. 12th Century, -
Kali, Earl Rognvold
Malveisin, William
Muireadhach Albanach O Dailaig, -
Anon. c.1300, -
Barbour, John
James I, -
Henryson, Robert
Blind Harry, -
Aithbhreac Inghean Corcadail, -
Dunbar, William
Anon. (c.1490-c.1510), -
Douglas, Gavin
Lindsay, David
Anon. in The Book of the Dean of Lismore, -
Buchanan, George
Wedderburn, James, John & Robert
Scott, Alexander
Maitland, Thomas
Macgregor of Glenstrae, -
Queen of Scots, Mary
MacMhuirich, Niall Mor
Montgomerie, Alexander
Hume, Alexander
Fowler, William
Boyd, Mark Alexander
Aytoun, Robert
Anonymous Ballads, -
Anon. in The Bannatyne Manuscript, writtin in Tyme of Pest, -
Drummond of Hawthornden, William
Johnston, Arthur
Graham, James
Sempill of Beltrees, Francis
MacLeod, Mary
MacDonald, John
MacDonald, Cicely
Anon. (?early 18th Century), -
Ramsey, Allan
Anon. (18th Century), -
MacDonald, Alexander
Thomson, James
Malloch, David
Adam, Jean
Anon. (18th Century) 2, -
Mackay, Robert
Skirving, Adam
Macrae, John
Macintyre, Duncan Ban
Elliot, Jean
MacPherson, James
Ferguson, Robert
Burns, Robert
Ross, William
Baillie, Joanna
Oliphant, Carolina
Hogg, James
Scott, Walter
Tannahill, Robert
Campbell, Thomas
Cunningham, Allan
Tennant, William
Gordon, George
Hamilton, Janet
Anderson, William
Aytoun, William Edmonstoune
MacDonald, George
MacGonagall, William
Smith, Alexander
Thomson ('B.V.'), James
Johnston, Ellen
Bernstein, Marion
Lang, Andrew
Robertson, James
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Davidson, John
Jacob, Violet
Murray, Charles
Angus, Marion
Spence, Lewis
Taylor, Rachel Annand
Young, Andrew
Cruickshank, Helen B.
Muir, Edwin
MacDiarmid, Hugh
Soutar, William
Cameron, Norman
Garioch, Robert
MacCaig, Norman
MacLean, Sorley
Todd, Ruthven
Smith, Sydney Goodsir
Hay, George Campbell
Graham, W. S.
Mitchell, Elma
Morgan, Edwin
Thomson, Derick
Brown, George Mackay
Finlay, Ian Hamilton
Reid, Alastair
Smith, Iain Crichton
Conn, Stewart
MacNeacail, Aonghas
Dunn, Douglas
Leonard, Tom
Lochhead, Liz
Kuppner, Frank
Burnside, John
Duffy, Carol Anne
Robertson, Robin
Bateman, Meg
Herbert, W. N.
Jamie, Kathleen
Paterson, Don
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Altus prosator
From The Gododdin
The Dream of the Rood
Cros Christ
Arann
The Attributes of a Gentleman
From Fergus
M'anam do sgar riomsa a-raoir
Qwhen Alexander our kynge was dede
From The Bruce
From The Kingis Quair
The Two Mice
The Testament of Cresseid
From Orpheus and Eurydice
from The Actis and Deidis of the Illustere and Vailyeand Campioun Schir William
A phaidrin do dhuisg mo dhear
Hale, Sterne Superne
Done is a Battell on the Dragon Blak
From The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy
I That in Heill Wes and Gladnes
Christis Kirk on the Grene
The Proloug of the Sevynt Buik of Eneados
The Proloug of the Twelt Buik of Eneados
from The Dreme of Schir Dauid Lyndesay
A Ughdar so Oisean
Ad Henricum Scotorum Regem
from The Gude and Godlie Ballatis: With huntis vp
God send euerie Priest ane wyfe
from Ane New Yeir Gift to the Quene Mary, quhen scho come first Hame, 1562
Hence, heart
Return thee, heart
To love unluvit
Sir Thomas Maitland's Satyr upon Sir Niel Laing
Cumha Ghriogair MhicGhriogair Ghlinn Sreith
Sonnet IX from Sonnets to Bothwell
O Domine Deus!
Soruidh slan do noidhche anreir
Ane dreame
Sonet (Thocht Polibus)
The Royall Palice of the Heichest Heiwin
Of the Day of Estivall
from The Tarantula of Loue (Vpon this firthe)
Sonet. In Orknay
Venus and Cupid
Sonnet: On the River Tweed
Upon Mr Thomas Murrays fall
What Meanes this Strangeness
Sir Patrick Spens
The Battle of Otterburn
Edom o' Gordon
The Wife of Usher's Well
The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry
Get Up and Bar the Door
Clerk Saunders
Thomas Rymer
The Wee Cooper of Fife
Mary Hamilton
Bonny Barbra Allan
The Two Corbies
How the first Helandman of god was maid
Sonnet (Sleepe, Silence Child)
The Angels for the Natiuitie of our Lord
The Oister
All Changeth
Polemo-Middinia inter Vitarvam et Nebernam
from Ad Robertum Baronium
On Himself, upon hearing what was his Sentence
Maggie Lauder
from The Banishment of Poverty by His Royal Highness James Duke of Albany
Tuireadh
Oran Cumhaidh air cor na Rioghachd
from Alasdair a Gleanna Garadh
Thig tri nithean gun iarraidh
Lucky Spence's Last Advice
To the Phiz an Ode
As I was a-walking by yon green garden
from Oran an t-Samhraidh
from Birlinn Chlann Raghnaill
from Winter. A Poem
from The Castle of Indolence
On an Amorous Old Man
There's Nae Luck about the House
Waly, Waly
Jenny Nettles
Marbhrann do chloinn Fhir Taigh Ruspainn
Johnnie Cope
Dean Cadalan Samhach
from Moladh Beinn Dobhrain
The Flowers of the Forest
from Fragments of Ancient Poetry
Caller Oysters
from Auld Reikie, a Poem
To the Principal and Professors of the University of St Andrews, on their Superb Treat to Dr Samuel
Mary Morison
Holy Willie's Prayer
To a Mouse
Address to the Deil
To a Louse
from Love and Liberty. A Cantata
Second Epistle to Davie
To a Haggis
Lines Written Under the Portrait of Robert Ferguson
Auld Lang Syne
Farewell to the Highlands
John Anderson My Jo
Tam o'Shanter. A Tale
Ae Fond Kiss
Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation
Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn
A Red, Red Rose
Is There for Honest Poverty?
Oh Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast
Oran Eile
From A Winter's Day
The Heiress
Will Ye No Come Back Again?
The Land o'the Leal
from Kilmeny
Charlie is My Darling
The Witch o' Fife
Lochinvar
Proud Maisie
from The Lay of the Last Minstrel
from The Lady of the Lake
Eild
The Tap-Room
from Locheil's Warning
To the Evening Star
The Wee, Wee German Lairdie
The Thistle's Grown aboon the Rose
from Anster Fair
from Papistry Storm'd
Lachin y Gair
She Walks in Beauty
So, we'll go no more a roving
from Don Juan
Oor Location
I'm Naebody Noo
from The Execution of Montrose
Why do the houses stand
Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay
Glasgow
In the Room
from The City of Dreadful Night
The Last Sark
Manly Sports
Romance
The Discovery of America
The Light-Keeper
Requiem
Christmas at Sea
Untitled (The tropics vanish)
To S.C.
To S.R. Crockett
The Lamplighter
From a Rilway Carriage
The Land of Story-Books
To Any Reader
Thirty Bob a Week
A Northern Suburb
Snow
from The Crystal Palace
Tam i' the Kirk
The Helpmate
Dockens afore his Peers
Alas! Poor Queen
The Blue Jacket
The Doors of Sleep
The Prows o'Reekie
The Princess of Scotland
A Dead Mole
The Stockdoves
A Wet Day
The Ponnage Pool
Childhood
Merlin
Scotland 1941
Scotland's Winter
The Horses
The Bonnie Broukit Bairn
The Watergaw
The Eemis Stane
Scunner
Empty Vessel
from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
At My Father's Grave
Of John Davidson
On a Raised Beach
The Little White Rose
Perfect
To a Friend and Fellow-Poet
Scotland Small?
The Room
The Philosophic Taed
The Tryst
Meeting my Former Self
Green, Green is El Agir
The Wire
Elegy
Instrument and Agent
Summer Farm
Likenesses
Basking Shark
Wild Oats
Return to Scalpay
Praise of a Collie
Intruder in a Set Scene
Small Lochs
Ban-Ghaidheal
Calbharaigh
Muir-traigh
Glac a' Bhais
Hallaig
Of Moulds and Mushrooms
from Armageddon in Albyn: VII, The War in Fife
The Grace of God and the Meth-Drinker
Bisearta
Malcolm Mooney's Land
Loch Thom
The Passenger Opposite
Message Clear
King Billy
The Loch Ness Monster's Song
The First Men on Mercury
Cinquevalli
The Coin
Clann-Nighean an Sgadain
Kirkyard
Hamnavoe Market
Taxman
Evening - Sail
The Boat's Blueprint
The Cloud's Anchor
Scotland
The Clearances
Old Woman
Two Girls Singing
Contrasts
The Herring Girls
Sgialachdan Gaidhlig
Na h-Eilthirich
Todd
Under the Ice
tha gaidhlig beo
Landscape with One Figure
St Kilda's Parliament: 1879-1979
War Blinded
Land Love
from Unrelated Incidents
Jist ti Let Yi No
Fathers and Sons
Something I'm Not
Neckties
from An Old Guidebook to Prague
Dundee
Autobiography
Warming Her Pearls
Words, Wide Night
Prayer
Aberdeen
Aotromachd
The Socialist Manifesto for East Balgillo
Coco-de-Mer
The Queen of Sheba
Flower-sellers, Budapest
St Bride's
A Private Bottling
The Chartes of Gowrie
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Adam, Jean
Aithbhreac Inghean Corcadail, -
Anderson, William
Aneirin, -
Angus, Marion
Anon. (18th Century), -
Anon. (18th Century) 2, -
Anon. (?early 18th Century), -
Anon. (c.1490-c.1510), -
Anon. 12th Century, -
Anon. ?8th Century, -
Anon. c.1300, -
Anon. in The Bannatyne Manuscript, writtin in Tyme of Pest, -
Anon. in The Book of the Dean of Lismore, -
Anonymous Ballads, -
Aytoun, Robert
Aytoun, William Edmonstoune
Baillie, Joanna
Barbour, John
Bateman, Meg
Bernstein, Marion
Blind Harry, -
Boyd, Mark Alexander
Brown, George Mackay
Buchanan, George
Burns, Robert
Burnside, John
Cameron, Norman
Campbell, Thomas
Columba, St
Conn, Stewart
Cruickshank, Helen B.
Cunningham, Allan
Davidson, John
Douglas, Gavin
Drummond of Hawthornden, William
Duffy, Carol Anne
Dunbar, William
Dunn, Douglas
Elliot, Jean
Ferguson, Robert
Finlay, Ian Hamilton
Fowler, William
Garioch, Robert
Gordon, George
Graham, W. S.
Graham, James
Hamilton, Janet
Hay, George Campbell
Henryson, Robert
Herbert, W. N.
Hogg, James
Hume, Alexander
Jacob, Violet
James I, -
Jamie, Kathleen
Johnston, Arthur
Johnston, Ellen
Kali, Earl Rognvold
Kuppner, Frank
Lang, Andrew
Leonard, Tom
Lindsay, David
Lochhead, Liz
MacCaig, Norman
MacDiarmid, Hugh
MacDonald, George
MacDonald, Cicely
MacDonald, John
MacDonald, Alexander
MacGonagall, William
Macgregor of Glenstrae, -
Macintyre, Duncan Ban
Mackay, Robert
MacLean, Sorley
MacLeod, Mary
MacMhuirich, Niall Mor
MacNeacail, Aonghas
MacPherson, James
Macrae, John
Maitland, Thomas
Malloch, David
Malveisin, William
Mitchell, Elma
Montgomerie, Alexander
Morgan, Edwin
Mugron, -
Muir, Edwin
Muireadhach Albanach O Dailaig, -
Murray, Charles
Oliphant, Carolina
Paterson, Don
Queen of Scots, Mary
Ramsey, Allan
Reid, Alastair
Robertson, Robin
Robertson, James
Ross, William
Scott, Walter
Scott, Alexander
Sempill of Beltrees, Francis
Skirving, Adam
Smith, Alexander
Smith, Iain Crichton
Smith, Sydney Goodsir
Soutar, William
Spence, Lewis
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Tannahill, Robert
Taylor, Rachel Annand
Tennant, William
Thomson, James
Thomson, Derick
Thomson ('B.V.'), James
Todd, Ruthven
Wedderburn, James, John & Robert
Young, Andrew
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A phaidrin do dhuisg mo dhear
from Oran an t-Samhraidh
A Dead Mole
A Northern Suburb
A Private Bottling
A Red, Red Rose
A Ughdar so Oisean
A Wet Day
Aberdeen
Ad Henricum Scotorum Regem
Address to the Deil
Ae Fond Kiss
Alas! Poor Queen
All Changeth
Altus prosator
Ane dreame
Aotromachd
Arann
As I was a-walking by yon green garden
At My Father's Grave
Auld Lang Syne
Autobiography
Ban-Ghaidheal
Basking Shark
Bisearta
Bonny Barbra Allan
Calbharaigh
Caller Oysters
Charlie is My Darling
Childhood
Christis Kirk on the Grene
Christmas at Sea
Cinquevalli
Clann-Nighean an Sgadain
Clerk Saunders
Coco-de-Mer
Contrasts
Cros Christ
Cumha Ghriogair MhicGhriogair Ghlinn Sreith
Dean Cadalan Samhach
Dockens afore his Peers
Done is a Battell on the Dragon Blak
Dundee
Edom o' Gordon
Eild
Elegy
Empty Vessel
Evening - Sail
Farewell to the Highlands
Fathers and Sons
Flower-sellers, Budapest
from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
From a Rilway Carriage
From A Winter's Day
from Ad Robertum Baronium
from Alasdair a Gleanna Garadh
from An Old Guidebook to Prague
from Ane New Yeir Gift to the Quene Mary, quhen scho come first Hame, 1562
from Anster Fair
from Armageddon in Albyn: VII, The War in Fife
from Auld Reikie, a Poem
from Birlinn Chlann Raghnaill
from Don Juan
From Fergus
from Fragments of Ancient Poetry
from Kilmeny
from Locheil's Warning
from Love and Liberty. A Cantata
from Moladh Beinn Dobhrain
From Orpheus and Eurydice
from Papistry Storm'd
from The Actis and Deidis of the Illustere and Vailyeand Campioun Schir William
from The Banishment of Poverty by His Royal Highness James Duke of Albany
From The Bruce
from The Castle of Indolence
from The City of Dreadful Night
from The Crystal Palace
from The Dreme of Schir Dauid Lyndesay
from The Execution of Montrose
From The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy
From The Gododdin
from The Gude and Godlie Ballatis: With huntis vp
From The Kingis Quair
from The Lady of the Lake
from The Lay of the Last Minstrel
from The Tarantula of Loue (Vpon this firthe)
from Unrelated Incidents
from Winter. A Poem
Get Up and Bar the Door
Glac a' Bhais
Glasgow
God send euerie Priest ane wyfe
Green, Green is El Agir
Hale, Sterne Superne
Hallaig
Hamnavoe Market
Hence, heart
Holy Willie's Prayer
How the first Helandman of god was maid
I That in Heill Wes and Gladnes
I'm Naebody Noo
In the Room
Instrument and Agent
Intruder in a Set Scene
Is There for Honest Poverty?
Jenny Nettles
Jist ti Let Yi No
John Anderson My Jo
Johnnie Cope
King Billy
Kirkyard
Lachin y Gair
Land Love
Landscape with One Figure
Likenesses
Lines Written Under the Portrait of Robert Ferguson
Loch Thom
Lochinvar
Lucky Spence's Last Advice
M'anam do sgar riomsa a-raoir
Maggie Lauder
Malcolm Mooney's Land
Manly Sports
Marbhrann do chloinn Fhir Taigh Ruspainn
Mary Hamilton
Mary Morison
Meeting my Former Self
Merlin
Message Clear
Muir-traigh
Na h-Eilthirich
Neckties
O Domine Deus!
Of John Davidson
Of Moulds and Mushrooms
Of the Day of Estivall
Oh Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast
Old Woman
On a Raised Beach
On an Amorous Old Man
On Himself, upon hearing what was his Sentence
Oor Location
Oran Cumhaidh air cor na Rioghachd
Oran Eile
Perfect
Polemo-Middinia inter Vitarvam et Nebernam
Praise of a Collie
Prayer
Proud Maisie
Qwhen Alexander our kynge was dede
Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay
Requiem
Return thee, heart
Return to Scalpay
Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn
Romance
Scotland
Scotland 1941
Scotland Small?
Scotland's Winter
Scunner
Second Epistle to Davie
Sgialachdan Gaidhlig
She Walks in Beauty
Sir Patrick Spens
Sir Thomas Maitland's Satyr upon Sir Niel Laing
Small Lochs
Snow
So, we'll go no more a roving
Something I'm Not
Sonet (Thocht Polibus)
Sonet. In Orknay
Sonnet (Sleepe, Silence Child)
Sonnet IX from Sonnets to Bothwell
Sonnet: On the River Tweed
Soruidh slan do noidhche anreir
St Bride's
St Kilda's Parliament: 1879-1979
Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation
Summer Farm
Tam i' the Kirk
Tam o'Shanter. A Tale
Taxman
tha gaidhlig beo
The Angels for the Natiuitie of our Lord
The Attributes of a Gentleman
The Battle of Otterburn
The Blue Jacket
The Boat's Blueprint
The Bonnie Broukit Bairn
The Chartes of Gowrie
The Clearances
The Cloud's Anchor
The Coin
The Discovery of America
The Doors of Sleep
The Dream of the Rood
The Eemis Stane
The First Men on Mercury
The Flowers of the Forest
The Grace of God and the Meth-Drinker
The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry
The Heiress
The Helpmate
The Herring Girls
The Horses
The Lamplighter
The Land o'the Leal
The Land of Story-Books
The Last Sark
The Light-Keeper
The Little White Rose
The Loch Ness Monster's Song
The Oister
The Passenger Opposite
The Philosophic Taed
The Ponnage Pool
The Princess of Scotland
The Proloug of the Sevynt Buik of Eneados
The Proloug of the Twelt Buik of Eneados
The Prows o'Reekie
The Queen of Sheba
The Room
The Royall Palice of the Heichest Heiwin
The Socialist Manifesto for East Balgillo
The Stockdoves
The Tap-Room
The Testament of Cresseid
The Thistle's Grown aboon the Rose
The Tryst
The Two Corbies
The Two Mice
The Watergaw
The Wee Cooper of Fife
The Wee, Wee German Lairdie
The Wife of Usher's Well
The Wire
The Witch o' Fife
There's Nae Luck about the House
Thig tri nithean gun iarraidh
Thirty Bob a Week
Thomas Rymer
To a Friend and Fellow-Poet
To a Haggis
To a Louse
To a Mouse
To Any Reader
To love unluvit
To S.C.
To S.R. Crockett
To the Evening Star
To the Phiz an Ode
To the Principal and Professors of the University of St Andrews, on their Superb Treat to Dr Samuel
Todd
Tuireadh
Two Girls Singing
Under the Ice
Untitled (The tropics vanish)
Upon Mr Thomas Murrays fall
Venus and Cupid
Waly, Waly
War Blinded
Warming Her Pearls
What Meanes this Strangeness
Why do the houses stand
Wild Oats
Will Ye No Come Back Again?
Words, Wide Night
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'Na shuidhe marbh an 'Glaic a' Bhais
'Nan luighe seo gu h-iosal
'Twas on a Monday morning
A hunner funnels bleezin', reekin'
A liuthad soitheach a dh'fhag ar duthaich
A phaidrin do dhuisg mo dhear
A silent conquering army
A! Fredome is a noble thing
Adspice, Gadiacis quod misi tristis ab undis
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever
Ae weet forenicht i' the yow-trummle
Against your black I set the dainty deer
Agrippina, well aware of Claudius' greed
ahv drank
Alas for Juan and Haidee! They were
All is lithogenenesis - or lochia
All the mill-horses of Europe
Altus prosator vetustus dierum et ingenitus
Am faca Tu i, Iudhaich mhoir
am i
Am mios lusanach mealach
An gaire mar chraiteachan salainn
An t-urram thar gach beinn
And are you sure the news is true?
And here and there, on trees by lightening scathed
And she, being old, fed from a mashed plate
Ane doolie sessoun to ane cairfull dyte
Architecture is when the sun shines on a facade daily
Arran na n-oigheadh n-iomdha
As brycht Phebus, schene souerane, hevynnis e
As from the house your mother sees
As I was a-walking by yon green garden
As I was walking all alane
At evening, when the lamp is lit
Auld nibor
Auld Reikie! wale o'ilka town
Away, ye gay landscapes, ye gardens of roses!
B' e d' aotromachd a rinn mo thaladh
Back in the same room that an hour ago
Barely a twelvemonth after
Beautiful new railway bridge of the silvery Tay
Because he seemed to walk with an intent
Blows the wind today, and the sun and the rain are flying
Bonnie Charlie's now awa
Bonny Kilmeny gaed up the glen
Breasting the thick brushwood that hid my track
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead
Caltha suos nusquam vultus a sole reflectit
Canker'd, cursed creature, crabbed, corbie kittle
Chan eil mi stri ris a' chraoibh nach lub rium
Chan eil mo shul air Calbharaigh
Chi mi re geard na h-oidhche
Cinquevalli is falling, falling
Clerk Saunders and may Margaret
Contraption - that's the bizarre, prper slang
Cros Cris tarsin ngniusse
cuireamaid an darna taobh
Curse on ungrateful man, that can be pleas'd
Dean cadalan samhach, a chuilein mo ruin
Dinna bathir wi thi braiggil o wir lends
Done is a battell on the dragon blak
Dyonea, nycht hyrd, and wach of day
Esope, myne authour, makis mentioun
Evening will come
Every day I see from my window
Everything falls asleep with sleepq
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face
Faire famous flood, which sometyme did devyde
familiar with, the tune
Fareweel to a' our Scottish fame
Faster than fairies, faster than witches
Fergus a trait le bonne espee.
For more than sixty years he has been blind
For see! where Winter comes, himself, confest
Frae bank to bank, frae wood to wood I rin
from Alasdair a Gleanna Garadh
Full white the Bourbon lily blows
God and sanct petir was gangand be the way
God send euerie Priest ane wyfe
Grey over Riddrie the clouds piled up
Gu 'n cuirt' an iubhrach dhubh, dhealbhach
Gude guide me, are ye hame again, and hae ye got nae wark?
Gurlie an gray the snell Fife shore
Ha! whare ye gaun, ye crowlan ferlie!
Hale, sterne superne, hale, in eterne
Happy the man who, free from care and strife
Harp of the North! that mouldering long hast hung
He's obsessed with clocks, she with politics
Heigh in the hevynnis figure circulere
Hence heart, with her that must depart
Hey, Johnnie Cope, are ye waulking yet?
Hoireann o ho bhi o
How brave is the hunter who nobly will dare
Hurray, hurray, the jade's away
Hwaet! Ic swefna cyst seczan wylle
I am a man, upo da land
I couldn't touch a stop and turn a screw
I dreamit ane dreame, o that my dreame wer trew!
I found a pigeon's skull on the machair
I hae nae gear, nae pot nor pan
I heard the pulse of the beseiging sea
I met ayont the cairney
I remember being ashamed of my father
I remember one death in my boyhood
I sing the steir, strabush, and strife
I sit by the mossy fountain
I that in heill wes and gladnes
I thi hovie an thi howd o sleep
I' the how-dumb-deid o' the cauld hairst nicht
I'll no be had for naething
I'm naebody noo, though in days that are gane
I'm wearin' awa', John
I've heard the lilting at yowe-milking
Iasgair ann am botannam mora
Iersche brybour baird, vyle beggar with thy brattis
In Abyrdeyn he gert a consaill cry
In my eye I've no apple; every object
In the gardens
Into the quiet of this room
Is fada anocht i nOil Finn
Is there for honest poverty
It comes to mind
It fell about the Lammas tide
It fell about the Martinmas
It fell about the Martinmas time
It is with the poet as with the guinea worm
It was a day peculiar to this piece of planet
It was in and about the Martinmas time
It was late on a winter's evening
It was neither the words nor yet the tune
Jenny come ower the hill
John Anderson my jo, John
Just for the sake of recovering
Late August, say the records, when the gowk-storm
Let them bestow on ev'ry Airth a Limb
Like Coleridge, I waltz
Locheil, Locheil! beware of the day
Long time he lay upon the sunny hill
Look up to Pentland's towring taps
M'anam do sgar riomsa a-raoir
Mars is braw in crammasy
Meetinf my former self in a nostalgia
Mi gabhail Sraith Dhruim Uachdair
Moch madain air latha Lunasd
My father's white uncle became
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here
My Love dwelt in a Northern land
My luve is like a red, red rose
My pulse beats fire - my pericranium glows
My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky
Mynog Gododdin traethiannor
Nae sign o' throw yet. ay, that's me, John Watts o' Dockenhill
Nature selects the longest way
Next to my own skin, her pearls. My mistress
Now the ice lays its smooth claws on the sill
Nymphae quae colitis highissima monta Fifaea
O Domine Deus! speravi in Te
O Jean, my Jean, when the bell ca's the congregation
O luely, luely cam she in
O Mary, at thy window be
O Merlin in your crystal cave
O perfite light, quhilk shaid away
O Prince, O chief of many throned pow'rs
O Thou, wha in the heavens dost dwell
O wad this braw hie-heapit toun
O waly, waly, up the bank
O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west
Oh wert thou in the cauld blast
On either side of a rock-paved lane
Paisleys squirm with spermatozoa
Pour luy aussi ie iette mainte larme
Pox fa that pultron Povertie
Proud Maisie is in the wood
Qwhen Alexander our kynge was dede
Return thee, heart, hamewart again
Rynne (Sheepheards) run where Bethleme blest appeares
Saw ye Jenny Nettles
Scotland small? Our multiform, our infinite Scotland small?
Scotland, you have invoked her name
Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled
See! the smoking bowl before us
Seven scythes leaned at the wall
She walks in beauty, like the night
She was a small dog, neat and fluid
She was skilled in music and the dance
Shipyard cranes have come down again
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
Sing
Sing, Poet, 'tis a merry world
Sleepe, Silence Child, sweet Father of soft Rest
So this is women's work: folding
So, we'll go no more a roving
Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer
Somewhere on the other side of this wide night
Soraidh slan don oidhche a-reir
Sprawled on the crates and sacks in the rear of the truck
Sssnnnwhuffffll?
St Andrews towns may look right gawsy
Star that bringest home the bee
Still hovering round the fair at sixty-four
Straws like tame lightnings lie about the grass
Strong-shouldered mole
swallow
Syne nethir-mare he went quhare Pluto was
Tarl em'k orr at efla
Tha buird is tairnean air an uinneig
Tha mise fo mhulad san am
The angrye winds not ay
The brilliant kernel of the night
The fam'ly cares call next upon the wife
The ferry wades across the kyle. I drive
The grey sea turns in its sleep
The herring girls
The kings sits in Dunfermline town
The language that but sparely floo'ers
The morning dawned full darkly
The other night from Court returning late
The rose of all the world is not for me
The rough hail rattles thro the trees
The royall palice of the heichest heiwin
The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand
The streets are waiting for a snow
The sun was down, and twilight grey
The sunlicht still on me, you row'd in clood
The thistles climb the thatch. Forever
The tropics vanish, and meseems that i
The way the water goes is blink blink blink
Then, certanlye, scho tuke me by the hand
There lived a wife at Usher's Well
There was a taed wha thocht sae lang
There was a wee cooper who lived in Fife
There ye gang, ye daft
They are lang deid, folk that I used to ken
They drove to the market with ringing pockets
They rose up in a twinkling cloud
Thig tri nithean gun iarraidh
This dat I saw ane endless mire
this is thi
This warl's a tap-room owre and owre
Thocht Polibus, pisander, and with them
Three times the carline grain'd and rifted
To luve unluvit it is ane pain
To stub an oar on a rock where none should be
Today, Tuesday, I decided to move on
True Thomas lay on Huntlie bank
Under the wide and starry sky
Upon the utmost corners of the warld
Upon this firthe, as on the sees of love
Was nevir in Scotland hard nor sene
water
We brushed the dirt off, held it to the light
We come in peace from the third planet
We stood here in this coupledom of us
We were a tribe, a family, a people
Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie
WELCUM, illustrat Ladye, and oure Quene!
Wha wadna be in love
What meanes this Strangeness now of late
What the deil hae we got for a King
When chapman billies leave the street
When there comes a flower to the stingless nettle
Who affirms that crystals are alive?
Who are you that so strangely woke
Why do the houses stand
With huntis vp, with huntis vp
With open shells in seas, on heauenly due
Word's gane to the kitchen
Your body derns
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