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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GLASGOW, SCOTLAND Matches Found: 210 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADDRESS TO THE FACTORY OF MSSRS. J. & W.I. SCOTT & CO., by ELLEN+(2) JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Hail! Royal sovereign of the factory race Last Line: And let me ever kneel before thy shrine, %rejoicing still - prosperity is thine Subject(s): Factories; Glasgow, Scotland ADDRESS TO THE REV. DR. JOHN MUIR, ST JAMES' PARISH, GLASGLOW, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Servant of god! Through fifty honoured years Last Line: Our god, our faith, our hope, our church, the same! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Clergy; Glasgow, Scotland; God; Religion; Service; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology ANGLES: 3. CATHEDRAL, by CATHERINE LUCY CZERKAWSKA Poem Source First Line: One last summer day %spent with you Last Line: You found me ill fitting Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland ANGLES: 4. HILLHEAD, by CATHERINE LUCY CZERKAWSKA Poem Source First Line: November: how it rained Last Line: We shared a last umbrella and %a cold cold kiss Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland ANGLES: 6. NOW, by CATHERINE LUCY CZERKAWSKA Poem Source First Line: Sometimes now %on way to visit Last Line: And sniff each other %when they meet Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland ARRIVALS, by JOHN STEWART CONN Poem Source First Line: The plane meets %its reflection on the wet Last Line: In a white room, surrounded %by flimsy screens Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Love AT CENTRAL STATION, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Time, time, what was time? Last Line: Without them the indignity %the dignity, would be incomplet e Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland AYRSHIRE JOCK, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, john auld, in my garret here Last Line: There's surely nothing very wrong %in one more glass of whisky toddy! Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland BARGAIN, by LIZ LOCHHEAD Poem Source First Line: The river in january is fast and high Last Line: I wish we could either mend things %or learn to throw them away Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland BIRDS OF PASSAGE, by VALERIE THORNTON Poem Source First Line: Up on patrickhill Last Line: Dance a dotted veil %over their rusting kin Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland BOY'S POEM, SELS., by ALEXANDER SMITH Poet's Biography Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland BREATHES THERE A MAN -?, by WILLIAM J. FRASER HUTCHESON Poem Source First Line: I sigh to be in glesca just to hear the blackcock call Last Line: And you shall dine - eh - table d'hote in the halls of grosvenor Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland BRINDISI (2), by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gies another blast a that Last Line: Somedy help ur up, she's fell Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland BROOMIELAW, by J. F. HENDRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Time, time, what was time? Last Line: But no one said a word because of pride Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland BUTCHERS OF GLASGOW, by MATT MCGINN Poem Source First Line: The butchers of glasgow have all got their pride Last Line: Was the best meat he'd sold them for years Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland BY KELVIN WATER (FOR IAIN CRICHTON SMITH), by TOM MCGRATH Poem Source First Line: I stood on the bridge Last Line: Splashing up brown, discoloured phlegm %from its poisoned depths Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland BY THE PREACHING OF THE WORD, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let gallows languish Last Line: Let glasgow languish Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland CAPTAIN PATON'S LAMENT, by JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: Touch once more a sober measure, and let punch and tears be shed Last Line: That has left the saltmarket in sorrow, grief, and wo! %for it ne'er shall see the like of captain p Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland CARBOLIC DAN, by MICHAEL MUNRO Poem Source First Line: Dan mckinnon, %a lochboisdale man Last Line: His uncle rolls along the paisley road: %carbolic dan Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland CARNIVAL, by LIZ LOCHHEAD Poem Source First Line: Glass roof holds down a %stale air of excitement Last Line: I sink my teeth into sweet damn all Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland CHARING CROSS, by ROBIN MUNRO Poem Source First Line: Digging under - mining getting Last Line: Bypass and approach roads %all the time Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland CHURCH UNITY GLASGOW STYLE, by WILLIAM GILFEDDER Poem Source First Line: The great ecumenical disaster of our time Last Line: It's either wedlock or the tomahawk %whit'll be jimmy Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Religion CITY, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What was all that then? - what? - that. - that was glasgow Last Line: Hunch-cuddy-hunch against a phantom housewall Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland CITY CEMETERY (WRITTEN IN GLASGOW), by LUIS CERNUDA Poem Source First Line: There are open railings and walls Last Line: For even god may be forgetting you Subject(s): Cemeteries; Glasgow, Scotland; Scottish Translations CLYDE, by BASS KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: Ho! Ye magnets of the city, study this unsavoury ditty Last Line: It's a sorry slur on science, and dishonour to the clyde Subject(s): Clyde River, Scotland; Glasgow, Scotland CLYDE: A POEM, SELS., by JOHN+(5) WILSON Subject(s): Clyde River, Scotland; Glasgow, Scotland CLYDEGRAD, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was so fine we lingered there for hours Last Line: But where will they arrive %with all, boat, city, earth, like them, afloat? Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland COCK-SPARROW AND GOOSE, A FABLE, by JAMES+(2) WILSON Poem Source First Line: A goose there was in glasgow town Last Line: The dwarf and giant, black and white, %base whores admit for perquisite Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland COD LIVER OIL AND ORANGE JUICE, by CARL MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: It was oot o the east there came a hard man Last Line: So hairy mary had a little baby %aw haw, its faither's in t he army Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland COMING OF THE WEE MALKIES, by STEPHEN MULRINE Poem Source First Line: Whit'll ye dae when the wee malkies come Last Line: Haw, missis, whit'll ye dae? Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland DEDICATED TO THE PEOPLE OF GLASGOW, by RICHARD PEARSON Poem Source First Line: Let glasgow flourish, not in wealth alone Last Line: With growing lustre may they ever shine, %and shed reflected light in every clime Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland DISCOVERY, by DUNCAN GLEN Poem Source First Line: Tourists ken mair nor natives we are tellt Last Line: It's nou a 'closed sewer'! Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland DOCKS ON SUNDAY, by JEAN MILTON Poem Source First Line: Hulks, ruined warehouses Last Line: Where glass was punched out and flowers float %out - out - out - out Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland DOON THE WATTER AT THE FAIR, by BASS KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: Come listen tae me, nannie dear Last Line: Wi' twa-three days' diversio doon, %the watter at the fair Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland DUG A DUG, by WILLIAM KEYS Poem Source First Line: Hey, daddy, wid ye get us a dug? Last Line: Aw, daddy! A dug! A dug! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Glasgow, Scotland EXHIBITION ODE, NO. 3, by MIDDLEMASS BROWN Poem Source First Line: Hail, this glorious enterprise Last Line: And our efforts firmly bind %hearts and hands of all mankin d Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland FAMILY VISIT, by JOHN STEWART CONN Poem Source First Line: Laying linoleum, my father spends hours Last Line: And pocked marble of queen margaret bridge Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland FETCH ON THE FIRST OF JANUARY, by LIZ LOCHHEAD Poem Source First Line: Nae time eftir the bells, and the Last Line: Come away in, stranger, happy new year Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland FIRST FITIN', by JESSIE RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: It's time that some sensible body should speak Last Line: When homely affections and joy should be rife, %on the new-opened page o' record o' time Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland G.M. HOPKINS IN GLASGOW, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Earnesly nervous yet forthright, melted Last Line: That trudged him back along north woodside road Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889) GALLANT SHOEMAKERS OF GLASGOW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all ye gallant shoemakers wherever you may be Last Line: Success to judge and donaldson who fear no master's frown, %and success to all the gallant flints of Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Shoes GASOMETER FOLLOES (FOR EDWIN MORGAN), by HAMISH WHYTE Poem Source First Line: Demolishers always leave some bits Last Line: Morsels for the excavators %of a new age? Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GHOSTS, by JOHN STEWART CONN Poem Source First Line: My face against the bars Last Line: Like my father and grandfather, %ghosts in the empty air Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GIRL I MET IN BYRES ROAD, by ROBIN HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: At night I can't remember her, or ever unwounded Last Line: And the shadows that were ourselves remained %alone Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASCHU, by J. F. HENDRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ahoy! Glaschu seen from sea or air Last Line: Now mist brings dissolution to its ships Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW, by JOHN+(2) BARCLAY Poem Source First Line: Glasgow to thee thy neighbouring towns give place Last Line: Which in the earth and air and ocean are, %have joyn'd to build with a propitious star Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW, by WILLIAM GILFEDDER Poem Source First Line: I have just finished reading macdiarmid's poem Last Line: A know there's hunners o things a should have mentioned %butye canny think o everything at wance Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW, by MARY MACARTHUR Poem Source First Line: I trod thy streets, proud city of the clyde! Last Line: And works of mercy have been done in thee, %that towns and nations might repent to see! Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful city of glasgow, with your streets so neat and clean Last Line: Chorus. Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips GLASGOW, by ALEXANDER SMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, poet, 'tis a merry world Last Line: Dwells in thy noise and smoky breath. Subject(s): Cities; Glasgow, Scotland; Urban Life GLASGOW, by IAIN CRICHTON SMITH Poem Source First Line: City, cauldron of a shapeless fire Last Line: They shed the rotting tenements flying goalward Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW, by KENNETH WHITE Poem Source First Line: Betty's bar the ship inn Last Line: Lit by green light %sunrana, kristiansand Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW - COMING HOME AGAIN, by JEAN MILTON Poem Source First Line: I found the garden had turned into a %naked yesterday soaked leafmould Last Line: So autumn sweeps into us Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW 1956, by GERALD MANGAN Poem Source First Line: There's always a headscarf stooped Last Line: The bride stands smiling there %for decades, waiting for the click Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW BEASTS, AN A BURD HAW, AN INSEKS, AN, AW, A FUSH, by IAIN (IAN) HAMILTON FINLAY Poem Source First Line: See me %wan time - an wan time %ah wis a moose Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW CASSANDRA, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetheart, here's a rose, wid ye look Last Line: An keep this rose aye in yir mind, %fur wan thing's sure, it disnae last Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW FAIR, by WILLIAM+(2) BURNS Poem Source First Line: Oh, never gang to glasgow fair Last Line: And when you come near glasgow jail %watch you the mkss mccuthchens Subject(s): Festivals; Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW GREEN, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clammy midnight, moonless mist Last Line: Its waves break here, in this park %splashing the flesh as it trembles %like driftwood through the Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW NIGHT, by KENNETH WHITE Poem Source First Line: In the world there is fog Last Line: Ready to jazz with the sea Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW REVIEWED AND CONTRASTED, by ROBERT GALLOWAY Poem Source First Line: Ae winter night, impell'd by strong desire Last Line: With gates of brass, and bars of massy gold? %the place, unnotic'd now, can scarce be told Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW SABBATH, by TOM BUCHAN Poem Source First Line: Rum submerges %rain sheets off the dull heft of the cuillin Last Line: Goldfish ruffle the milky mucus on their skins Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW SONGS, by ALEXANDER+(2) SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Something to do with territory makes them stab Last Line: The seventh cavalry rein on a sixth sense %but will the braves believe? Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW SONNETS: 1, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A mean wind wanders through the backcourt trash Last Line: Letting his coughs fall %thinly into an air too poor to rob Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW SONNETS: 10, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From thirtieth floor windows at red road Last Line: Carry a load that weighs us like a judge Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW SONNETS: 2, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A shilpit dog fucks grimly by the close Last Line: Who stripped the neighbouring houses, howled, and fired %their aerosols - of squeaking 'filthy lucre Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW SONNETS: 3, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: See a tenement due for demolition? Last Line: Who stripped the neighbouring houses, howled, and fired %their aerosols - of squeaking 'filthy lucre Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW SONNETS: 4, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down by the brickworks you get warm at last Last Line: On the wrecker's ball the rains %of greeting cities drop an d drink their fill Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW SONNETS: 5, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let them eat cake' make no bones about it Last Line: While distant blackboards use you as their duster Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW SONNETS: 6, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The north sea oil-strike tilts scotland up Last Line: The doors will bang on laughter and a wing %over the firth be simply joy again Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW SONNETS: 7, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Environmentalists, ecologists %and conservationists are fine no doubt Last Line: A wig's the thing to beat both beard and shave Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW SONNETS: 8, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Meanwhile the flyovers breed loops of light Last Line: And hurrying umbrellas keep their skill to %feed ukiyo-e beyond lochnagar Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW SONNETS: 9, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It groans and shakes, contracts and grows again Last Line: Man and sea make cities as they must Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW STREET, by WILLIAM MONTGOMERIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of this ugliness may come Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW STREET, by WILLIAM MONTGOMERIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out of this ugliness may come Last Line: But why were all the poets dumb? Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW TYPES: NO. 1. THE CAR CONDUCTOR, by CHARLES J. KIRK Poem Source First Line: Ach! I'd rather be a cairter wi' %a horse an' coal briquettes Last Line: An' the corporation, they can - richt, wull. Here's %the terminus Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW TYPES: NO. 2. THE FOUR-WHEELER, by CHARLES J. KIRK Poem Source First Line: I'll put ma twa feet through yer biler Last Line: An' I hope that a spark frae yir ingin %will set the whole d - d thing on fire Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW TYPES: NO. 3. THE FLAPPER, by CHARLES J. KIRK Poem Source First Line: I'm fair run aff ma tootsies in the tea-shop whaur I work Last Line: Is the sort o' song I - (hullo, bertie! Whaur we gaun the night?) Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW TYPES: NO. 4. THE ENGINEER, by CHARLES J. KIRK Poem Source First Line: The shwe dagon's a bonnie kirk a' set wi' rubies braw Last Line: When you're sailin' up by greenock, an' - gosh, there's the 'stand-by' bell! Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW TYPES: NO. 5. THE BARMAID, by CHARLES J. KIRK Poem Source First Line: When a fella calls me tottie, I put on an air that's haughty Last Line: When you're roostin' up in heaven - or the other place perhaps Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW UNDERGROUND, by CLIFFORD HANLEY Poem Source First Line: I know a lot of folk go fancy places at the fair Last Line: Oh it's lovely going your holidays %on the glasgow underground Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW'S ALIVE, by CATH CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Glasgow's alive and kicking Last Line: In spite of the bastards Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW'S FULL OF ARTISTS, by ALAN JACKSON Poem Source Last Line: And eat sherbet dabs Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW, 1960, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Returning to glasgow after long exile Last Line: I saw the edition sell like hot cakes Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW, EASTER 1968, by JOAN URE Poem Source First Line: I hate this city Last Line: And I reject it Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wagner might call berlin a city Last Line: To think of men of such stature in glasgow %to think of any man at all that is more than a louse! Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW, SELS., by JOHN MAYNE Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGOW; A POEM IN SIX CANTOS: 1, by W.+(2) B. Poem Source First Line: Oh! Could my muse take wing, and soar as high Last Line: And blame their folly? Ye have follies too, %though hid and polished o'er from erring mortals' view Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLASGUA, by ARTHUR JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Glasgua, tu socias inter caput exeris urbes Last Line: Quot mare, quot tellus, quotquot et aether habet Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLESCA RHAPSODIE, by JOHN KINCAID Poem Source First Line: Eh, ma citie o raucle sang Last Line: Ma douce reithe citie, ma haill lee-life Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLESCA', by W. D. COCKER Poem Source First Line: Hech, sirs! But I'm wabbit, I'm back frae the toon Last Line: We ken better in kippen. An' syne we cam' hame Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GLOTTA: A POEM, SELS., by JAMES ARBUCKLE Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GORBALS, by TOM BERRY Poem Source First Line: Spence and matthew manufactured %concrete cliffs shape the new gorbals Last Line: Part of this accidental city Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GREAT WESTERN ROAD, by DONNY O'ROURKE Poem Source First Line: Glasgow, you look beatific in blue Last Line: Just to gulp you down in heartfuls, %feeling something quitelike love Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GUDE BUKE, by STEPHEN MULRINE Poem Source First Line: Ah like a gude buke Last Line: Howm ah tawe know %yir tryin tae read? Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland GUNFIGHT AT THE GOVAN CORRAL, by GERALD MANGAN Poem Source First Line: Leather-skinned from the desert heat Last Line: The sun sets over the govan toll Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland HEAVEN KNOWS; LINES ON TRIAL FOR MURDER OF L'ANGELIER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shade of the hapless stranger, lost l'angelier Last Line: He came, he saw, he loved, he sinned, he died %we wait till heaven and time shall tell us more Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Smith, Madeleine Hamilton (1835-1928) HERT O THE CITY, by DUNCAN GLEN Poem Source First Line: I'm juist passin through Last Line: Ye shouldna be here by yersel! Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland HEY YOO, by NICOL CUNNINGHAM Poem Source First Line: It's love loosens yer tongue Last Line: Any minute noo yoo an me's %going tae get lyrical Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland HOW WE SPENT A SABBATH DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our's is a week dark unco crowded house Last Line: Fearin' results does duty aft deter; %we're prone tae judge,an' speak, an' act for god - an' err Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Sabbath HUMOURS OF GLASGOW FAIR, by UNKNOWN+270 Poem Source First Line: I sing the sports' glasgow fair Last Line: Will last till death intrude %on them some morn Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland HUNDRED YEARS AGO, SELS., by WILLIAM CANTON Poet's Biography Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland I BELONG TO GLASGOW (CHORUS), by WILL FYFFE Poem Source Last Line: Glasgow belongs to me Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland IN GLASGOW, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I but be fearful Last Line: When my eyes make glass of glasgow %and foresee the end of it Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland IN GLASGOW, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my smoochy corner Last Line: I lie staring yet %forget forget Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Love IN GLASGOW, by DERICK THOMSON Poem Source First Line: Saturday night on jamaica street Last Line: Is it long since you heard from home? Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland IN MEMORIAM - ANDERSTON, by TOM BERRY Poem Source First Line: The music itself is better on the hi-fi Last Line: You have an easy chair and no distractions Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland IN THE SLUMS OF GLASGOW, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have caught a glimpse of the seamless garment Last Line: Duddadam dadade dudde dadadadadadodadah Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland INDUSTRIAL SCENE, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The women talk, tea-drinking by the fire' Last Line: Venus weeps overhead. Poised on the ridge %the unemployed regard the promised land Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Labor And Laborers INNER GLASGOW, by ROBERT+(2) CRAWFORD Poem Source First Line: You were a small red coat among the pit bings Last Line: To lie along the bowsprits of our lives Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland IRON SHIPBUILDING ON THE CLYDE, by BASS KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: Ho, mates! Go lay the keel-blocks down Last Line: The ships are yet to build, my boys! %to match those built on the clyde Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Shipbuilding JAMES MAXTON, by THOMAS SCOTT Poem Source First Line: Made by the clyde and unmade by the thames Last Line: The lineaments o new jerusalem Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, Tom Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Politics JEELY PIECE SONG, by ADAM MCNAUGHTAN Poem Source First Line: I'm a skyscraper wean; I live on the nineteenth flair Last Line: Like nae mair hooses ower piece-flinging height Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland JINGLE, by ALAN SPENCE Poem Source First Line: This is the fish that never swam Last Line: Never ever swam Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland JINGLE, by ALAN SPENCE Poem Source First Line: This is the bird that never flew Last Line: Flew %ah! Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland JINGLE, by ALAN SPENCE Poem Source First Line: This is the tree that never grew Last Line: This tree grew never evergreen Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland JINGLE, by ALAN SPENCE Poem Source First Line: This is the bell that never rang Last Line: Rang rang rang rang Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland JOAN EARDLEY, by DAVID KINLOCH Poem Source First Line: The sea is a wall Last Line: To build children from its crumbling wall Subject(s): Art And Artists; Glasgow, Scotland JOHN HIGHLANDMAN'S REMARKS ON THE CITY OF GLASGOW, by DOUGAL GRAHAM Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: Her nainsel into glasgow went Last Line: Put my hannet and donal's wife, %wad rather had a bannock Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland JOURNEYMAN, by BRIAN WHITTINGHAM Poem Source First Line: Wurkin piecewurk in the funnel shoap Last Line: The first aider wisnae much use tae him %neither he wiz Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland KELVINBRIDGE: A NODE, by FRANK KUPPNER Poem Source First Line: A terrible day - strong winds, heavy rain. After reading Last Line: And what, may I ask, will have just collided with what? Subject(s): Bridges; Glasgow, Scotland KING BILLY, by EDWIN MORGAN Poet's Biography First Line: Grey over riddrie the clouds piled up Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland KING BILLY, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Grey over riddrie the clouds piled up Last Line: Deplore what is to be deplored, %and then find out the rest Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland KNOW YE THE TOWN WHERE THE SMOKE AND IMPRUDENCE, by C. M. P. Poem Source Last Line: In colour are equal, in blackness may vie, %and often the river is purple with dye? Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland LABOUR PROVOST, by IAIN NICOLSON Poem Source First Line: When I was young and fu' o' fire Last Line: On bended knee, or if it suits, %on hunkers doon we'll lick her boots Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Labor Unions LAMENT FOR A LOST DINNER TICKET, by MARGARET HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: See ma mammy %see ma dinner ticket Last Line: A sed ma bumsair %nwen'y sleep Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland LET GLASGOW FLOURISH!, by ANDREW PARK Poem Source First Line: Some sing of love, some sing of war Last Line: May still her tree majestic tower; %huzza! Let glasgow flourish! Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland LET GLASGOW FLOURISH: 1. THE MONKISH PERIOD, by JAMES MANSON Poem Source First Line: Long, long ago, when monkish zeal Last Line: Here's to the bird that never flew, %from off the tree that never grew. %hurrah! Let glasgow flouris Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland LET GLASGOW FLOURISH: 2. THE MARTIAL PERIOD, by JAMES MANSON Poem Source First Line: Long, long ago, the monks are dead Last Line: Raise high the bird that never flew, %stand for the tree which never grew. %hurrah! Let glasgow flou Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland LET GLASGOW FLOURISH: 3. THE MERCANTILE PERIOD, by JAMES MANSON Poem Source First Line: Long, long ago, both cowl and sword Last Line: Sell all the fish that never swam, %coin down the bell that never rang. %hurrah! Let glasgow flouris Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland LET GLASGOW FLOURISH: 4. THE MENDICANT PERIOD, by JAMES MANSON Poem Source First Line: No sneering cynic now can tell Last Line: Skin, gut, the fish that never swam, %and pledge the bell that never rang. %hurrah! Let glasgow flou Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland LET GLASGOW FLOURISH: 5. THE MERCENARY PERIOD, by JAMES MANSON Poem Source First Line: Respice finem. Leech atten Last Line: The fish, a victim shrunk and bare, %the bell, the clang of wild despair. %hurrah! Let glasgow flour Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland LET GLASGOW FLOURISH: 6. THE MILLENNIAL PERIOD, by JAMES MANSON Poem Source First Line: A glorious scene looms far but dim Last Line: When man shall trust his brother's word, %and god alone shall be adored. %till then, let glasgow flo Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland LIGHTBURN GLEN, by WILLIAM MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a spot I dearly lo'ed Last Line: There's no place below the sun %I'd sooner try than lightburn glen Alternate Author Name(s): Laureate Of The Nursery Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland LINES ON REVISITING A SCOTTISH RIVER, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And call they this improvement? - to have changed Last Line: My wallace's own stream, and once romantic clyde! Subject(s): Clyde River, Scotland; Glasgow, Scotland LUNARDI'S SECOND FLIGHT FROM GLASGOW DESCRIBED, by ROBERT GALLOWAY Poem Source First Line: The hardy seaman, when ashore Last Line: And then he's sure to get his pakes, when on his bum Subject(s): Air Travel; Glasgow, Scotland MARYHILL, by TOM MCGRATH Poem Source First Line: There's a space where that building was Last Line: But the present needs more substance Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland MATT MCGINN, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot see it, it keeps changing so Last Line: The book is clasped, and time will never free it. %mektub. The caravan winds jangling on Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland MIRACLE OF GLASGOW'S CULTURAL REVIVAL (PRE-1990), SELS., by DOUGLAS LIPTON Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland MITCHELL LIBRARY, by KEVIN MCCARRA Poem Source First Line: I dreamed last night I saw atlantis drown Last Line: Suggests an order %I can relish failing to grasp Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland MONSTER, by ARCHIE MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: A monster came out the graveyard down at caledonia road Last Line: But I suppose we're all grown up, or most of us Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland MY NEW LOCATION, SELS., by JOHN YOUNG Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland NEWS OF THE WORLD, by IAIN HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: As I came round by templeton's Last Line: From glasgow green I go Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland NIGHT PILLION, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eleven struck. The traffic lights were green Last Line: Joy is where long solitude dissolves %I rode with you towards human needs and cares Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland NOSTALGIE, by STEPHEN MULRINE Poem Source First Line: Well, the george squerr stchumers've pit the hems Last Line: An we'll jis stick like the monklan itsel %non-runners Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland NOT HERE!, by DAVID W. BONE Poem Text First Line: High water, 9 a.M. Last Line: "but, goad! Ye'll find it thick at govan pier!" Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland NUNS IN GORDON STREET, by WILLIAM JEFFREY Poem Source First Line: Sun and wind dropt happily down Last Line: What were ye seeking, o virgins cold %weary of wandering, phantoms old Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland OBITUARY, by LIZ LOCHHEAD Poem Source First Line: We two in w.2 Last Line: Seems silly now really Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Love - Loss Of ODE ON THE NINTH JUBILEE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is a joyous day Last Line: Willing I keep, with you, this solemn jubilee! Subject(s): University Of Glasgow, Scotland ODE TO THE CLYDE, by CHARLES J. KIRK Poem Source First Line: Hail, great black-bosomed mother of our city Last Line: To scent thy sweetness on the desert air Subject(s): Clyde River, Scotland; Glasgow, Scotland ON JOHN MACLEAN, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am not prepared to let moscow dictate to glasgow Last Line: We are out for life and all that life can give us' %was wh at he said, that's what he said Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland ON THE MEETING OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION IN GLASGOW, 1860, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of the west! We hail thee from afar! Last Line: To lead to heaven, and train for life on earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Conventions; Glasgow, Scotland; Humanity; Life; Mankind; Social Problems; Assemblies; Meetings; Human Race PARKHEAD CROSS, by WILLIAM MONTGOMERIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A miner blue-scarred leashes his whippet Last Line: The singing dies away Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland PERISHIN' POEM, by WILLIAM NEILL Poem Source First Line: Winter's came Last Line: Wee josis frozis skintit %winter's diabolic - init? Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Winter PETITION: UNTO G.R. AND A.H., ESQS., by ALEXANDER RODGER Poem Source First Line: Humbly sheweth, %that, tired of the town, the saltmarket sick Last Line: Beat cloth, strip shades; in short, do anything, %and your petitioner will ever - sing Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland PIGEONS IN GEORGE SQUARE, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pigeons, pee-gulls Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Pigeons PIGEONS IN GEORGE SQUARE, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pigeons, pee-gulls Last Line: Citizens of glasgow Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Pigeons PLAIN SPEAKING, by JAMES MCGONIGAL Poem Source First Line: I put it to you plainly, as when Last Line: And, plainly I tell you, it welcomes them home Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland QUEER FOLKS AT THE SHAWS, by JAMES MCINDOE Poem Source First Line: Who ne'er unto the shaws has been Last Line: The barrhead coach will take you out, %the folks will take you in Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland RAB AND WILL, OR THE TWA WEAVERS; A TRUE TALE, by GEORGE MCINDOE Poem Source First Line: Twa calton swabs, ae afternoon Last Line: Which had been gleed, the steeple bell, %the sun, the kirk, or - rab an' will Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland RAIN IN SUACHIEHALL STREET, by ALEXANDER+(2) SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Dowie the air %darker nor dayliagaun at heich-o-day Last Line: Better they grat their grief,' the makar cried Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland RIDER, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A grampus whacked the hydrophone %loch fyne left its green bed Last Line: Burned me to the bone, but the hare like mad %played Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland SANCT MUNGO, by ALEXANDER RODGER Poem Source First Line: Sanct mungo wals ane famous sanct Last Line: For ance I tynd my garmente skirtis, %throuch lufe o' barley-bree Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Kentigern, Saint (518-603) SATURDAY IN GLASGOW, by WILLIAM WATT Poem Source First Line: Wide through the cloudless lift o' blue Last Line: And laugh at stark damnation %baith nicht and day Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland SCHOOL FRIEND, by BILL MCCORKINDALE Poem Source First Line: A platform lad in a miracle world Last Line: To meet his love %who never comes Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland SEEN OUT, by MAURICE LINDSAY Poem Source First Line: Over small print in papers Last Line: From a sense of place that hadn't %quite seen out her time Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland SENSE OF ORDER, by JOHN STEWART CONN Poem Source First Line: I stop at the foot of garioch drive Last Line: And breathes freely, behind iron bars Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland SETTERDAY NICHT SYMPHONIE (TIL HUGH MACDIARMID), SELS., by JOHN KINCAID Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland SIX GLASGOW POEMS: 1. THE GOOD THIEF, by TOM LEONARD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heh jimmy / yawright ih Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland SIX GLASGOW POEMS: 1. THE GOOD THIEF, by TOM LEONARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heh jimmy %yawright ih Last Line: Good jobe theyve gote thi lights Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland SIX GLASGOW POEMS: 2. SIMPLE SIMON, by TOM LEONARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thurteen bluddy years wi thim ih Last Line: A bluddy skandal %sicken yi Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland SIX GLASGOW POEMS: 3. COLD, ISN'T IT, by TOM LEONARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wirraw init thigithir missyz Last Line: Geezyir kross Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland SIX GLASGOW POEMS: 4. A SCREAM, by TOM LEONARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yi mist yirsell so yi did Last Line: Thi daft kunt wullny even getiz bluddy ferz Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland SIX GLASGOW POEMS: 5. THE MIRACLE OF THE BURD AND THE FISHES, by TOM LEONARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ach sun Last Line: Thirz a loat merr fish in thi sea Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland SIX GLASGOW POEMS: 6. GOOD STYLE, by TOM LEONARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Helluva hard tay read theez init Last Line: Stick thi bootnyi good style %so ah wull Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland SOMETHING I'M NOT, by LIZ LOCHHEAD Poem Source First Line: Familiar with, the tune Last Line: That push the pram turn blue %in this city's cold climate Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland SOMETIMES IT'S HARD TO BE A WOMAN, by LIZ LOCHHEAD Poem Source Last Line: If you can't bloody stand your man Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Women SONG FOR GLASGOW (TO THE TUNE OF JAMIE RAEBURN'S FAREWELL), by ALASDAIR ROBERTSON Poem Source First Line: Night-lights on the river Last Line: So I'll celebrate my city %in the days that are to come Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland SONG OF GLASGOW TOWN, by MARION BERNSTEIN Poem Source First Line: I'll sing a song of glasgow town Last Line: And boast her clear unclouded skies, %and crystal-flowing clyde? Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Nature SONG: THE FAIR, by GEORGE MCINDOE Poem Source First Line: O jenny thou's my joy and care Last Line: And yet he play'd the vera deil %when coming frae the fair Subject(s): Festivals; Glasgow, Scotland ST. ROLLOX LUM'S ADDRESS TO ITS BRETHREN, by JOHN MITCHELL (1786-1856) Poem Source First Line: Haud up your heads, ye stunted things Last Line: Meantime, see how on upper air %I spread my smoke Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland STARLINGS IN GEORGE SQUARE, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sundown on the high stonefields! Last Line: They like the warm cliffs of man Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland STREET, by JAMES MACFARLAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flow on, dark street! I hear thee roar Last Line: Another thousand, it may be - %but no, we dare not think of thee Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland STREET IN GLASGOW, by DERICK THOMSON Poem Source First Line: The clean windows of the prisons are open Last Line: On a late street in the city of glasgow, %shortly before the sky was seen burning Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland SWEET CLYDE, by DUNCAN GLEN Poem Source First Line: I was born here in cam' slang Last Line: You'd near think it would turn back on itsel %haein had a taste o what's to come Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland SYMBOL, by WILLIAM SOUTAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doun by the clyde there is a skeleton Last Line: Speaks, but the een - an' ahint the een - %cryin', cryin': 'what hae ye dune tae oor youth?' Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland TALE OF THE TOWN, by JAMES MACFARLAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mong sunny plains or waving woods Last Line: I'm in the streets: but that bright day %has kept my heart in fields away! Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland TEA TIME, by TOM LEONARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ahm thaht depehhhndint Last Line: Ahl better away Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland THATCHER YEARS, by JOHN MALEY Poem Source First Line: Stony rubbish, cruel months, fallen estates Last Line: I sat upon the shore %musing upon this thing my country's wreck Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Thatcher, Margaret (b.1925) THE RHYME OF SIR LAUNCELOT BOGLE; A LEGEND OF GLASGOW, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a pleasant place of rest Last Line: Take my leave! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Knights & Knighthood; Legends; Rhyme THERE WAS THAT TIME CHARLIE TULLY, by TOM MCGRATH Poem Source Last Line: He was very sick after that. He goat %very bad jaundice Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland THIS IS MY STORY, by TOM WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: This is my city %my home Last Line: I can no more define it %than define myself Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland THIS UNRUNG BELL, by NEIL MCLELLAN Poem Source First Line: What bloodless abortion silenced this unrung bell Last Line: And who can break the spell? Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland THURSDAY MORNING, IN A GLASGOW POST OFFICE, by DERICK THOMSON Poem Source First Line: From the streets Last Line: Standing in the queque there %thinking I was whole Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland TINY TUNES RULE ALL', by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild rubbish, fine rubble and black broken windows Last Line: You're put out to pasture in ash. And you're broken glass Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland TO JOAN EARDLEY, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pale yellow letters %humbly straggling across Last Line: But the shrill children %jump on my wall Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland TO LESBIA'S HUSAND, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gaun ye clown Last Line: If she effed at you Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland TRIO, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Coming up buchanan street, quickly, on a sharp winter evening Last Line: At the end of this winter's day Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland TWIN-SCREW SET - 1902, by WILLIAM J. FRASER HUTCHESON Poem Source First Line: Week after week I watched the darlings growing Last Line: The funnel tops; and, fed with coal aplenty, %what care they if it blow! Subject(s): Factories; Glasgow, Scotland VERSES COMPOSED WHILE WALKING ON GADSHILL ..., by WILLIAM HARRISTON Poem Source First Line: By glasgow's enterprising race Last Line: Th' industrious aged poor to warm, %to give weak drooping age a charm Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland VERSES ON VIEWING THE ACQUEDUCT BRIDGE OVER KELVIN ..., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If architecture's pride in modern time Last Line: While thy huge fabrric, tow'rs above the rest, %and stands the monarch of the group confess'd Subject(s): Bridges; Glasgow, Scotland WANDERER, SELS., by JAMES MACFARLAN Poet's Biography Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland WANTED IN GLASGOW, by MARION BERNSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Wanted a filter, to filter the clyde Last Line: By which all those wants can be quickly supplied, %that glasgow may flourish, her citizens' pride Subject(s): Clyde River, Scotland; Glasgow, Scotland; Pollution WEAVER'S SATURDAY, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland WEE CHARLIE'S ELEGY, SELS., by JAMES LEMON Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland WELCOME TO THE WATERS OF LOCH-KATRINE, SELS., by JAMES NICHOLSON Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland WHOSE CHILDREN, by EDWARD HUNTER Poem Source First Line: It was to the city of glasgow you came Last Line: Convener of the red clyde public health writes this of you, %my children Subject(s): Children; Glasgow, Scotland; Public Health YAIRDS, by JOHN F. FERGUS Poem Source First Line: I've wrocht amang them, man and boy, for mair nor fifty year Last Line: The best o' wark, the bonniest boats aye come frae oot the clyde Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland YES, YON FAIR TOWN, by DUGALD MOORE Poem Source Last Line: That ridge on ridge, in awful stateliness, %checker the solitary wastes of blue Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland YOU HAVE RETURNED TO GLASGOW AFTER A LONG EXILE, by TOM LEONARD Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A certain professor macfadyen has detected the influence of macdiarmid Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Poetry And Poets YOU LIVED IN GLASGOW, by IAIN CRICHTON SMITH Poem Source Last Line: The old songs you sang %fade in their pop songs, scale on a dizzying scale Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland |
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