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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SCOTLAND Matches Found: 647 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "FAREWELL TO MACKENZIE, HIGH CHIEF OF KINTAIL", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: "farewell to mackenneth, great earl of the north" Last Line: That salutes thee the heir of the line of kintail! Subject(s): Scotland "RARE WILLIE DROWNED IN YARROW, OR, THE WATER O GAMRIE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "willy's rare, and willy's fair" Last Line: She found him drown'd in yarrow Subject(s): "drowning;yarrow (water), Scotland; "WILLIE AND MAY MARGARET, OR THE WATER OF CLYDE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Willie stands in his stable door Last Line: Like sister an' like brither Variant Title(s): Clyde Water Subject(s): "clyde River, Scotland; (ON NOT) MEETING DAVID AT THE BEACH, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Silky-white, the sand I brush from my ankles sprays Last Line: Do we miss them, the dead? They go with us everywhere Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Saint Kilda (scotland); Travel A DIALOGUE, OCCASIONED BY MARCH OF HIGHLANDERS INTO LANCASHIRE, 1745, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were you not sadly frighten'd, honest harry Last Line: Harry. Yoi, sur, as lung as ere I con, I will. Subject(s): Blood; Fights; Lancashire, England; Scotland - Relations With England A HIGHLAND VILLAGE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clear shining after the rain Last Line: Clear shining after the rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Farm Life; Highlands Of Scotland; Agriculture; Farmers A MEMORY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, while the loom of winter weaves Last Line: To cluden's hills of heather! Subject(s): Memory; Scotland A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION TO LEAVE DUNDEE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome! Thrice welcome! To the year 1893 Last Line: And leave dundee some early day. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Farewell; Holidays; New Year; Parting A NORTHERN SONG, by THOMAS D'URFEY Poem Text First Line: Sawney was tall and of noble race Last Line: For now he ne'er will be my love again. Subject(s): Scotland A PLEA FOR THE DORIC, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forgi'e, oh, forgi'e me, auld scotlan', my mither! Last Line: That I'll never hear tell whan the doric is gane. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Scotland A REAL INCIDENT OF THE PERSECUTING TIMES IN SCOTLAND, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lay within that lonely cot Last Line: He rose, and scotland left for aye. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; God; Persecution; Religion; Scotland; Dead, The; Theology A SCOTCH SONG, by THOMAS D'URFEY Poem Text First Line: Twas within a furlong of edinborough town Last Line: Or I cannot, cannot, &c. Subject(s): Scotland A SUMMARY HISTORY OF SIR WILLIAM WALLACE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir william wallace of ellerslie Last Line: Who had fought for scotland so well. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; History; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); Historians A TALE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In scotland's realm, where trees are few Last Line: Instruct us how to love! Subject(s): Scotland A TRIBUTE TO DR MURISON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Success to the good and skilful dr murison Last Line: Is the honest confession of mcgonagall. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Honor; Medicine; Patience; Physicians; Praise; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors A TRIBUTE TO HENRY M. STANLEY; THE GREAT AFRICAN EXPLORER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, thrice welcome, to the city of dundee Last Line: And play up, see the conquering hero comes! Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Explorers; Heroism; Stanley, Sir Henry Morton (1841-1904); Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Heroes; Heroines; Rowlands, John; Journeys; Trips A TURN IN THE HIGHLANDS, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the highlands I'm off for a fortnight,' says jack Last Line: "why turn it, and then I can wear it for two." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Scotland; Travel; Journeys; Trips A WINDOW IN PRINCES STREET, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the crags that fade and gloom Last Line: Bold bugles blowing points of war. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin Last Line: And willing nations knew their lawful lord. Variant Title(s): Absalom And Achitophel: A Poem Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Conspiracy; Cooper, Anthony (1621-1683); Great Britain - Popish Plot (1678-80); Hyde, Lawrence. 1st Earl Of Rochester; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460); Jews; Politics & Government; Scott, James. Duke Of Mon ADDRESS INTENDED TO BE RECITED AT THE CALEDONIA MEETING, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who hath not glowed above the page where fame Last Line: And wean from penury the soldier's heir. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Scotland ADDRESS TO BEELZEBUB, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long life, my lord, an' health be yours Last Line: An' till ye come -- your humble servant, Subject(s): Freedom; Scotland - Relations With England; Liberty ADDRESS TO EDINBURGH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Edina, scotia's darling seat! Last Line: I shelter in thy honour'd shade. Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland 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 AFTON WATER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flow gently, sweet afton, among thy green braes Last Line: Flow gently, sweet afton, disturb not her dream. Variant Title(s): Sweet Afton Subject(s): Afton (river), Scotland; Inland Waters; Love; Rivers ALBION AND ALBANIUS: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After our aesop's fable shown today Last Line: This britain's basis on a word is laid, %as by a word the world itself was made Subject(s): James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460); Opera ALBION AND ALBANIUS: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full twenty years and more,our laboring stage Last Line: Voices may help your charter to restoring, %and get by singing what you lost by roaring Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460); Opera ALMA ROSE WRITES FROM ST KILDA, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: On the carriage on my way, (blots? Clots?) of dark on the hills Last Line: When I see you-if seas be calm and weather clear, alma rose Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Prayer; Saint Kilda (scotland); Sisters; Writing And Writers ALMAE MATRES (ST. ANDREWS, 1862; OXFORD, 1865), by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Andrews by the northern sea Last Line: That is a haunted town to me! Subject(s): Oxford University; Schools; St. Andrews University (scotland); Youth; Students AN ADVENTURE IN THE LIFE OF KING JAMES V. OF SCOTLAND, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On one occasion king james the fifth of scotland, when alone, in disguise Last Line: "then john said, ""thanks to your majesty, I'll willingly obey." Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; James V, King Of Scotland (1512-1542); Leadership 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 ANNAN WATER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Annan water's wading deep Last Line: That ye never more true love may sever Subject(s): "annan River, Scotland; ANNIVERSARY OF THE ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY, GLASGOW, 1866, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, brothers! True sons of the mother we love Last Line: The boast of the free, and the hope of the slave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Brotherhood; Patriotism; Scotland ANSWER TO 'UPON SIR JOHN SUCKLING'S HUNDRED HORSE', by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I tell thee, fellow, whoe'er thou be Last Line: To venture for a crown. Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England 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 ATLANTIC BEACH, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Dawn has come and gone but it is so early Last Line: And purpose and its deadly aim a part of joy Subject(s): Saint Kilda (scotland); Seashore ATTADALE WEST HIGHLANDS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A black and glassy float, opaque and still Last Line: Strange vowels, mysterious gutturals, idly heard. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Scotland AUGUST MORNING, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: The sun beats the water to hammered aluminum Last Line: Of ancient urns come to us dancing, hand the invisible line along Subject(s): Drowning; Lifeguards; Saint Kilda (scotland); Survival AUL' SCOTLAN', by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aul' scotlan'! Lan' o' cakes an' sang Last Line: Be juist a true, gude christian mother! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Scotland AULD MITHER SCOTLAN'; A LAY OF THE DORIC, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Na, na, I wunna pairt wi' that Last Line: Thy place s'all ever be. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Scotland AULD MITHER SCOTLAND, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Auld scotland! Hoo I lo'e the name Last Line: Sweeps ower the dinlin' strings. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Patriotism; Scotland; English AULD SCOTLAND AT THE ABBEY CRAIG IN NOVEMBER, 1864, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As white as a ghaist, wi' a tear in her e'e Last Line: "wi' the will there's a way, wi' the means there's a power." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Grief; Scotland; Sorrow; Sadness AUTUMN IN THE HIGHLANDS; AFTER KEATS, by JOHN CAMPBELL SHAIRP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: October misty bright, the touch is thine Last Line: And crackling grouse-cock whirs on pinions strong. Subject(s): Autumn; Scotland; Seasons; Fall 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 BAGPIPE MUSIC, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Bagpipes; Blavatsky, Helena P. (1831-1891); Depressions, Economic; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Scotland; Theosophy; Recessions BAGPIPE MUSIC, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw Last Line: But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Bagpipes; Blavatsky, Helena P. (1831-1891); Depressions, Economic; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Scotland; Theosophy BANNOCKBURN, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O gay, yet fearful to behold Subject(s): Bannockburn, Battle Of (1314); Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329) BARBARA ROSE WRITES FROM SOUTH UIST, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: It's been cold here and hard, with the war Last Line: Safe, aloft in all that wild blue, untethered Subject(s): Churches; Confessions; Saint Kilda (scotland); Secrets; Sin; Writing And Writers BARCLAY OF URY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up the streets of aberdeen Last Line: Paint the golden morrow! Subject(s): Courage; Scotland; Valor; Bravery 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 BEAUMONT-HAMEL; CAPTURED, NOVEMBER 16, 1916, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead men at beaumont Last Line: Forward evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Army - Scotland; Death; Military; Scotland; Soldiers; Dead, The BEAUTIFUL BALMORAL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye lovers of the picturesque, away and see Last Line: As ye walk along the bonnie banks o' the river dee. Subject(s): Balmoral Castle, Scotland; Rivers; Tourists; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL EDINBURGH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful city of edinburgh, most wonderful to be seen Last Line: Therefore I pronounce you to be the pride of fair scotland. Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL NORTH BERWICK AND ITS SURROUNDINGS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: North berwick is a watering-place with golfing links green Last Line: Where the tourist can enjoy himself and be free from strite Subject(s): Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Villages; Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL ROTHESAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful rothesay, your scenery is most grand Last Line: After viewing the beautiful scenery of rothesay. Subject(s): Guests; Maps; Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips BEGINNINGS; NATURAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND, by JEFFREY GREENE Poem Text First Line: On the ground floor called 'beginnings' Subject(s): Artifacts; History; National Museum Of Scotland; Historians BEN NEVIS (A DIALOGUE), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon my life sir nevis I am pique'd Last Line: That fainting fit was not delayed too late. Subject(s): Ben Nevis (mountain), Scotland BILL WRITES HOME FROM HARRIS, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Mother's funeral is done. Home's unfamiliar now Last Line: I miss you. This might well be my last trip home Subject(s): Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers 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 BLANTYRE, by FRANK MKALAWILE CHIPASULA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rusty grey roofs, stunted white-washed walls Last Line: Walled into personal prisons where fear rules Subject(s): Exiles; Police States; Scotland BONNIE MONTROSE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful town of montrose, I will now commence my lay Last Line: Because you are one of the bonniest towns in scotland at the present day. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Tourists; Towns; Travel; Journeys; Trips BOTHWELL BANK, by JOHN PINKERTON Poem Text First Line: On the blithe beltane, as I went Last Line: But ah! Thou mak'st my heart fu' sair.' Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Love - Loss Of BOTHWELL BRIDGE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o billie, billie, bonny billie" Last Line: The bloody battle of bothwell bridge Subject(s): "bothwell, Scotland;scotland - Relations With England;war; BOTHWELL CASTLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Immured in bothwell's towers, at times the brave Last Line: How little that she cherishes is lost! Subject(s): Castles; Scotland BOTHWELL: PART 1, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold - cold! The wind howls fierce without Last Line: That rise to madden me! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 2, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is bright, the day is warm Last Line: Above the kirk-of-field. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 3, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That gaoler hath a savage look Last Line: The felon now for evermore!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 4, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is a woman's weakest mood? Last Line: Wilt thou do this?' 'your hand -- I will!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 5, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ascension morn! I hear the bells Last Line: The sword that darnley wore. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Ascension Day; Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 6, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O that I were a mountaineer Last Line: Come, death; and I will welcome thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts 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 BRITANNIA REDIVIVA; A POEM ON BIRTH OF JAMES PRINCE OF WALES, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our vows are heard betimes! And heaven take care Last Line: Nor hopes nor fears your steady hand beguile; your self our balance hold, the world's our isle Subject(s): Birth; Catholics; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460) 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 BRUCE AND THE SPIDER, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For scotland's and for freedom's right Last Line: And patience wins the race. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): History; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); War; Historians; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce BRUCE CONSULTS HIS MEN, by JOHN BARBOUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I trow that gude ending Last Line: "till we have made our country free." Subject(s): Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Bruce, Robert; The Bruce BRUCE'S LOCKET, by MORITZ GRAF VON STRACHWITZ Poem Source First Line: Earl douglas, brace thine helmet on Subject(s): Bannockburn, Battle Of (1314); Douglas, Sir James De Douglas, Lord Of; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329) BRUCE, SELS., by JOHN BARBOUR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329) BRUCE: HOW AYMER DE VALENCE, AND JOHN OF LORN CHASED THE BRUCE ..., by JOHN BARBOUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir aymer had great companie Last Line: God save them for his great mercie! Subject(s): Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Bruce, Robert; The Bruce BRUCE: HOW KING ROBERT WAS HUNTED BY THE SLEUTH-HOUND, by JOHN BARBOUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king hath sought the wood withal Last Line: At that stream he escaped, the king. Subject(s): Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Bruce, Robert; The Bruce BRUCE: HOW THE BRUCE CROSSED LOCH LOMOND, by JOHN BARBOUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king, he would no longer stay Last Line: Till all had safely passed the flood. Subject(s): Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Bruce, Robert; The Bruce BRUCE: INTRODUCTION, by JOHN BARBOUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stories we read right willingly / altho' they naught but fables be Last Line: Aught but the truth therein shall be. Subject(s): Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Bruce, Robert; The Bruce 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 CADYOW CASTLE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When princely hamilton's abode Last Line: On the fair banks of evandale. Subject(s): Cadyow Castle, Scotland; Hamilton (noble Scottish Family); Cadzow Castle, Scotland CALEDONIA, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair caledonia! Honoured name Last Line: And freedom bless and crown our isle! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Europe; Freedom; Islands; Scotland; Victory; Liberty CALEDONIA, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy name, caledonia! Queen of the north! Last Line: Tis the spirit of evil incarnate in drink. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Europe; Freedom; Islands; Scotland; Victory; Liberty CANADIAN BOAT SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Fair these broad meads - these hoary woods are grand Last Line: Beat heavily beyond the atlantic roar Subject(s): "hebrides (islands), 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 CARLE, NOW THE KING'S COME (BEING NEW WORDS TO AULD SPRING), by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The news has flown frae mouth to mouth Last Line: Pay down your subscriptions for four volumes more. Subject(s): George Iv, King Of England (1762-1830); 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 CARTHON, by JAMES MACPHERSON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: A tale of the times of old! The deeds of days of other years Last Line: The blast of the north is on the plain; %the traveller shrinks in the midst of his journey Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian Subject(s): Highlands Of Scotland; Mythology - Gaelic CAVE OF STAFFA (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We saw, but surely, in the motley crowd Last Line: Has deigned to work as if with human art! Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns CAVE OF STAFFA (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye shadowy beings, that have rights and claims Last Line: Yon light shapes forth a bard, that shade a chief. Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns CAVE OF STAFFA; AFTER THE CROWD HAD DEPARTED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks for the lessons of this spot - fit school Last Line: Of softest music some reponsive place. Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns CEREMONIES OF BREAD AND WINE, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: These dark smears are called flashmarks Last Line: In silent recoil when the bee flies away. %pray for rain Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Saint Kilda (scotland) CERTAIN VERSES...UPON THE KINGS COMING INTO SCOTLAND: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Doe not repyine fayre sun to see these eyne Last Line: An eden both indeede and name Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Courts & Courtiers; Faces; Scotland; Arthur, King; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CHANGES OF HOME, by JOHN LEYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As every prospect opens on my view Last Line: To find the virtues here beloved in vain. Subject(s): 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 CHARLES EDWARD AT VERSAILLES ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF CULLODEN, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take away that star and garter Last Line: That have died in vain for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788); Courts & Courtiers; Culloden, Battle Of (1746); Death; Love; Scotland - Relations With England; Versailles, Frances; Bonnie Prince Charlie; Young Pretender; Young Chevalier; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dea CHARLES THE FIRST, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Place for the marshal of the masque! Last Line: Except the mill-wheel's sound.' Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Church Of Scotland CHARLIE IS MY DARLING, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a monday morning Last Line: The young chevalier. Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England; Soldiers CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 30. QUEEN MARGARET'S MISSAL, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: The king stood bowed within the cloister crypt Last Line: Love and the light-illumined word abide. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Malcolm Iii Macduncan, King Of Scotland; Margaret Of Scotland, Saint (1046-1093); English History 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 CLAY FIGURES, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Now we know the people who made us Last Line: The way a child's hand clears off a tabletop Subject(s): Children; Saint Kilda (scotland) CLIFF HOUSE, ORKNEY ISLES, by GILLIAN FERGUSON Poem Source First Line: Stone hs rounded Last Line: Under landless stars Subject(s): Orkney Islands (scotland) CLIFFS OF SCOTLAND, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cliffs of scotland, guard them well Last Line: Freedom's precious sons to hold. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Drowning; Scotland 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 COMPLAINT OF THE COMMON WEILL OF SCOTLAND, by DAVID LYNDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And thus as we were talking to and fro Last Line: To rule thy realm in unity and peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, David; Lyndsay, Sir David Of The Moiunt Subject(s): Scotland COMPOSED AT CORA LINN; IN SIGHT OF WALLACE'S TOWER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of the vale! Astounding flood Last Line: That day the tyrant fell. Subject(s): Cora Linn, Scotland COMPOSED AT NEIDPATH CASTLE, 1803, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Degenerate douglas! O the unworthy lord! Last Line: And the green silent pastures, yet remain. Subject(s): Scotland CONCEPTION, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have reached the stage when questioning myself Last Line: Looking out on the world with her own vision Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Scotland CORA LINN, OR THE FALLS OF CLYDE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time I saw thee, cora, last Last Line: Romantic cora linn. Subject(s): Clyde River, Scotland; Waterfalls COVENANTER'S LAMENT, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men of sin prevail! Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; History COWDENKNOWES, by ROBERT CRAWFORD (?-1733) Poem Source First Line: When summer comes, the swains on tweed Last Line: Convey to me the best of swains, %and my lov'd cowdenknowes Subject(s): Cowdenknowes, Scotland CRINOLINE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Auld scotlan' gangs yirmin an' chanerin' alane Last Line: I wad juist ha'e yer cleedin' bien, genty, an' doss. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Scotland CRUXTOUN CASTLE, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou grey and antique tower Last Line: To those who make, like me, this pilgrimage! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Castles; Scotland DEAR SCOTLAND!, by PETER GARDINER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear scotland! My country, mine own rugged land Last Line: "dear scotland! My country, I love thee." Subject(s): Patriotism; Scotland DEATH OF ALEXANDER III, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When alysandyr our king was dede Last Line: That stad is in perplexytie Subject(s): "alexander Iii, King Of Scotland (1241-86;history;scotland;" Historians 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 DIREADH I, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scotland small? Our multiform, our infinite scotland small? Last Line: Nothing but heather!' - how marvellously descriptive! And incomplete Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Scotland DIRGE OF THE HIGHLAND CHIEF IN 'WAVERLEY', by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Son of the mighty and the free! Last Line: Last of a mighty line! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): 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 DOUGLAS OF THE BLEEDING HEART, by MORITZ GRAF VON STRACHWITZ Poem Text First Line: Earl douglas, don thy helm so bright Last Line: King robert bruce's heart. Subject(s): Bannockburn, Battle Of (1314); Douglas, Sir James De Douglas, Lord Of; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Douglas The Good; Black Douglas, The; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce DUDDINGSTONE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With caws and chirrupings, the woods Last Line: We had been drowned in love. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Duddingston, Scotland; Lakes; Love; Pools; Ponds 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 EAGLES: COMPOSED AT DUNOLLY CASTLE IN THE BAY OF OBAN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dishonored rock and ruin! That, by law Last Line: His power, his beauty, and his majesty. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Scotland EDINBURGH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful city of edinburgh! Last Line: But that you are the grandest city in scotland at the present day! Subject(s): Cities; Edinburgh, Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips EDINBURGH, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: City of mist and rain and blown grey spaces Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland EDINBURGH, by ALEXANDER SMITH Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Edina, high in heaven wan Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland EDINBURGH AFTER FLODDEN, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: News of battle! News of battle! Last Line: Be our universal grave!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland; Flodden, Battle Of (1513); Scotland - Relations With England; War EDINBURGH IN AUTUMN, by CHRISTINE ORR Poem Source First Line: The leaves are down in dreghorn woods Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland EFFUSION. IN THE PLEASURE-GROUND ON THE BANKS OF THE BRAN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What he - who, mid the kindred throng Last Line: Recoiled into the wilderness. Subject(s): Scotland ELEGIAC SONNET: 51. SUPPOSED ... WRITTEN IN THE HEBRIDES, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this lone island, whose unfruitful breast Last Line: Thy mind my empire -- and my throne thy heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Hebrides (islands), Scotland ELEGIAC SONNET: 52. THE PILGRIM, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faltering and sad the unhappy pilgrim roves Last Line: That, trembling at the past -- recoils from future woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Hebrides (islands), Scotland ELEGIAC SONNET: 53. THE LAPLANDER, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shivering native who, by tenglio's side Last Line: For him those beams of heaven shall never shine again. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Hebrides (islands), Scotland ELEGY ASKING THAT IT BE THE LAST; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a bird the color of mustard. The bird Last Line: This is a world set apart from ours. It is not! Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Horses; Lament; Scotland; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF SCOTS MUSIC, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On scotia's plains, in days of yore Last Line: Which now lies dead? Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Scotland EPIGRAM WRITTEN AT INVERARY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoe'er he be that sojourns here Last Line: Twas surely in his anger. Subject(s): Inveraray, Scotland EPISTLE TO ROBERT GRAHAM OF FINTRY (1), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fintry, my stay in wordy strife Last Line: To grind them in the mire! Subject(s): Elections; Scotland - Relations With England; Voting; Voters; Suffrage ETTRICK BANKS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On ettrick banks in a summer's night Subject(s): Ettrick Water, Scotland EVENTUALLY THEY COME ASHORE, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: The living and the dead %whether you wait for them or not Last Line: But it closes its blue eyes, %a shunning, so defeats us Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Grief; Saint Kilda (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 EXTEMPORE EFFUSION UPON THE DEATH OF JAMES HOGG, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first, descending from the moorlands Last Line: And ettrick mourns with her their poet dead. Variant Title(s): Memories Of Departed Friends;on The Death Of James Of James Hogg Subject(s): Hogg, James (1770-1835); Yarrow (water), Scotland FAINT HEART NE'ER WON FAIR LADY, by CHARLES POTTER HINE Poem Text First Line: The burn runs swiftly, my dainty lass Last Line: "but muckle waur to ask it." Subject(s): Diamonds; 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 FAREWELL ADDRESS AT THE ARGYLE HALL TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1880, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fellow citizens of dundee Last Line: And prosper them in all their undertakings by night and by day. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Farewell; Parting FAREWELL SONG, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gloomy night is gath'ring fast Last Line: Farewell, the bonnie banks of ayr! Subject(s): Ayr (river), Scotland; Farewell; Parting FEARFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN SCOTLAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A dreadful and heartrending sight Last Line: Of dark eternity Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;death;disasters;scotland; "dead, The; FEMALE FIGURE IN GLASS WITH COPPER WIRE (6 X 6 ), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Girdled by copper filament stopped Last Line: Gaze lifted to an absent sun, she satisfies Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums; Saint Kilda (scotland); Statues 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 FIELDS BEYOND ROSEWELL, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Heat rises from the wide resplendent fields Last Line: Unstinting fields. We pick them anyhow Subject(s): Cattle; Europe; Fields; Harvest; Saint Kilda (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 FLIGHT PATHS, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: I wait in yet another airport for a man. Bos Last Line: Of bone, vivid and adrift in burning air Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Flight; Saint Kilda (scotland); Travel FLOWERS ON THE TOP OF THE PILLARS AT ENTRANCE TO THE CAVE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope smiled when your nativity was cast Last Line: As the supreme artificer ordained. Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns FROM HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: I've always dreaded this kind of dislocation Last Line: Upon my back, with words (now pray) my hoist and mortar Subject(s): Castles; Scotland; Tourists; Travel FROM MAIRI MACINTYRE'S JOURNALS (1), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Sometimes a band of white or gold or rose Last Line: And we can't look at it straight on-god's face Subject(s): Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers FROM MAIRI MACINTYRE'S JOURNALS (2), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: When ice breaks you gaze into blue water Last Line: -or she leaves me. %it's how age comes Subject(s): Diaries; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers FROM MAIRI MACINTYRE'S JOURNALS (3), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: -pull exerted by photography-not the photographer! Last Line: -if arne knew I thought these things-! Subject(s): Art And Artists; Diaries; History; Photography And Photographers; Saint Kilda (scotland) FROM MAIRI MACINTYRE'S JOURNALS (4), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: The train-ride out to skye and blots Last Line: What madness keeps us from imagining our age? Subject(s): Diaries; Dreams; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers FROM MAIRI MACINTYRE'S JOURNALS (5), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: I suppose the american is right: dreamed Last Line: In local guise, specific and expert Subject(s): Diaries; Dreams; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers FROM MAIRI MACINTYRE'S JOURNALS (6), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: A fierce storm nearly carried my tent downhill Last Line: That hold the world had peeled away and floated free Subject(s): Diaries; Dreams; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers FROM THE IONIAN ISLANDS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou pleasant island, whose rich garden-shores Last Line: Bright in the dubious track of after years. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Corfu (island), Greece; Iona, Scotland; Travel; Journeys; Trips FUSELAGE INSTALLATION, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My loved ones drift into nothingness Subject(s): 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 GATHERING SONG OF DONALD [OR, DONUI DHU] THE BLACK, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pibroch of donuil dhu Last Line: Knell for the onset! Variant Title(s): Pibroach Of Donuil Dhu Subject(s): Balloch, Donald (15th Century); Scotland; War GENEALOGICAL REFLECTION, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No mctavish Last Line: Was ever lavish Subject(s): 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 GIACOMETTI IN EDINBURGH, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: To come here you walk along the water of leith Last Line: Even you, fixed by light, unable to breathe Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland; Museums; Saint Kilda (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 GLENFINLAS; OR LORD RONALD'S CORONACH, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O hone a rie'! O hone a rie'! / the pride of albin's line is o'er Last Line: We ne'er shall see lord ronald more! Subject(s): Death; Fillan, Saint (d. 649); Glenfinlas (forest), Scotland; Hunting; Oran, Saint; Dead, The; Hunters 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 GRANNIE'S CRACK ABOUT THE FAMINE IN AULD SCOTLAN' IN 1739-40, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, saw ye e'er sic witless bairns Last Line: "may see sic times—sae sad an' sair." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Grandparents; Scotland; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers 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 GREENOCK, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I need %no world more spacious than the region here Last Line: And here men to know, women to love Subject(s): Greenock, Scotland GREENOCK, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have not passed into a doleful city Last Line: The poor, the lonely, herdsman's joy and pride. Subject(s): Greenock, Scotland GRUACH, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The meat is killed: the veal is blooded: the trout are caught Last Line: Curtain. Subject(s): 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 HART'S HORN TREE, NEAR PENRITH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here stood an oak, that long had borne affixed Last Line: Verse that would guard thy memory, hart's-horn tree! Subject(s): Oak Trees; Scotland HAWTHORNDEN, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger! Gaze round thee on a woodland scene Last Line: And fixed her dwelling-place on celtic shores. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Scotland HEATHER ALE: A GALLOWAY LEGEND, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the bonny bells of heather Last Line: "the secret of heather ale." Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Patriotism; 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 HIGHLAND NIGHT; 1715-1815-1915, by ISABEL WESTCOTT HARPER Poem Text First Line: O turn ye homeward in the night-tide dusk! Last Line: Turn ye to me before the morning light. Subject(s): World War I - 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 DRYBURGH ABBEY, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: What though fell time leaves here and there a heap Last Line: To god this roofless fane shall still belong. Subject(s): Dryburgh Abbey, Scotland IN EQUAL SACRIFICE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus of old the douglas did Last Line: The heart he bore to the holy land. Subject(s): Douglas, Sir James De Douglas, Lord Of; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Douglas The Good; Black Douglas, The; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce 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 JOHN UPDIKE'S ROOM, by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm in your room – I ask them at reception Last Line: That thing you knew here, and darkness is coming fast Subject(s): Scotland; Motion Pictures; Mourning; Memory 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 ORKNAY, by WILLIAM FOWLER Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Upon the utmost corners of the warld Last Line: I change bot seas, bot cannot change my love. Subject(s): Orkney Islands (scotland) IN THE SHADOWS: 26, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are three bonnie scottish melodies Last Line: For lo! A shower of grace is on my cheek. Subject(s): 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 INVERSNAID, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This darksome burn, horseback brown Last Line: Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. Subject(s): Brooks; Environment; Nature; Scotland; Wilderness; Streams; Creeks; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation IONA, by FREDERICK TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I landed on iona's holy isle Last Line: In whom all saints are one for evermore! Subject(s): Catholics; Iona, Scotland; Roman Catholics; Catholicism IONA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On to iona! - what can she afford Last Line: While heaven's vast sea of voices chants their praise. Subject(s): Iona, Scotland IONA. UPON LANDING, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sad a welcome! To each voyager Last Line: "shall gild their passage to eternal rest." Subject(s): Iona, Scotland IONA: THE GRAVES OF THE KINGS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish not to lie here Subject(s): Graves; Iona, Scotland; Tombs; Tombstones IONA: THE GRAVES OF THE KINGS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish not to lie here Last Line: This earth has absorbed Subject(s): Graves; Iona, Scotland IONA; A MEMORIAL OF ST. COLUMBA, by ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We gazed on corryvrekin's whirl Last Line: Shall brighten evermore. Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597); Iona, Scotland; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint 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 JOCK JOHNSTONE, THE TINKLER, by JAMES HOGG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, came ye ower by the yoke-burn ford Last Line: "if he be a johnstone of annandale." Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick Subject(s): 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 JOTTINGS OF NEW YORK; A DESCRIPTIVE POEM, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh mighty city of new york! You are wonderful to behold Last Line: For bonnie dundee, my heart it felt as light as a cork. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips 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 KEATS IN BURNS COUNTRY, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't so much that burns, like the best Subject(s): Keats, John (1795*1821); Burns, Robert (1759-1796); 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 KILN, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Cave of earth and stone and hay. Den swept by fire Last Line: Before the dazzle of his presence in its house of bone Subject(s): Love; Saint Kilda (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 KING BRUCE AND THE SPIDER, by ELIZA COOK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: King bruce of scotland flung himself down Variant Title(s): Try Agai Subject(s): Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329) KING JAMES THE FIRST OF SCOTLAND, SELS., by ROBERT BAIN Poem Source First Line: A queer life living here the whole year through Subject(s): James I, King Of Scotland (1394-1437) 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 LACHIN Y GAIR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away, ye gay landscapes, ye gardens of roses Last Line: The steep frowning glories of dark loch na garr! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Scotland LADY'S SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A choir of bright beauties in spring did appear Last Line: When pan, and his son, and fair syrinx, return Variant Title(s): The May Queen; Phillis Unwilling; The Beautiful Lady Of The Ma Subject(s): Country Life; Exiles; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460) LAIRD BROOKS OF HODDAM'S GRAVE, by EDITH M. GILL Poem Text First Line: There's many a grave where in scotland I'd sleep Last Line: If I could get up now and then for a peep. Subject(s): Graves; Scotland; Sleep; Tombs; Tombstones 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 LAMENT IN THREE CITIES: 1. EDINBURGH AND INVERNESS, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: I picked poppies red as heartbeat Last Line: Like rare metals and are gone Subject(s): Lament; Love; Saint Kilda (scotland) LAMENT IN THREE CITIES: 2. HERE, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: As I am always aware of new york to the east Last Line: So you remain present at the periphery, rational as light Subject(s): Lament; Saint Kilda (scotland) LAND OF THE BRAVE!, by JAMES GORDON PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: Scotland! I love thee, thou land of the mountain Last Line: Land of the strong and true, land of the brave! Subject(s): Patriotism; Scotland LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THE WALLACE MONUMENT, STIRLING: 1861, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Auld scotlan's hert an' baith her lugs war dirlin' Last Line: For ever—wallace, bruce, an' bannockburn. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Monuments; Scotland; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305) 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 LEWIE GORDON, by ALEXANDER GEDDES Poem Text First Line: O send lewie gordon hame Last Line: Ohone! My highlandman. Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England; Soldiers 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 LINES WRITTEN IN HIGHLANDS AFTER A VISIT TO BURNS'S COUNTRY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a charm in footing slow across a silent plain Last Line: And keep his vision clear from speck, his inward sight unblind. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Scotland LINES WRITTEN IN [SUMMER OF] 1847, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day of tumult, strife, defeat, was o'er Last Line: "fix thy firm gaze on virtue and on me." Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Variant Title(s): Lines Written On The Night Of The 30th Of July, 1847 Subject(s): Scotland LINES WRITTEN ON A BANK NOTE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wae worth thy pow'r, thou cursed leaf Last Line: Never, perhaps, to greet old scotland more. Subject(s): Money; Scotland LOCH KATRINE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful loch katrine in all thy majesty so grand Last Line: It's surrounded by mountains and trees most grand. Subject(s): Katrine, Loch (scotland); Travel; Journeys; Trips LOCH LEVEN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful loch leven, near by kinross Last Line: And the old wall around it is mouldering away Subject(s): Leven (lake), Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips LOCH LEVEN'S GENTLE STREAM, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've gazed upon the rapid rhine Last Line: Fall on loch leven's gentle stream! Subject(s): Leven (lake), Scotland LOCH NESS, by CECIL J. MULLINS Poem Source First Line: I pride myself that I am past the time Subject(s): Ness, Loch, Scotland LOCHABER NO MORE, by NEIL MUNRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell to lochaber, farewell to the glen Last Line: For thou wilt return to lochaber no more! Subject(s): Soldiers; World War I - Scotland LOCKERBIE, by WILLIAM CORBETT Poem Source First Line: Stoned on xanax Last Line: Innocents unaware %blown out of this light Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Lockerbie, Scotland LOCKERBIE, by CHARLES MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: I have never understood %how zeno's famous paradox could twist Last Line: For a wind of treetops, weeds between the trees, and a space of %white rocks Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Lockerbie, Scotland; Terrorism LOGAN BRAES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O logan, sweetly didst thou glide Last Line: And willie hame to logan braes! Variant Title(s): Logan Water Subject(s): Logan (river), Scotland; Mothers LOGAN BRAES, by JOHN MAYNE Poem Text First Line: By logan's streams that rin sae deep Last Line: We'd live in bliss on logan braes. Subject(s): Logan (river), Scotland LORD ROBERTS' TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO PRETORIA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1900, and on the 5th of june Last Line: And beat all foreign foes from our shores. Subject(s): Courage; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Victory; Valor; Bravery; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce LORD ULLIN'S DAUGHTER, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A chieftain to the highlands bound Last Line: And he was left lamenting. Subject(s): 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 LUSTMORD (RETROSPECTIVE: NEW YORK SCHOOL), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: All the tiny bones %lie in rows on the table Last Line: And she'd seem happy, as perhaps she is Subject(s): Art And Artists; Exhibitions; Museums; New York City; Saint Kilda (scotland); Tourists MAGGIE'S FIND ON SKYE, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Good brother in christ, greetings! Our lord Last Line: He suffers mee here. May hee bless and keep you Subject(s): Despair; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO HER HUSBAND FROM ST KILDA (1), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: My love. You'd hate it here: flies and the wind Last Line: As you asked, I'm taking photographs. Love, mairi Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Love - Marital; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO HER HUSBAND FROM ST KILDA (2), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: My love, greetings from my island. Mine indeed Last Line: You might not even get this letter. Love Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Love - Marital; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO HER HUSBAND FROM ST KILDA (3), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Alec-I hadn't thought to tell you this Last Line: To us next year. I shall invite her! Love Subject(s): Letters; Love - Marital; Nature; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO HER HUSBAND FROM ST KILDA (4), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Alec, old dear. I miss you. The weather's changed Last Line: And have added-you shall see!-a group of clergymen! Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Love - Marital; Saint Kilda (scotland) MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO HER MOTHER FROM ST KILDA, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Dearest mum. I'm on the site at gleann mor Last Line: P.S. Again-consult the map I made you, mum! Subject(s): Books; Letters; Librarians And Libraries; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO IAIN FRASER FROM INVERNESS, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Dear mr fraser: please consider this request Last Line: I can meet with you at any time. %most sincerely, mairi macintyre Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO MARGARET ADAMS FROM ST KILDA (2), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Margaret-love. You must burn this Last Line: Quite soft, come in could not Subject(s): Diaries; Letters; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO MARGARET ADAMS FROM ST. KILDA (1), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Margaret-my love, what would I do Last Line: Of tetanus at eight days. I can't imagine how they stayed. Mairi Subject(s): Friendship; Letters; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO MR WILLIAM BOYD FROM ST KILDA, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: ...Getting away was a bit dodgy Last Line: Chimneys guardians whose charges all have left Subject(s): Saint Kilda (scotland); Travel; Villages MAIRI'S DRAFTS: ICELAND, 1410, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Will be the last wedding %in this place we have tried to make a home Last Line: Put his hand into my furs I burned wonderfully Subject(s): Iceland; Saint Kilda (scotland); Travel MAIRI'S DRAFTS: OSLO, 1085, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Olaf and erik go south when the sun Last Line: I know I love the old gods more Subject(s): Farewell; Prayer; Saint Kilda (scotland); Travel MAIRI'S DRAFTS: OSLO, 923, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Crusty snow shines like a bowl Last Line: Then water, sweet and clear and flowing Subject(s): Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MAIRI'S OSLO, 1407, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: When erik sails for the new world Last Line: O christ! I send her far from me Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Saint Kilda (scotland) MARMION: CANTO 5. THE COURT, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The train has left the hills of braid Last Line: For march against the dawning day. Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland; Flodden Field, England; Monasteries; Abbeys MARY ANGELA ROSE WRITES FROM ST KILDA, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: You think because I am a midwife I will talk to babies lost Last Line: Would join us-even wee ones of our own-if he had remained Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MARY CLARE WRITES FROM UIST, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: We have word for a bad time on hirta Last Line: They could live so far out now Subject(s): Saint Kilda (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 MEDITATION OF A PATRIOT, by GEORGE SUTHERLAND FRASER Poem Source First Line: The posters show my country blonde and green Last Line: With byron and with lermontov %romantic scotland's in the grave Subject(s): Patriotism; Scotland MEN KNEEL, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Like the unconscious and like art, beyond volition Last Line: Indifferent sweetness when arousal takes us Subject(s): Desire; Saint Kilda (scotland) MIGRATIONS, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: In fast hearts of birds, heads of whales, breasts Last Line: To open unconstrained like rosy paper flowers aflame Subject(s): Migration; Saint Kilda (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 MONSIGNOR BENVENISTE WRITES FROM LEWIS, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: ...As for sending a priest out to st kilda, I would not Last Line: In the protestant clergy yours in christ Subject(s): Protestantism; Religious Discrimination; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MONSTER, by EDWARD LOWBURY Poem Source First Line: A monster who lives in loch ness Last Line: If he weren't, we'd be a mess Subject(s): Monsters; Ness, Loch, 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 MONTROSE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful town of montrose, I will now commence my lay Last Line: Because it is one of the bonniest towns in scotland at the present day. Subject(s): Montrose, 5th Earl And 1st Marquis Of; Scotland MOSTLY SKY, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: We eat lunch next to massive windows Last Line: A fiddle string, taut enough and waiting Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Saint Kilda (scotland) MR JOHN BLAIR WRITES FROM ST KILDA, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: I fear that I must write the truth, however rough Last Line: I do not ask it easily: please see how soon you can replace me Subject(s): History; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MR MACANDREW WRITES FROM ST KILDA, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: I have put aside all thoughts of helping these people Last Line: Servant, reverend george macandrew of dumblane Subject(s): Child Molesting; Clergy; Irish Language; Prayer; Religion; Saint Kilda (scotland) MR. BRODSKY, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had heard Last Line: American who would have preferred %to be merely an indian Subject(s): Scotland MUCKLE-MOU'D MEG, by JAMES BALLANTYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, wha hae ye brought us hame now, my brave lord Last Line: Elibank hunt again, wat's snug at hame. Alternate Author Name(s): Ballantine, James Subject(s): Scotland MY AIN COUNTRIE, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye bonnie haughs and heather braes Last Line: And fald my wings in mine ain countrie! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Scotland MY HEART AYE WARMS TO THE TARTAN, by THOMAS MILLER (1831-) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scotland, country of my birth Last Line: As dearly as my home! Subject(s): Pride; Scotland; Self-esteem; Self-respect MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart's in the highlands, my heart is not here Last Line: My heart's in the highlands wherever I go. Variant Title(s): Farewell To The Highlands Subject(s): Highlands Of Scotland; Patriotism MY NATIVE LAND!, by ELIZABETH HARTLEY Poem Text First Line: How grand are scotland's rugged hills, where mountain torrent foam! Last Line: That scotia's thistle leaves a wound when clutch'd by foeman's hand. Subject(s): Patriotism; Scotland MY NEW LOCATION, SELS., by JOHN YOUNG Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland MY SISTER ANNA CLARE WRITES FROM LEWIS, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: If we had wanted abundance I suppose Last Line: Of comfort on the next boat we would be grateful Subject(s): Saint Kilda (scotland); Sisters; Writing And Writers NATURE ELEMENT, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: You have no choice. This is as natural as breathing Last Line: But uses you as it moves through, like music, %as insubstantial, as absolutely real Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love; Saint Kilda (scotland) NESSIE, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, it is not an elephant or any such grasshopper Last Line: Will drum me up to london and proclaim my pedigree? Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Monsters; Ness, Loch, 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 NORTHUMBERLAND BETRAYED BY DOUGLAS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "now list and lithe, you gentlemen" Last Line: There douglas landed lord percye Subject(s): "douglas, Sir James De Douglas, Lord Of;percy Family, Northumberland, England;scotland - Relations With England;" "douglas The Good;black Douglas, The; 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 NOTES TO SELF BEFORE A JOURNEY, by ANNE CAYLOR MACALPIN Poem Source First Line: When getting ready for a trip Last Line: To sleep with open windows Subject(s): Scotland; Travel 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 DEPARTED REGENCY BILL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of chaos' doting years Last Line: Your brightest hopes may fail. Subject(s): Government; Politics & Government; Scotland 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 ON THE POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home, thou return'st from thames, whose naiads long Last Line: Friend. Subject(s): Highlands Of Scotland; Home, John (1722-1808); Poetry & Poets 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 OLD BORDER RHYME ABOUT THE RIVERS TWEED AND TILL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Quoth tweed to till Last Line: Whar ye droon ae man I droon twae Subject(s): Till (river), England And Scotland; Tweed (river), England And Scotland ON A REDBREAST SINGING AT THE GRAVE OF PLATO (IN THE GROVE OF ACADEME), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose of gloaming everywhere! Last Line: For a robin's song! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Academia; Greece; Hebrides (islands), Scotland; Home; Iona, Scotland; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Pleasure; Robins; Greeks ON A WAG IN MAUCHLINE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lament him, mauchline husbands a' Last Line: Perhaps he was your father! Variant Title(s): Epitaph For James Smith;epitaph On A Wag In Mauchline Subject(s): Epitaphs; 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 LOCH LEVEN, by CHRISTIAN CARSTAIRS Poem Text First Line: Scarce a breeze on the lake, with four oars to our boat Last Line: Came quickly, and brought us to shore. Subject(s): Leven (lake), Scotland; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Mary Stuart ON SCOTLAND, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had cain been scot, god would have changed his doom Last Line: Not forced him wander, but confined him home. Subject(s): Scotland ON STIRLING; SEEING THE ROYAL PALACE IN RUIN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here stuarts [or, stewarts] once in glory reigned Last Line: Who know them best despise them most. Subject(s): Scotland ON THE GORGEOUS HILLS OF MORNING, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Mock with silent steps these empty places Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Nature; Homesickness; Scotland ON THE LATE CAPT. GROSE'S PEREGRINATIONS THRO' SCOTLAND, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear, land o' cakes, and brither scots Last Line: "wad say, ""shame fa' thee!" Subject(s): Antiques; Grose, Francis (1731-1791); Scotland ON THE MASSACRE OF GLENCOE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O tell me, harper, wherefore flow Last Line: "revenge for blood and treachery!""'" Subject(s): Glencoe, Massacre Of (1690-1692); Scotland - Relations With England 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 PICTURE OF DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amid a fertile region green with wood Last Line: Man placed him here, and god, he knows, can save. Subject(s): 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 PIPES IN ARRAS (APRIL, 1917), by NEIL MUNRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the burgh town of arras Last Line: Roared the artillery. Subject(s): World War I - Scotland 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 POEM: 1, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Trew king, pat sittes in trone Last Line: In ingland help vs to haue þese. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Scotland; War; English POEM: 2, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Skottes out of berwik and of abirdene Last Line: Skottes broght him þe kayes, bot get for þaire gile. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Scotland; War POETICAL ADDRESS TO MR. WILLIAM TYTLER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Revered defender of beauteous stuart Last Line: Your course to the latest is bright. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Scotland - Relations With England POLITICAL PROLOGUE: TO THE DUCHESS OF YORK, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When factious rage to cruel exile drove Last Line: Discord that only this dispute shall bring, %who best shall love the duke and serve the king Variant Title(s): Prologues To The Duke And Duchess Of York: Prologue To The Duches Subject(s): Este, Mary Beatrice D' (1475-1497); James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460) POSTCARD TO STEVEN FROM SKYE, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Finally got here!!! It's as dick says, surpassing Last Line: Molten sun, but cold, and steams. Love, maggie Subject(s): Hotels; Saint Kilda (scotland); Tourists; Travel; Writing And Writers QUEEN MARY'S RETURN TO SCOTLAND, by JAMES HOGG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a youth by woes o'ercast Last Line: The sweetest, wildest land on earth. Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Scotland; Mary Stuart 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 QUO' THE TWEED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Quo' the tweed to the till Last Line: I droon twa Subject(s): "till (river), England And Scotland;tweed (river), England And 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 RENOIR IN ORKNEY, by JOHN STEWART CONN Poem Source First Line: Monet might have made himself at home Last Line: And will distribute at the solstice %canvases of wild flowers, like mottled flame Subject(s): Orkney Islands (scotland); Paintings And Painters RETROSPECT OF SONG, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've sung of spring, her buds and flowers Last Line: Of civil war! O lord, how long? Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Peace; Scotland; Social Protest; War 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 ROBERT BRUCE'S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY BEFORE BANNOCKBURN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scots wha hae wi' wallace bled Last Line: Let us do, or die! Variant Title(s): Bannockburn;the Battle Of Bannockburn;bruce To His Men At Bannockburn;bruce's Address To His Army At Bannockburn;national Air: Scotland;scots Wha Hae;robert Bruce's March To Bannockburn Subject(s): Bannockburn, Battle Of (1314); Freedom; National Song - Scotland; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Scotland; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); War; Liberty; Scottish National Anthem; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce ROBERT BURNS; WRITTEN FOR THE BURNS CENTENNIAL, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the frost had killed the daisies Last Line: And the wide world's love has crowned him! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Praise; Scotland ROBERT THE BRUCE (TO DOUGLAS IN DYING), by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Death; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce; Dead, The ROKEBY: CANTO 1, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is in her summer glow Last Line: "I hear his hasty step -- farewell!" Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Marston Moor, England; Scotland - Relations With England ROKEBY: CANTO 2, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the chambers of the west Last Line: "may lightly row his bark to shore." Subject(s): Marston Moor, England; Scotland - Relations With England ROKEBY: CANTO 3, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hunting tribes of air and earth Last Line: Bade four, the bravest, take the brand. Variant Title(s): Man And The Enemy Subject(s): Marston Moor, England; Scotland - Relations With England RURAL SCENERY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Receded hills afar of softened blue Last Line: And pastoral beauty, and arcadian ease. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Landscape; Larbert, Stirlingshire, Scotland RUSSELL GURNEY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that high country Last Line: As, whence thou cam'st, it knew the lofty place. Subject(s): Friendship; Praise; Scotland; Virtue SALLEY'S ANSWER TO SAWNEY; A NEW SONG, by THOMAS D'URFEY Poem Text First Line: As I gang'd o'er the links of leith Last Line: I'm pleas'd so well with sawney. Subject(s): 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) SATELLITE PHOTO, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Gleaming in its sheath of bluegreen air Last Line: Islands, a few drops blown to westward Subject(s): Florida; Islands; Photography And Photographers; Saint Kilda (scotland); Travel 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 SCHIEHALLION, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far the gray loch runs Last Line: Back to schiehallion! Subject(s): Schiehallion (mountain), 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 SCOTCHED, SELS., by ALEXANDER+(2) SCOTT Poet Analysis Subject(s): Scotland SCOTLAND, by ROBERT CHAMBERS Poem Text First Line: Scotland! The land of all I love, the land of all that love me Last Line: Land of the uncorrupted heart, of ancient faith and glory! Subject(s): Home; Scotland SCOTLAND, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a weekday afternoon, around two Last Line: And a woman in a drab raincoat walking over to see Subject(s): Scotland SCOTLAND, by ALEXANDER GRAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the uplands Last Line: And caressed by the rain. Subject(s): Scotland SCOTLAND, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It requires great love of it deeply to read Last Line: Loving them and indentifying myself with them, %attempt to express the whole Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Scotland SCOTLAND, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We started out highbrow, riding the royal scotsman, curling through Subject(s): Scotland SCOTLAND, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We started out highbrow, riding the royal scotsman, curling through Last Line: I say, as I approach the apparition, heroically adjusting my kilt, 'all this %commotion makes me ser Subject(s): Scotland SCOTLAND, by BERNICE HOWELLA WOOD Poem Text First Line: Scotch cheer greets you / colorful and warm Last Line: A scotland and ireland cruise. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Scotland SCOTLAND 1941, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were a tribe, a family, a people Subject(s): Scotland SCOTLAND THE GHOST, by GERALD MANGAN Poem Source First Line: It's no deid, the auld land, it's no deid in spirit Subject(s): Scotland SCOTLAND'S TRIBUTE TO WALLACE, by JAMES MACFARLAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ours is no venal pomp to-day - we seek no vain parade Last Line: When she forgets her liberty, her patriot, and her god! Subject(s): Freedom; Scotland; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305) SCOTLAND'S WINTER, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the ice lays its smooth claws on the sill, Subject(s): Scotland; Wiinter SCOTLAND, 1941, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were a tribe, a family, a people Last Line: And melt to pity the annalist's iron tongue Subject(s): 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 SHEEPIEKNOWE: A BALLAD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aul' sheepieknowe! How dear the name! Last Line: Rest, weary heart! Peace, peace to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cousins; Grief; Scotland; Sorrow; Sadness SHOOTING SEASON; IN THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole countryside deployed on the hills of heather, an army with banners Subject(s): Hunting; Scotland; Hunters SHOOTING SEASON; IN THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole countryside deployed on the hills of heather, an army with banners Last Line: Old sports and delights. It is better to be dust Subject(s): Hunting; Scotland SILK DRESS, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: In my heavy new silk dress, dark blue Last Line: Flesh, that fluttering small light, its guttering wick Subject(s): Absence; Death; Ghosts; Loss; Saint Kilda (scotland); Supernatural 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 SOME INCIDENTS IN THE LATTER DAYS OF JOHN WHITELAW, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bridge was won, the foe had crossed Last Line: Another sadder moral teach. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Scotland; War; Dead, The 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: SCOTLAND'S WELCOME TO H.R.H. PRINCESS LOUISE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet rose of the south! Contented to rest Last Line: And the throne of our hearts is waiting for thee. Subject(s): Scotland 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 SONGS OF TRAVEL: 16, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the highlands, in the country places Last Line: Life and death. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Highlands Of Scotland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SONNET (WRITTEN UPON THE TOP OF BEN NEVIS), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Read me a lesson, muse, and speak it loud Last Line: But in the world of thought and mental might! Subject(s): Ben Nevis (mountain), Scotland SONNET; SCOTTISH BORDER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As sinks the sun behind you alien hills Last Line: And in the charles the western splendor dies. Subject(s): Scotland SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE ESK: 1, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mountain child, 'mid pentland's solitudes Last Line: To tell of drummond's poesy's spring flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Esk (river), Scotland; Landscape SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE ESK: 2, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not lovelier to the bard's enamoured gaze Last Line: The blackbird sings to thee at fall of night. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Esk (river), Scotland; Landscape SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE ESK: 3, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down from the old oak forests of dalkeith Last Line: Anglers, that patient o'er thy mirror lean? Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Esk (river), Scotland; Landscape SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE ESK: 4, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Delightful 'tis, and soothing sweet, at eve Last Line: Looks on thy pool its loveliness to view. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Esk (river), Scotland; Landscape SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE ESK: 5, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A beech-tree o'er the mill-stream spreads its boughs Last Line: Comes not an answer from the solitude! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Esk (river), Scotland; Landscape SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE ESK: 6, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leaning upon the time-worn parapet Last Line: And time is swallowed in eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Esk (river), Scotland; Landscape SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As we had been in heart, now link'd in hand Last Line: By all that deepest tries, and most endears. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Tweed (river), England And Scotland SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED: 1. WARK CASTLE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Emblem of strength, which time hath quite subdued Last Line: While carham whispers of the slaughter'd dane. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Tweed (river), England And Scotland SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED: 2. DRYBURGH ABBEY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath, tweed murmur'd 'mid the forests green Last Line: To give their whole lives blamelessly to god! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Tweed (river), England And Scotland SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED: 3. MELROSE ABBEY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer was on thee - the meridian light Last Line: And douglas sleeps with evers, side by side! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Melrose Monastery, Scotland; Tweed (river), England And Scotland SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED: 4. ABBOTSFORD, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The calm of evening o'er the dark pine-wood Last Line: The scenes around, with reverential fear! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Scotland; Tweed (river), England And Scotland SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED: 5. NIDPATH CASTLE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stern, rugged pile! Thy scowl recalls the days Last Line: Thy giant walls seem'd picturesquely piled. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Tweed (river), England And Scotland SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED: 6. 'THE BUSH ABOON TRAQUAIR', by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As speaks the sea-shell from the window-sill Last Line: Thinking of scotland, scarce forbears to weep! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Tweed (river), England And Scotland ST. COLUMBA IN IONA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Delightful would it be to me Last Line: No evil shall undo me Subject(s): "iona, Scotland;nature; 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 STARSHINE, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Once from a ship on the baltic I saw Last Line: Of light on seas of unspeakable dark Subject(s): Baltic Sea; Love; Memory; Saint Kilda (scotland) STILL, LIFE, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: We stand before the one, done when he was twenty Last Line: Of the light, this smear of silver brilliance on the vast encircling %dark Subject(s): Life; Saint Kilda (scotland) STRATHALLAN'S LAMENT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thickest night, o'erhang my dwelling? Last Line: But a world without a friend. Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England 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 STUNNING, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: As if a lost demented bee had stung Last Line: The hard things we were learning, could not say Subject(s): Love; Memory; Pictures; Saint Kilda (scotland) SUCH A PARCEL OF ROGUES IN A NATION, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell to a' our scottish fame Last Line: Such a parcel of rogues in a nation! Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England; Treason & Traitors 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 TEVIOTDALE, by JOHN LEYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Land of my fathers! - though no mangrove here Last Line: Pour'd to the harp and solemn organ's peal. Subject(s): Home; Teviotdale, 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 ALBION QUEENS, ACT 1: THE WONDER, by JOHN BANKS (17TH CENTURY-) Poem Text First Line: Your grace is welcome from the queen of scotland Last Line: Cecil. My lord, you make me blush. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Pity; Scotland; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE ANCIENT TOWN OF LEITH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ancient town of leith, most wonderful to be seen Last Line: Because they have always been very kind to me. Subject(s): Scotland; Tourists; Towns; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE AURORA ON THE CLYDE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me, how heavily the night comes down Last Line: "give to me as thou wilt -- first cross, then crown." Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Clyde River, Scotland THE AUTHOR'S EARNEST CRY AND PRAYER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye irish lords, ye knights an' squires Last Line: Take aff your dram! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Scotland - Relations With England; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse THE BALLAD O' MARY MUIREN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pride o' the clachan, the rose o' the glen Last Line: "may she ne'er dree the dule o' the drucken man's wife!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Girls; Scotland; Youth THE BASS ROCK, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas summer's depth; a more enlivening sun Last Line: Oft make the hush of midnight more profound. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Guests; Scotland; Stones; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Visiting; Granite; Rocks; Journeys; Trips THE BATTLE OF DUNDEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "on the mountain-side the battle raged, there was no stop nor stay" Last Line: That ''twas the english fought the dutch' at the battle of dundee Subject(s): "dundee, Scotland;navy - Great Britain;war;" English Navy THE BATTLE OF FLODDEN FIELD, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 9th of september, a very beautiful day Last Line: And king james the fourth of scotland, alas! Was dead! Subject(s): Army - Scotland; Fights; Flodden, Battle Of (1513) THE BATTLE OF GLENCOE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the month of october, and in the year of 1899 Last Line: At home or abroad, wherever they go. Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Guns; Highlands Of Scotland; War; Dead, The THE BATTLE OF NASEBY, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Wherefore come ye forth, in triumph from the north Last Line: Houses and the word! Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Variant Title(s): Naseby;songs Of The Civil War: 1 Subject(s): Naseby, Battle Of (1645); Scotland; War THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF PERTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful and ancient city of perth Last Line: You cannot be surpassed at the present day. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Guests; Maps; Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips THE BRAES OF YARROW, by JOHN LOGAN (1748-1788) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy braes were bonny, yarrow stream Last Line: And then with thee I'll sleep in yarrow. Variant Title(s): Yarrow Stream Subject(s): Death; Yarrow (water), Scotland; Dead, The THE BRIGS OF AYR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The simple bard, rough at the rustic plough Last Line: At sight of whom our sprites forgat their kindling wrath. Subject(s): Ayr (river), Scotland; Bridges THE BROWNIE'S CELL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To barren heath, bleak moor, and quaking fen Last Line: A foil to his celestial cheek! Subject(s): Loch Lomond, Scotland; Solitude; Loneliness THE BURIAL-MARCH OF THE DUNDEE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sound the fife, and cry the slogan Last Line: Chieftain than our own dundee! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Death; Graham Of Calverhouse, John (1648-1689); Scotland; Scotland - Relations With England; War; Dead, The THE BURNS FESTIVAL, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stir the beal-fire, wave the banner Last Line: In the wreath of burns's fame! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Festivals; Fire; Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Success; Fairs; Pageants THE BURNS STATUE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This statue, I must confess, is magnificent to see Last Line: In fear of not getting such a beautiful statue after they die. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dundee, Scotland; Monuments; Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE CALL OF HOME, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah scotland, my heart strings are twined all about thee Last Line: I hear thy voice calling me, calling me home! Subject(s): Homesickness; Scotland THE CAVALIER'S MARCH TO LONDON, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To horse! To horse! Brave cavaliers! Last Line: Our church and king forever! Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Variant Title(s): Songs Of The Civil War: 2 Subject(s): Scotland THE COCK'S CLEAR VOICE INTO THE CLEARER AIR, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And new days begin Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Scotland THE COCKNEY OF THE NORTH, by HARRY GRAHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will arise and go now, and go to inverness Last Line: In scotland — now! Alternate Author Name(s): Streamer, Col. D. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) THE COVES OF CRAIL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon-white waters wash and leap Last Line: Amid the coves of crail. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Crail, Scotland; Sea; Sleep; Ocean THE CROSS OF THE DUMB; A CHRISTMAS ON IONA, LONG, LONG AGO, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One eve, when st. Columba strode Last Line: Who on that day was glad and proud! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Columba, Saint (521-597); Generosity; Guests; Iona, Scotland; Miracles; Salvation; Strangers; Nativity, The; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; Visiting THE DEATH OF CLANRONALD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Ne'er be clanronald the valiant forgot! Last Line: "to-day for revenge, and to-morrow for grief!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Scotland THE DEATH OF WALLACE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joy, joy in london now! Last Line: Go, edward, to thy god! Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Happiness; London; Scotland - Relations With England; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); English History; Joy; Delight THE DOUGLAS TRAGEDY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'rise up, rise up, now, lord douglas,' she says" Last Line: "for he pulled up the bonny brier, / and flang't in st. Mary's lough" Subject(s): Scotland;war THE DREAM OF ARGYLE, by ELIZABETH H. WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earthly arms no more uphold him Last Line: Walks the great maccallum more! Subject(s): Scotland THE DREAM: THE LAY OF THE SCOTTISH MINSTREL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no sounds in the wanderer's eye Last Line: As the master told his ancient tale. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Scotland THE EXECUTION OF MONTROSE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither, evan cameron / come, stand beside my knee Last Line: The work of death was done! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Montrose, 5th Earl & 1st Marquis Of; Patriotism; Scotland; Graham, James (1612-165) THE FAMOUS TAY WHALE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the month of december, and in the year 1883 Last Line: That is to say, if the people all are willing. Subject(s): Boats; Dundee, Scotland; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Whales; Ocean THE FIELD OF PINKIE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lovely eve! As loath to quit a scene Last Line: And all shall walk in light—the light from heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Death; Fields; Peace; Pinkie, Battle Of (1547); Scotland; Warwickshire, England; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE GLEN OF ROSLIN, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! 'twas the trumpet rung! Last Line: As opal pure each morn! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Peace; Scotland; Scottish Translations; Victory; War THE HEART OF BRUCE IN MELROSE ABBEY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heart! That didst press forward still Last Line: Call the faith in relics vain! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Melrose Monastery, Scotland; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Bruce, Robert; The Bruce THE HEART OF THE BRUCE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was upon an april morn Last Line: God grant their souls repose! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Scotland; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce THE HEART OF THE BRUCE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: King robert bore with gasping breath Last Line: Deplore the douglas' fall. Subject(s): Douglas, Sir James De Douglas, Lord Of; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Scotland; Douglas The Good; Black Douglas, The; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce THE HEATHER ON FIRE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: High on a granite boulder, huge in girth Last Line: His body to the land that had begrudged a grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Famine; Highlands Of Scotland; Landlords & Tenants; Pain; Tragedy; Suffering; Misery THE HIGHLAND WATCH, by JAMES HOGG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old scotia, wake thy mountain strain Last Line: Thy laurels who can rend them? Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick Subject(s): Scotland THE HIGHLANDER'S RETURN, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young donald bane, the gallant celt, unto the wars had gone Last Line: To the healths of lovely mhairi, and her faithful donald bane? Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Highlands Of Scotland; Homecoming THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of hundred ocean isles Last Line: Ah! Never—never—never. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Scotland THE HIND AND THE PANTHER: PART 2, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dame, said the panther, times are mended well Last Line: Then couch'd her self securely by her side. Variant Title(s): The Hind And The Panther: A Poem In Three Parts: 2 Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460); Religious Discrimination; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Religious Conflict THE HIND AND THE PANTHER: PART 3, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much malice mingled with a little wit Last Line: With glorious visions of her future state. Variant Title(s): The Hind And The Panther: A Poem In Three Parts: 3 Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; Converts, Catholic; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460); Religious Discrimination; Stillingfleet, Edward (1635-1699); Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Religious Conflict THE HUMBLE PETITION OF BRUAR WATER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lord, I know your noble ear Last Line: And athole's bonnie lasses! Subject(s): Athole, Scotland; Bruar Falls, Scotland; Waterfalls THE INAUGURATION OF THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, DUNDEE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good people of dundee, your voices raise Last Line: And may all good angels guard her while living and hereafter when dead. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Inaugural Poem; Knowledge; Teaching & Teachers; Universities & Colleges - Faculty THE INVERSNAID INN, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The season is ended, the cold days begin Last Line: We are left in the storm, like the inversnaid inn! Subject(s): Hotels; Scotland; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE ISLAND OF THE SCOTS, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rhine is running deep and red Last Line: The passage of the scot. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Army - Scotland; Islands; Rhine (river), Europe; Scotland - Relations With England THE KING'S TRAGEDY, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I catherine am a douglas born Last Line: "should needs be born a king!" Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Douglas, Catherine; James I, King Of Scotland (1394-1437) THE LADY OF THE LAKE: CANTO 1. THE CHASE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harp of the north! That mouldering long hast hung Last Line: And morning dawned on ben-venue. Subject(s): Courage; Evening; Fairies; Holidays; Katrine, Loch (scotland); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Trees; Women - Bible; Valor; Bravery; Sunset; Twilight; Elves; Virgin Mary THE LADY OF THE LAKE: CANTO 2. THE ISLAND, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At morn the black-cock trims his jetty wing Last Line: And joyful from the shore withdrew. Subject(s): Douglas Family, Scotland; James V, King Of Scotland (1512-1542) THE LADY OF THE LAKE: CANTO 5. THE COMBAT, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair as the earliest beam of eastern light Last Line: Till closed the night her pennons brown. Subject(s): Douglas Family, Scotland THE LADY OF THE LAKE: CANTO 6. THE GUARD-ROOM, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun, awakening, through the smoky air Last Line: And now, 'tis silent all! -- enchantress, fare theewell! Subject(s): James V, King Of Scotland (1512-1542) THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL: CANTO FIRST, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The feast was over in branksome tower Last Line: After meet rest, again began. Subject(s): Branksome Castle, Scotland; Scotland - Relations With England THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL: CANTO FOURTH, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet teviot! On thy silver tide Last Line: And thus his tale continued ran. Subject(s): Graham Of Calverhouse, John (1648-1689); Killiecrankie, Battle Of (1689); Scotland; Scotland - Relations With England THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL: CANTO SECOND, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou would'st view fair melrose aright Last Line: Ere thus his tale again began. Subject(s): Melrose Monastery, Scotland; Scotland - Relations With England THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL: CANTO SIXTH, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breathes there the man, with soul so dead Last Line: Bore burden to the minstrel's song. Subject(s): Howard, Henry, Earl Of Surrey (1517-47); Patriotism; Scotland - Relations With England THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL: CANTO THIRD, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And said I that my limbs were old Last Line: Arose a father's notes of woe. Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL: INTRODUCTION, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way was long, the wind was cold Last Line: Twas thus the latest minstrel sung. Variant Title(s): The Minstrel Subject(s): Love; Religion; Scotland - Relations With England; Soldiers; Theology THE LOYAL SCOT, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the old heroes when the warlike shades Last Line: Metempsychosed to some scotch presbyter. Subject(s): Cleveland, John (1613-1658); Douglas, Captain Archibald; Scotland - Relations With England THE NABOB, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When silent time, wi' lightly foot Last Line: That minds ye o' lang syne. Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss Subject(s): Homecoming; Scotland THE OLD SEAPORT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When winds were wailing round me Last Line: The wild seas made reply. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Culross, Perthsire, Scotland; Death; Funerals - At Sea; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Seashore; Dead, The; Burials At Sea; Beach; Coast; Shore THE ORDINATION, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kilmarnock wabsters, fidge and claw Last Line: Like oil, some day. Subject(s): Beattie, James (1735-1803); Clergy; Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Teaching & Teachers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Educators; Professors THE PARK OF KELBURN CASTLE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lovely eve! Though yet it is but spring Last Line: By dwelling on the tranquil and serene! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Castles; Scotland THE PIPES OF THE NORTH, by EDWARD FORRESTER SUTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do ye hear 'em sternly soundin' through the noises of the street Last Line: Ye're sure the wings of gaelic souls as far as blood is true! Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, E. Subject(s): Bagpipes; Ireland; Musical Instruments; Patriotism; Scotland; War; Irish THE POWER AND BEAUTY OF SCOTTISH SONG, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wake every chord, strike every string Last Line: In all their native charms, confessed. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Patriotism; Scotland; Singing & Singers; Songs THE PROPHECY OF FAMINE; A SCOTS PASTORAL INSCRIBED TO JOHN WILKES, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: When cupid first instructs his darts to fly Last Line: "who most enjoys and best deserves, their love." Subject(s): Class Struggle; Courts & Courtiers; Cupid; England; Fate; Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758); Scotland; Wilkes, John (1725-1797); Youth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Eros; English; Destiny THE PROPHECY OF ST. ORAN, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The storm had ceased to rave: subsiding slow Last Line: "that his blaspheming tongue may blab no more." Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597); Ireland; Missionaries & Missions; Oran, Saint; Scotland; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; Irish THE REBEL SCOT, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How, providence? And yet a scottish crew? Last Line: Drops into styx and turns a solan goose. Subject(s): Hate; Scotland - Relations With England 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 THE RISING IN THE NORTH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "listen, lively lordings all" Last Line: And the five wounds our lord did bear Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England THE RIVERS TILL AND TWEED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Says tweed to till Last Line: I droon twa Variant Title(s): Two Rivers Subject(s): "till (river), England & Scotland;tweed (river), England & Scotland; THE SCOTS' APOSTASY, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it come to this? What? Shall the cheeks of fame Last Line: (what's easier far) renounce his nation too. Subject(s): Campbell, John (1598-1633); Scotland - Relations With England THE SEVEN STARS: A CONSTELLATION OF SCOTTISH POETS: BEATTIE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet minstrel! From thy hermit's cell Last Line: Thy harp is tuned to numbers glowing. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Beattie, James (1735-1803); Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Stars; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors THE SEVEN STARS: A CONSTELLATION OF SCOTTISH POETS: BLAIR, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bard of the grave; o'er death's domain Last Line: Each ghastly scene she there discovers. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Blair, Robert (1699-1746); Poetry & Poets; Scotland THE SEVEN STARS: A CONSTELLATION OF SCOTTISH POETS: BURNS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: True child of nature, heir of fame Last Line: A fire unknown to fail or falter. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Scotland THE SEVEN STARS: A CONSTELLATION OF SCOTTISH POETS: CAMPBELL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poet of hope, of love, and woe Last Line: Swell high when poland's wrongs revealing. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844); Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Statesmen THE SEVEN STARS: A CONSTELLATION OF SCOTTISH POETS: CUNNINGHAME, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O weird and wild in legend old Last Line: In magic, song, and haunted story. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Graham, Robert (1735-1797); Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Cunninghame-graham Of Gartmore THE SEVEN STARS: A CONSTELLATION OF SCOTTISH POETS: HOGG, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On ettrick's banks, her doric lays Last Line: O'er all her hills and glens was ringing. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Hogg, James (1770-1835); Poetry & Poets; Scotland THE SEVEN STARS: A CONSTELLATION OF SCOTTISH POETS: SCOTT, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sung of feudal halls and towers Last Line: Bright in their native radiance beaming. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Scotland THE SUNDAY RAIL: 2. A SCOTTISH SUMMER SABBATH MORNING, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The still repose, the holy calm Last Line: By idle pleasure, sin, and folly. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Railroads; Religion; Sabbath; Scotland; Railways; Trains; Theology; Sunday THE TEARS OF SCOTLAND, by TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn, hapless caledonia, mourn / thy banished peace, thy laurels torn! Last Line: Thy banished peace, thy laurels torn.' Subject(s): Mourning; Scotland; Soldiers; Tears; War; Bereavement THE TERRIFIC CYCLONE OF 1893, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1893, and on the 17th and 18th of november Last Line: And both these storms will be remembered for a very long time. Subject(s): Cyclones; Death; Disasters; Dundee, Scotland; Wind; Dead, The THE THISTLE; A LEGENDARY BALLAD, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Twas midnight! Darkness, like the gloom of some funereal pall Last Line: Hath scotland's honour tarnished been—god grant it ne'er may be! Subject(s): France; Night; Scotland; Thistles; War; Bedtime THE TOMB OF DE BRUCE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And liest thou, great monarch, this pavement below? Last Line: By the chisel of fame on the tablet of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Freedom; Graves; Honor; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Liberty; Tombs; Tombstones; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce THE TOWER OF ERCILDOUNE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a stillness on the night Last Line: Except to lead us nearer heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Desolation; Haunted Houses; Scotland; Walls THE TROSACHS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's not a nook within this solemn pass Last Line: Lulling the year, with all its cares, to rest! Subject(s): Trosachs, The (scotland) THE TWA CORBIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I was walking all alane Last Line: The wind sall blaw for evermair Variant Title(s): The Two Corbies Subject(s): Holidays;new Year;ravens;scotland;tragedy THE VIKINGS' DAUGHTERS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The outrage of these poor each day Last Line: Wronged thule's daughters shall be heard. Subject(s): England; Orkney Islands (scotland); Praise; Shetland Islands; Vikings; English THE WHITE ROSE O' JUNE, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the bricht sun, and the soft simmer showers Last Line: And may he that should wear it wear scotland's auld croun! Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Scotland - Relations With England THE WHITE ROSE OVER THE WATER; EDINBURGH, 1744, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old men sat with hats pull'd down Last Line: That grew best over the water. Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland THE WIFE OF FERGUS; A MONODRAMA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cease -- cease your torments! Spare the sufferers Last Line: No guilty fear in death. Subject(s): Marriage; Murder; Regicide; Scotland; Suicide; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WRECK ON LOCH MCGARRY, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you should search all scotland round Last Line: May just help you to begin it. Subject(s): Accidents; Disasters; Epiphany; Ignorance; Lakes; Scotland; Shipwrecks; Soul; Virtue; Twelfth Night; Dullness; Stupdity; Pools; Ponds 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 THEY COME ASHORE, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: My dream had got the details wrong Last Line: Dawn in floods of tears %-it will be hard to go home Subject(s): Dreams; Saint Kilda (scotland) THEY COME ASHORE (1), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: In my dream, in the dark, the people Last Line: In the dark that answers their dark clothes Subject(s): Dreams; Gratitude; Saint Kilda (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 THOMSON'S BIRTH-PLACE (EDNAM, ROXBURGHSHIRE), by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is ednam, then, so near us? I must gaze Last Line: How oft our joys depend on ignorance! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Children; Memory; Scotland; Thomson, James (1700-1748); Thought; Childhood; Thinking 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 A HIGHLAND GIRL; AT INVERSNAID, UPON LOCH LOMOND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet highland girl, a very shower Last Line: And thee, the spirit of them all! Subject(s): Scotland; Youth TO A PRINCE NOT YET BORN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be born now; o now! Indeed why do you delay, dear boy? Last Line: Indeed so often charles himself returns Subject(s): James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460) TO A SCOTTISH FRIEND, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around your northern home, where never cease Last Line: Valour undrooped, and manhood undecayed. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Scotland; War 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 TO LEVEN WATER, by TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On leven's banks, while free to rove Last Line: The blessings they enjoy to guard. Variant Title(s): Ode To Leven Water Subject(s): Leven (lake), Scotland TO MME. HELEN HOPEKIRK, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see in thee what scotland ever gave Last Line: Have waked to fame the airs of hungary. Subject(s): Scotland TO ORKNEY, by DAVID VEDDER Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: Land of the whirlpool - torrent - foam Subject(s): Orkney Islands (scotland) TO THE EDITORS FROM MAIRI MACINTYRE'S MOTHER, MARY ROSE MACINTYRE, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Sirs, %my childhood was filled with stories of the 'flu epidemic of 1918-1919 Last Line: Signed %mary rose macintyre Subject(s): Epidemics; Saint Kilda (scotland); Sickness TO THE ENGLISHMAN, FR. THE LEGEND OF MONTROSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Woe! Woe! Son of the lowlander Last Line: Wasting the glen that was once in fair order? Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England TO WALTER SCOTT; MELROSE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: How often has he lingered here alone Last Line: While the green slopes flush slowly to the plow. Subject(s): Melrose Monastery, Scotland; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) TRAVELER, ORKNEY ISLES, SCOTLAND, by ANNE PITKIN Poem Source First Line: The sky, for example, flat and white Subject(s): Orkney Islands (scotland); Travel 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 TRUE NORTH, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Years go. I drive the miles to where you wait for me Last Line: Is for the moment far enough away and sleeping Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Saint Kilda (scotland) TWEED AND TILL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Says tweed and till what gars ye rin sae still Variant Title(s): Says Tweed To Til Subject(s): Till (river), England And Scotland; Tweed (river), England And Scotland TWEEDSIDE, by ROBERT CRAWFORD (?-1733) Poem Text First Line: What beauties does flora disclose! Last Line: Or the pleasanter banks of the tweed? Subject(s): Tweed (river), England & Scotland TWEEDSIDE, by LORD YESTER Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: When maggie and I were acquaint Last Line: And lay my banes far frae the tweed. Subject(s): Love; Tweed (river), England And 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 UNATTRIBUTED FRAGMENT (1), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Tonight I fancy the moon's road over the water to skye Last Line: To kiss. I must go. And will I? Tomorrow I am seventeen Subject(s): Churches; Saint Kilda (scotland) UNATTRIBUTED FRAGMENT (2), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Sister mary cairnith lit the lamps Last Line: None needing suck, my daughter's (heart?) stops Subject(s): Churches; Convents; Religion; Saint Kilda (scotland); Sisters UPON SIR JOHN SUCKLING'S HUNDRED HORSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I tell thee, jack, thou'st given the king" Last Line: By carding and dice Subject(s): "animals;gifts & Giving;horses;scotland - Relations With England;suckling, John (1609-1642); UPON THE DEATH OF THE VISCOUNT OF DUNDEE, by ARCHIBALD PITCAIRN Poem Text First Line: Oh last and best of scots! Who did'st maintain Last Line: And coud'st not fall but with thy country's fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Pitcairne, Archibald Subject(s): Freedom; Graham Of Calverhouse, John (1648-1689); Scotland; Liberty UPON THE KING'S HAPPY RETURN FROM SCOTLAND, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So breaks the day, when the returning sun Last Line: In thankful sacrifice for your return. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Homecoming; Scotland - Relations With England 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 VERSES SAID TO BE WRITTEN ON THE UNION, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queen has lately lost a part Last Line: Our crazy double-bottomed realm. Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England VERSES TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF YORK, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, when for our sakes your hero you resigned Last Line: And round him the pleas'd audience clap their wings. Subject(s): Great Britain - Dutch War (1664-1667); Hyde, Anne. Duchess Of York (1637-1671); James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460) VIEW FROM A THOUSAND MILES OUT, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Clouds like continents afloat on seas, our lives nets Last Line: I didn't need you in my arms. I needed you in the world Subject(s): Memory; Saint Kilda (scotland) VISION OF SCOTLAND, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see my scotland now, a puzzle Last Line: Fine spun as newly-retted fibres %on a sunlit irish bleaching field Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Scotland VISIT, GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: The library reaches up like a stave church Last Line: And waves a broad salute before he wanders off Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums; Paintings And Painters; Saint Kilda (scotland) VOICES FROM THE OLD WORLD, by SARA J. CLARKE Poem Text First Line: A voice from out the highlands Last Line: When perish erin's daughters! Subject(s): Scotland VOICES FROM THE OLD WORLD: THE FAMINE OF 1847, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A voice from out the highlands Last Line: When perish erin's daughters? Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Famine; Ireland - Famine; Scotland WALLACE AND BRUCE, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I will sing of bruce and wallace Subject(s): Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Bruce, Robert; The Bruce WALLACE'S INVOCATION TO BRUCE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morn rose bright on scenes renowned Last Line: In him, for thee who lived and died. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Scotland - Relations With England; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); Bruce, Robert; The Bruce 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 WAR-SONG OF THE ROYAL EDINBURGH LIGHT DRAGOONS, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To horse! To horse! The standard flies Last Line: March forward, one and all! Subject(s): Army - Scotland; Napoleonic Wars WATER'S EDGE, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: At the edge of the universe it's earlier than here Last Line: That replicates a woman's curved form bent around the water Subject(s): Memory; Saint Kilda (scotland) WEAVER'S SATURDAY, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland WEE CHARLIE'S ELEGY, SELS., by JAMES LEMON Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland WEEKEND AT THE BEACH, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Also in the room but out of view, the man Last Line: Of blue, at home in buoyant seawash, phosphor, salt Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Love Affairs; Romance; Saint Kilda (scotland); Seashore; Vacation WELCOME TO THE WATERS OF LOCH-KATRINE, SELS., by JAMES NICHOLSON Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland WHA'LL BE KING BUT CHARLIE?, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The news frae moidart cam' yestreen Last Line: For wha'll be king but charlie? Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England WHEN I ROVED A YOUNG HIGHLANDER O'ER THE DARK HEATH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Youth; Love; 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 WHY, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Concerned as I am with the west highlands and hebrides Last Line: Why? Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Dayananda Sarasvati; Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948); India; Scotland WILLIE DROWNED IN YARROW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Down in yon garden sweet and gay Last Line: Syne, in the cleaving of a craig, %she found him dorwn'd in yarrow! Subject(s): Yarrow (water), Scotland WRITTEN IN EDINBURGH, by ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even thus, methinks, a city reared should be Last Line: Chainless alike, and teaching liberty. Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland 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 YARROW REVISITED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gallant youth, who may have gained Last Line: To memory's shadowy moonshine! Subject(s): Yarrow (water), Scotland YARROW UNVISITED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From stirling castle we had seen Last Line: "the bonny holms of yarrow!" Subject(s): Yarrow (water), Scotland YARROW VISITED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And is this -- yarrow? -- tis the stream Last Line: And cheer my mind in sorrow. Subject(s): Yarrow (water), 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 GO BACK, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: You go back to where people know Last Line: Two women in the mist, disembodied %-girlish voices Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dreams; Fantasy; Saint Kilda (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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