The Pleughman (Carolina Oliphant Poems)
There's high and low, there's rich and poor,There's trades and crafts eneuch, man;But east and west his trade's the best,That ...
There's high and low, there's rich and poor,There's trades and crafts eneuch, man;But east and west his trade's the best,That ...
The bairns i' their beds, worn oot wi' nae wark,Are sleepin, nor ever an eelid winkin;The auld fowk lie still ...
O gallus wind o' Embro tounYe breenge through ilka space.I turn a corner - blaw me doun!Ye're there, ye're at ...
It is naething but a lilt, Yet its rinnin' in my heid;Just a lilt, an' that is a', O' an ...
The mitherless lammie ne'er miss'd its ain mammie,—We tentit it kindly by nicht and by day;The bairnies made game o't, ...
As I was walking all alane,I heard twa corbies making a mane;The tane unto the t'other say,"Where sall we gang ...
What gars the Embro' man feel prood?When a' is said ad duneIt's no St Giles or Holyroodbut thon big, noisy ...
The south-wind strengthens to a gale, Across the moon the clouds fly fast, The house is smitten as with a ...
GUDE pity me, because I'm little! For though I am an elf o' mettle, An' can, like ony wabster's shuttle, ...
TURN again, thou fair Eliza! Ae kind blink before we part; Rue on thy despairing lover, Can'st thou break his ...
O SING a new song to the Lord, Make, all and every one, A joyful noise, even for the King ...
MY lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish ...
O DEATH! thou tyrant fell and bloody! The meikle devil wi' a woodie Haurl thee hame to his black smiddie, ...
IF ye gae up to yon hill-tap, Ye'll there see bonie Peggy; She kens her father is a laird, And ...
EXPECT na, sir, in this narration, A fleechin, fleth'rin Dedication, To roose you up, an' ca' you guid, An' sprung ...
HEE balou, my sweet wee Donald, Picture o' the great Clanronald; Brawlie kens our wanton Chief Wha gat my young ...
THE LADDIES by the banks o' Nith Wad trust his Grace 1 wi a', Jamie; But he'll sair them, as ...
O THOU, who in the heavens does dwell, Who, as it pleases best Thysel', Sends ane to heaven an' ten ...
HERE'S a bottle and an honest friend! What wad ye wish for mair, man? Wha kens, before his life may ...
Ither laddies may ha's finer claes, and may be better fed, But nane o' them a'has sic a bonnie curly ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
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