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  • VIII: A Blessing On The Tinkers
    A blessing on the tinkers, and on him
    Who was their monarch--he who laid him down
    14 lines
  • Sam Adamson
    Sam Adamson, the driver, he
    Flung a bunch of waste to me.
    72 lines
  • The Lark
    A spirit sang from the edge of a cloud
    A wondrous melody.
    24 lines
  • The Buriel Of The Old Year
    Thou midnight wind, let not a whisper wave
    The stillness all around, until we lay
    28 lines
  • The Bridge
    I went to-night by the wooden bridge
    That steps across the stream;
    52 lines
  • Lucy
    Lucy is but a child as yet,
    And full of mirth and glee,
    36 lines
  • Glory
    Glory in winning a maid in the first wild heat of our youth,
    When heaven comes down to the earth, and we walk in a Paradise;
    24 lines
  • V: Lochleven
    Mide lake that laps with a most liquid tongue
    The base of these worn ruins. Have ye naught
    14 lines
  • XVII: Spirit That Walkest
    Spirit that walkest on these waters, now
    Unseen but ever heard, take thou the form
    14 lines
  • A Window In Thrums
    A little cottage just atop the brae,
    That now within its patch of ground is shown,
    41 lines
  • Joseph Thomson
    He sleeps among the hills he knew,
    They look upon his early rest,
    48 lines
  • The Quick And Dead
    The silent dead go marching down,
    With not a single banner flown;
    24 lines
  • On Being Shown A Few Hairs From The Head Of Napoleon
    The great Napoleon! and these simple hairs
    Are from his head! Behind him I can see
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • The Village Fiddler
    I see him yet, that grey old man,
    Whose fiddle made many a winter night
    48 lines
  • The Sun
    Die Sonne tönt nach alter weise.--\Goethe\
    He rises as of old, he flings
    33 lines
  • When First I Saw The Tweed
    When first I saw the Tweed, the light
    Of autumn, tender, sad and grey,
    44 lines
  • The Caged Lark
    Within an unseen cage he sings,
    Hung high above t e rush of feet,
    36 lines
  • The Cricket's Silence
    Last year I sat within my room,
    And heard the cricket in the gloom
    24 lines
  • The Ballad O' May Wyllie
    Bonnie May Wyllie cam' oot o' the toun
    When the deein' sunlicht lay
    64 lines
  • The Muirlan' Lassie
    Twa miles frae here, or maybe mair,
    A herd's hoose sits atween twa wuds,
    32 lines, 1 comment
  • The Love-Lilt O' The Lark
    A lark lap up frae the daisied field,
    An', O, but his sang was sweet;
    32 lines, 1 comment
  • Oh, Glorious Time!
    Oh, glorious time! (my spirit thus must speak).
    The incensed breeze from every nook is blown,
    48 lines
  • One of The Four In Song
    A down the vista of the fading years,
    With solemn step and slow,
    40 lines
  • Two Eyes
    Two eyes, whose light I lost when death
    Came in and took away the breath,
    18 lines
  • The Open Secret
    God said, "I take my stand behind
    Men, Nature, and the shaping mind.
    52 lines
  • The Wires
    I lay beneath the long slim wires,
    And heard them murmur like desires,
    91 lines
  • If Any Song That I Have Sung
    If any song that I have sung
    Should rest a moment on the lips,
    16 lines
  • The Pleasures That Are Olden
    We left the dear old house behind,
    And where the moon was glancing,
    24 lines
  • The Thrush
    Like the songs I have heard in childhood
    Comes thy voice, O thrush, to me,
    36 lines
  • Oor Sis
    Oor Sis is a mitherly sort o' a bairn,
    An unco gleg thing, an' sae easy to learn,
    56 lines
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