Alexander Anderson's Poetry, by title

• "Drew The Wrong Lever!"

  This was what the pointsman said,
  With both hands at his throbbing head:--

  24 lines, 3 comments
• A Ballade Of "ChurchWardens"

  Why, hang it all, let life go by,
  It is but bubbles we pursue;

  29 lines, 1 comment
• A Ballade Of Pipes

  I like to see in graceful row
  My modest pipes upon the wall,

  29 lines, 1 comment
• A Ballade Of Tobacco Smoke

  What fretting loads we mortals bear
  Through life, whose fading rainbows mock

  29 lines
• A Blackbird's Nest

  She sits upon her nest all day,
  Secure amid the toiling din

  32 lines
• A Border Keep

  A roofless Border keep that once
  Held reiver bold its walls within,

  12 lines
• A Castle Old And Grey

  I never see a castle
  That is gaunt and grey and grim,

  32 lines
• A Chamber Hushed And Dim

  The dead man in the chamber dim
  Lay, with the silence over him.

  58 lines
• A City Reverie

  Here in the city as I sit,
  The twilight filling all the room,

  84 lines
• A Day Dream On The Rail

  I stood upon the four-foot way
  Amid the haunts I knew so well,

  84 lines
• A Dream Of Yarrow

  Upon the rails I work away,
  The rails sae slim an' narrow,

  76 lines
• A Dreamer's Paradise

  \"Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke,
  Forget the spreading of the hideous town."\

  99 lines, 1 comment
• A Hillside Graveyard

  I push the little gate aside,
  I leave behind all human pride,

  39 lines
• A Legend of St. Patrick

  I heard this old legend a few days ago--
  A legend so quaint

  87 lines, 1 comment
• A Love Retrospect

  "\O meines Lebens goldne zeit.\"--
  Schiller

  119 lines
• A Memory

  As soft as an autumn leaf will light
  When the winds are hush'd and still,

  40 lines
• A Night Vision In The Colosseum At Rome

  I sit upon a shattered shaft, as if Time, worn and blind,
  Had smote himself in sudden rage and left one limb behind.

  50 lines
• A Parting

  The sunlight fell through the shadowy trees
  In smiles all soft and sweet,

  32 lines
• A Perfect Day

  This is a perfect day to lie
  Without one single thought but eye

  21 lines
• A Retrospective Ode

  I see yet, bright as summer beams,
  The spot where all my childhood wander'd,

  96 lines
• A Singer In The Street

  A singer in the street to-day,
  He sings a song; and as I hear

  20 lines
• A Song For My Fellows

  "Ambos oder Hammer sein."
  --\Goethe\

  82 lines
• A Song of Labour

  *Respectfully Dedicated To My Fellow-Workers With Pick And Shovel Everywhere*
  "\Let each man honour his workmanship--his Can-do.\"--

  323 lines
• A Song of Progress

  Come away from pick and shovel for another day again,
  Glide along the veins of iron leading to the city's heart,

  64 lines
• A Sound Is In My Ear To-Day

  A sound is in my ear to-day,
  And playful fancies with it throng;

  16 lines
• A Spirit Is Singing A Song

  A spirit is singing a song somewhere,
  As I go out to my work--

  32 lines
• A Terpsichorean Recollection

  I took her down a country dance,
  And ever in its giddy wheeling

  48 lines
• A Village Scene--Evening

  The merry children are playing
  In the little village street;

  16 lines
• A Voice From Dreamland

  A voice from dreamland said to me--
  "Poet, what music is in thee?

  28 lines
• A Voice Is In The Wind To-Day

  A voice is in the wind to-day,
  And sweet its breath is blowing;

  20 lines

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