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  • Farewell To A Singer
    On Her Marriage
    As those who hear a sweet bird sing,
    15 lines
  • Song From ‘The Princess’
    As through the street at eve we went
      (It might be half-past ten),
    13 lines
  • Vivien’s Song
    at the l.l.a. examination
    In Algebra, if Algebra be ours,
    16 lines
  • To C.C.C.
    Oh for the nights when we used to sit
      In the firelight's glow or flicker,
    38 lines
  • Sweetheart
    Sweetheart, that thou art fair I know,
      More fair to me
    23 lines
  • Magni Nominnus Umbra
    St. Andrews! not for ever thine shall be
      Merely the shadow of a mighty name,
    15 lines
  • The Swallows
    From Jean Pierre Claris Florian
    I love to see the swallows come
    27 lines
  • The Best Pipe
    In vain you fervently extol,
      In vain you puff, your cutty clay.
    30 lines
  • The Close Of The Session
    The Session's over.  We must say farewell
      To these east winds and to this eastern sea,
    15 lines
  • To Number 27X
    Beloved Peeler! friend and guide
      And guard of many a midnight reeler,
    12 lines
  • Milton
    with apologies to Lord Tennyson
    O swallow-tailed purveyor of college sprees,
    17 lines
  • Horace’s Philosophy
    What the end the gods have destined unto thee and unto me,
    Ask not: 'tis forbidden knowledge.  Be content, Leuconoe.
    8 lines
  • Triolet
    After the melting of the snow
      Divines depart and April comes;
    7 lines
  • Stanzas For Music
    I loved a little maiden
      In the golden years gone by;
    37 lines
  • Reflections Of A Magistrand
    on returning to St. Andrews
    In the hard familiar horse-box I am sitting once again;
    96 lines
  • On A Crushed Hat
    Brown was my friend, and faithful—but so fat!
      He came to see me in the twilight dim;
    15 lines
  • Andrew M’Crie
    from the unpublished remains of Edgar Allan Poe
    It was many and many a year ago,
    47 lines
  • On An Edinburgh Advocate
    In youth with diligence he toiled
      A Roman nose to gain,
    3 lines
  • Catullus At His Brother’s Grave
    Through many lands and over many seas
    I come, my Brother, to thine obsequies,
    9 lines
  • The End Of April
    This is the time when larks are singing loud
      And higher still ascending and more high,
    30 lines
  • Pleasant Prophecies
    A day of gladness yet will dawn,
      Though when I cannot say;
    23 lines
  • Thirty Years After
    Two old St. Andrews men, after a separation of nearly thirty years, meet by chance at a wayside inn.  They interchange experiences;
    63 lines
  • The Science Club
    Hurrah for the Science Club!
      Join it, ye fourth year men;
    73 lines
  • To The Reader Of ‘University Notes’
    Ah yes, we know what you're saying,
      As your eye glances over these Notes:
    79 lines
  • The Banished Bejant
    from the unpublished remains of Edgar Allan Poe
    In the oldest of our alleys,
    54 lines
  • The Poet’s Hat
    The rain had fallen, the Poet arose,
      He passed through the doorway into the street,
    16 lines
  • Hymn Of Hippolytus To Artemis
    Artemis! thou fairest
    Of the maids that be
    25 lines
  • Music For The Dying
    Ye who will help me in my dying pain,
      Speak not a word: let all your voices cease.
    18 lines
  • An Orator’s Complaint
    How many the troubles that wait
      On mortals!—especially those
    33 lines, 1 comment
  • A Ballad Of The Town Water
    It is the Police Commissioners,
      All on a winter's day;
    54 lines
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