Sir Walter Scott's Poetry, by popularity

• To The Sub-Prior

  Good evening, Sir Priest, and so late as you ride,
  With your mule so fair, and your mantle so wide;

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• Brignall Banks

  O, Brignall banks are wild and fair,
  And Greta woods are green,

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• Coronach

  He is gone on the mountain,
  He is lost to the forest,

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• Twist Ye, Twine Ye

  Twist ye, twine ye! even so,
  Mingle shades of joy and woe,

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• The Lord of the Isles: Canto V.

  On fair Loch-Ranza stream'd the early day,
  Thin wreaths of cottage-smoke are upward curl'd

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• The Lord of the Isles: Canto IV.

  Stranger! if e'er thine ardent step hath traced
  The northern realms of ancient Caledon,

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• The Lord of the Isles: Canto III.

  Hast thou not mark'd, when o'er thy startled head
  Sudden and deep the thunder-peal has roll'd,

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• Rokeby: Canto III.

  The hunting tribes of air and earth
  Respect the brethren of their birth;

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• Rokeby: Canto VI.

  The summer sun, whose early power
  Was wont to gild Matilda's bower,

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• Rokeby: Canto V.

  The sultry summer day is done,
  The western hills have hid the sun,

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• The Lord of the Isles: Canto VI.

  O who, that shared them, ever shall forget
  The emotions of the spirit-rousing time,

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• The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Canto V.

  Call it not vain;—they do not err,
  Who say, that when the Poet dies,

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• The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Canto IV.

  Sweet Teviot! on thy silver tide
  The glaring bale-fires blaze no more;

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• The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Canto III.

  And said I that my limbs were old,
  And said I that my blood was cold,

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• Rokeby: Canto II.

  Far in the chambers of the west,
  The gale had sigh'd itself to rest;

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• The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Canto I

  Introduction.
  The way was long, the wind was cold,

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• The Lord of the Isles: Canto I.

  Autumn departs -- but still his mantle's fold
  Rests on the groves of noble Somerville,

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• The Lord of the Isles: Canto II.

  Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board!
  Summon the gay, the noble, and the fair!

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• Cleveland Lyke-wake Dirge (Traditional)

  From Appendix I of 1st Edition.
  This ae nighte, this ae nighte,

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• The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Canto VI.

  Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
  Who never to himself hath said,

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• Marmion: Introduction to Canto IV.

  An ancient minstrel sagely said,
  "Where is the life which late we led?"

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• Rokeby: Canto IV.

  When Denmark's raven soar'd on high,
  Triumphant through Northumbrian sky,

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• Marmion: Introduction to Canto V.

  When dark December glooms the day,
  And takes our autumn joys away;

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• Marmion: Introduction to Canto III.

  Like April morning clouds, that pass,
  With varying shadow, o'er the grass,

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• Marmion: Canto IV. - The Camp

  Eustace, I said, did blithely mark
  The first notes of the merry lark.

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• Marmion: Canto III. - The Inn

  The livelong day Lord Marmion rode:
  The mountain path the Palmer showed,

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• Marmion: Introduction to Canto II.

  The scenes are desert now, and bare,
  Where flourished once a forest fair

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• Marmion: Introduction to Canto VI.

  Heap on more wood! the wind is chill;
  But let it whistle as it will,

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• The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Canto II.

  If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,
  Go visit it by the pale moonlight;

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• Marmion: Canto V. - The Court

  The train has left the hills of Braid;
  The barrier guard have open made

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