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early 20th century poems

The Spell of the Yukon - by Robert Service

{ Poem }

I wanted the gold, and I sought it,
/ I scrabbled and mucked like a slave.
/ Was it famine…

If– - by Rudyard Kipling

{ Poem }

IF you can keep your head when all about you
/ Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
/ If you can…

The Dominie’s Happy Lot - by Walter Wingate

{ Poem }

The Dominie is growing grey,
/ And feth he’s keepit thrang
/ Wi’ counts an’ spellin’ a’ the day,
/ And liffies when…

The Sair Finger - by Walter Wingate

{ Poem }

You’ve hurt your finger? Puir wee man!
/ Your pinkie? Deary me!
/ Noo, juist you haud it that wey till
/ I…

Scotch Parting - by Walter Wingate

{ Poem }

There surely sud been mair fracaw;
/ A wee bit present, tak’ and gie,
/ …

Highways and Byways - by Walter Wingate

{ Poem }

Highways for eident feet,
/ That hae their mile to gae;
/ But byways when spring is sweet,
/ …

Conscience - by Walter Wingate

{ Poem }

‘Twas a bonnie day – and a day o’ dule
/ The day I plunkit the Sawbath schule !
/
/ I wan’ert awa’…

Hame - by Mary Symon

{ Poem }

(St Andrew’s Day under the Southern Cross)
/
/ GOD bless our land, our Scotland,
/ Grey glen an’…

The Soldiers’ Cairn - by Mary Symon

{ Poem }

Gie me a hill wi’ the heather on’t,
/ An’ a reid sun drappin’ doon,
/ Or…

‘When you see millions of the mouthless dead’ - by Charles Hamilton Sorley

{ Poem }

When you see millions of the mouthless dead
/ Across your dreams in pale battalions go,
/ Say not soft things as…

Rooks - by Charles Hamilton Sorley

{ Poem }

There, where the rusty iron lies,
/ The rooks are cawing all the day.
/ Perhaps no man, until…

‘All the Hills and Vales Along’ - by Charles Hamilton Sorley

{ Poem }

All the hills and vales along
/ Earth is bursting into song,
/ And the singers are the chaps
/ Who are going…

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