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elegies

Lament for the Lads - by Neil Munro

{ Poem }

Ochone o for na gillean departed,    Sundered by seas from us, buried afar.Gone are the lads who were leal and high-hearted     And we are now dreeing the dolours of war.’Illean, ’illean, ’illean,    Sorrow may fade but your fame shall endure,’Illean, ’illean, ’illean,    While flower’s in the forest and wind’s on […]

In Memoriam - by James Pittendrigh Macgillivray

{ Poem }

Blue-eyed, white-souled; blameless in word and deed! —
How fortunate a thing it is to leave
This life in such a way that none may grieve,

Flowers - by Judith Taylor

{ Poem }

I wanted to write an elegy
/ without flowers. I know they’re a requirement…

In Days of Darkness - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

Two days before your death, you wrote / There is not much to report from here.

Laugharne Churchyard in 1954 - by Ruthven Todd

{ Poem }

Three thousand miles and nearly half a year
/ Away from a drab November afternoon, hysterics
/ Of friends forgotten, and also the plain…

Polemical Elegy for Reinhardt Heydrich - by Tom Buchan

{ Poem }

You were being driven down to Prague
/ when a fellow in blue dungarees started shooting
/ so you stood up beside the chauffeur…

For Willie Soutar, October 1943 - by Douglas Young

{ Poem }

Twenty year beddit, and nou
/ the mort-claith.
/ This suld gar ilk ane grue,
/ …

For Alasdair - by Douglas Young

{ Poem }

Standan here on a fogg-yirdit stane,
/ drappan the bricht flees on the broun spate,
/ I’m thinkan o ye, liggan thonder…

Cemetery By the Sea - by Gordon Jarvie

{ Poem }

Remembering Tessa Ransford, 1938–2015
/
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/ When Gavin circulated the news
/ I shed a tear or two that early autumn day.
/ What else…

Nigg - by Ken Morrice

{ Poem }

Time alone separates the dull red
/ granite of these cliffs and the red
/ clay in the kirkyard yonder.
/ As I stand…

Epitaph on my own Friend - by Robert Burns

{ Poem }

An honest man here lies at rest,
/ As e’er God with His image blest:
/ The friend of man, the friend of…

Curaidhean - by Sorley MacLean / Somhairle MacGillEain

{ Poem }

Chan fhaca mi Lannes aig Ratasbon
/ no MacGillFhinnein aig Allt Èire
/ no Gill-Ìosa aig Cùil Lodair,
/ ach chunnaic mi Sasannach san Èipheit.
/
/ Fear beag…

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