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lochs and lakes

‘By lone St. Mary’s silent lake’ - by Sir Walter Scott

{ Poem }

By lone St. Mary’s silent lake:
/ Thou know’st it well,—nor fen nor sedge
/ Pollute the pure lake’s crystal edge;
/ Abrupt and sheer, the…

Winter (EM) - by Edwin Morgan

{ Poem }

The year goes, the woods decay, and after,
many a summer dies. The swan
on Bingham’s pond, a ghost, comes and goes.

What Is the Pond Doing? - by Diana Hendry

{ Poem }

(for Ruairidh, who asked)
/
/ Wobbling like a wobbly jelly
/ Being a bucket for the rain
/ Sending flash-backs to the sun
/ Cheeking the sky
/ Giving the…

Loch Avon - by Nan Shepherd

{ Poem }

Loch A’an, Loch A’an, hoo deep ye lie!
/ Tell nane yer depth and nane shall I.
/ Bricht though yer deepmaist pit may…

Loch Thom - by W. S. Graham

{ Poem }

1
/
/ Just for the sake of recovering
/ I walked backward from fifty-six
/ Quick years of age wanting to see,
/ And managed not to trip…

Up Loch Fyne - by Naomi Mitchison

{ Poem }

/ The humped grey fish-watcher has become with one wingflap
/ The elegant trailing heron that Hokusai dreamed up,
/ Far from Loch Fyne.
/ May my…

The Lake Isle of Innisfree - by William Butler Yeats

{ Poem }

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
/ And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
/ Nine…

coire fhionn lochan - by Thomas A. Clark

{ Poem }

lapping of the little waves
/ breaking of the little waves
/ spreading of the little waves
/ idling of the little waves
/
/ rippling of the little…

Whatsoever things are lovely - by Christine De Luca

{ Poem }

A smoor o paets: a simmer foo
/ ta hent fae timeless broos at,
/ haddin der dark fire, cuppit
/ fair Lungawater. I da sun
/ da…

Canoeing on Loch Veyatie, Late Summer - by Tom Bryan

{ Poem }

Slicing the trout-speckled slipsteam,
/ over the dark silver of Veyatie,
/ today, a restless and turgid loch –
/ fifteen fathoms of darken dream.
/
/ Angry clouds…

The Prelude - by William Wordsworth

{ Poem }

an extract
/
/ She was an elfin Pinnace; lustily
/ I dipp’d my oars into the silent Lake,
/ And, as I rose upon the stroke,…

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