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Poetry by Heart Scotland pre-1914

Poems with this tag are permitted for recital in the pre-1914 category of the Poetry By Heart Scotland competition at school, regional and national stages.

The night is darkening round me - by Emily Bronte

{ Poem }

The night is darkening round me,
/ The wild winds coldly blow;
/ But a tyrant spell has bound me,
/ And I cannot, cannot go.
/
/ The…

from The Bruce - by John Barbour

{ Poem }

A! Fredome is a noble thing
/ Fredome mays man to haiff liking.
/ Fredome all solace to man giffis,
/ He levys at es that…

Consolation - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

Though he that ever kind and true
/ Kept stoutly step by step with you
/ Your whole long gusty lifetime through,
/ Be gone awhile…

Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain (extract) - by Duncan Ban MacIntyre

{ Poem }

4. Siubhal
/
/ A’ bheinn luiseanach fhailleanach
/ Mheallanach lìontach,
/ Gun choimeas dh’ a fallaing
/ Air thalamh na Crìosdachd:
/
/ ‘S ro-neònach tha mise,…

To Any Reader - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

As from the house your mother sees
/ You playing round the garden trees,
/ So you may see, if you will look
/ Through the…

‘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…

‘I cannot deem why men toil so for Fame’ - by Alexander Smith

{ Poem }

I cannot deem why men toil so for Fame.
/ A porter is a porter though his load
/ Be the oceaned world,…

The Season of Youth - by William Knox

{ Poem }

(Ecclesiastes, ix. 7, 9 ; xi 9.)
/
/ Rejoice, mortal man, in the noon of thy prime!
/ Ere thy brow shall…

Invictus - by William Ernest Henley

{ Poem }

Out of the night that covers me,
/ Black as the pit from pole to pole,
/ I thank whatever gods may be
/ For my…

from To His Mistress - by James Graham

{ Poem }

My dear and only Love, I pray
/ This noble World of thee,
/ Be govern’d by no other Sway
/ …

She Walks in Beauty - by George Gordon, Lord Byron

{ Poem }

She walks in beauty, like the night
/ Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
/ And all that’s best of dark…

Up in the Morning Early - by Robert Burns

{ Poem }

Cauld blaws the wind frae east to west,
/ The drift is driving sairly;
/ Sae loud and shrill’s I hear…

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