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Robert Burns

Rabbie, Rabbie, Burning Bright - by W. N. Herbert

{ Poem }

Atween November’s end and noo
/ there’s really nithin else tae do
/ but climb inside a brindlet coo
/ …

On Visiting the Tomb of Burns - by John Keats

{ Poem }

Burns! with honour due /I oft have honour’d thee. Great shadow, hide / Thy face; I sin against thy native…

Robert Burns - by William McGonagall

{ Poem }

Immortal Robert Burns of Ayr,
/ There’s but few poets can with you compare;
/ Some of your poems and songs are very fine:
/ To…

A Man’s a Man for a’ That - by Robert Burns

{ Poem }

Is there for honest Poverty
/ That hings his head, an’ a’ that;
/ The coward-slave, we pass him by,
/ We dare be poor for…

A Birl for Burns - by Seamus Heaney

{ Poem }

From the start, Burns’ birl and rhythm,
/ That tongue the Ulster Scots brought wi’ them
/ And stick to still in County Antrim
/ Was…

Beelzebub Resurfaces - by James Robertson

{ Poem }

A girnin, greitin deil wis I –
/ I wis auld, and feelin aulder.
/ Syne the heatin system burst in Hell:
/ It wis cauld…

Address of Beelzebub - by Robert Burns

{ Poem }

To the Right Honorable The Earl of Breadalbane, President of the Right Honorable and Honorable the
/ Highland Society, which met…

Holy Gordon’s Prayer - by Rab Wilson

{ Poem }

O Lord my God, forgie this swither,
/ pray hear thy servant in his dither.
/ Should ah bide here? or cross the river…

Aw Jock Tamson’s - by Janet Paisley

{ Poem }

Moonrise, an maudlin in the mirk,
/ we coorie in, hoose selt, hame hawked,
/ oor labour thirled tae yesterday,
/ the morra pawned fur brick-a-brack.
/
/ Thieves…

Rose - by Matthew Fitt

{ Poem }

Ye hink ah’m like a reid, reid whit?
/ You dinna hae a scoob!
/ And whit dae you ken aboot melodie?
/ Dae ye hink…

The Marble Quarry - by Robert Crawford

{ Poem }

For the second time in fifty years
/ I come to the Marble Quarry.
/ Last time, a boy, I came with my father.
/ Now…

Epistle - by W. N. Herbert

{ Poem }

Leeze me on rhyme! It’s aye a treasure,
/ My chief, amaist my only pleasure…
/ from ‘Second Epistle to Davie’
/
/ While London’s steekit beh…

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