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The Field by the Lirk o’ the Hill - by Violet Jacob

{ Poem }

Daytime an’ nicht,
/ Sun, wind an’ rain;
/ …

Trespassing - by Walter Wingate

{ Poem }

The road was liker a burn :
/ But the trees in the glen were new in leaf,
/ Ilk bairn I met had…

The Forfar Bus - by J. B. Salmond

{ Poem }

On the Forfar ‘bus in a morn of spring,
/ A nipping wind and the frost’s sharp sting;
/ And I can’t tell why,…

March - by Andrew Dodds

{ Poem }

On Sunday gawky and glaiket,
/ For life no carin’ a preen;
/ On Monday lookin’ forsaket,
/ Wi’ a misty weet in her een;
/ On Tuesday…

Yesterday in Laggan - by Gordon Jarvie

{ Poem }

It was such a day
/ of sunshine wall to wall,
/ of heat haze and the year’s first frogs,
/ of blue hills stretching…

The Green Grass - by Joseph Lee

{ Poem }

The dead spake together last night,
/ And one to the other said:
/ …

The Light Streams In - by Tomas Tranströmer

{ Poem }

Outside the window is spring’s long animal, / the diaphanous dragon of sunshine / flowing past.

from vii. flock master - by Jim Carruth

{ Poem }

Three weeks: one field / a deluge / of births and deaths.

Winter’s Awa - by William Soutar

{ Poem }

Noo the snaw creeps fae the braes
And is gaen:
Noo the trees clap on their claes
Ane be ane

Spring - by Gerard Manley Hopkins

{ Poem }

Nothing is so beautiful as Spring –
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing.

‘I so liked Spring…’ - by Charlotte Mew

{ Poem }

I so liked Spring last year
/ Because you were here; –
/ The thrushes too –
/ Because it was these you so liked to…

Another Spring - by Christina Rossetti

{ Poem }

If I might see another Spring,
/ I’d not plant summer flowers and wait:
/ I’d have my…

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