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wooing and courtship

The Wren’s Nest - by Robert Burns

{ Poem }

The Robin cam to the wren’s nest
And keekit in and keekit in.

Just like Eve - by Magi Gibson

{ Poem }

I could have brought you
/ whisky to warm you on winter nights,
/ poems full of words to fill your silences
/
/ I could…

O Come to Craigie Hill, Lassie - by Archibald McKay

{ Poem }

O come to Craigie Hill, lassie,
/ The sweetest joys are there;
/ The bloom is on the whin, lassie,
/ And ilka scene is fair;
/ The…

Kantan Chamorrita - by Anonymous

{ Poem }

Courting
/
/ I’m not fishing for small fish
/ I’m casting my net for you
/ When I whistle three times
/ Throw your net and run.
/
/
/ Mimicry/Courting
/
/ I would…

Choice - by Flavien Ranaivo

{ Poem }

– Who is she whose-feet-go-clattering-the-hard-ground?
/ – The daughter of the new chief-of-thousand.
/ – If it is the daughter of the chief-of-thousand
/ …

The Peasant Declares His Love - by Émile Roumer

{ Poem }

High-yellow of my heart, with breasts like tangerines,
/ you taste better to me than eggplant stuffed with crab,
/ you are the tripe…

Muckle Mou’d Meg - by James Ballantine

{ Poem }

‘Oh, what hae ye brought us hame now, my brave lord,
/ Strappit flaught owre his braid saddle-bow?
/ Some…

Ripeness - by Alasdair Gray

{ Poem }

It is three months since you taught me love can be fun
/ and one since you came to fruit,
/ breasts weighty and…

Snaw - by J. K. Annand

{ Poem }

Es ist ein Schnee gefallen Anon. 16th century
/
/ It’s snawin cats and dugs,
/ Winter’s…

The Laird o’ Cockpen - by Carolina Oliphant

{ Poem }

The laird o’ Cockpen, he’s proud an’ he’s great,
/ His mind is ta’en up wi’ the things o’ the…

‘I will make you brooches and toys for your delight’ - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
/ Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.
/ I will make a…

The Invitation - by Sir Alexander Gray

{ Poem }

That you’re my ain true love,
/ Weel can you see.
/ Come in the nicht, come in the nicht;
/ Whisper: ‘It’s me.’
/
/ Juist come straicht…

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