The Oxford book of Scottish verse
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Oxford : Clarendon P., 1966.
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xxix, 633 pages ; 19 1/2 cm.
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Table of Contents
Tristrem and the hunters / Thomas of Erceldoune
The death of Alexander
Prologue to the avowis of Alexander / John Barbour
Incipit liber / John Barbour
Fredome / John Barbour
Before Bannockburn I / John Barbour
Before Bannockburn II / John Barbour
Macbeth / Andrew of Wyntoun
Stanzas 1-13 / James I
Stanzas 22-45 / James I
Stanzas 157-165 / James I
from The buke of the howlat / Sir Richard Holland
King Berdok
from Colkelbie sow
from Golagros and Gawane
from Rauf Coilyear
Schir William Wallace / Blin Hary
Lament for the Graham / Blin Hary
The testament of Cresseid / Robert Henryson
The preiching of the swallow / Robert Henryson
The taill of the foxe / Robert Henryson
Prologue to the thre prestis of peblis / John Reid of Stobo
Fane wald I luve / John Clerk
Allace! So sobir is the micht / Mersar
Honour with age / Walter Kennedy.
To a ladye / William Dunbar
Meditatioun in wyntir / William Dunbar
Lament for the makaris / William Dunbar
On the resurrection of Christ / William Dunbar
Ane ballat of our lady / William Dunbar
Remonstrance to the king / William Dunbar
The petition of the gray horse, auld Dunbar / William Dunbar
To the merchantis of Edinburgh / William Dunbar
The golden targe / William Dunbar
The tretis of the tua mariit wemen and the wedo / William Dunbar
The dance of the sevin deidly synnis / William Dunbar
The testament of Mr. Andro Kennedy / William Dunbar
The prologue to Book VII / Gavin Douglas
The prologue to Book XIII / Gavin Douglas
Thir lenterne dayis ar luvely lang / William Stewart
Four may poems
Of the realme of Scotland / Sir David Lindsay
The compleynt of the comoun weill of Scotland / Sir David Lindsay
Squire Meldrum at Carrick-fergus / Sir David Lindsay
After the flood / Sir David Lindsay
Solace in age / Sir Richard Maitland.
Christ's kirk on the green / James V
O maistres Myn
Bayth gud and fair and womanlie
The well of vertew and flour of womanheid
Off womanheid ane four delice
My hairt is heich aboif
from The bankis of Helicon
Fairweill
Remeidis of luve
Thair is nocht ane winche
Till Christ
Go, hart
The reid in the loch sayis
The bewteis of the fute-ball
Quhy sowld nocht allane honorit be?
Of May / Alexander Scott
Quha is perfyte / Alexander Scott
Up, hesum hairt / Alexander Scott
Returne the, hart / Alexander Scott
To luve unluvit / Alexander Scott
A rondel of luve / Alexander Scott
Epilogue to his book, the sevin seages / John Rolland
To the queen / Henry Stewart
Gife langour / Henry Stewart
To Henry Constable and Henry Keir / Captain Alexander Montgomerie
To R. Hudson / Captain Alexander Montgomerie
To his maistres / Captain Alexander Montgomerie
A description of tyme / Captain Alexander Montgomerie
The solsequium / Captain Alexander Montgomerie
The night is neir gone / Captain Alexander Montgomerie.
To his darrest freind / John Stewart of Baldynneis
Of the day estivall / Alexander Hume
Sonet / Mark Alexander Boyd
Admonition to Montgomerie / James VI
Sonnet 25 / Sir William Alexander
Sonnet 26 / Sir William Alexander
Upone tabacco / Sir Robert Aytoun
In Orknay / William Fowler
To sleepe / William Drummond
from Polemo-middinia
His metrical vow / James Graham
His metrical prayer / James Graham
from Montrose to his mistress / James Graham
from Oterborne
The fause knicht upon the road
The twa sisters
Lord Randal
Edward
The twa corbies
Tam lin
Sir patrick Spens
Clerk Saunders
The wife of Usher's Well
Archie of Cafield
The bonny earl of Murray
Son David
The bonnie laddie's lang a-grouwin'
The dowie houms o' yarrow
True Thomas
The life and death of Habbie Simson, the piper of Kilbarchan / Robert Sempill of Beltrees
Maggie Lauder
The gaberlunzie man
Tak' your auld cloak about ye
Get up and bar the door
Waly, waly
The bonnie house o' Airlie.
The twa books / Allan Ramsay
My Peggy is a young thing / Allan Ramsay
The carle he came o'er the croft / Allan Ramsay
Woo'd and married and a' / Alexander Ross
from Winter / James Thomson
Johnnie Cope / Adam Skirving
Tullochgorum / John Skinner
The flowers of the forest / Jean Elliot
To Mr. Alexander Ross / James Beattie
from the Epistle to the president, vice-presidents, and members of the Scottish Society of Antiquaries: on being chosen a correspondent member / Alexander Geddes
Braid claith / Robert Fergusson
Hallow-fair / Robert Fergusson
The rising of the session / Robert Fergusson
The ghaists: a kirk-yard eclogue / Robert Fergusson
Epigram... / Robert Fergusson
from Arthur's seat / Thomas Mercer
Logan Braes / John Mayne
Address to the deil / Robert Burns
The vision / Robert Burns
To a mouse / Robert Burns
To a louse / Robert Burns
To William Simpson, Ochiltree / Robert Burns
Death and Doctor Hornbook / Robert Burns
Address to the unco guid / Robert Burns
Tam o'shanter / Robert Burns
Holy Willie's prayer / Robert Burns
Corn riggs / Robert Burns
Of a' the airts / Robert Burns
Whistle o'er the lave o't / Robert Burns
Willie brew'd a peck o'maut / Robert Burns
Tam glen / Robert Burns.
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation / Robert Burns
A red, red rose / Robert Burns
Comin' thro' the rye / Robert Burns
Saw ye bonie Lesley / Robert Burns
A man's a man for a' that / Robert Burns
Mary Morison / Robert Burns
Rantin, rovin Robin / Robert Burns
O, wert thou in the cauld blast / Robert Burns
Scots, wha hae / Robert Burns
Auld lang syne / Robert Burns
Caller herrin' / Lady Nairne
The land o' the leal / Lady Nairne
John Anderson, my Jo
Ca' the yowes to the knowes
Somebody
Canadian boat song
The piper o' Dundee
When the kye comes hame / James Hogg
McLean's welcome / James Hogg
Lock the door, Lariston / James Hogg
from The lay of the last minstrel / Walter Scott
Lochinvar / Walter Scott
from The lady of the lake / Walter Scott
Jock of Hazeldean / Walter Scott
Pibroch of Donuil Dhu / Walter Scott
MacGregor's gathering / Walter Scott
Lucy Ashton's song / Walter Scott
Proud Maisie / Walter Scott
Blue bonnets over the border / Walter Scott
from Bonnie Dundee / Walter Scott.
O! Are ye sleepin, Maggie? / Robert Tannahill
Lachin y gair / George Gordon
So, we'll go no more a roving / George Gordon
from The city of dreadful night / James Thomson
Where the lilies used to spring / David Gray
from In the shadows / David Gray
Sonnet I / David Gray
A mile an' a bittock / Robert Louis Stevenson
Ille Terrarum / Robert Louis Stevenson
The spaewife / Robert Louis Stevenson
In the highlands / Robert Louis Stevenson
The return / Pittendrigh MacGillivray
Thirty bob a week / John Davidson
William Wallace / Francis Lauderdale Adams
Jesus / Francis Lauderdale Adams
To the Christians / Francis Lauderdale Adams
Hagar / Francis Lauderdale Adams
Evening hymn in the hovels / Francis Lauderdale Adams
The last o' the tinkler / Violet Jacob
Pride / Violet Jacob
The whistle / Charles Murray
Alas! Poor queen / Marion Angus
The prows o'reekie / Lewis Spence
Scotland / Alexander Gray
Lassie, what mair wad you hae? / Alexander Gray.
The falls of Glomach / Andrew Young
Suilven / Andrew Young
Culbin sands / Andrew Young
Comfort in puirtith / Helen B. Cruickshank
Shy Geordie / Helen B. Cruickshank
Merlin / Edwin Muir
Scotland's winter / Edwin Muir
The mythical journey / Edwin Muir
Scotland 1941 / Edwin Muir
Robert the Bruce / Edwin Muir
The confirmation / Edwin Muir
The fathers / Edwin Muir
The transfiguration / Edwin Muir
Nocht o' mortal sicht / Bessie J. B. Macarthur
Villanelle / Margaret Winefride Simpson
Crowdieknowe / Hugh MacDiarmid
The fleggit bride / Hugh MacDiarmid
Cophetua / Hugh MacDiarmid
The innumerable Christ / Hugh MacDiarmid
Empty vessel / Hugh MacDiarmid
O wha's the bride? / Hugh MacDiarmid
The great wheel / Hugh MacDiarmid
The parrot cry / Hugh MacDiarmid
The deean tractorman, deleerit / Edith Anne Robertson
The deean tractorman, clear / Edith Anne Robertson
The image o' God / Joe Corrie
Miners' wives / Joe Corrie
Stones / William Jeffrey
from On Glaister's hill / William Jeffrey.
Scotland / William Soutar
A whigmaleerie / William Soutar
Supper / William Soutar
Auld sang / William Soutar
A riddle / William Soutar
The tryst / William Soutar
The makar / William Soutar
The auld house / William Soutar
The permanence of the young men / William Soutar
Song / William Soutar
The planticru / Robert Rendall
Shore tullye / Robert Rendall
Lintie in a cage / Alice V. Stuart
from The men of the rocks / Adam Drinan
Glasgow Street / William Montgomerie
Author unknown / William Montgomerie
Kinfauns Castle / William Montgomerie
Estuary / William Montgomerie
Epitaph / William Montgomerie
Elegy / William Montgomerie
A new spring / A. D. Mackie
The young man and the young nun / A. D. Mackie
For the fly-leaf of a schoolbook / Norman Cameron
The unfinished race / Norman Cameron
The disused temple / Norman Cameron
Forgive me, sire / Norman Cameron
Shepherdess / Norman Cameron
The dirty little accuser / Norman Cameron
Arctic convoy / J. K. Annand
Sang / Robert MacLellan.
To my mountain / Kathleen Raine
Isis wanderer / Kathleen Raine
Spell of creation / Kathleen Raine
from Beinn Naomh / Kathleen Raine
Embro to the ploy / Robert Garioch
At Robert Fergusson's grave, October 1962 / Robert Garioch
Elegy / Robert Garioch
On seeing a aik-tree sprent wi galls / Robert Garioch
My house / George Bruce
Sumburgh heid / George Bruce
The singers / George Bruce
Tuslag / T. A. Robertson
Golden calf / Norman Maccaig
Nude in a fountain / Norman Maccaig
Celtic cross / Norman Maccaig
Feeding ducks / Norman Maccaig
By Achmelvich bridge / Norman Maccaig
Aspects / Norman Maccaig
Women's wather / T. S. Law
The constant north / J. F. Hendry
Last lauch / Douglas Young
Winter homily on the Calton Hill / Douglas Young
For a wife in Jizzen / Douglas Young
Ressaif my saul / Crombie Saunders
The empty glen / Crombie Saunders
Lean Street / G. S. Fraser
Letter to Anne Ridler.
Epistle to John Guthrie / Sydney Goodsir Smith
The mither's lament / Sydney Goodsir Smith
Ye mongers aye need maskes for cheatrie / Sydney Goodsir Smith
The ineffable dou / Sydney Goodsir Smith
Under the eildon tree elegy V / Sydney Goodsir Smith
Leander Stormbound / Sydney Goodsir Smith
The mandrake hert / Sydney Goodsir Smith
Cokkils / Sydney Goodsir Smith
Sonnet / George Campbell Hay
Song / George Campbell Hay
Flooer o' the gean / George Campbell Hay
The two neighbours / George Campbell Hay
from The dark dialogues / W. S. Graham
Many without elegy / W. S. Graham
Hurlygush / Maurice Lindsay
The exiled heart / Maurice Lindsay
Gallow Hill / William J. Tait
Idleset / Thurso Berwick
First elegy for the dead in Cyrenaica / Hamish Henderson
The flyting o' life and daith / Hamish Henderson.
Calvinist sang / Alexander Scott
Coronach / Alexander Scott
Letter to Robert Fergusson / Alexander Scott
Moses / Sydney Tremayne
The second life / Edwin Morgan
The old woman / George Mackay Brown
December day, hoy sound / George Mackay Brown
Stars / George Mackay Brown
Alien / William Price Turner
Coronary thrombosis / William Price Turner
University curriculum / William Price Turner
Peterhead in May / Burns Singer
Nothing / Burns Singer
Marcus Antoninus cui cognomen erat Aurelius / Burns Singer
Still and all / Burns Singer
John Knox / Iain Crichton Smith
Culloden and after / Iain Crichton Smith
For Angus Macleod / Iain Crichton Smith
For my mother / Iain Crichton Smith.
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Published
Oxford : Clarendon P., 1966.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Scott, T., & MacQueen, J. (1966). The Oxford book of Scottish verse . Clarendon P..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Scott, Tom, 1918-1995 and John. MacQueen. 1966. The Oxford Book of Scottish Verse. Clarendon P.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Scott, Tom, 1918-1995 and John. MacQueen. The Oxford Book of Scottish Verse Clarendon P, 1966.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Scott, Tom, and John MacQueen. The Oxford Book of Scottish Verse Clarendon P., 1966.
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