#Scots
Tell me, thou soul of her I love, Ah! tell me, whither art thou fled… To what delightful world above, Appointed for the happy dead? Or dost thou, free, at pleasure, r…
* Sweet Ravelrig, I ne’er could par… From thee, but wi’ a dowie heart. When I think on the happy days I spent in youth about your braes,
Shook sudden from the bosom of the… A thousand shapes, or glide athwar… Or stalk majestic on. Deep-roused… A sacred terror, a severe delight, Creep through my mortal frame; and…
Sweet valley, say, where, pensive… For me, our children, England, si… The best of mortals leans his head… Ye fountains, dimpled by my sorrow… Ye brooks that my complainings bor…
Go, little book, and find our Fri… Who Nature and the Muses loves, Who cares the public virtues blend With all the softness of the grove… A fitter time thou canst not choos…
See where the winding vale its lav… Irriguous, spreads. See, how the… The latent rill, scarce oozing thr… In fair profusion, decks. Long le… Where the breeze blows from yon ex…
When from the opening chambers of… The morning springs, in thousand l… The early larks their morning trib… And, in shrill notes, salute the b… Refreshed fields with pearly dew d…
The north-east spends his rage; he… Within his iron cave, th’ effusive… Warms the wide air, and o’er the v… Breathes the big clouds with verna… At first a dusky wreath they seem…
Cramm’d to the throat with wholeso… Alas! poor audience! you have had… Was ever hapless heroine of a play In such a piteous plight as ours t… Was ever woman so by love betray’d…
When now no more th’ alternate twi… And Cancer reddens with the solar… Short is the doubtful empire of th… And soon, observant of approaching… The meek-eyed Morn appears, mothe…
Oh, could I draw, my friend, thy… Just as the living forms by thee d… Of Raphael’s figures none should… Nor Titian’s colours longer last… A mind in wisdom old, in lenience…
Our bard, to modern epilogue a foe… Thinks such mean mirth but deadens… Dispels in idle air the moral sigh… And wipes the tender tear from Pi… No more with social warmth the bos…
From those eternal regions bright, Where suns, that never set in nigh… Diffuse the golden day; Where Spring, unfading, pours aro… O’er all the dew-impearled ground,
The western sun withdrawn the shor… And humid evening, gliding o’er th… In her chill progress, to the grou… The vapours throws. Where creepin… Where marshes stagnate, and where…
Hail, mildly pleasing solitude, Companion of the wise and good; But, from whose holy, piercing eye… The herd of fools, and villains fl… Oh! how I love with thee to walk,