Poems

Tomorrow OLD fraud, I know you in that gay disguise, That air of hope, that promise of surprise: Beneath your bravery, as you come this way, […]

What shall it profit? IF I lay waste and wither up with doubt The blessed fields of heaven where once my faith Possessed itself serenely safe […]

Lament For The Makers I that in heill wes and gladnes, Am trublit now with gret seiknes, And feblit with infermite; Timor mortis conturbat me. Our […]

On The Nativity Of Christ ORATE coeli desuper! Hevins, distil your balmy schouris! For now is risen the bricht day-ster, Fro the rose Mary, flour of […]

The tretis of the twa mariit women and the wedo Apon the Midsummer evin, mirriest of nichtis, I muvit furth allane, neir as midnicht wes past, […]

To A Lady Sweet rois of vertew and of gentilness, Delytsum lily of everie lustynes, Richest in bontie and in bewtie clear, And everie vertew that […]

To the City of London London, thou art of town{.e}s A per se. Soveraign of cities, semeliest in sight, Of high renoun, riches, and royaltie; Of […]

Blind Old Milton Place me once more, my daughter, where the sun May shine upon my old and time-worn head, For the last time, perchance. My […]

The Execution Of Montrose COME hither, Evan Cameron! Come, stand beside my knee: I hear the river roaring down Towards the wintry sea. There ’s shouting […]

The Massacre of MacPherson Fhairshon had a son, Who married Noah’s daughter, And nearly spoiled ta Flood By trinking up ta water: Which he would have […]