Poems

He Who Weeps For Beauty Gone He who weeps for beauty gone Hangs about his neck a stone. He who mourns for his lost youth Daily […]

Scotland Atween the world o’ licht And the world that is to be A man wi’ unco sicht Sees whaur he canna see: Gangs whaur he […]

Song End is in beginning; And in beginning end: Death is not loss, nor life winning; But each and to each is friend. The hands which […]

Supper Steepies for the barnie Sae moolie in the mou’: Parritch for a strappan lad To mak his beard grow. Stovies for a muckle-man To keep […]

The Halted Moment Wha hasna turn’d inby a sunny street And fund alang its length nae folk were there; And heard his step fa’ steadily and […]

The Halted Moment. Wha hasna turn’d inby a sunny street And fund alang its length nae folk were there; And heard his step fa’ steadily and […]

The Makar Nae man wha loves the lawland tongue but warstles wi’ the thoucht- there are mair sangs that bide unsung nor a’ that hae been […]

The Trysting Place O luely, luely, cam she in And luely she lay doun: I kent her be her caller lips And jer breists sae sma’ […]

Whan Gowdan are the Carse-lands Braw are the Grampian Mountains Whan simmer licht is still; And gowdan are the Carse-lands Ablow the Corsie Hill. Yonder the […]

A Ritual To Read To Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and I don’t know the kind of person you […]