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Introduction
This Anthology is the outcome of "Talks" on Modern
Scots Vernacular Verse given to Literary Associations during the last
thirty years. During that period our own sons and daughters have given
us excellent Vernacular Verse, which, unfortunately, is not so well
known as it should be.
The Editor has kept himself in touch with that poetry,
and has waled his selection from it.
His object has been to make these writers better known
and to stir up a livelier interest in the Vernacular, which, though not
now a spoken language, is still a language of literature - brimful of
couthy and sappy words and pithy phrases.
INDEX OF AUTHORS AND POEMS
ABEL GEORGE:
The Deem Poacher
A Caul Welcome
AINSLIE, HEW:
The Rover o' Lochryan
"It's Dowie
in the Hint o' Hairst"
The Bourocks o' Bargeny
ANGUS, MARIAN:
The Graceless Loon
The Sang
The Lilt
ANONYMOUS:
A Hen's a Hen for a' That
Holidays
Bruce and the Ettercap
BAIN, ROBERT:
In Oor Kailyard
Shakespeare and
Dickens and Me
Cock o' the North
BIRD, ROBERT:
The Table o' Fees
The Sparrow
To a Young Lawyer
BROWN, HILTON:
"Glen" a Sheep Dog
The Tenant
"Gowf"
BROWN, JAMES:
The Fisher
BUCHAN, JOHN:
The Shorter Catechism
The Eternal
Feminine
Fisher Jamie
CAIE, J. M:
Sair Warks nae Easy
The Puddock
Fats the Eese
CAIRNCROSS, T. S.:
The Laird o Ryffe
The Death
Certificate
Sir Tam
COCKER, W. D.:
Dandle
Ballad of the Deluge
The Tragedy of Ananias,
A Plooman's Lament
The Kibbock
Gin Love
should Dwine
COUSTON, ROBERT:
Me an Andra
The Wayfare
Grannie.
COUTTS, LEWIS:
Advice to a Young Man
Mornin,
Noon an' Necht,
He was Despised and Rejected!
CRAWFORD, ROBERT:
Sib,
A New-Year Wish - 1929
CRUJCKSHANK, HELEN
The Gipsy Lass
Keepit In
Fause Friend
Sae Lang has Sorrow
Granny
DARLING, W. RUS:
The Pest
DODDS. ANDREW:
The Sparrow's Address
The City
The Land is the Lord's
EMSLIE, ALEXANDER:
A Nicht wi' Burns
FAED, TAMAR:
An April Wean
A Wintry Sang
The
Incomer
The Spaewife
Hame's Hame
FERGUS, JOHN F.:
The Wey o a Woman
The Aiim'
Bairn
FISHER. W. D.:
Jealousy
GEDDES, JAMES Y.:
A Tale o' Kirrie
GRAY, ALEXANDER:
Babylon in Retrospect
Persuasion,
Disquiet
December Gloaming
Christmas Greeting
HAMILTON, JANET:
Auld Mither Scotlan'
HENDRY, HAMISH:
An Auld Skip
HORNE, J. G.:
Obsession?
Plooman Philosophy
Mashlum
Cherchez la Femme!
The Verse Speaker
HUTCHISON, ISOBEL W.:
A Song of Paradise
The
Return: 1918
JACOB, VIOLET:
Tam i' the Kirk
The Beadle i
Drumlee
JOHNSTON, HENRY:
Aye She Kaimed her Yellow Hair
KIRK. C. J.:
The Four-Wheeler
The Car Conductor
MACALISTER, SIR DONALD:
My Auld Coat
Back Aizain
M'DIARMID HUGH:
The Bonnie Broukit Bairn
The
Water'aw
Country Life
Crowdiekoowe
MACDONALD, GEORGE:
Whas My Neibour
This Side an
That
MACDONALD, HUGH:
The Bonnie Wee Well
MACGILLIVRAY, PITTENDRIGH:
In Exile
The Howdy
and the Claik
The Sumph
At the Nadir
The Hungry Weaver
The
Witch
MACGREGOR, ALEXANDER:
Advice to Some Diners at
Burns Dinners
M'INTOSH. BARBARA ROSS:
The Swither
The Backward
Lad
Tammas, My Son,
The Sermon on Daniel
MACLENNAN, R J.:
Jess o the Mains,
R.S.V.P.
M'TAVISH, JAMES:
The Land is a the Markiss's
MARTIN, JOHN SMELLIE:
Mither and the Wireless
When I Gang up the Waterside
The Green Was o Clyde
Guwd o the
Brume
MILNE, JAMES:
The Drogist
Winter
Cast the
Coat an' TilI't Again
MURRAY, CHARLES:
There's Ave a Something
Gin I
was God
MURRAY, ROBERT:
The Tid
The Bairn
OUTRAM. GEORGE:
The Annuity
The Reform Bill
Drinkin Drams
PITT. GILBERT:
Its Fine
Cot o' Content
POTTER, HARRY:
Wee Nancy
Doric Setting
Thousand Welcomes
RAE. GILBERT:
Flittin
In Days Lang Syne
An
Auld Border Dyker's Pra'er
The Gethrin o' the Bawbees
Love's Aye
the Same
REID. ROBERT:
Kirkhride,
The Whaup
The Lass
of Coshogle
ROBERTSON, JAMES LOGIE:
Fishing
The Plowman
A Winter View
In Praise of Balgeddie
ROBERTSON, STEWART ALAN:
Variation of Scots Words,
"Oot o' the World and into Kippen"
Janet
RORIE. DAVID:
Human Natur'
A Druggists Shop
The Auld Doctor
The Cynic
The Dell's a Busy Bishop
SHEPHERD, NAN:
O, Licht amo' the Hills
Loch Avon
Caul', Caul' as the Wall
SIMPSON, MARGARET WINEFRIDE:
The By-Road
The
Waukrife Win
The Conqueror
SMITH, DR. HARRY:
The Auld Plooman to his Brose
Cauld Kail
Ye Nivver Ken
Fey
SOUTAR, WILLIAM:
The Tryst
Fear
SPENCE, LEWIS:
The Gray Etin
The Wee May o'
Caledon
The Sang o' the Smiddy
SYMON, MARY:
The Aucht-Day Clock
Come Hame!
WATT, LAUCHLAN MACLEAN:
Tarry Breeks
A Bairnie's
Cry in Heaven
The Licht that's Mirk
WINGATE, WALTER:
The Dominic's Happy Lot,
The
Problem
The Evening Service
Highways and Byways
Poems Suitable
for School Competitions
Cuddle Doon (Alexander Anderson)
Schule in June (Robert Bain)
Castles in the Air (James Ballantine)
In the Byre (W. D. Cocker)
Wee Freenly Doug (W. D. Cocker)
Contentment (W. D. Cocker)
The Bogle (W. D. Cocker)
Beasties (Helen B. Cruickshanks)
Ambrosia (W. R. Darling)
Back! (W. D. Fisher)
At the Fireside (Michael Balfour Hutchison)
What's in a Name? (Barbara Ross M'Intosh)
Willie Winkie (William Miller)
See-Saw (Dr. Harry Smith)
Riddles in Scots (William Soutar)
Aince upon a Day (William Soutar)
Wullie Waggletail (William Soutar)
The Mitherless Bairn (William Thorn)
John Frost (David Wingate)
The Sair Finger (Walter Wingate)
Conscience (Walter Wingate) |
