All Poems

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366. Song—The weary Pund o’ Tow

© Robert Burns

Chorus.—The weary pund, the weary pund,
The weary pund o’ tow;
I think my wife will end her life,
Before she spin her tow.

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289. Song—Awa’, Whigs, Awa’

© Robert Burns

Chorus.—Awa’ Whigs, awa’!
Awa’ Whigs, awa’!
Ye’re but a pack o’ traitor louns,
Ye’ll do nae gude at a’.

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At A Poet's Grave

© Francis Ledwidge

When I leave down this pipe my friend
And sleep with flowers I loved, apart,
My songs shall rise in wilding things
Whose roots are in my heart.

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339. Song—O for ane an’ twenty, Tam

© Robert Burns

Chorus.—An’ O for ane an’ twenty, Tam!
And hey, sweet ane an’ twenty, Tam!
I’ll learn my kin a rattlin’ sang,
An’ I saw ane an’ twenty, Tam.

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The Chantry Of The Cherubim

© Francis William Bourdillon

O CHANTRY of the Cherubim,  

 Down-looking on the stream!  

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71. Second Epistle to Davie

© Robert Burns

Haud to the Muse, my daintie Davie:
The warl’ may play you mony a shavie;
But for the Muse, she’ll never leave ye,
Tho’ e’er sae puir,
Na, even tho’ limpin wi’ the spavie
Frae door tae door.

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553. Song—O lay thy loof in mine, lass

© Robert Burns

Chorus—O lay thy loof in mine, lass,
In mine, lass, in mine, lass;
And swear on thy white hand, lass,
That thou wilt be my ain.

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Transitional

© William Carlos Williams

I then said:
Dare you make this
Your propaganda?

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384. Song—Highland Mary

© Robert Burns

YE banks, and braes, and streams around
The castle o’ Montgomery!
Green be your woods, and fair your flowers,
Your waters never drumlie:

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Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman

© William Wordsworth

.  With an incident in which he was concerned

  In the sweet shire of Cardigan,

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317. Song—The Banks o’ Doon (Second Version)

© Robert Burns

YE flowery banks o’ bonie Doon,
How can ye blume sae fair?
How can ye chant, ye little birds,
And I sae fu’ o care!

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500. Song—Craigieburn Wood (Second Version)

© Robert Burns

SWEET fa’s the eve on Craigieburn,
And blythe awakes the morrow;
But a’ the pride o’ Spring’s return
Can yield me nocht but sorrow.

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Tonight

© Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Do not strike the chord of sorrow tonight!
Days burning with pain turn to ashes.
Who knows what happens tomorrow?
Last night is lost; tomorrow's frontier wiped out:

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318. Song—The Banks o’ Doon (Third Version)

© Robert Burns

YE banks and braes o’ bonie Doon,
How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair?
How can ye chant, ye little birds,
And I sae weary fu’ o’ care!

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285. Song—I Gaed a Waefu’ Gate Yestreen

© Robert Burns

I GAED a waefu’ gate yestreen,
A gate, I fear, I’ll dearly rue;
I gat my death frae twa sweet een,
Twa lovely een o’bonie blue.

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Sweet, Sweet Days Are Passing

© Louisa May Alcott

Sweet, sweet days are passing

  O'er my happy home.

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194. Song—Blythe was She

© Robert Burns

Chorus.—Blythe, blythe and merry was she,
Blythe was she but and ben;
Blythe by the banks of Earn,
And blythe in Glenturit glen.

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God's Graal

© Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The ark of the Lord of Hosts

Whose name is called by the name of Him

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550. Song—A Lass wi’ a Tocher

© Robert Burns

AWA’ wi’ your witchcraft o’ Beauty’s alarms,
The slender bit Beauty you grasp in your arms,
O, gie me the lass that has acres o’ charms,
O, gie me the lass wi’ the weel-stockit farms.

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Sonnet 25: The Wisest Scholar

© Sir Philip Sidney

The wisest scholar of the wight most wise
By Phoebus' doom, with sugar'd sentence says,
That Virtue, if it once met with our eyes,
Strange flames of love it in our souls would raise;