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Poems by Robert Nicoll

Second edition: with numerous additions, and a memoir of the author

Nicoll, Robert (1814-1837)

I.

PART I. POEMS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, AND OF THE CONDITION AND FEELINGS, OF THE SCOTTISH PEASANTRY.

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II.

PART II. SONGS, CHIEFLY SCOTTISH.

THE MUIR O' GORSE AND BROOM.

THE BELOVED ONE.

THE MAKING O' THE HAY.

DOWN BY THE WOOD.

MY AULD GUDEWIFE.

THE COURTIN' TIME.

THE BONNIE HIELAND HILLS.

THE HEATHER OF SCOTLAND.

THE HIELAND PLAID.

WHAT SHALL I DO?

THE LAMENT OF BENEDICK THE MARRIED MAN.

THERE'S NEVER AN END O' HER FLYTIN AN' DIN.

A MAIDEN'S MEDITATIONS.

MY MINNIE MAUNA KEN.

THE MAID I DAURNA NAME.

THE BONNIE ROWAN BUSH.

THE AULD BEGGAR MAN.

YE WINNA LET ME BE.

THE BANKS OF TAY.

THE LASS OF TURRIT HA'.

THE PRISONER'S SONG.

WE ARE BRETHREN A'.

THE HONEST AND TRUE.

THE WARLD'S FU' O' SKAITH AND TOIL.

THE SHEPHERDESS.

BE STILL, BE STILL, THOU BEATING HEART.

TO THE LADY OF MY HEART.

A CASTLE IN THE AIR.

III.

PART III. POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE FEELINGS OF THE INTELLIGENT AND RELIGIOUS AMONG THE WORKING-CLASSES OF SCOTLAND.

IV.

PART IV. SERIOUS AND PATHETIC POEMS.

V.

PART V. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

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