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Poems by Robert Nicoll

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

Nicoll, Robert (1814-1837)

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I.

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

THE TOUN WHERE I WAS BORN.

YOUTH'S DREAMS.

THE PLACE THAT I LOVE BEST.

THE FOLK O' OCHTERGAEN.

THE SPINNING-WHEEL.

OUR AULD HEARTHSTANE.

WE'LL A' GO PU' THE HEATHER.

MY GRANDFATHER.

OUR AULD GUDEMAN.

BONNIE BESSIE LEE.

FIDDLER JOHNNY.

THE HOPES OF AGE.

THE BATTLE WORD.

II.

PART II. SONGS, CHIEFLY SCOTTISH.

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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“Finds tongues in trees—books in the running brooks—
Sermons in stones—and good in everything.”
As You Like It.