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The Poems of Alexander Montgomerie

Edited by James Cranstoun
Montgomerie, Alexander (1545?-1598)

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SONNETS.
 I. 
I. [TO THE BLESSED TRINITY.]
 II. 
II. [OF THE WORKS OF GOD.]
 III. 
III. [OF THE INIQUITIE OF MAN.]
 IV. 
IV. TO M. DAUID DRUMMOND.
 V. 
V. [TO THE SAME.]
 VI. 
VI. TO M. P. GALLOWAY.
 VII. 
VII. TO HIS MAJESTIE.
 VIII. 
VIII. IN PRAISE OF HIS MAJESTIE.
 IX. 
IX. IN PRAISE OF M. J. M., CHANCELLER.
 X. 
X. IN PRAIS OF THE KINGS VRANIE.
 XI. 
XI. [OF THE SAME.]
 XII. 
XII. [OF THE SAME.]
 XIII. 
XIII. [OF THE SAME.]
 XIV. 
XIV. TO HIS MAJESTIE, FOR HIS PENSIOUN.
 XV. 
XV. [TO THE SAME.]
 XVI. 
XVI. [TO THE SAME.]
 XVII. 
XVII. [TO THE SAME.]
 XVIII. 
XVIII. TO THE LORDS OF THE SESSION.
 XIX. 
XIX. [TO THE SAME.]
 XX. 
XX. [TO THE SAME.]
 XXI. 
XXI. [TO THE SAME.]
 XXII. 
XXII. TO HIS ADUERSARS LAUYERS.
 XXIII. 
XXIII. OF M. J. SHARPE.
 XXIV. 
XXIV. [OF THE SAME.]
 XXV. 
XXV. TO R. HUDSONE.
 XXVI. 
XXVI. [TO THE SAME.]
 XXVII. 
XXVII. [TO THE SAME.]
 XXVIII. 
XXVIII. [TO THE SAME.]
 XXIX. 
XXIX. [TO THE SAME.]
 XXX. 
XXX. CHRISTEN LYNDESAY TO RO. HUDSONE.
 XXXI. 
XXXI. TO M. J. MURRAY.
 XXXII. 
XXXII. TO M. L. RUTHUEN, DUCHES OF LENNOX.
 XXXIII. 
XXXIII. A LADYIS LAMENTATIONE.
 XXXIV. 
XXXIV. [THE SAME.]
 XXXV. 
XXXV. [THE SAME.]
 XXXVI. 
XXXVI. [THE SAME.]
 XXXVII. 
XXXVII. [THE SAME.]
 XXXVIII. 
XXXVIII. [THE SAME.]
 XXXIX. 
XXXIX. [TO HIS MAISTRES.]
 XL. 
XL. [TO THE SAME.]
 XLI. 
XLI. [TO THE SAME.]
 XLII. 
XLII. JAMES LAUDER.
 XLIII. 
XLIII. ISSOBELL YONG.
 XLIV. 
XLIV. EUFAME WEMIS.
 XLV. 
XLV. JOHN JHONSONE—JANE MAXWELL.
 XLVI. 
XLVI. HIS MAISTRES NAME.
 XLVII. 
XLVII. TO HIS MAISTRES MESSANE.
 XLVIII. 
XLVIII. TO M. D.
 XLIX. 
XLIX. [TO THE SAME.]
 L. 
L. OF MY LADY SEYTON.
 LI. 
LI. TO THE FOR ME.
 LII. 
LII. [TO THE SAME.]
 LIII. 
LIII. [TO THE SAME.]
 LIV. 
LIV. [ON HIS MAISTRES.]
 LV. 
LV. [ON THE SAME.]
 LVI. 
LVI. [ON THE SAME.]
 LVII. 
LVII. [ON THE SAME.]
 LVIII. 
LVIII. [ON THE SAME.]
 LIX. 
LIX. OF THE DULEWEID.
 LX. 
LX. [OF THE SAME.]
 LXI. 
LXI. [OF THE SAME.]
 LXII. 
LXII. THE POETS APOLOGIE TO THE KIRK OF EDINBURGH.
 LXIII. 
LXIII. THAT HE WROT NOT AGANSTE THE MADINS OF EDINBURGH.
 LXIV. 
LXIV. TO HIS MAJESTIE.
 LXV. 
LXV. From London
 LXVI. 
LXVI. LADYLAND TO CAP. A. MONTEGOMERIE.
 LXVII. 
LXVII. EȜECHIEL MONTG. ANSUEIR TO LADYLAND.
 LXVIII. 
LXVIII. LADYLAND TO EȜECH. MONTG.
 LXIX. 
LXIX. THE OLD MAISTER
 LXX. 
LXX. AGAINST THE GOD OF LOVE.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
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DEVOTIONAL POEMS.
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THE MINDES MELODIE.
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POEMS ATTRIBUTED TO ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE.

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LII. [TO THE SAME.]

Love lent me wings of hope and high desyre,
Syn bad me flie, and feir not for ane fall.
Ȝit tedious trauell tystit me to tyre,
Vhill Curage come, and culd me couart call.
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As Icarvs with wanton waxit wings,
Ayme at the only A per se of all;
Vhilk staynis the sun, that sacred thing of things,
And spuris my spreit, that to the heuins it springs,
Quyt ravisht throu the region of the air,
Vhair ȝit my hairt in hoping haȝard hings,
At poynt to speid, or quikly to despair.
Ȝet shrink not, hairt! as simple as thou semes,
If thou be brunt, it is with beuties bemes.
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