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Later Poems of Alexander Anderson

"Surfaceman": Edited with a Biographical Sketch, by Alexander Brown: A New Edition

Anderson, Alexander (1845-1909)

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A VOICE FROM DREAMLAND.

THE LAST TO CUDDLE DOON.

RAB COMES HAME.

THE TWO SOWERS.

A VILLAGE SCENE—EVENING.

OH, FOR THOSE DAYS.

THE DYING COVENANTER.

ON THE STATUES OF GOETHE AND SCHILLER AT FRANKFORT-ON-THE MAINE.

SHE'S AN AWFU' LASSIE JENNY.

THE STEPPING STONES.

ROW, KELLO, ROW.

THE PIPER'S TREE.

AIMLESS LONGINGS.

THINKING OF MICHAEL.

A VOICE IS IN THE WIND TO-DAY.

THE SORROW OF THE SEA.

ONE STAR ALONE.

A SOUND IS IN MY EAR TO-DAY.

WILD FLOWERS FROM ALLOWAY AND DOON.

A BLACKBIRD'S NEST.

THE POET'S VISION.

THE AUTUMN LEAF.

A DREAM OF YARROW.

CAMERON'S STONE.

THE BRIG O' GLENAIRLIE.

THE HILLS REMAIN.

THE PASTOR'S POOL.

NANNIE NICOLSON.

A BALLADE OF TOBACCO SMOKE.

WE ARE THE SLAVES.

A CITY REVERIE.

LANGSYNE, WHEN LIFE WAS BONNIE.

THE HOUSE OF THE SINGING BIRDS.

THE UNKNOWN SINGER.

IF I WERE SOMEWHAT YOUNGER.

A BALLADE OF PIPES.

O MAVIS SINGIN' IN THE WOOD.

LINES ON AN OLD COMMUNION CUP.

THE HILLS IN THE HIELANDS.

THE OLD FAMILIAR WAYS.

DURISDEER HILLS.

BONNIE BESSIE LOGAN.

I STAND WITH MY SHOULDER TO SHOULDERS.

A BALLADE OF “CHURCHWARDENS.”

THE SECRET OF NATURE.

WE DANCED AT NIGHT IN THE FARM HOUSE.

AN APRIL AFTERNOON.

THE SHADOW OF THE PAST.

THE MESSAGE OF THE BEE.

A DAY DREAM ON THE RAIL.

AN OLD-WORLD BALLAD.

THE CHURCHYARD TREE.

THE LILY O' THE BANKS O' CREE.

A WHIFF OF NATURE.

THE VOICES OF SINGERS.

THE PAINTER AND THE FAIRY.

JOHN STUART BLACKIE.

THAT WEARY GOWF.

WRITTEN ON THE TOP OF BEN CRUACHAN.

BROKEN MELODIES.

A CHAMBER HUSHED AND DIM.

TWO BROWN EYES.

LORD OF THE AIR.

LIFE'S LITTLE DAY.

FAREWEEL TO MY HAME.

HOW SWEET WAS LIFE LANGSYNE.

AULD JOHNNIE NODDLE.

A HILLSIDE GRAVEYARD.

A WINDOW IN THRUMS.

IF ANY SONG THAT I HAVE SUNG.

THE PLEASURES THAT ARE OLDEN.

JOSEPH THOMSON.

AN AULD, AULD STORY.

WHEN FIRST I SAW THE TWEED

A CASTLE OLD AND GREY.

THE CAGED LARK.

THE GAME OF LIFE.

WHAT OF THE DIM OLD LEGENDS?

AT THE GRAVE OF KEATS.

THE POET'S CHOICE.

IN A MANSE GARDEN.

THE CRICKET'S SONG.

THE CRICKET'S SILENCE.

SWEET SEVENTEEN.

BLYTHE WILLIE STEWART.

ALEXANDER BROWN,

ISA IN THE GARDEN.

THE COVENANTER'S TRYST.

THE QUICK AND DEAD.

JOHN CROSBIE'S SHOON.

A NIGHT VISION IN THE COLOSSEUM AT ROME.

THE BALLAD O' MAY WYLLIE.

A SINGER IN THE STREET.

THE SANG THAT JENNY SINGS.

SWEET JENNY BY THE SOLWAY SANDS.

I WAS ALONE WITH THE MASTER.

WHEN LIFE IS YOUNG.

THE ANGEL THAT SOWS THE FLOWERS.

PIT HIM TO HIS BED.

BAULD ROBIN FORD.

LARS ANDERSONICUS.

I WEARY TO-NIGHT, I WEARY.

THE NOONDAY REST.

THE HILLS AN' BURNS AT HAME.

THE LANDLORD'S BEST.

ERRATIC MUSINGS.

SING A SANG TO THE BAIRNS.

NO ROOM FOR THE POET.

LIFE IN THE VILLAGE.

A DREAMER'S PARADISE.

“DREW THE WRONG LEVER!”

FAITH ARMING THE CHRISTIAN WARRIOR.

ON YARROW BRAES.

AN OLD COPY OF DANTE.

THE BLIND READER.

AN APRIL SONGSTER.

LIKE MISTS THAT TRAIL.

SHADOW AND SUNSHINE.

IN THE LIGHT OF BOYHOOD.

THE LARK'S SONG.

THE TIME OF THE ROSE IS OVER.

WHERE MAUDIE BIDES.

THE HILLS AROON' OOR AIN WEE TOON.

THE HAPPY EARTH.

ANVIL AND NEWSPAPER.

I SAW THE ARRAN HILLS.

THE MUIRLAN' LASSIE.

KILLED ON THE TELEGRAPH WIRE.

THE LOVE-LILT O' THE LARK.

BY SAINT MARY'S LAKE.

TO AN ENGLISH GIRL.

ON BEING SHOWN A FEW HAIRS FROM THE HEAD OF NAPOLEON.

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Later Poems of Alexander Anderson

"Surfaceman": Edited with a Biographical Sketch, by Alexander Brown: A New Edition

Alexander Anderson

1845-1909

Fraser, Asher & Co.

Glasgow Dalbeattie

1912