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A Song of Labour and Other Poems

By Alexander Anderson
Anderson, Alexander (1845-1909)

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A SONG OF LABOUR.
  
A LOVE RETROSPECT.
  
JOHN KEATS.
  
THE DEAD CHILD.
  
THE AUTUMN WALK.
  
ELIORE.
  
THE POET'S MISSION.
  
BABY'S HAIR.
  
THE DEIL'S IN THAT BIT BAIRN.
  
CHRISTMAS.
  
THE BURIAL OF THE OLD YEAR.
  
KATE.
  
SCHILLER AND SUNSHINE.
  
THE SUMMER DAY.
  
THE THRUSH.
  
THE SPIRIT OF LOVE.
  
OOR JOHNNIE.
  
POETIC ASPIRATIONS.
  
A RETROSPECTIVE ODE.
  
STERNE.
  
OH, GLORIOUS TIME!
  
RECOLLECTIONS OF BYRON.
  
LIFE AND DEATH.
  
JANET.
  
THE PAIDLIN' WEAN.
  
SPRING.
  
O, SOFTLY FALLS THE MOONLIGHT.
  
O, SUMMER DAY.
  
AGNES.
  
O, GLAD NEW YEAR.
  
FRANKENSTEIN.
  
SCOTT.
  
THE STEERIN' WEE LADDIE.
  
THE PREACHER.
  
MAGGIE'S WEAN.
  
TO ONE IN ETERNITY.
  
THE FIRST PRIMROSE.
  
OOR RAB.
  
THE BRIDGE.
  
THE WIND BLOWS SOFT.
  
DANTE.
  
WILLIE.
  
THE VILLAGE FIDDLER.
  
THE POET—A Dream.
  
THE MAY.
  
ARTEMUS WARD.
  
A LEGEND OF ST PATRICK.
  
HOPE AND SLEEP.
  
BLIND ELLA.
  
A TERPSICHOREAN RECOLLECTION.
  
LAME KATIE.
  
THE FALLING LEAVES.
  
GRAND OLD THOMAS.
  
PAST SPASMODICS.
  
THE FIRST BREAK.
  
THE TWO WATCHWORDS.
  
OLD ADAM.
  
THE WHUSSLE.
  
THE DEAD MOTHER.
  
THE BOWL O' SENNA LEAF.
  
RACHEL.
  
ANNA.
  
FIRST LOVE.
  
THOSE FOOTSTEPS.
  
WEE TOTTIE.
  
THE CHILD'S GRAVE.
  
OOR SIS.
  
A SPIRIT IS SINGING A SONG.
  
JOCK BUCHAN.
  
NIGHT IN THE VILLAGE.
  
THE OLD RUINS.
  
GRETCHEN.
  
ON THE ENGINE AGAIN.
  
BERTHA.
  
THE MOTHER.
  
TASSO.
  
SUMMER DREAMINGS.
  
THE OLD LOVE LIVING YET.
  
ON THE ENGINE IN THE NIGHT-TIME.
  
BOOKS.
  
I MISS MY BONNIE BAIRN.
  
AH! THE DREAMS.
  
THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES.
  
ONE OF THE FOUR IN SONG.
  
UNDERNEATH THE STARS.
  
GIVE ME A SONG, THOU POET.
  
THE DEAD LARK.
  
THE POOL.
  
LUCY.
  
THE SUN.
  
THE LARK.
  
THE UNCO BIT WEAN.
  
JEANIE.
  
THE TWILIGHT IS HERE.
  
THE FISHERMAN.
  
THE LONG DEEP GRASS IS SPRINGING.
  
WINTER VISITORS.
  
IN HAPPY GRANDEUR SWEPT THE MOON.
  
THE NIGHT IS CALM.
  
ELLEN.
  
GLORY.
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SONNETS.
 I. 
I. AN UNSKILLED HAND UPON THE STRINGS.
 II. 
II. BRIGHTER THE FLOWERS.
 III. 
III. A YOUTH UPRISING.
 IV. 
IV. THREE SPIRITS LINKING.
 V. 
V. LOCHLEVEN.
 VI. 
VI. WHEREVER GENIUS WHISPERS.
 VII. 
VII. DARK EYES WITHIN WHOSE LIGHT.
 VIII. 
VIII. A BLESSING ON THE TINKERS.
 IX. 
IX. DARE I PROFANE THE WREATH?
 X. 
X. I TURN'D THE PAGES.
 XI. 
XI. TO BE AT YARROW.
 XII. 
XII. TO GO DOWN TO THE GRAVE.
 XIII. 
XIII. SUCH MUSIC HAD THE GODS.
 XIV. 
XIV. O, FOND ROMANCE!
 XV. 
XV. A POET IN WHOSE HEART.
 XVI. 
XVI. I KNOW NOT HOW IT IS.
 XVII. 
XVII. SPIRIT THAT WALKEST.
 XVIII. 
XVIII. A SIGH FOR THE PAST.
 XIX. 
XIX. I WALK WITH THE STERN DANTE.
 XX. 
XX. IT WAS A SPOT SO QUIET.

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By Alexander Anderson

Alexander Anderson

1845-1909
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Dundee
1873
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