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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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PART I. POEMS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, AND OF THE CONDITION AND FEELINGS, OF THE SCOTTISH PEASANTRY.
  
THE HA' BIBLE.
  
THE TOUN WHERE I WAS BORN.
  
YOUTH'S DREAMS.
  
ORDÉ BRAES.
  
THE PLACE THAT I LOVE BEST.
  
THE FOLK O' OCHTERGAEN.
  
THE SPINNING-WHEEL.
  
OUR AULD HEARTHSTANE.
  
WE'LL A' GO PU' THE HEATHER.
  
MY HAME.
  
MY GRANDFATHER.
  
OUR AULD GUDEMAN.
  
JANET DUNBAR.
  
JANET MACBEAN.
  
MINISTER TAM.
  
THE DOMINIE.
  
THE SMITH.
  
AULD DONALD.
  
BONNIE BESSIE LEE.
  
FIDDLER JOHNNY.
  
THE PROVOST.
  
THE BAILIE.
  
THE HOPES OF AGE.
  
HOME THOUGHTS.
  
THE BATTLE WORD.
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PART II. SONGS, CHIEFLY SCOTTISH.
  
THE MUIR O' GORSE AND BROOM.
  
THE BELOVED ONE.
  
THE MAKING O' THE HAY.
  
MENIE.
  
DOWN BY THE WOOD.
  
MY AULD GUDEWIFE.
  
THE COURTIN' TIME.
  
THE BONNIE HIELAND HILLS.
  
THE THISTLE.
  
THE HEATHER OF SCOTLAND.
  
THE BAGPIPES.
  
FADING AWAY.
  
REGRETS.
  
THE HIELAND PLAID.
  
WHAT SHALL I DO?
  
THE WOOING.
  
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.
  
KATE CARNEGIE.
  
THE MAID I DAURNA NAME.
  
THE PACKMAN.
  
THE BONNIE ROWAN BUSH.
  
THE AULD BEGGAR MAN.
  
YE WINNA LET ME BE.
  
THE BANKS OF TAY.
  
THE LASS OF TURRIT HA'.
  
MARY HAMILTON.
  
JANET.
  
THE FALSE ONE.
  
SUMMER WOOING.
  
THE PRISONER'S SONG.
  
WE ARE BRETHREN A'.
  
STEADFASTNESS.
  
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.
  
THE LASSES.
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PART III. POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE FEELINGS OF THE INTELLIGENT AND RELIGIOUS AMONG THE WORKING-CLASSES OF SCOTLAND.
  
STANZAS ON THE BIRTHDAY OF BURNS.
  
WE ARE LOWLY.
  
WE'LL MAKE THE WORLD BETTER YET.
  
THE HERO.
  
OUR KING.
  
THE PUIR FOLK.
  
THE BURSTING OF THE CHAIN.
  
WE ARE FREE.
  
ENDURANCE.
  
THE BACCHANALIAN.
  
THE POOR MAN'S DEATH-BED.
  
THE CAIRN.
  
I DARE NOT SCORN.
  
THE PEOPLE'S ANTHEM.
  
VISIONS.
  
THE QUESTIONER.
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PART IV. SERIOUS AND PATHETIC POEMS.
  
THOUGHTS OF HEAVEN.
  
AROUSE THEE, SOUL!
  
THE HERD LASSIE.
  
I AM BLIND.
  
WILD FLOWERS.
  
THE ANEMONE.
  
TIME'S CHANGES.
  
THE FORSAKEN.
  
A THOUGHT.
  
THE THOUGHT SPIRIT.
  
FOREST MUSINGS.
  
THE SICK CHILD'S DREAM.
  
THE MOTHER.
  
THE BEREAVED.
  
THE PARTING.
  
THE GRAVE OF BURNS.
  
THE VILLAGE CHURCH.
  
A DIRGE.
  
MY AULD GUDEWIFE.
  
GOD IS EVERYWHERE.
  
MY ONLY SISTER.
  
A DAY AMONG THE MOUNTAINS.
  
THE WIDOW'S CHILD.
  
THE MOUNTAIN ORPHAN.
  
THE MOTHER'S MONODY.
  
MY LILY.
  
THE PRIMROSE.
  
THE NAMELESS RIVULET.
  
THE BRAMBLE.
  
ALICE.
  
THE DYING MAIDEN.
  
A WOODLAND WALK.
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PART V. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
  
THOMAS CLARKSON.
  
THOUGHTS AND FANCIES.
  
DESPONDENCY. A SONNET.
  
THE MORNING STAR.
  
THE EXILE'S SONG.
  
THE DEATH-SONG OF HOFER.
  
THE SWISS MOTHER TO HER SON.
  
THE GERMAN BALLAD-SINGER.
  
THE MOTHER'S MEMORIES OF HER INFANT CHILD.
  
A ROMAUNT.
  
THE MOSSY STANE.
  
THE WANDERER.
  
THE RUINED MANOR-HOUSE.
  
THE SAXON CHAPEL.
  
MADNESS.
  
LIFE'S PILGRIMAGE.
  
SONG FOR A SUMMER EVENING.
  
IT'S NAE FUN, THAT!
  
SONNET TO MR. J. R. F.
  
THE LINNET.
  
DEATH.

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

Robert Nicoll

1814-1837
William Tait Simpkin, Marshall & Co.
Edinburgh London
1842
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