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Auld Lang Syne: Tonight at Midnight
_____ Auld Lang Syne Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne! For auld lang syne, my jo, For auld lang syne. We’ll...
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Robbie Burns: “A Bottle and Friend”
_____ “A Bottle and Friend” (1789) There’s nane that’s blest of human kind, But the cheerful and the gay, man, Fal, la, la, &c. Here’s a bottle and an honest friend! What wad ye wish for...
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Robbie Burns: “To a Louse”
_____ “To a Louse*: On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet, at Church” (1786) Ha! whaur ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie? Your impudence protects you sairly; I canna say but ye strunt rarely, Owre gauze and...
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Poems for Saint Andrew’s Day: Bruce & Neill & Thomson
George Bruce (Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, 1909-2002) Why the Poet makes Poems (written to my dentist, Dr. K. P. Durkacz, to explain why I failed to keep an appointment) . When it’s all done and said...
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Winter Solstice poems in Scots and Gaelic
December Gloaming (poet unknown) . In the cauld dreich days when it’s nicht on the back o four, I try to stick to my wark as lang as may be; But though I gang close by to the window and glower, I...
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The Three Kings / Die heil’gen drei Könige aus Morgenland
The Three Kings, a Scots Vernacular poem, based on Heinrich Heine’s Die heil’gen drei Könige aus Morgenland: There were three kings cam frae the East; They spiered in ilka clachan: “O, which is the wey...
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