The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse

, by Crawford, Robert; Imlah, Mick

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Introduction

xvii

Editors' Note

xxx

St Columba (521-597)

Altus Prosator/The Maker on High

(10)

Edwin Morgan

Aneirin (?6th century)

from The Gododdin

(2)

Joseph P. Clancy

Anon (?8th century)

The Dream of the Rood

(10)

Robert Crawford

Mugron, Abbot of Iona (d. 980)

Cros Christ/Christ's Cross

(4)

Thomas Owen Clancy

Anon (12th century)

Arann/Arran

(2)

Thomas Owen Clancy

Earl Rognvald Kali (St Ronald of Orkney) (d. 1158)

The Attributes of a Gentleman

(2)

Paul Bibire

Guillaume Le Clerc (William Malveisin, Bishop of St Andrews) (d. 1238)

from Fergus

(4)

Mick Imlah

Muireadhach Albanach O Dalaigh (fl. 1200-1224)

M'anam do sgar riomsa a-raoir/Elegy on Mael Mhedha, his Wife

(6)

Thomas Owen Clancy

Anon (c. 1300

Qwhen Alexander our kynge was dede

(1)

John Barbour (c. 1320-1395)

from The Bruce

(2)

King James I (1394-1437)

from The Kingis Quair

(3)

Robert Henryson (c. 1420-c. 1490)

The Two Mice

(7)

The Testament of Cresseid

(18)

from Orpheus and Eurydice

(3)

Blind Harry (c. 1450-1493)

from The Actis and Deidis of the Illustere and Vailyeand Campioun Schir William Wallace, Knicht of Ellerslie

(2)

Aithbhreac Inghean Corcadail (fl. 1460s)

A phaidrin do dhuisg mo dhear /O rosary that recalled my tear

(6)

Derick Thomson

William Dunbar (c. 1460-c. 1520)

Hale, Sterne Superne

(2)

Done is a Battell on the Dragon Blak

(1)

from The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy

(5)

The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis

(3)

I That in Heill Wes and Gladnes (The Lament for the Makars)

(4)

Anon (c. 1490-c. 1510)

Christis Kirk on the Grene

(7)

Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld (c. 1474-1522)

The Proloug of the Sevynt Buik of Eneados

106

(4)

The Proloug of the Twelt Buik of Eneados

110

(9)

Sir David Lindsay (1490-1555)

from The Dreme of Schir Dauid Lyndesay

119

(3)

Anon

from The Book of the Dean of Lismore (1512-1542): A Ughdar so Oisean/The Author of this is Ossian

122

(4)

Derick Thomson

George Buchanan (1506-1582)

Ad Henricum Scotorum Regem/To Henry Darnley, King of Scots

126

(2)

Robert Crawford

James (d. 1553), John (d. 1556), and Robert (d. 1557) Wedderburn

from The Gude and Godlie Ballatis: With huntis vp

128

(2)

God send euerie Priest ane wyfe

130

(1)

Alexander Scott (c. 1515-1583)

from Ane New Yeir Gift to the Quene Mary, quhen scho come first Hame, 1562

131

(1)

Hence, heart

131

(2)

Return thee, heart

133

(1)

To love unluvit

134

(1)

Sir Thomas Maitland (1522-c. 1572)

Sir Thomas Maitland's Satyr upon Sir Niel Laing

135

(1)

Mrs Macgregor of Glenstrae (fl. 1570)

Cumha Ghriogair MhicGhriogair Ghlinn Sreith/Lament for MacGregor of Glenstrae

136

(6)

Iain Crichton Smith

Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587)

Sonnet IX from Sonnets to Bothwell

142

(1)

O Domine Deus!

142

(2)

Niall Mor Macmhuirich (c. 1550-c. 1615)

Soruidh slan do noidhche anreir/Farewell for ever to last night

144

(2)

Derick Thomson

Alexander Montgomerie (c. 1555-1598)

Ane Dreame

146

(1)

Sonet (Thocht Polibus)

146

(1)

The Royall Palice of the Heichest Heiwin

147

(1)

Alexander Hume (c. 1556-1609)

Of the Day Estivall

148

(8)

William Fowler (1560-1612)

from The Tarantula of Loue (Vpon this firthe)

156

(1)

Sonet. In Orknay

156

(1)

Mark Alexander Boyd (1563-1601)

Venus and Cupid

157

(1)

Sir Robert Aytoun (1570-1638)

Sonnet: On the River Tweed

158

(1)

Upon Mr Thomas Murrays fall

158

(1)

What Meanes this Strangeness

159

(1)

Anonymous Ballads

Sir Patrick Spens

160

(3)

The Battle of Otterburn

163

(5)

Edom o'Gordon

168

(3)

The Wife of Usher's Well

171

(2)

The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry

173

(1)

Get Up and Bar the Door

174

(2)

Clerk Saunders

176

(4)

Thomas Rymer

180

(3)

The Wee Cooper of Fife

183

(1)

Mary Hamilton

184

(2)

Bonny Barbara Allan

186

(1)

The Twa Corbies

187

(2)

Anon

from The Bannatyne Manuscript, writtin in Tyme of Pest (1568): How the first Helandman of god was maid

189

(1)

William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649)

Sonnet (Sleepe, Silence Child)

190

(1)

The Angels for the Natiuitie of our Lord

190

(1)

The Oister

191

(1)

All Changeth

191

(1)

Polemo-Middinia inter Vitarvam et Nebernam/The Midden-Battle between Lady Scotstarvit and the Mistress of Newbarns

192

(10)

Allan H. MacLaine

Arthur Johnston (1587-1641)

from Ad Robertum Baronium/To Robert Baron

202

(4)

Robert Crawford

James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (1612-1650)

On Himself, upon hearing what was his Sentence

206

(1)

Francis Sempill of Beltrees (c. 1616-1682)

Maggie Lauder

207

(1)

from The Banishment of Poverty by His Royal Highness James Duke of Albany

208

(2)

Mairi Nighean Alasdair Ruaidh/Mary Macleod (c. 1616-c. 1706)

Tuireadh/Blue Song

210

(4)

Robert Crawford

Iain Lom/John Macdonald (c. 1620-c. 1710)

Oran Cumhaidh air cor na Rioghachd/A Lament for the State of the Country

214

(4)

Meg Bateman

Sileas na Ceapaich/Cicely Macdonald (c. 1660-c. 1729)

from Alasdair a Gleanna Garadh/Alasdair of Glengarry

218

(4)

Derick Thomson

Anon (?early 18th century)

Thig tri nithean gun iarraidh/Three things come without seeking

222

(4)

Iain Crichton Smith

Allan Ramsay (1684-1758)

Lucky Spence's Last Advice

226

(3)

To the Phiz an Ode

229

(2)

Anon (18th century)

As I was a-walking by yon green garden

231

(1)

Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair/Alexander Macdonald (c. 1695-c. 1770)

from Oran an t-Samhraidh/Song of Summer

232

(2)

Derick Thomson

from Birlinn Chlann Raghnaill/Clanranald's Galley

234

(4)

Hugh MacDiarmid)

James Thomson (1700-1748)

from Winter. A Poem

238

(2)

from The Castle of Indolence

240

(3)

David Malloch [Mallet] (1705-1765)

On an Amorous Old Man

243

(1)

Jean Adam (1710-1765)

There's Nae Luck about the House

244

(2)

Anon (18th century)

Waly, Waly

246

(1)

Jenny Nettles

247

(1)

Rob Donn Macaoidh/Robert Mackay (1714-1778)

Marbhrann do chloinn Fhir Taigh Ruspainn/The Rispond Misers

248

(4)

Derick Thomson

Adam Skirving (1719-1803)

Johnnie Cope

252

(2)

Iain Mac Mhurchaidh/John Macrae (d. c. 1780)

Dean Cadalan Samhach/Sleep Softly

254

(2)

Derick Thomson

Donnchadh Ban Mac-an-T-Saoir/Duncan Ban Macintyre (1724-1812)

from Moladh Beinn Dobhrain/Ben Dorain

256

(10)

Iain Crichton Smith

Jean Elliot (1727-1805)

The Flowers of the Forest

266

(1)

James Macpherson (1736-1796)

from Fragments of Ancient Poetry

267

(1)

Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)

Caller Oysters

268

(2)

from Auld Reikie, a Poem

270

(4)

To the Principal and Professors of the University of St Andrews, on their Superb Treat to Dr Samuel Johnson

274

(3)

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

Mary Morison

277

(1)

Holy Willie's Prayer

278

(3)

To a Mouse

281

(1)

Address to the Deil

282

(4)

To a Louse

286

(1)

from Love and Liberty. A Cantata

287

(2)

Second Epistle to Davie

289

(1)

To a Haggis

290

(2)

Lines Written Under the Portrait of Robert Fergusson

292

(1)

Auld Lang Syne

292

(1)

Farewell to the Highlands

293

(1)

John Anderson My Jo

294

(1)

Tam o'Shanter. A Tale

294

(6)

Ae Fond Kiss

300

(1)

Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation

301

(1)

Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn

302

(1)

A Red, Red Rose

303

(1)

Is There for Honest Poverty

303

(2)

Oh Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast

305

(1)

Uilleam Ros/William Ross (1762-1790)

Oran Eile/Another Song

306

(4)

Derick Thomson

Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)

from a Winter Day

310

(1)

Carolina Oliphant (Lady Nairne) (1766-1845)

The Heiress

311

(1)

Will Ye No Come Back Again?

312

(1)

The Land o'the Leal

313

(2)

James Hogg (1770-1835)

from Kilmeny

315

(1)

Charlie is my Darling

316

(1)

The Witch o'Fife

317

(2)

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Lochinvar

319

(1)

Proud Maisie

320

(1)

from The Lay of the Last Minstrel

321

(1)

from The Lady of the Lake

322

(2)

Robert Tannahill (1774-1810)

Eild

324

(1)

The Tap-Room

324

(1)

Thomas Campbell (1777-1841)

from Lochiel's Warning

325

(1)

To the Evening Star

325

(2)

Allan Cunningham (1784-1842)

The Wee, Wee German Lairdie

327

(1)

The Thistle's Grown aboon the Rose

328

(2)

William Tennant (1784-1848)

from Anster Fair

330

(3)

from Papistry Storm'd

333

(2)

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)

Lachin y Gair

335

(1)

She Walks in Beauty

336

(1)

So, we'll go no more a roving

336

(1)

from Don Juan

337

(5)

Janet Hamilton (1795-1873)

Oor Location

342

(2)

William Anderson (1805-1866)

I'm Naebody Noo

344

(1)

William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865)

from The Execution of Montrose

345

(3)

George Macdonald (1824-1905)

Why do the houses stand

348

(1)

William Macgonagall (1825-1902)

Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay

349

(2)

Alexander Smith (1830-1867)

Glasgow

351

(4)

James Thomson (`B.V.') (1834-1882)

In the Room

355

(6)

from The City of Dreadful Night

361

(5)

Ellen Johnston (c. 1835-1873)

The Last Sark

366

(1)

Marion Bernstein (fl. 1876)

Manly Sports

367

(1)

Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

Romance

368

(1)

James Robertson (1849-1922)

The Discovery of America

369

(1)

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

The Light-Keeper

370

(2)

Requiem

372

(1)

Christmas at Sea

372

(2)

Untitled (The tropics vanish)

374

(1)

To S. C.

374

(2)

To S. R. Crockett

376

(1)

The Lamplighter

376

(1)

From a Railway Carriage

377

(1)

The Land of Story-Books

377

(1)

To Any Reader

378

(1)

John Davidson (1857-1909)

Thirty Bob a Week

379

(3)

A Northern Suburb

382

(1)

Snow

383

(2)

from The Crystal Palace

385

(3)

Violet Jacob (1863-1946)

Tam i' the Kirk

388

(1)

The Helpmate

388

(2)

Charles Murray (1864-1941)

Dockens afore his Peers

390

(3)

Marion Angus (1866-1946)

Alas! Poor Queen

393

(1)

The Blue Jacket

394

(1)

The Doors of Sleep

395

(1)

Lewis Spence (1874-1955)

The Prows o'Reekie

396

(1)

Rachel Annand Taylor (1876-1960)

The Princess of Scotland

397

(1)

Andrew Young (1885-1971)

A Dead Mole

398

(1)

The Stockdoves

398

(1)

A Wet Day

399

(1)

Helen B. Cruickshank (1886-1975)

The Ponnage Pool

400

(2)

Edwin Muir (1887-1959)

Childhood

402

(1)

Merlin

402

(1)

Scotland 1941

403

(1)

Scotland's Winter

404

(1)

The Horses

405

(2)

Hugh Macdiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) (1892-1978)

The Bonnie Broukit Bairn

407

(1)

The Watergaw

407

(1)

The Eemis Stane

408

(1)

Scunner

408

(1)

Empty Vessel

409

(1)

from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle

409

(2)

At My Father's Grave

411

(1)

Of John Davidson

411

(1)

On a Raised Beach

412

(10)

The Little White Rose

422

(1)

Perfect

422

(1)

To a Friend and Fellow-Poet

423

(1)

Scotland Small?

424

(1)

William Soutar (1898-1943)

The Room

425

(1)

The Philosophic Taed

425

(1)

The Tryst

426

(1)

Norman Cameron (1905-1958)

Meeting my Former Self

427

(1)

Green, Green is El Aghir

427

(2)

Robert Garioch (Robert Garioch Sutherland) (1909-1981)

The Wire

429

(5)

Elegy

434

(1)

Norman Maccaig (1910-1996)

Instrument and Agent

435

(1)

Summer Farm

435

(1)

Likenesses

436

(1)

Basking Shark

436

(1)

Wild Oats

437

(1)

Return to Scalpay

437

(2)

Praise of a Collie

439

(1)

Intruder in a Set Scene

440

(1)

Small Lochs

440

(2)

Somhairle Macgill-Eain/Sorley Maclean (1911-1996)

Ban-Ghaidheal/A Highland Woman

442

(2)

Calbharaigh/Calvary

444

(1)

Muir-traigh/Ebb

444

(2)

Glac a' Bhais/Death Valley

446

(2)

Hallaig

448

(4)

Ruthven Todd (1914-1978)

Of Moulds and Mushrooms

452

(3)

Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915-1975)

from Armageddon in Albyn: VII, The War in Fife

455

(1)

The Grace of God and the Meth-Drinker

456

(2)

Deorsa Mac Iain Deorsa/Georg Campbell Hay (1915-1984)

Bisearta/Bizerta

458

(4)

W. S. Graham (1918-1986)

Malcolm Mooney's Land

462

(4)

Loch Thom

466

(2)

Elma Mitchell (1919- )

The Passenger Opposite

468

(2)

Edwin Morgan (1920- )

Message Clear

470

(1)

King Billy

471

(1)

The Loch Ness Monster's Song

472

(1)

The First Men on Mercury

473

(1)

Cinquevalli

474

(3)

The Coin

477

(1)

Ruaraidh Macthomais/Derick Thomson (1921- )

Clann-Nighean an Sgadain/The Herring Girls

478

(2)

George Mackay Brown (1921-1996)

Kirkyard

480

(1)

Hamnavoe Market

480

(1)

Taxman

481

(1)

Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925- )

Evening - Sail

482

(1)

The Boat's Blueprint

483

(1)

The Cloud's Anchor

483

(1)

Alastair Reid (1926- )

Scotland

484

(1)

Iain Mac A' Ghobhainn/Iain Crichton Smith (1928-1998)

The Clearances

485

(1)

Old Woman

485

(1)

Two Girls Singing

486

(1)

Contrasts

486

(1)

The Herring Girls

487

(1)

Sgialachdan Gaidhlig/Gaelic Stories

488

(4)

Na h-Eilthirich/The Exiles

492

(2)

Stewart Conn (1936- )

Todd

494

(1)

Under the Ice

494

(2)

Aonghas Macneacail (1942- )

tha gaidhlig beo/gaelic is alive

496

(2)

Douglas Dunn (1942- )

Landscape with One Figure

498

(1)

St Kilda's Parliament: 1879-1979

498

(3)

War Blinded

501

(1)

Land Love

501

(2)

Tom Leonard (1944- )

from Unrelated Incidents

503

(1)

Jist ti Let Yi No

504

(1)

Fathers and Sons

504

(1)

Liz Lochhead (1947- )

Something I'm Not

505

(1)

Neckties

505

(2)

Frank Kuppner (1951- )

from An Old Guidebook to Prague

507

(1)

John Burnside (1955- )

Dundee

508

(1)

Autobiography

508

(1)

Carol Ann Duffy (1955- )

Warming Her Pearls

509

(1)

Words, Wide Night

510

(1)

Prayer

510

(1)

Robin Robertson (1955- )

Aberdeen

511

(1)

Meg Bateman (1959- )

Aotromachd/Lightness

512

(2)

W. N. Herbert (1961- )

The Socialist Manifesto for East Balgillo

514

(1)

Coco-de-Mer

514

(1)

Kathleen Jamie (1962- )

The Queen of Sheba

515

(2)

Flower-sellers, Budapest

517

(2)

St Bride's

519

(1)

Don Paterson (1963- )

A Private Bottling

520

(3)

The Chartres of Gowrie

523

(2)

Biographical Notes

525

(16)

Index of Poets

541

(2)

Index of First Lines

543

(8)

Acknowledgements

551

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