#Scots
For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prov… An unrelenting foe to love, And when we meet a mutual heart Come in between, and bid us part; Bid us on from day to day,
Sweet tyrant Love,- but hear me n… And cure while young this pleasing… Or rather aid my trembling vow, And teach me to reveal my heart. Tell her, whose goodness is my ban…
From brightening fields of ether f… Child of the Sun, refulgent Summe… In pride of youth, and felt throug… He comes attended by the sultry H… And ever fanning breezes, on his w…
See, Winter comes, to rule the va… Sullen and sad, with all his risin… Vapours, and clouds, and storms.… These! that exalt the soul to sole… And heavenly musing. Welcome, kin…
While in heroic numbers some relat… The amazing turns of wise eternal… Exploits of heroes in the dusty fi… That to their name immortal honour… Grant me, ye powers, by the limpid…
Among the changing months, May st… The sweetest, and in fairest colou… Soft as the breeze that fans the s… Sweet as the breath that opening r… Fair as the colour lavish Nature…
GIVE a man a horse he can ride, Give a man a boat he can sail; And his rank and wealth, his stren… On sea nor shore shall fail. Give a man a pipe he can smoke,
Sweet valley, say, where, pensive… For me, our children, England, si… The best of mortals leans his head… Ye fountains, dimpled by my sorrow… Ye brooks that my complainings bor…
Ethereal race, inhabitants of air, Who hymn your god amid the secret… Ye unseen beings, to my harp repai… And raise majestic strains, or mel… Those tender notes, how kindly the…
Go, little book, and find our Fri… Who Nature and the Muses loves, Who cares the public virtues blend With all the softness of the grove… A fitter time thou canst not choos…
When Britain first, at Heaven’s c… Arose from out the azure main; This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this stra… “Rule, Britannia, rule the waves;
When my breast labours with oppres… And o’er my cheek descends the fal… While all my warring passions are… Oh! let me listen to the words of… Raptures deep-felt his doctrine di…
If those who live in shepherd’s bo… Press not the rich and stately bed… The new-mown hay and breathing flo… A softer couch beneath them spread… If those who sit at shepherd’s boa…
AS we rush, as we rush in the Tra… The trees and the houses go whe… But the starry heavens above the p… Come flying on our track. All the beautiful stars of the sky…
Since Athens first began to draw… To picture life, and show the impa… The truly wise have ever deem’d th… The moral school of each enlighten… There, in full pomp, the tragic M…