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Poetry Index Progs 4-6

Texts of Featured Poems

Weaving Words

  • The sweet rose of June scents your shade,

  • 'Tis no malice o' the hale,

  • I ledge we'd fen gif fairly quat o'

  • Wee, wanton, little thought o' birdie!

  • Dear Thomson! Fav鈥檙ite o鈥� the nine!

  • The savage loves his native shore,

  • Erin! my country! preciously adorn'd

  • Reader, since ye hae gie'n your five an' fi'ppence,

  • Whar is the man, that could compute

  • My Burns is gane, I鈥檓 left alane,

  • Wi鈥� heck weel-teeth鈥檇 and spit renew鈥檇,

  • Ye bachelors baith ane and a鈥�,

  • The great of pedigree may vaunt,

  • Nae mair I tune my rustic reed,

  • O Lettergull, weel may you fare,

  • Vain, alas! are earthly treasures,