Poetry.
Found in 2772 Collections and/or Records:
Photostat of the poem, ‘Epistle from Mavis Bank to a friend at Edr. 1748’, in the autograph of Allan Ramsay.
Photostat of ‘The Testament of Criseide’ by Robert Henryson.
Photostats of a manuscript, undated, containing Gaelic poetry in the hand of William MacMurchy found at Inverneill House in 1949 by Colonel Duncan Campbell of Inverneill.
The manuscript consists of versions of four poems which also appear in Adv.MS.73.2.2.
The contents are as follows.
(i) ‘Tuirseach andiu crioch Gaoidhioll’, 152 lines (page 1);
(ii) ‘Do bheath Ghiolleasbuig gad dhuthchus’, 32 lines (page 5);
(iii) “Ghillasbuig mo bheannachd re m’bheo”, 7 stanzas (page 6);
(iv) “‘Ghillasbuig mo mholachd rem’ bheo”, 8½ stanzas (page 7).
Photostats of manuscript material bound in a volume of Sir Robert Sibbald's printed works presented by him to Matthew Mackaile, apothecary, Aberdeen., 1685-1686.
The manuscript material consists of correspondence of Sir Robert Sibbald on his changes of religion, 1685-1686; satirical verses on the same subject; and verses on the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1685.
Photostats of manuscripts held in the Abbotsford Library, all in the hand of Sir Walter Scott.
Photostats of parts of 'Adversaria', a commonplace-book of Sir Walter Scott., 1796.
Photostats of poems of James VI.
Photostats of some Latin verses, together with a letter, 1574, of Nicholas Langlois, master of the French School in Edinburgh, to David Lindsay, minister of South Leith, later Bishop of Ross., 1574.
The letters and verses alike were transcribed by Marie Presot, wife of Nicholas Langlois and mother of Esther Inglis, the calligrapher. They are interesting for the quality and variety of the hands used.
Plays by Adrian Jordan and others, and a prose ‘moralis sermo’.
Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.
The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.
Pocket journal of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, in in which he noted engagements, sermons heard, and his personal accounts., 1758.
Included are miscellaneous verse and notes.
Pocket journal of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, in in which he noted engagements, sermons heard, and his personal accounts., 1759.
Included are miscellaneous verse and notes.
Poem, 1956, of Joseph Macleod.
With letter, 1983, of Macleod to George Bruce, enclosing a typescript poem.
Poem addressed by Lewis Carroll to Mary Ann Bessie Terry, probably Marion Terry, the actress, in "Alice's adventures in wonderland" (London, 1866)., [1866, or after.]
Poem and fragments of verse, undated, by Robert Louis Stevenson., Late 19th century.
Includes: 'I knew you by your pallid face'; 'You of the pale face and cloven feet'; 'I, whom Apollo sometime visited' (‘Collected poems’, page 320); 'Let now your soul in this substantial world' (‘Collected poems’, page 281); 'The angler rose, he took his rod' (‘Collected poems’, page 354); 'In the highlands in the country places' (‘Collected poems’, page 255); 'As with heaped bees at hiving time' (‘Collected poems’, page 321).
Poem and letters of W E Henley., 1875, 1891-1898.
Poem beginning 'The Worlds an Inn and I hir guest' in 'The Works of the famous and worthy knight, Sir David Lindesay of the Mount, alias Lyon, King of Armes' (Glasgow, 1696)., 17th century.
Poem beginning 'With Envys Tooth while carping Critics toil' by Robert Colvill, Minister of Dysart, on the flyleaves of his ‘Occasional poems’ (London, 1777)., 1774.
Poem by Robert Burns, in his autograph, titled ‘A prayer’, and beginning, ‘O Thou, in whom we live and move’.
The poem was left by Robert Burns in the manse of the Reverend Dr George Lawrie, Loudon, Ayrshire.
Poem, 'Do Bhoireannach Breugach Coirbte', an English version of which, 'To a depraved lying woman', is written on the rectos of four pages.
Poem entitled 'The acts and lyf of the most wictorious conqueroure Robert Bruce, King of Scotland; wherin also ar contained the martiall deeds of the valiant princes Eduard Bruce, Sir James Douglas, Earle Thomas Randell, Walter Steuart, and dyverse other'., 1616-1625.
The poem, written by a Scottish writer between 1616 and 1625, is in three books, in heroic couplets, dedicated to the Prince of Wales (afterwards Charles I).