Poetry.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Literary and oral genre rooted in the compressed and cogent imaginative awareness or associations of experiences, ideas, or emotional responses and arranged under an organized criterion of meaning, conscious and unconscious expression, symbolism, formal or informal pattern, sound, and rhythm. The genre encompasses narrative, dramatic, satiric, didactic, erotic, and personal forms. (AAT) All poetry, except ballads, was indexed under this heading in the published catalogues. (NLS) .
Found in 2772 Collections and/or Records:
Poem in the autograph of and signed by James Hogg, entitled "A young girl’s prayer"., 1829.
Item
Identifier: MS.573, folio 73
Scope and Contents
The poem begins, “O father that’s above the sky”.
'Hogg' of the signature wanting.
Inscribed at the foot, 'Given to me on the same day it was written M H Wilson' (folio 73).
Dates:
1829.
Poem of, and letter concerning Anne Grant of Laggan inserted in her ‘Memoirs of an American lady’ (London, 1808), volume i., 1825, 1902.
File
Identifier: MS.3311 [H.S.433]
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Poem addressed by Anne Grant of Laggan to Angus Fletcher, the sculptor, 1825 (folio 1);
(ii) Letter of Sarah Orne Jewett to Dr Dix, 1902, regarding 'Memoirs of an American lady' and the letter of Anne Grant (folio 3).
Dates:
1825, 1902.
Poem of Henry Treece, "Ariadne on Naxos", to Naomi Mitchison.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9028
Dates:
1963.
Poem of James Hogg, "A Scottish Ballad".
Item
Identifier: Acc.5592- is now MS.10279, f 74.
Dates:
circa 1823.
Poem of James Hogg, "Cameron`s Welcome Hame".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9789
Scope and Contents
With note concerning the poem and Scottish song tunes.
Dates:
circa 1823.
Poem of John MacTaggart.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13658
Scope and Contents
Poem by John MacTaggart, brother of the painter William MacTaggart, on unrequited love.
A sketch of an old man with a lantern marked `Uncle Willie` is attached on the sheet.
Dates:
1878.
Poem of Joseph Macleod, "A Handshake at Kinnaird Head Lighthouse".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9023
Dates:
1950.
Poem of Robert Bridges, "To Robert Burns"
File
Identifier: Acc.5617
Scope and Contents
With letter of Bridges to Sir Henry Newbolt.
Dates:
1901.
Poem of Robert Burns addressed to William Tytler of Woodhouselee.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10610
Dates:
circa 1780-1790.
Poem of Robert Burns, "It was the Charming Month of May", in pencil inked over (possibly by another hand), with variants from published text.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9649
Dates:
1794.
Poem, "Of the Late Unnatural Rebellion".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8366
Scope and Contents
Written on vellum, surrounding a coloured map of the Battle of Culloden.
Dates:
circa 1745.
Poem of Thomas Campbell, "To the Infant Son of My Dear Friends Mr and Mrs Greaves".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8488
Dates:
1831.
Poem of Thomas Campbell, 'Verses to Miss Prevost on being accused &c.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14378
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Poem of unknown authorship entitled `The Valiant Christian` written in six chapters in rhyming pentameter couplets.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.8
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in a formal italic hand: whether this is the original poem or a contemporary or near-contemporary copy is unclear. It is incomplete, lacking leaves after folios 4 and 9 (containing the end of chapter 1 and the beginning of chapter 2, and the end of chapter 2 and the beginning of chapter 3); and it ends, or breaks off, in the middle of folio 36 verso.The subject of the poem is George Gordon, 6th Earl (later 1st Marquess) of Huntly, and his part in the...
Dates:
Late 16th century-early 17th century.
Poem of Walter Chisholm, with a copy of his "Poems" (1879).
Collection
Identifier: Acc.7749
Dates:
1876-1879.
Poem, 'On the deplorable death of Mr. L.C.', i.e., Lawrence Charteris, Professor of Divinity at Edinburgh (died 1700)., [1700, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.3648, folio 18
Dates:
[1700, or after.]