Scotland

Category: Poems

  • The Little Scottish Martyrs

    A Bonnie wee Scotch lassie, with rosy cheeks, sunny hair, Laughing eyes, and bare, brown feet, stood beside a brawling Mountain stream. Poised on one foot, she lightly touched the Water with the other. “Eh, but it’s cauld and it’s deep. Will ye no help me across Sandy?” “No, if ye canna come yersel, then…

  • Scotland my home

    Here in dear Scotland are mountains and glens. Lone crofters cottages and wee but and bens. We can ski down fine mountains all covered with snow. Fish from the river in glens down below. Ben Nevis and Cairngorm majestically rise. From deep in the glens with tops in the skies. Then from Strathspey comes the…

  • Oh, Scotland, My Heart!

    Oh, Scotland! How I long to walk your highlands and your glens, To watch the flowers in your meadows wave in the breeze, To hear the ocean waves noisily kiss the shores of your western isles, To sift the sands of your beaches through my fingers, To see the rainbows after your showers, And to…

  • Who is a Scot?

    Who heard the ancient battlecry? A chieftans bloodied sword held high, To a cloudy cross in the azure sky, Who is a Scot? Who saw proud Wallace’s face? Guardian of our Celtic race, Slay tyrants with his sword and mace, Who is a Scot? Who smelt the blood and sensed the fear? Who felt The…

  • Scots Wha Hae

    Scots Wha Hae (“Scots, Who Have”; Scottish Gaelic: Brosnachadh Bhruis) is a patriotic song of Scotland which served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country, but has lately been largely supplanted by Scotland the Brave and Flower of Scotland. The lyrics were written by Robert Burns in 1793, in the…

  • Freedom Come All Ye

    “Freedom Come-All-Ye” is a song written by Hamish Henderson, the Scottish poet, songwriter, and intellectual. It is written in the Scots Language. “Freedom Come-All-Ye”, one of Henderson’s most important songs, gives a non-romantic, revisionist view of the role of the Scots in the world at the time it was written. It describes a wind of…

  • Scotland the Brave

    “Scotland the Brave” (Scottish Gaelic: Alba an Aigh) is a patriotic song and one of the main contenders to be considered as a “unofficial” national anthem of Scotland. In June 2006, the song came second to Flower of Scotland in an online poll with more than 10,000 votes to determine the nation’s favourite unofficial “anthem”.The…