Famous Aik Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Aik poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous aik poems. These examples illustrate what a famous aik poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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319. Lament for James Earl of Glencairn

by Robert Burns
 THE WIND blew hollow frae the hills,
 By fits the sun’s departing beam
Look’d on the fading yellow woods,
 That wav’d o’er Lugar’s winding stream:
Beneath a craigy steep, a Bard,
 Laden with years and meikle pain,
In loud lament bewail’d his lord,
 Whom Death had all untimely ta’en.


He lean’d him to an ancient aik,
 Whose trunk was mould’ring down with years;
His...Read more of this...

194. Song—Blythe was She

by Robert Burns
 Chorus.—Blythe, blythe and merry was she,
 Blythe was she but and ben;
Blythe by the banks of Earn,
 And blythe in Glenturit glen.


BY 1 Oughtertyre grows the aik,
 On Yarrow banks the birken shaw;
But Phemie was a bonier lass
 Than braes o’ Yarrow ever saw.
 Blythe, blythe, &c.


Her looks were like a flow’r in May,
 Her smile was like a...Read more of this...

79. Adam Armour's Prayer

by Robert Burns
 GUDE pity me, because I’m little!
For though I am an elf o’ mettle,
An’ can, like ony wabster’s shuttle,
 Jink there or here,
Yet, scarce as lang’s a gude kail-whittle,
 I’m unco *****.


An’ now Thou kens our waefu’ case;
For Geordie’s jurr we’re in disgrace,
Because we stang’d her through the place,
 An’ hurt her spleuchan;
For whilk we daurna show our face
 Within...Read more of this...

371. Song—Lady Mary Ann

by Robert Burns
 O LADY Mary Ann looks o’er the Castle wa’,
She saw three bonie boys playing at the ba’,
The youngest he was the flower amang them a’,
 My bonie laddie’s young, but he’s growin’ yet.


O father, O father, an ye think it fit,
We’ll send him a year to the college yet,
We’ll sew a green ribbon round about his hat,
 And that...Read more of this...

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