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Famous Ferguson Poems by Famous Poets

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by Burns, Robert
...inleck, the biographer of Johnson. [back]
Note 3. George Dempster of Dunnichen. [back]
Note 4. Sir Adam Ferguson of Kilkerran, Bart. [back]
Note 5. The Marquis of Graham, eldest son of the Duke of Montrose. [back]
Note 6. Right Hon. Henry Dundas, M. P. [back]
Note 7. Probably Thomas, afterward Lord Erskine. [back]
Note 8. Lord Frederick Campbell, second brother of the Duke of Argyll, and Ilay Campbell, Lord Advocate for ...Read more of this...



by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...nd Tasker Norcross. 
Now there are two kinds.” 

“Meaning, as I divine,
Your friend is dead,” I ventured. 

Ferguson, 
Who talked himself at last out of the world 
He censured, and is therefore silent now, 
Agreed indifferently: “My friends are dead—
Or most of them.” 

“Remember one that isn’t,” 
I said, protesting. “Honor him for his ears; 
Treasure him also for his understanding.” 
Ferguson sighed, and then talked on again:
“You have an overgrown al...Read more of this...

by Yeats, William Butler
...;
And may the thoughts of Ireland brood
Upon a measured guietude.
Nor may I less be counted one
With Davis, Mangan, Ferguson,
Because, to him who ponders well,
My rhymes more than their rhyming tell
Of things discovered in the deep,
Where only body's laid asleep.
For the elemental creatures go
About my table to and fro,
That hurry from unmeasured mind
To rant and rage in flood and wind,
Yet he who treads in measured ways
May surely barter gaze for gaze.
Man ever j...Read more of this...

by Masters, Edgar Lee
...There at Geneva where Mt. Blanc floated above
The wine-hued lake like a cloud, when a breeze was blown
Out of an empty sky of blue, and the roaring Rhone
Hurried under the bridge through chasms of rock;
And the music along the cafés was part of the splendor
Of dancing water under a torrent of light;
And the purer part of the genius of Jean Rousseau
Was...Read more of this...

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