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Famous Laddies Poems by Famous Poets

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...e your pretty limbies,
 Ye ken, ye ken,
That strang necessity supreme is
 ’Mang sons o’ men.


I hae a wife and twa wee laddies;
They maun hae brose and brats o’ duddies;
Ye ken yoursels my heart right proud is—
 I need na vaunt
But I’ll sned besoms, thraw saugh woodies,
 Before they want.


Lord help me thro’ this warld o’ care!
I’m weary sick o’t late and air!
Not but I hae a richer share
 Than mony ithers;
But why should ae man better fare,
 And a’ men brithers?


Come, Fi...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert



...THE LADDIES by the banks o’ Nith
 Wad trust his Grace 1 wi a’, Jamie;
But he’ll sair them, as he sair’d the King—
 Turn tail and rin awa’, Jamie.


Chorus.—Up and waur them a’, Jamie,
 Up and waur them a’;
The Johnstones hae the guidin o’t,
 Ye turncoat Whigs, awa’!


The day he stude his country’s friend,
 Or gied her faes a claw, Jamie,
Or frae puir man a bles...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert
...deny’d, it was affirm’d;
The herds and hissels were alarm’d
The rev’rend gray-beards rav’d an’ storm’d,
 That beardless laddies
Should think they better wer inform’d,
 Than their auld daddies.


Frae less to mair, it gaed to sticks;
Frae words an’ aiths to clours an’ nicks;
An monie a fallow gat his licks,
 Wi’ hearty crunt;
An’ some, to learn them for their tricks,
 Were hang’d an’ brunt.


This game was play’d in mony lands,
An’ auld-light caddies bure sic hands,
That faith...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert
...Ither laddies may ha's finer claes, and may be better fed,
But nane o' them a'has sic a bonnie curly heid,
O sie a blythe blink in their e'e,
As my ain curly fair-hair'd laddie, Little Jamie. 

When I gang oot tae tak' a walk wi' him, alang the Magdalen Green,
It mak's my heart feel lichtsome tae see him sae sharp and keen,
And he pu's the wee gowans, and gie's th...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz
...d far away
Than here in the island of Boo!
They have to wear clo'es
Which (as every one knows)
Are irksome to primitive laddies,
While, with forks and with spoons, they're denied the sweet boons
That accrue from free use of one's paddies!

"And now that you're speaking of things to eat,"
Interrupted the monarch of Boo,
"We beg to inquire if you happened to meet
With a nice missionary or two?"
"No, that we did not; in that curious spot
Where were gathered the fruits of the ear...Read more of this...
by Field, Eugene



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