Famous Yowes Poems by Famous Poets

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219. Song—To Daunton Me

...or a’ his gold and white monie,
And auld men shall never daunton me.
 To daunton me, &c.


His gear may buy him kye and yowes,
His gear may buy him glens and knowes;
But me he shall not buy nor fee,
For an auld man shall never daunton me.
 To daunton me, &c.


He hirples twa fauld as he dow,
Wi’ his teethless gab and his auld beld pow,
And the rain rains down frae his red blear’d e’e;
That auld man shall never daunton me.
 To daunton me, &c....Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


27. The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie

...An’ if he live to be a beast,
To pit some havins in his breast!


 “An’ warn him—what I winna name—
To stay content wi’ yowes at hame;
An’ no to rin an’ wear his cloots,
Like ither menseless, graceless brutes.


 “An’ neist, my yowie, silly thing,
Gude keep thee frae a tether string!
O, may thou ne’er forgather up,
Wi’ ony blastit, moorland toop;
But aye keep mind to moop an’ mell,
Wi’ sheep o’ credit like thysel’!


 “And now, my bairns, wi’ my last breath,
I lea’e my blessi...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

284. Song—Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes (older set)

...Chorus.—Ca’ the yowes to the knowes,
Ca’ them where the heather grows,
Ca’ them where the burnie rowes,
 My bonie dearie


AS I gaed down the water-side,
There I met my shepherd lad:
He row’d me sweetly in his plaid,
 And he ca’d me his dearie.
 Ca’ the yowes, &c.


Will ye gang down the water-side,
And see the waves sae sweetly glide
Beneath the hazels spreading wide,
 The...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

469. Song—Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes

...Chorus.—Ca’the yowes to the knowes,
Ca’ them where the heather grows,
Ca’ them where the burnie rowes,
 My bonie Dearie.


HARK the mavis’ e’ening sang,
Sounding Clouden’s woods amang;
Then a-faulding let us gang,
 My bonie Dearie.
 Ca’ the yowes, &c.


We’ll gae down by Clouden side,
Thro’ the hazels, spreading wide,
O’er the waves that sweetly glide,
 To the moon sae cle...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

550. Song—A Lass wi' a Tocher

..., the faster it grows:
But the rapturous charm o’ the bonie green knowes,
Ilk spring they’re new deckit wi’ bonie white yowes.
 Then hey, for a lass, &c.


And e’en when this Beauty your bosom hath blest
The brightest o’ Beauty may cloy when possess’d;
But the sweet, yellow darlings wi’ Geordie impress’d,
The langer ye hae them, the mair they’re carest.
 Then hey, for a lass, &c....Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


To Mesdames Zassetsky And Garschine

...bit.

An' weel for them if kindly fate
Send ower the hills to them a mate;
They'll crack a while o' kirk an' State,
O' yowes an' rain:
An' when it's time to take the gate,
Tak' ilk his ain.

- Sic neuk beside the southern sea
I soucht - sic place o' quiet lee
Frae a' the winds o' life. To me,
Fate, rarely fair,
Had set a freendly company
To meet me there.

Kindly by them they gart me sit,
An' blythe was I to bide a bit.
Licht as o' some hame fireside lit
My life for me.
- Ow...Read more of this...
by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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