Braes Poems - Poems about Braes

...“Auld Lang Syne” - the most-sung New Year's Eve song Courtesy Robert Burns circa (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) the National Bard, Bard of Ayrshire and the Ploughman Poet. Two hundred si......

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...Majestic, barren, rock-cropped braes ascend— Arrayed, green-clad, in heather, gorse, and fern— As mid-day, misty, dark’ning clouds descend To cold-embrace each soaring tor and burn. From height......

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...The early hours of a Wednesday morning in a small country town. An 18-year-old boy struggles to sleep He had pain so bad all he could do was weep he, knee was so painful he had to go to the ho......

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...FIRST MOVEMENT (Minor Key) Times such as these test body soul and mind So should our thoughts be pain and dark confined Or loosed to concentrate on brighter things Like furry puppies, flowers a......

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...Auld Lange Syne by Robert Burns modern English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Should old acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot, ......

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...Above the brightening vale in sun reborn The barrow braes are clothed as we behold Amid green pines the gorse and broom adorn With blossoms swathing heath in cloth of gold Below: the tarn’s on......

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...THE NIGHT THAT RABBIE VISITED ME One night in spring I couldn't sleep I heard knocking on the door I got out of bed, walked to the window to have a peep ..what I saw made me gasp, and nearl......

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...Surely a country with it beauty is it wealth Come visit not just the big city but it towns Once you see the rustic charms they'll give Take a tour through hills yon mighty glens Life shouldn't be......

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...Being a Scot I can be a little biased but I have been here all of my days at first hand, I've seen this land total having walked over many banks and braes Scotland by its occupants seem drab t......

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...TIME AND PLACE Spring is found in the Lowland valleys with gowan-filled braes of Scotland When the early-reaching flowers bloom in cool freshness, and The air is bracing and always new-wa......

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...A angry sky, as cauld as Loch Lomon' fair drew me out from cot o' peat, an' bed. The wolves wus wailin', an' thund'r respond'd Ah gather'd tam, me tartan, an' dug Red. To 'orse ah took an' found the......

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...Inspired by the painting "Highland Lassie" (1871) by Thomas Faed. (Verse One; In introduction to Cailin) Walkin' on the highways, searchin' down the byways, Tromps a lonely figure on the Highlan......

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...SEASONAL PLACES Spring is found in the Lowland valleys with gowan-filled braes of Scotland When the early-reaching flowers bloom in cool freshness, and The air is bracing and always new-washed-......

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...Ye ancient land O’ bonnie hue A bonnie haze on lochs of black Divide the colour, take me back To wash my eyes with Fall, imbue The highlands with a McCulloch hand Take me back to Autumnland S......

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...Lo' beneigh' the random bield, bewails upo' the leaf An' lea'e me naught but grief and pain, as moone breaks through the heath Upo' the gilded braes we kissed, luve sang a zephyrs cry Where say, my l......

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