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Glencoe Poems - Poems about Glencoe


A Star Shines In Alba
A Star Shines in Alba’s Sky Star shines above a frosty mountain where sheep in summer grazed, Bright shining ones gathered in vast numbers to praise, Snow fell to cover the granite rock and where heroes lay in the ground. Murdered by those they gave a place round the fire hearth, Raised a glass in toast to their health warming...

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Categories: glencoe, anger, angst, betrayal, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Massacre of Glencoe
Early in the morning of 13 February 1692, in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution and the Jacobite uprising of 1689 led by John Graham of Claverhouse, a massacre took place in Glencoe, in the Highlands of Scotland. This incident is referred to as the massacre of Glencoe, or in Scottish Gaelic Mort Ghlinne Comhann,...

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Categories: glencoe, bereavement,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Love Triangle At Glencoe
Blue sky; the purple hills recline; brooks skip; tranquillity. I can’t resist...

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Categories: glencoe, inspiration, muse, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Massacre At Glencoe
The snow rests red and heavy through the valley and the glen, with MacDonald honor lingering on in spite of Campbell sin. Give us crimson wool to weave a plaiden memory of the massacre at Glencoe and deeds of treachery. Let the stigma of a traitor forever mark their name as long as Scotland bears the scar so recalled shall be their shame....

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Categories: glencoe, history, places,
Form: Couplet
The Massacre of Glencoe
Freezing ,wet and hungry, In need of food and rest, The MacDonalds took them in, And made them all a guest, The weather here was always harsh, A storm could last a week, But the snow had started falling, Things were really looking bleak, They fed their guests with all they had, And kept the fires burning, They could stay as long as need be, The...

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Categories: glencoe, history, night, night, weather,
Form: Rhyme




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