Oor Mither Tongue - An Anthology of Scots Vernacular Verse
Title: Oor Mither Tongue - An Anthology of Scots Vernacular Verse
Author: Selected and edited by Ninian Macwhannell
Publisher: Alexander Gardner Limited, Paisley
Date: 1937
Hardback - 1st Edition - Dedicated, signed and dated to a friend by the author. 326p.
Synopsis
A fine collection of poetry in the Scottish vernacular:
ABEL GEORGE: The Deem Poacher - A Caul Welcome
AINSLIE, HEW: The Rover o' Lochryan - "It's Dowie in the Hint o' Hairst" - The Bourocks o' Bargeny
ANGUS, MARIAN: The Graceless Loon - The Sang - The Lilt
ANONYMOUS: A Hen's a Hen for a' That - Holidays - Bruce and the Ettercap
BAIN, ROBERT: In Oor Kailyard - Shakespeare and Dickens and Me - Cock o' the North
BIRD, ROBERT: The Table o' Fees - The Sparrow - To a Young Lawyer
BROWN, HILTON: "Glen" a Sheep Dog - The Tenant - "Gowf"
BROWN, JAMES: The Fisher
BUCHAN, JOHN: The Shorter Catechism - The Eternal Feminine -
Fisher JamieCAIE, J. M: Sair Warks nae Easy - The Puddock - Fats the Eese
CAIRNCROSS, T. S.: The Laird o Ryffe - The Death Certificate -
Sir TamCOCKER, W. D.: Dandle - Ballad of the Deluge - The Tragedy of Ananias, A Plooman's Lament - The Kibbock - Gin Love should Dwine
COUSTON, ROBERT: Me an Andra - The Wayfare - Grannie.
COUTTS, LEWIS: Advice to a Young Man - Mornin, Noon an' Necht,
He was Despised and Rejected!CRAWFORD, ROBERT: Sib, A New-Year Wish - 1929
CRUJCKSHANK, HELEN: The Gipsy Lass - Keepit In - Fause Friend -
Sae Lang has Sorrow - GrannyDARLING, W. RUS: The Pest
DODDS. ANDREW: The Sparrow's Address - The City - The Land is the Lord's
EMSLIE, ALEXANDER: A Nicht wi' Burns
FAED, TAMAR: An April Wean - A Wintry Sang - The Incomer -
The Spaewife - Hame's HameFERGUS, JOHN F.: The Wey o a Woman - The Aiim' Bairn
FISHER. W. D.: Jealousy
GEDDES, JAMES Y.: A Tale o' Kirrie
GRAY, ALEXANDER: Babylon in Retrospect - Persuasion, Disquiet -
December Gloaming - Christmas GreetingHAMILTON, JANET: Auld Mither Scotlan'
HENDRY, HAMISH: An Auld Skip
HORNE, J. G.: Obsession? - Plooman Philosophy - Mashlum - Cherchez la Femme! - The Verse Speaker
HUTCHISON, ISOBEL W.: A Song of Paradise - The Return: 1918
JACOB, VIOLET: Tam i' the Kirk - The Beadle i Drumlee
JOHNSTON, HENRY: Aye She Kaimed her Yellow Hair
KIRK. C. J.: The Four-Wheeler - The Car Conductor
MACALISTER, SIR DONALD: My Auld Coat - Back Aizain
M'DIARMID HUGH: The Bonnie Broukit Bairn - The Water'aw -
Country Life - CrowdiekooweMACDONALD, GEORGE: Whas My Neibour - This Side an That
MACDONALD, HUGH: The Bonnie Wee Well
MACGILLIVRAY, PITTENDRIGH: In Exile - The Howdy and the Claik -The Sumph - At the Nadir - The Hungry Weaver - The Witch
MACGREGOR, ALEXANDER: Advice to Some Diners at Burns Dinners
M'INTOSH. BARBARA ROSS: The Swither - The Backward Lad - Tammas, My Son, The Sermon on Daniel
MACLENNAN, R J.: Jess o the Mains, R.S.V.P.
M'TAVISH, JAMES: The Land is a the Markiss's
MARTIN, JOHN SMELLIE: Mither and the Wireless - When I Gang up the Waterside - The Green Was o Clyde - Guwd o the Brume
MILNE, JAMES: The Drogist - Winter - Cast the Coat an' TilI't Again
MURRAY, CHARLES: There's Ave a Something - Gin I was God
MURRAY, ROBERT: The Tid - The Bairn
OUTRAM. GEORGE: The Annuity - The Reform Bill - Drinkin Drams
PITT. GILBERT: Its Fine - Cot o' Content
POTTER, HARRY: Wee Nancy - Doric Setting - Thousand Welcomes
RAE. GILBERT: Flittin - In Days Lang Syne - An Auld Border Dyker's Pra'er - The Gethrin o' the Bawbees - Love's Aye the Same
REID. ROBERT: Kirkhride, The Whaup - The Lass of Coshogle
ROBERTSON, JAMES LOGIE: Fishing - The Plowman - A Winter View - In Praise of Balgeddie
ROBERTSON, STEWART ALAN: Variation of Scots Words, "Oot o' the World and into Kippen" - Janet
RORIE. DAVID: Human Natur' - A Druggists Shop - The Auld Doctor -
The Cynic - The Dell's a Busy BishopSHEPHERD, NAN: O, Licht amo' the Hills - Loch Avon - Caul', Caul' as the Wall
SIMPSON, MARGARET WINEFRIDE: The By-Road - The Waukrife Win - The Conqueror
SMITH, DR. HARRY: The Auld Plooman to his Brose - Cauld Kail
Ye Nivver Ken - FeySOUTAR, WILLIAM: The Tryst - Fear
SPENCE, LEWIS: The Gray Etin - The Wee May o' Caledon - The Sang o' the Smiddy
SYMON, MARY: The Aucht-Day Clock - Come Hame!
WATT, LAUCHLAN MACLEAN: Tarry Breeks - A Bairnie's Cry in Heaven - The Licht that's Mirk
WINGATE, WALTER: The Dominic's Happy Lot, The Problem - The Evening Service - Highways and Byways
Condition Notes
A fine copy of this original 1st edition with nice clean cover boards with just some loss of blue on the Saltire vignette. The dedication to his friend from the compiler/author is in ink on the free page and dated 27th Dec 1937. Inside the pages are bright and clean throughout with just some spotting on the spare and title pages.
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