Poetry
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 91 Collections and/or Records:
A large collection of poems good, bad, burlesque, English, Latine, Scotch, c1690
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio B [20]
Scope and Contents
Two poems remain in this collection: one a short Latin panegyric on local worthies, the other an extended English ode to Presbyterian sensibilities.
Dates:
c1690
Alexander, William. Doomesday or the Great day of the Lords Judgement, Early 16th century
Bound volume
Identifier: De.4.72
Scope and Contents
This volume contains William Alexander's poem Doomesday or the Great day of the Lords Iudgement. There are four stanza of eight lines each to a page and the text breaks off at the end of the second stanza of the "Fifth Hour".
Dates:
Early 16th century
Anderson, Henry. Ad serreniss. , Late 16th to early 17th century
Item
Identifier: De.1.11/3
Scope and Contents
This is the poem Ad sereniss. potentissimumque regem I. 6 ... Iunias 1580 panegyris by Henry Anderson of Perth.
Dates:
Late 16th to early 17th century
Anderson, Henry. Amaryllis ingrata., Late 16th to early seventeenth century
Item
Identifier: De.1.11/1
Scope and Contents
Two copies of Henry Andersons poem Amaryllis ingrata. Each done in a different hand.
Dates:
Late 16th to early seventeenth century
Anderson, Henry. Musarum querimonia., Late 16th to early 17th century
Item
Identifier: De.1.11/2
Scope and Contents
Two copies of Henry Andersons poem Musarum querimonia. Each done in a different hand.
Dates:
Late 16th to early 17th century
Autograph poem signed, by Allan Cunningham, c 1825
Item — Box CLX-A-371
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0130
Scope and Contents
Autograph poem signed, titled 'Mariners Song', three verses of 8 lines each, starting "A wet sheet and a flowing sea / A wind that follows fast / And fills the white and rustling sail / And bends the gallant mast / And bends the gallant mast my boys / While like the eagle free / Away the good ship flies and leaves / Old England on the sea ... ", addressed on the verso to Miss Henney, 1 side 4to., no place, no date (c. 1825).
Dates:
c 1825
Baston, William. Villielmi Bastone A[ ] in Bellum de Banockburne. Carmen., Late 16th to eary 17th century
Bound volume
Identifier: De.3.19
Scope and Contents
This volume contains a copy of William Baston's poem on the Battle of Bannnockburn, with some other verses on Bannockburn.
Baston was an English friar and poet that Edward II brought north with him to write a poem commemorating his expected triumph over the Scots. Baston was captured and Robert the Bruce decided that his ransom should be a poem celebrating the Scots victory.
Dates:
Late 16th to eary 17th century
BBC accused of blasphemy over readings from banned poem (The Scotsman), 26 Feb 2002
Item
Identifier: GD61/11/2/6/5
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
A collection of newspaper and magazine cuttings covering issues relating to the LGBTQ+ community.
Dates:
Other: 26 Feb 2002
Blasphemy Law is Dead (Now UK), Aug 2002
Item
Identifier: GD61/11/2/6/40/2
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
A collection of newspaper and magazine cuttings covering issues relating to the LGBTQ+ community.
Dates:
Other: Aug 2002
Book of quotations, c1923
Item
Identifier: BAI 1/1/11
Scope and Contents
A notebook predominantly containing quotations from The Life and Letters of Walter H Page by Burton J Kendrick and also various pieces of poetry.
Dates:
c1923