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Poetry

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 107 Collections and/or Records:

Sermons by Andrew Gray (1633-1656), minister of the Outer High Kirk, Glasgow

 Fonds
Identifier: MS GRA 3
Scope and Contents Bound volume with manuscript sermons and lectures. The majority of the text is in a clear but loose secretary style, however there are frequent additions by more modern hands throughout. In 5 parts:1. Substance of Sermons by Rev. Andrew Gray of Glasgow, on Canticles, chapter I and II. The first sermon is dated 26 March 16612. Several sermons by Rev. William Guthie of Fenwick, on Mark XVI3. Sacred Poem consisting of 69 stanzas, but wanting the first 5.5...
Dates: 1661-1665
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Sermons on Hebrews chapter 11 by Robert Bruce

 Fonds
Identifier: MS BRU 2
Scope and Contents Composite volume in one neat secretary hand. 'Ane Anagram: SOB SILLE COR' [Isabell Cor] 'Give me thy hairt And see fyre no more...' 'O louse me from this lothsum lump of clay...' 'The christianis cogniseance...' 'The winter night' ...
Dates: 1590-1594
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Sidney, Sir Philip. Astrophel and Stella written by Sr. Philip Sydny knight, Late 16th century

 Item
Identifier: De.5.96
Scope and Contents

This volume contains Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella. It was written for or by Sir Edward Dymoke, who met and exchanged verses with William Fowler in Padua in 1591 or 1592. The manuscript may have come to William Drummond through this association of his uncle. It is wanting all between sonnet and song ix.

Dates: Late 16th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts from the William Drummond of Hawthornden Collection

Signed copies of poems of George Mann MacBeth

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1459
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of 3 x mimeographed typescript copies of poems, being:


  1. 'The Wasp-Woman', after Ponge - signed George MacBeth
  2. 'Noah's Journey' [1966] - signed George MacBeth
  3. 'The Castle', after le Chastel d'Amours - signed George MacBeth
Dates: 1969-1971
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

'Songs and Lyrics by H Heine' by James Geikie, 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-99/10/10
Scope and Contents

James Geikie translated and published poetry and song written by Heinrich Heine and other German poets. He signed this copy with a dedication to his daughter May (Mary Dorothea Geikie) in 1904.

Dates: 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor James Geikie / Miscellaneous

Songs and poems, 18th century-1863

 Series — Box CLX-A-1121: Series Coll-1383/3; Series Coll-1383/5
Identifier: Coll-1383/5
Scope and Contents

Series containing poems and songs, printed and manuscript.

Dates: 18th century-1863
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Ian R. Grant, antiquarian bookseller

Story about John MacCodrum, c1875

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW105/23
Scope and Contents

Story about John MacCodrum [Iain mac Fhearchair] speaking at a wedding and how he dealt with a minister who tried to persuade him to stop composing songs.

Dates: c1875
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story about MacMhuirich winning a shirt from O' Neil, 1871

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW119/40
Scope and Contents

Story telling how O' Neil had a 'magnificent shirt' made which he would give to the person who composed the best poem. No one was able to win it from O' Neil until MacMhuirich arrived and he won it by reciting a poem beginning 'Thin[ig] mi a Al[ba] do dh Eir[inn], A dheo[gh] mhic O Nil a chois cliu'.

Dates: 1871
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Story entitled' 'Lamertine and Ossian', 10 January 1865

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/8
Scope and Contents

Story entitled' 'Lamertine and Ossian' collected from 'the kind hearted' Father [James] Mac Grigor RCP [Roman Catholic Priest], Ardchaoinnich [Àird Choinnich/Ardkenneth, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] in which Lamertine [Alphonse de Lamartine], when asked if he thought the poems of Ossian published by James MacPherson were forgeries or not, replied that 'MacPherson was as capable of the poems of Ossian as he was of forging the hills and dales of the Scottish Highlands.'

Dates: 10 January 1865
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field and transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael

The Carmichael-Watson Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-97
Scope and Contents The Carmichael-Watson Collection consists of papers belonging to the Reverend Alexander Cameron of Arran, Alexander Carmichael, civil servant and folklorist, Alexander MacBain of Inverness, and Professor William John Watson and his son James Carmichael Watson, along with books and papers belonging to the Reverend Charles Robertson of Jura, the Reverend Angus MacDonald, the Reverend Archibald MacDonald and the Reverend Father Allan McDonald of Eriskay. These include: invocations...
Dates: 18th century - mid 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections