Poems

Quotation beginning 'He prayeth best who loveth best', c1876

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/89

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Quotation beginning 'He prayeth best who loveth best, All things both great and small' noted as being by Coleridge. The text has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: c1876

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

Quotation from a poem by Whittier under the title 'Rune', c1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/103

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Quotation from a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier under the title 'Rune' beginning 'You find but common bloom and green, The rippling rivers rune'.

Dates: c1892

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

Recent Gaelic poets, 1896

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Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/30

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A script for a lecture delivered by Makinnon on 16 March 1896.

Dates: 1896

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Lecture notes / University lectures

Rhyme about bird calls, 4 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/19

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Rhyme about bird calls including the call of the smeòrach or thrush and the call of the lon-dubh or blackbird.

Dates: 4 June 1887

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

Rhyme about sea creatures, 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW107/60

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Rhyme about sea creatures beginning 'Seac[hd] sgadain sa brad[ain] seac[hd] brad[ain] sa roin'. Text has been scored through as if the text has been transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1869

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

Rhyme about Shrove Tuesday beginning 'Chiad Dimairt an t-Solus', 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/213

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Rhyme about Shrove Tuesday beginning 'Chiad Dimairt an t-Solus'. Text has been scored through as if copied elsewhere.

Dates: 1884

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

Rhyme beginning 'Chulaig seo! challaig seo!' and accompanying note, 17 January 1874

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/43

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Rhyme collected from Duncan MacLellan, clachair [mason], Càrnan/Carnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist, beginning 'Chulaig seo! challaig seo! chul[aig] Chul[aig] o cahl[aig] o air an to[bh]ta' noting that it was what the 'gillean cullaig' [Hogmanay boys] said as they came to the house.

Dates: 17 January 1874

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

Rhyme beginning 'Chunna mise an Dreolla', June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/53

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Rhyme probably collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Baile Meadhanach/Ballymeanach, Ìle/Islay, beginning 'Chunna mise an Dreolla, Am bogach am bac moine' .

Dates: June 1887