Poems
Subject
Subject Source: Sss
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 203 Collections and/or Records:
Vocabulary note and verse probably representing birdsong, c1892
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/90
Scope and Contents
Vocabulary note which reads 'Bir-ghia Bireghian = Rain Goose from bir = water and geadh = goose' and verse probably representing birdsong beginning 'Bir! Bir! Bir! An lin a traghadh'. The verse is composed of ten lines and a translation is given. The text has been scored through in pencil as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
c1892
Vocabulary note for Grigne [colony or number] and accompanying verse, 10 February 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/76
Scope and Contents
Vocabulary note probably collected from Margaret MacDonald, aged 79 years, Malacleit/Malaclete, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist for Grigne describing it as a colony or a number and in some places stating that a sieve was called a grigne. What appears to be a verse reads 'Rionag an Righ, Rionag na madaine, Rionag a bhauch[aille], Nighean ri mheangain sa triuir leam sa cu sa gille sa cocair.'
Dates:
10 February 1870
Working materials for the collection "Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone", 1963-1964
File
Identifier: Coll-2124/5/3
Scope and Contents
Working materials for the collection "Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone", being: Letter from "Chris" [Hugh MacDiarmid], Brownsbank, to "Dear Kulgin" [Kulgin Duval], 8 April 1963, manuscript; 2 x limited edition copies (unnumbered) of "Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone"; 2 x proof copies of collection, noted as K155; 1 x copy of cover design "Self portrait" by William Johnstone; "Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone", typescript, with corrections, 9pp; and, 1 x copy William...
Dates:
1963-1964