Poetry.
Found in 2783 Collections and/or Records:
Copies of Laurence Binyon, "Odes" (1901) and "The North Star and other Poems" (1941), both from the library of John Purves.
With four letters, 1900-1921 and undated, of Binyon to Purves.
Copies of letters, 1802-1806, of Charlotte Edgeworth to her brother and sisters, and of a description by Henry Edgeworth of a journey to Edinburgh, October 1803., 1802-1806.
Two family letters, notes, and copies of poems in various hands have been inserted on folios 20-46.
Copies of letters to Cardinal Giovanni Morone; ‘Una Ghirlanda Fiorentina, 1938’; copies of poems; and notes on Shelley in Italy by John Purves., 16th century, [?1920-?1940.]
The notes dated from the appointment of John Purves as lecturer in Italian at Edinburgh University in 1920.
Copies of miscellaneous papers.
Copies of poems by 'Monk' Lewis, Robert Southey and others., Circa 1805.
Copies of poems concerning Lanarkshire in an unidentified nineteenth-century hand.
Copies of poems of Margaret Maxwell Inglis and of celebrated poets, with original poems of her daughter, Mrs Gregory, and summaries of sermons, all in Mrs Gregory's hand., 1829-1837, undated.
The beginning and end are torn away.
Copies of poems, taken probably from printed works., 1833.
Leaves have been cut or torn out after folios 29, 33, 40, 44 and 48.
Copies of poetry written by and to Alexander Carlyle., 1746-1800.
Copies of printed and other material concerning the ‘Forty-five., 1745.
Includes a letter, manifesto, etc., of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 1745; the ‘dying declarations’, last speeches, etc., of Lord Balmerino, Mr John Hamilton, and other Jacobites; political verses, toasts, epitaphs, etc.
Copies of religious verse composed by James Cuninghame of Barns, a Quietist preacher and Jacobite.
Each poem has the date and place of composition as a heading; most were written in Edinburgh, but Montrose, London and York are also mentioned. The text breaks off in October 1713.
Copies of sermons and poetry in English., ca. 1900-1920
Copies of ten unpublished poems by Agnes Owens.
Includes poems titled; 'Wallace', 'The barley brew', 'My father', 'Where poppies bloom', 'Satans caves', 'Have we met before', 'The hunter', 'The writer', "Don't give me the Booker", and 'War time'. Most are signed by Agnes Owens, and some have manuscript corrections or revisions.
Copies of the death speech of Charles Radcliffe, Jacobite, 1746, and of two Jacobite poems, 'The tears of Scotland', and 'Ode on the battle of Gladsmuir', undated, all apparently in the hand of Thomas Pennant; bound in a volume of Jacobite pamphlets., 1746, undated.
These are the more substantial of the letters, papers and notes found in the Lauriston Castle Collection of printed books, whether pasted or inserted loosely into volumes or as inscriptions written in books.
Copies of "The Works of Robert Burns..." (Liverpool, 1800), and "Reliques of Robert Burns" (London, 1808), both annotated by Alexander Fraser Tytler.
Copy, 17th century, of `The Life, Araignment, and Death of the famous and learned Sir Thomas More Knight, sometimes Lord Chauncellor of England. Together with his Vision`.
Copy, 17th century, of ‘The Theatre of the Scotish Kings’ by Alexander Garden, written circa 1625.
Copy, 18th century of Latin poem, 1595, on Charlemagne by Matthew Brobon Caesar, Professor of Greek at Leipzig; with excerpt, 1399, from 14th century manuscript describing an 'idol of the Teutons'., 14th century, 1595.
With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.
Copy, 19th century, of the poetical collection made in 1630 by Margaret Robertson, wife of Alexander Stewart of Bonskeid.
Copy, 1802, of verses of Sir John Harington, Queen Elizabeth I`s godson, written in 1602 to accompany a New Year`s gift of a dark lantern to James VI.
The present manuscript was copied by the poet John Leyden. An inscription at the end of the verses states that he had made the transcription `from the original in the University Library, Edinburgh, March 26, 1802`. The verses, written in Latin and English, are preceded by a detailed description of the lantern.
The verses are apparently unpublished.
Copy, 1820, of verse, `Prophecies by Sundrie authors some wherof knowen and ther names affixed, others not knowen, but many of them old and currant thro the isle of Great Brittane. Collected and faithfully written by John Gordon of Gillichoudie, 1711`. In several cases the original dates of the Prophecies are given, and range from 1399 to 1688.
There are two copies, in different hands, of a prophecy by Mr Bickerhead, a priest, dated 1679, folios 3 and 8.
The first Prophecy is ascribed to two authors, Sir James Galloway and John Napier of Merchiston, the mathematician. None of the poems appear to have been published.
Copy, early 17th century, of ‘Historie and Chronicles of Scotland’ by Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie, written circa 1565., Circa 1565-1603.
Copy, eighteenth century, of 'The Genealogie off the Mackenzies preceeding the year 1661. Written in the year 1669. By a Person of Quality’.
This copy of the well-known genealogy in 1732 belonged to a John Matheson (folio i) and had probably been written by him about the same time. Although many leaves have been cut out at the end, the copy is almost complete. It includes a poem entitled ‘Arbuthnet on Sr. George Mackenzie off Rosehaugh’, beginning:
“Well then since the Relentless doom is spoke
And there is no mortall power can ward the Stroak
Scotland must ruin, it’s the Almighties will” (folios 73-74).
Copy, late 17th century, of `De jure prelationis Nobilium scotie or A Memoriall of the evidents and writs produced ... before the Comissioners ... anent the precedency and prioritie of dignitie [1606]`, incorporating additional information up to 1667.
The text is followed by a list of titles of the nobility and other related material (folio 34 verso), and verses and notes on the history of Aberdeen (folio 45). An 18th-century hand has added a list of dates of the patents of Scottish nobles (folio 52).