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Subject: HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND
Matches Found: 8

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HIGHLAND VILLAGE, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Clear shining after the rain
Last Line: Clear shining after the rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Farm Life; Highlands Of Scotland; Agriculture; Farmers


CARTHON, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: A tale of the times of old! The deeds of days of other years
Last Line: The blast of the north is on the plain; %the traveller shrinks in the midst of his journey
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian
Subject(s): Highlands Of Scotland; Mythology - Gaelic


MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart's in the highlands, my heart is not here
Last Line: My heart's in the highlands wherever I go.
Variant Title(s): Farewell To The Highlands
Subject(s): Highlands Of Scotland; Patriotism


ODE ON THE POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Home, thou return'st from thames, whose naiads long
Last Line: Friend.
Subject(s): Highlands Of Scotland; Home, John (1722-1808); Poetry & Poets


SONGS OF TRAVEL: 16, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the highlands, in the country places
Last Line: Life and death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Highlands Of Scotland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE BATTLE OF GLENCOE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the month of october, and in the year of 1899
Last Line: At home or abroad, wherever they go.
Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Guns; Highlands Of Scotland; War; Dead, The


THE HEATHER ON FIRE, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: High on a granite boulder, huge in girth
Last Line: His body to the land that had begrudged a grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Famine; Highlands Of Scotland; Landlords & Tenants; Pain; Tragedy; Suffering; Misery


THE HIGHLANDER'S RETURN, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Young donald bane, the gallant celt, unto the wars had gone
Last Line: To the healths of lovely mhairi, and her faithful donald bane?
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Highlands Of Scotland; Homecoming