Poetry In Scots

Poetry in the Scots language.

Allan Ramsay's Fables & Tales: A New Collected Edition from his manuscripts & prints, Volume I: Fables
Of the Changis of Lyfe So nixt to simmer, winter bein, Nixt eftir comfort, cairis kein, Nixt derk midnicht the mirthful morrow; Nixt eftir joy ay cumis sorow, So is this warld, and ay hes bein.
William Dunbar

Gavin Douglas
WINTER Puir laboureris and busy husbandmen, Went wet and weary in the fen; The silly sheep and their little herd-groomis Lurkis under lea of bankis, wodes, and broomis, And other dantit greater bestial, Within their stabillis sesyt into stall, Sic as mulis, horsis, oxen and kye, Fed tuskit boaris, and fat swine in sty, Sustainit were by manis governance On harvest and simmeris purveyance.
Gawin Douglas, The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, with Memoir, Notes, and Glossary, Volume 1

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