Allan Cunningham

Poems (6)

• Hame, Hame, Hame

  Hame, hame, hame, O hame fain wad I be— / O hame, hame, hame, to my ain countree! …

• The Poet’s Bridal-Day Song

  O, My love ’s like the steadfast sun, / Or streams that deepen as they run; …

• The Spring of the Year

  Gone were but the winter cold, / And gone were but the snow, …

• The Sun rises bright in France

  The sun rises bright in France, / And fair sets he; …

• “A wet sheet and a flowing sea”

  A Wet sheet and a flowing sea,— / A wind that follows fast, …

• “Thou hast sworn by thy God, my Jeanie”

  Thou hast sworn by thy God, my Jeanie, / By that pretty white hand o’ thine, …