Anna MacManus

  • A health to you, Piper,
          And your pipes silver-tongued, clear and sweet in their crooning!

    Full of the music they gathered at morn
      On your high heather hills from the lark on the wing,
    From the blackbird at eve on the blossoming thorn,
      From the...

  • Oh thinkin’ long ’s the weary work!
    It breaks my heart from dawn
    Till all the wee, wee, friendly stars
    Come out at dayli’gone.
    An’ thinkin’ long ’s the weary work,
    When I must spin and spin,
    To drive the fearsome fancies out,
    An’ hold the...