William Edmondstoune Aytoun

Poems (3)

• The Broken Pitcher

  It was a Moorish maiden was sitting by a well, / And what that maiden thought of, I cannot, cannot tell, …

• The Execution of Montrose

  [James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, was executed in Edinburgh, May 21, 1650, for an attempt to overthrow the Commonwealth and restore Charles II.] / COME hither, Evan Cameron! …

• The Heart of the Bruce

  It was upon an April morn, / While yet the frost lay hoar, …