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Skerryvore
For love of lovely words, and for the sake
Of those, my kinsmen and my countrymen,
Who early and late in the windy ocean toiled
To plant a star for seamen, where was then
The surfy haunt of seals and cormorants:
I, on the lintel of this cot, inscribe
The name of a strong tower.
Book I - In English
- Envoy
- A Song of the Road
- The Canoe Speaks
- It is the season
- The House Beautiful
- A Visit From the Sea
- To A Gardener
- To Minnie
- To K. DE M.
- To N. V. DE G. S.
- To Will. H. Low
- To Mrs. Will. H. Low
- To H. F. Brown
- To Andrew Lang
- Et Tu in Arcadia
- To W. E. Henley
- Henry James
- The Mirror Speaks
- Katharine
- To F. J. S.
- Requiem
- The Celestial Surgeon
- Our Lady of the Snows
- Not yet, my soul
- It is not yours
- The Sick Child
- In Memoriam F. A. S.
- To My Father
- In the States
- A Portrait
- Sing clearlier, Muse
- A Camp
- Country of the Camisards
- Skerryvore
- Skerryvore: The Parallel
- My House
- My body which my dungeon is
- Say not of me
Book II - In Scots
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