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Here’s a health to them that’s awa

WebThat lives at the lug o’ the law! Here’s freedom to them that wad read, Here’s freedom to them that wad write! There’s nane ever fear’d that the truth should be heard, But they …

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Creative Words for Wellbeing in Scotland

WebLibraries, public organisations and practitioners across Scotland are collaborating on Creative Words for Wellbeing in Scotland, a new project using reading and writing to …

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The Cotter’s Saturday Night

WebThe toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, –. This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And …

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Mortality by William Knox

WebMortality. William Knox. O why should the spirit of mortal be proud! Like a fast flitting meteor, a fast flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave –. He passes from life to …

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Poems by and for Social Workers

WebThe poems were selected Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh (University of Edinburgh), Dr Ariane Critchley (Edinburgh Napier), and Samuel Tongue (SPL) and sponsored by the Social …

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To Mind Your Life: Poems for Nurses and Midwives

Web12 May 2021. Blog. Today, on International Nurses Day, we’re launching To Mind Your Life: Poems for Nurses and Midwives. A gift from the nursing and midwifery profession to its …

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The Guest House by Jalaluddin Rumi

WebAbout this poem. This poem is included in the anthology Tools of the Trade: Poems for new doctors (Scottish Poetry Library, 2014). The anthology was edited by Dr Lesley Morrison, …

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mental health Archives

WebMindfulness of Righteous Anger - by McGuire. for an hour of screaming at the sky instead. At midnight the north sky is blues and greys, with a thin fissure of citrine just above the …

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Song by William Soutar

WebWilliam Soutar 1898 - 1943 William Soutar overcame his ill-health to write poetry in celebration of ‘the generosity of life’, and much verse in Scots for children.

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Best of the Best Scottish Poems

WebWelcome. To mark the fifteenth anniversary of our annual online anthology Best Scottish Poems, the Library invited broadcaster, journalist and author James Naughtie to edit a …

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The Peace of Wild Things

Webin fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake. rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace …

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The Way My Mother Speaks

WebCarol Ann Duffy b.1955 First female, first Scottish Poet Laureate in the role's 400 year history, Duffy's combination of tender and tough, humour and lyric, jaded and curious, …

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The Twa Dogs. A Tale. by Robert Burns

WebThe tither was a ploughman's collie, A rhyming, ranting, raving billie, Wha for his friend an' comrade had him, And in his freaks had Luath ca'd him, After some dog in Highland …

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Beannacht / Blessing by John O’Donohue

WebAbout this poem. This poem is included in the second edition of Tools of the Trade: Poems for new doctors (Scottish Poetry Library, 2016). The anthology was edited by Kate …

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Address to a Haggis by Robert Burns

WebAn’ legs, an’ arms, an’ heads will sned, Like taps o’ thrissle. Ye Pow’rs wha mak mankind your care, And dish them out their bill o’ fare, Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware. …

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GLASGOW, 5 MARCH 1971 by Edwin Morgan

WebThat phrase “ragged diamond” is a metaphor for the broken glass surrounding the falling couple. Q 2 What does this metaphor tell us about the glass? The word choice here also …

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