Submissions by Sneddon, Iain ( 202 items: 169 texts and 33 translations )

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Texts and Translations

• Polly, when your lips you join; title: "The Feast"
• On a mossy bank reclin’d; title: "The Stolen Kiss"
• Let me fly into thy arms; title: "The Meeting Kiss"
• One kind kiss before we part; title: "The Parting Kiss"
• See I languish, see I faint; title: "The Borrowed Kiss"
• Chloe, by that borrowed kiss; title: "The Kiss Repaid"
• At the silent evening hour; title: "The Secret Kiss"
• Whilst on thy dear bosom lying; title: "The Rapture"
• Why that sadness on thy brow?; title: "The Reconciling Kiss"
• Come, my fairest, learn of me; title: "The Tutor"
• Cælia, by those smiling graces; title: "The Mutual Kiss"
• When Fanny I saw as she tript o'er the green; title: "The Imaginary Kiss"
• When sparrows build, and the leaves break forth
• The cherry blossom
• The leaves have fallen
• November evening
• Here is Peter. Here is Jane. They like fun; title: "Reading Scheme"
• Spring night, so silent and cool; title: "Norwegian Spring Night" [translation]
• Jeg gik mig ud en Sommerdag at høre; title: "Jeg gik mig ud en Sommerdag"
• Dem Armen, dem niemals die Freude gelacht; title: "Engelgesang"
• I gaze from the prow of the ship; title: "Becalmed" [translation]
• Far away! - my home is far away; title: "Far Away"
• Wo Claribel gestorben
• When I was held in the pavilion; title: "When I was held in the pavilion" [translation]
• In the air wings are flying; title: "The Air" [translation]
• Stay close to the line of the window [translation]
• The heavens are resplendent with stars; title: "The Stars" [translation]
• Be welcome, red Autumn; title: "Autumn" [translation]
• Everything is ravishing when the day comes; title: "The Day" [translation]
• Au pied d’un saule assise tous les jours
• An einem Baum, am Weidenbaum saß sie; title: "Lied der Desdemona"
• Was soll ich denn ansehen; title: "Deingedenken"
• La belle est au jardin d'amour; title: "La belle est au jardin d'amour"
• First comes the cockerel; title: "At the Tyrolean Hotel" [translation]
• Beauty is in the garden of love; title: "Beauty is in the garden of love" [translation]
• Wha kens on whatna Bethlehems; title: "The Innumerable Christ"
• Je descendis dans mon jardin; title: "Je descendis dans mon jardin "
• Landlady, count the lawin; title: "Landlady, count the lawin' "
• I stooped down in my garden; title: "I stooped down in my garden" [translation]
• The blaffering wind blows from Southwest; title: "Alba"
• Au miroir de ma mère; title: "Au miroir de ma mère"
• Ootside!... Ootside!; title: "Country Life"
• In my mother’s mirror; title: "In my mother’s mirror" [translation]
• Her face it was that fankl’t me; title: "Love of Alba"
• Could I bring back lost youth again; title: "Florine"
• When I was young and ower young; title: "The Deil o' Bogie"
• Was soll ich nun vom Wiedersehen hoffen
• The moon beams kelter in the lift; title: "The Man in the Moon"
• What can I gaze at; title: "Your memory" [translation]
• Als erster kommt der Hahn; title: "Im Tiroler Wirtshaus"
• O steer her up, an' haud her gaun
• O weel I mind the bonnie morn; title: "Glances"
• There's news, lasses, news; title: "There's news, lasses, news"
• In unterirdischer Kammer
• Mountain peaks are glowing [translation]
• Letzte Hose, die mich schmückte; title: "Die letzte Hose"
• Zwei Schatten seh' ich schweben; title: "Numero Acht"
• Es rauscht in den Schachtelhalmen; title: "Der letzte Ichthyosaurus"
• There's rustling amongst the horsetail trees; title: "The Last Ichthyosaurus" [translation]
• The Bärenburg castle is gleaming in the glow of sunset; title: "The Rare Prayer" [translation]
• It was thirty-three years ago today; title: "The Captured Admiral" [translation]
• At twilight I was near the forest; title: "Evening Song" [translation]
• 'There's a hound at the door, Shawn O'Farrell; title: "The Sea Hounds"
• The trees were like bubblyjocks; title: "Sunny Gale"
• I have been in this garden of unripe fruit; title: "First Love"
• A bony No,” with smyling looks agane
• I wha aince in Heaven’s height
• I dinna want a wee man, a wee man, a wee man; title: "The Wee Man"
• Great, Good, and Just, could I but rate; title: "On receiving news of the death of Charles I"
• The auld men o’ the sea; title: "Hungry Waters"
• Whistle, whistle, auld wife; title: "Whistle, whistle, auld wife"
• Lourd on my hert as winter lies
• Sweit rois of vertew and of gentilnes
• There’s teuch sauchs growin’ i’ the Reuch Heuch Hauch; title: "The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch"
• There was a Cameronian cat; title: "The Cameronian Cat"
• In the afternoon we sat; title: "Forfeits" [translation]
• Greet the bights that gave me shelter; title: "The Old Fisherman"
• Gane is the day, and mirk's the night
• Ilka hert an’ hind are met; title: "Reid-E'en"
• Blow, good wind, from Westward, blow against the dawn; title: "The Kerry Shore - Loch Fyne"
• As white’s the blossom on the rise; title: "The Love-sick Lass"
• As white as the awakening blossoms; title: "The Love-sick Lass" [translation]
• I met ayont the cairney; title: "Empty Vessel"
• Ae weet forenicht i’ the yow-trummle; title: "The Watergaw"
• He that hes gold and grit riches
• Calum thonder, long's the night to your thinking
• Oh, her dear little eyes; title: "Little blue eyes" [translation]
• Fill with wassail the bowl, a theme yet unsung; title: "Currency Lasses"
• Enhver, der er vorden af Verden forladt; title: "Englenes Sang"
• There was a dwarf, Perkêo, in the Heidelberg Castle; title: "Perkêo" [translation]
• Vergiss mein nicht, vergiss mein nicht
• Do not forget me [translation]
• Tie up your bundle for hiking; title: "Disagreement and Atonement" [translation]
• The particular look of a courtesan; title: "Wine for the lonely" [translation]
• There came an army from the sky; title: "After drought"
• I need so much the quiet of your love; title: "At nightfall"
• I did not know the nightingale could fling
• O in that hour when both of us are dead
• The myrtles of Damascus, when they smile
• Here, at the doorway of my tent, I linger; title: "Stars of the Desert"
• You are all that is lovely and light
• The Rice was under water, and the land was scourged with rain; title: "The Rice was Under Water"
• Somewhere, Oh, My Beloved One, the house is standing
• ‘Lass, when your mither is frae hame
• I hae laid a herring in saut –; title: "I hae laid a herring in saut"
• The thunder and the dark; title: "In time of tumult"
• Richt arely one Ask Wedinsday
• When I think on the happy days
• Chorus: O dear minny, what shall I do?; title: "O dear minny, what shall I do?"
• O, fare ye weel, my auld wife!; title: "Fare ye weel, my auld wife"
• There was a wife wonn'd in Cockpen, Scroggam!
• Amang the trees, where humming bees; title: "Amang the trees"
• Lang heff I maed of ladyes quhytt
• Half doun the hill, whaur fa’s the linn; title: "The gowk"
• Long have I written about ladies white; title: "About a black woman" [translation]
• The Tailor fell thro' the bed, thimble an' a'; title: "The tailor fell thro' the bed"
• My wife's a wanton, wee thing; title: "My wife's a wanton wee thing"
• As the dragonfly’s hideous larva creeps
• In peticote of greene
• The merle in the hauch sings sweet; title: "Corbie sang"
• Oh to be at Crowdieknowe; title: "Crowdieknowe"
• When the warl’s couped soon’ as a peerie; title: "Moonstruck"
• A luvin’ wumman is a licht; title: "Love"
• Cwa’ een like milk-wort and bog-cotton hair!; title: "Milkwort and Bog-cotton"
• O softly, softly came she in [translation]
• Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast; title: "Hornpipe"
• Wheesht, wheesht, my foolish hert; title: "Wheesht, wheesht"
• I’ the how-dumb-died o’ the cauld hairst nicht; title: "The eemis stane"
• Quiet, quiet, my foolish heart; title: "Quiet, quiet" [translation]
• Fra bank to bank, fra wood to wood I rin; title: "Cupid and Venus"
• The auld man's mear's dead!; title: "The auld man's mear"
• We’ll hap and row, we'll hap and row
• Twist ye, twine ye! even so; title: "Twist ye, twine ye"
• The auld man's mear's dead
• Rorate, celi, desuper!
• High up here they rest, their long day’s work done; title: "St. Brendan's graveyard: Isle of Barra"
• The Robin to the Wren's nest; title: "The wren's nest"
• Done is a battell on the dragon blak
• There lives a young lassie
• Wha will buy my troggin, fine election ware
• If my dear wife should chance to gang; title: "My wife shall ha'e her will"
• There dwalt a man into the west
• Done is the battle on the dragon black; title: "Done is the Battle with the Black Dragon" [translation]
• I'll gar our gudeman trow; title: "I'll gar our gudeman trow"
• Far across the desert sands
• Through the old city’s silence
• Belovèd, in your absence I have told
• How many a lonely caravan sets out
• If in the great bazaars
• Ah! when the dark on many a heart descends; title: "Allah be with us"
• O luely, luely cam she in
• Upon the street they lie; title: "The children"
• O! shairly ye hae seen my love; title: "Ballad"
• Das war der Zwerg Perkêo im Heidelberger Schloß; title: "Perkêo"
• Nun hat mein Stecken gute Rast
• I wanted to marry, but father said, "No; title: "The Orphaned Old Maid"
• As the holly groweth green; title: "As the holly groweth green"
• They sit and smoke on the esplanade; title: "At a Watering Place"
• To make a final conquest of all me; title: "The fair singer"
• 'But hear. If you stay, and the child be born; title: "In the Restaurant"
• Two Gardens see! this of enchanted flowers; title: "Two Gardens"
• 'My bride is not coming, alas!' says the groom; title: "At the Altar-rail"
• That which is marred at birth Time shall not mend; title: "Gertrude's Prayer"
• 'O lonely workman, standing there; title: "In the Moonlight"
• What is a woman that you forsake her; title: "Harp Song of the Dane Women"
• Go, pretty child, and bear this flower; title: "To His Saviour, a Child; A Present, by a Child"
• Have you news of my boy Jack?"; title: "My Boy Jack"
• Verse. My God, I'm wounded by my sin
• This enders night; title: "This Enders Night"
• God gives not only corn for need; title: "To God"
• There once was a lady, divinely tall; title: "Legend of Rosemary"
• Through all the night; title: "To His Angrie God"
• Delight is as the flight
• Night hath no wings to him that cannot sleep; title: "To his sweet saviour"
• Bury me on a Sunday"; title: "Farmer Dunman's Funeral"
• I'm a Mimi who's over the hill; title: "Diva's lament"
• Oh! From over there so sweetly it resounds; title: "The cry of the quail" [translation]
• As I went dreaming; title: "The poplars"
• The rafters blacken year by year; title: "A cottager"
• At night when everyone's asleep; title: "The dustman"
• The hawthorn brave upon the green; title: "The bean flower"
• I will cut you wands of willow; title: "Impromptu in March"
• Pack, clouds, away! and welcome, day!
• Death-like the morning dawns; title: "The Convalescent addresses Hope" [translation]
• I am my mother's only child; title: "Confession" [translation]
• Days passed; title: "Days passed" [translation]
• Since all thy vows, false maid
• Less than the dust, beneath thy Chariot wheel; title: "Less than the dust"
• The temple bells are ringing
• Wha is that at my bower-door?"
• O wert thou in the cauld blast
• Why does your brand sae drop wi' blude
• Lenznacht, so still und so kühl; title: "Norwegische Frühlingsnacht"
• Wee Willie Gray, an' his leather wallet
• Nach Mittage saßen wir; title: "Stirbt der Fuchs, so gilt der Balg"
• O Rattlin, roarin Willie; title: "Rattlin' Roarin' Willie"
• Come to me in my dreams, and then
• Quant je fus prins ou pavillon
• O my Luve's like a red, red rose
• Robin shure in hairst; title: "Robin shure in hairst"
• Ach ihr lieben Äuglein
• When I am dying, lean over me tenderly, softly; title: "Till I wake"

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