I'll woo her as the lion wooes his brides.
- John Home
I'll woo her as the lion wooes his brides.
- John Home
I'll woo her as the lion wooes his brides.
- John Home
I'll woo her as the lion wooes his brides.
- John Home
A rude and boisterous captain of the sea.
- John Home
Hugh MacDiarmid, the twentieth century pioneer of the Scottish Renaissance, included the following lines in A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle :
- John Home
Hugh MacDiarmid, the twentieth century pioneer of the Scottish Renaissance, included the following lines in A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle :
- John Home
Whaur's yer Wullie Shakespeare nou?
- John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
- John Home
My name is Norval; on the Grampian hills
My father feeds his flocks; a frugal swain,
Whose constant cares were to increase his store,
And keep his only son, myself, at home.
- John Home
Like Douglas conquer, or like Douglas die.
- John Home
The setting sunWith yellow radiance lighten'd all the vale;And as the warriors moved, each polish'd helm,Corslet or spear, glanced back his gilded beams.The hill they climbed, and halting at its top,Of more than mortal size, towering, they seem'dA host angelic, clad in burning arms.
— John Home