Poetry Codex

Romantic

Hew Ainslie

born 1792; living 1855–57

Hew Ainslie (born 1792; living 1855–57) is one of the Scottish song-writers whose lives Charles Rogers sketched in The Modern Scottish Minstrel (six volumes, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1855–57).

This archive holds 7 songs printed under this poet's name in volume 5 of the anthology, in Rogers's spelling. Dates are those given in Rogers's memoir, which is the only source used here.

Poems (9)

  1. The Hameward Sang
  2. Dowie in the Hint o' Hairst
  3. On wi' the Tartan
  4. The Rover o' Lochryan
  5. The Last Look o' Hame
  6. The Lads an' the Land Far Awa'
  7. My Bonnie Wee Bell
  8. Willy and Helen
  9. Sir Arthur and Lady Ann

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