Poetry Codex

Romantic

Robert Allan

1774–1841

Robert Allan (1774–1841) 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 17 songs printed under this poet's name in volume 2 of the anthology, in Rogers's spelling. Dates are those given in Rogers's memoir, which is the only source used here.

Poems (17)

  1. Blink Over the Burn, My Sweet Betty
  2. Come Awa, Hie Awa
  3. On Thee, Eliza, Dwell My Thoughts
  4. To a Linnet
  5. The Primrose Is Bonnie in Spring
  6. The Bonnie Lass o' Woodhouselee
  7. The Sun Is Setting on Sweet Glengarry
  8. Her Hair Was Like the Cromla Mist
  9. O Leeze Me on the Bonnie Lass
  10. Queen Mary's Escape From Lochleven Castle
  11. When Charlie to the Highlands Came
  12. Lord Ronald Came to His Lady's Bower
  13. The Lovely Maid of Ormadale
  14. A Lassie Cam' to Our Gate
  15. The Thistle and the Rose
  16. The Covenanter's Lament
  17. Bonnie Lassie

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