Poetry Codex

Victorian

James Ballantine

born 1808; living 1855–57

James Ballantine (born 1808; 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 12 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 (13)

  1. Naebody's Bairn
  2. Castles in the Air
  3. Ilka Blade o' Grass Keps Its Ain Drap o' Dew
  4. Wifie, Come Hame
  5. The Birdie Sure to Sing Is Aye the Gorbel o' the Nest
  6. Creep Afore Ye Gang
  7. Ae Guid Turn Deserves Anither
  8. The Nameless Lassie
  9. Bonnie Bonaly
  10. Saft Is the Blink o' Thine E'e, Lassie
  11. The Mair That Ye Work, Aye the Mair Will Ye Win
  12. The Widow
  13. Muckle-Mou'd Meg

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