Poetry Codex

Victorian

John Stuart Blackie

1809–1895

John Stuart Blackie (born 1809) 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 4 songs printed under this poet's name in volume 6 of the anthology, in Rogers's spelling. Dates are those given in Rogers's memoir, which is the only source used here.

Poems (12)

  1. Song of Ben Cruachan
  2. The Braes of Mar
  3. My Loves
  4. Liking and Loving
  5. The Old Soldier of the Gareloch Head
  6. Dora
  7. The Lay of the Little Lady. (A Ballad of Mull)
  8. The Emigrant Lassie
  9. All Things are Full of God
  10. Trimurti
  11. My Bath
  12. The Working Man's Song

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