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Romantic

Allan Cunningham

1784–1842

Allan Cunningham was a Scottish poet and man of letters who began as a stonemason. He wrote songs in the Scots tradition and compiled collections of Scottish song.

Palgrave includes his sea song "A wet sheet and a flowing sea".

Poems (13)

  1. A wet sheet and a flowing sea
  2. She 's Gane to Dwall in Heaven
  3. The Lovely Lass of Preston Mill
  4. Gane Were but the Winter Cauld
  5. It's Hame, and It's Hame
  6. The Lovely Lass of Inverness
  7. The Bonnie Bark
  8. Thou Hast Sworn by Thy God, My Jeanie
  9. Young Eliza
  10. Lovely Woman
  11. The Sun rises bright in France
  12. Hame, Hame, Hame
  13. John Grumlie

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