Poetry Codex

Romantic

Henry Duncan, D.D.

1774–1846

Henry Duncan, D.D. (1774–1846) 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 6 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 (6)

  1. Curling Song
  2. On the Green Sward
  3. The Ruthwell Volunteers
  4. Exiled Far From Scenes of Pleasure
  5. The Roof of Straw
  6. Thou Kens't, Mary Hay

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