Poetry Codex

Victorian

Charles Mackay, LL.D.

born 1814; living 1855–57

Charles Mackay, LL.D. (born 1814; 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 17 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 (26)

  1. Love Aweary of the World
  2. The Lover's Second Thoughts on World Weariness
  3. A Candid Wooing
  4. Procrastinations
  5. Remembrances of Nature
  6. Believe, If You Can
  7. Oh, the Happy Time Departed
  8. Come Back! Come Back!
  9. Tears
  10. Cheer, Boys, Cheer
  11. Mourn for the Mighty Dead
  12. A Plain Man's Philosophy
  13. The Secrets of the Hawthorn
  14. A Cry From the Deep Waters
  15. The Return Home
  16. The Men of the North
  17. The Lover's Dream of the Wind
  18. I Love My Love
  19. Tubal Cain
  20. Louise on the Door-step
  21. The Holly Bough
  22. Tell me, ye Winged Winds
  23. Earl Norman and John Truman
  24. What might be done
  25. The Miller of the Dee
  26. Little at First, but Great at Last

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