Poetry Codex

Victorian

Alexander Maclagan

born 1811

Alexander Maclagan (born 1811) 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 8 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 (8)

  1. Curling Song
  2. The Auld Meal Mill
  3. The Thistle
  4. The Scotch Blue Bell
  5. The Rockin'
  6. The Widow
  7. The Highland Plaid
  8. The Flower o' Glencoe

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