Poetry Codex

Restoration & Augustan

Hector Macneill

1746–1818

Hector Macneill (1746–1818) 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 9 songs printed under this poet's name in volume 1 of the anthology, in Rogers's spelling. Dates are those given in Rogers's memoir, which is the only source used here.

Poems (9)

  1. Mary of Castlecary
  2. My Boy, Tammy
  3. Oh, Tell Me How for to Woo
  4. Lassie wi' the Gowden Hair
  5. Come Under My Plaidie
  6. I Lo'ed Ne'er a Laddie but Ane
  7. Donald and Flora
  8. My Luve's in Germany
  9. Dinna Think, Bonnie Lassie

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