Poetry Codex

Romantic

Thomas Pringle

1789–1834

Thomas Pringle (1789–1834) 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 5 songs printed under this poet's name in volume 3 of the anthology, in Rogers's spelling, and 23 poems printed under his name in The Poetry of South Africa, collected and arranged by A. Wilmot (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington; Cape Town: J. C. Juta & Co., 1887), in Wilmot's spelling. Dates are those given in Rogers's memoir.

Poems (28)

  1. Farewell to Bonnie Teviotdale
  2. The Exile's Lament
  3. Love and Solitude
  4. Come Awa', Come Awa'
  5. Dearest Love, Believe Me
  6. The Emigrants
  7. The Bechuana Boy
  8. Afar in the Desert
  9. Evening Rambles
  10. The Lion Hunt
  11. The Lion and the Giraffe
  12. The Desolate Valley
  13. The Coranna
  14. Song of the Wild Bushman
  15. The Captive of Camalú
  16. The Brown Hunter’s Song
  17. The Bushman
  18. The Cape of Storms
  19. The Hottentot
  20. The Caffer
  21. The Ghona Widow’s Lullaby
  22. The Kosa
  23. Makanna’s Gathering
  24. The Incantation
  25. The Caffer Commando
  26. The Rock of Reconcilement
  27. The Forester of the Neutral Ground
  28. The Emigrant’s Cabin at the Cape

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