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Henry Scott Riddell

born 1798; living 1855–57

Henry Scott Riddell (born 1798; 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 20 songs printed under this poet's name in volume 4 of the anthology, in Rogers's spelling. Dates are those given in Rogers's memoir, which is the only source used here.

Poems (20)

  1. The Wild Glen Sae Green
  2. Scotia's Thistle
  3. The Land of Gallant Hearts
  4. The Yellow Locks o' Charlie
  5. We 'll Meet Yet Again
  6. Our Ain Native Land
  7. The Grecian War-song
  8. Flora's Lament
  9. When the Glen All Is Still
  10. Scotland Yet
  11. The Minstrel's Grave
  12. My Own Land and Loved One
  13. The Bower of the Wild
  14. The Crook and Plaid
  15. The Minstrel's Bower
  16. When the Star of the Morning
  17. Though All Fair Was That Bosom
  18. Would That I Were Where Wild-woods Wave
  19. O Tell Me What Sound
  20. Our Mary

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