Restoration & Augustan

Alexander Ross

1699–1784


Alexander Ross was a Scottish schoolmaster at Lochlee in Forfarshire and author of the pastoral poem Helenore, or the Fortunate Shepherdess (1768), written in the Scots of the north-east.

Gilfillan prints two of his songs, Woo'd and Married and A' and The Rock an' the Wee Pickle Tow.

  1. Woo'd, and Married, and A'
  2. The Rock An' the Wee Pickle Tow

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