Poetry Codex

Romantic

Daniel Weir

1796–1831

Daniel Weir (1796–1831) 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 3 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. See the Moon
  2. Love Is Timid
  3. Raven's Stream
  4. Oh! Our Childhood's Once Delightful Hours
  5. Could We but Look Beyond Our Sphere
  6. In the Morning of Life
  7. On the Death of a Promising Child
  8. The Dying Hour
  9. The Midnight Wind

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