Selected Poems

Sir Walter Scott was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet. James Reed is the author of "Walter Scott: Landscape and Locality," and "The Border Ballads."

• Table of ContentsIntroductionSuggestions for further reading1LYRICSTo the Pride of TeviotdaleThe Prisoner's ComplaintThe ResolveThe VioletTo a LadyOn the Massacre at GlencoeFarewell to the MuseFrom Waverley , 'False love, and hast thou played me this'Guy Mannering ,'Canny moment, lucky fit''Twist ye, twine ye! Even so'The Heart of Midlothian,'Proud Maisie is in the wood'The Bride of Lammermoor,'Look not thou on beauty's charming'Ivanhoe, Rebecca's HymnThe Pirate, The Song of the Reim-KennarRedgauntlet, HopeRokeby, SongThe Doom of Devergoil, Bonny DundeeCarle, now the King's Come2LANDSCAPEThe Dreary Change From The Lay of the Last MinstrelII.i 'If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright'IV.i 'Sweet Teviot! On thy silver tide'IV.ii 'unlike the tide of human time'V.i 'Call it not vain; they do not err'V.ii 'Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn'V.xxx 'After due pause, they bade him tell'VI.i 'Breathes there the man, with soul so dead'VI.ii 'O Caledonia! stern and wild'FromThe Lady of the LakeIV.xxix ' The shades of eve come slowly down'IV.xxx 'Beside its embers red and clear'IV.xxxi 'He gave him of his Highland cheer'VI.xxix 'Harp of the North, farewell! The hills grow dark'3NarrativeJock of HazeldeanWilliam and HelenMarmion NotesGlossary

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