Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by William Edmondstoune Aytoun

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Scottish poet William Edmondstoune Aytoun.

Last updated on November 26, 2024.

William Edmondstoune Aytoun FRSE was a Scottish poet, lawyer by training, and professor of rhetoric and belles lettres at the University of Edinburgh. He published poetry, translation, prose fiction, criticism and satire and was a lifelong contributor to the Edinburgh literary periodical Blackwoods Magazine. He was also a collector of Scottish ballads.

Scottish - Poet | June 21, 1813 - August 4, 1865

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Fhairshon had a son, Who married Noah's daughter, And nearly spoil'd to Flood, By trinking up ta water: Which he would have done, I at least believe it, Had ta mixture peen Only half Glenlivet.

William Edmondstoune Aytoun

They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel.

William Edmondstoune Aytoun

Do not lift him from the bracken, Leave him lying where he fell- Better bier ye cannot fashion: None beseems him half so well As the bare and broken heather, And the hard and trampled sod, Whence his angry soul ascended To the judgment seat of God!

William Edmondstoune Aytoun

Nowhere beats the heart so kindly as beneath the tartan plaid!

William Edmondstoune Aytoun

Fhairshon swore a feud Against the clan M,Tavish; Marched into their land To murder and to rafish; For he did resolve To extirpate the vipers, With four-and-twenty men And five-and-thirty pipers.

William Edmondstoune Aytoun

The earth is all the home I have, the heavens my wide roof-tree

William Edmondstoune Aytoun

He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.

William Edmondstoune Aytoun

Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.

William Edmondstoune Aytoun