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Highland Mary is a song composed in 1792 by Scottish poet Robert Burns. [1] It is one of three works dedicated to Mary Campbell , with whom Burns was in love in the 1780s. The others, "Highland Lassie, O" and "Will Ye Go to the Indies My Mary?", were composed in 1786.
The generally known form of the song appears to have been based on an earlier version, "The Religious Turncoat; Or, the Trimming Parson". The melody is taken from the 17th-century folk melody "Country Gardens" which in turn was used in The Quaker's Opera, first printed in London in 1728, a three-act farce based on the story of Jack Sheppard which was performed at Bartholomew Fair.
It shall be your part to go up and down through the desert to find out these wanderers and to lead them into the promised land'." In the summer of 1848, Clough wrote his long poem The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich, a farewell to the academic life, following it up with poems from his time as student and tutor, in the shared publication Ambarvalia.
"No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest" is a poem by Australian poet Mary Gilmore. [1] It was first published in The Australian Women's Weekly on 29 June 1940, [2] and later in the poet's collection Fourteen Men. The final two stanzas from the poem appear as microtext on the Australian ten-dollar note. [3]
By faith I know but ne'er can tell The glory which I now can see, In Jesus Christ the Appletree. For happiness I long have sought, And pleasure dearly I have bought; I missed of all but now I see 'Tis found in Christ the Appletree. I'm weary with my former toil - Here I will sit and rest awhile, Under the shadow I will be, Of Jesus Christ the ...
Sharon Ouditt, writing of women's role in the war, noted that: "For the nurses it was, like the nun's cross, the badge of their equal sacrifice." In a poem by May Wedderburn Cannan the Red Cross sign is seen to be equivalent to the crossed swords indicating her lover's death in battle: And all you asked of fame Was crossed swords in the Army List,
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Mary Gardiner Brainard was born in New London, Connecticut. [1] She was daughter of William Fowler Brainard (1784-1844), a New London lawyer, whose uncle was the poet John Gardiner Calkins Brainard , and his second wife Sarah Ann Prentis.