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The Little White Rose
(To John Gawsworth)The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet—and breaks the heart.—Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Little White Rose”
A poem for St Andrew’s Day 🏴
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46800/the-little-white-rose
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scotland #HughMacDiarmid #StAndrewsDay
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The Little White Rose
(To John Gawsworth)The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet—and breaks the heart.—Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Little White Rose”
A poem for St Andrew’s Day 🏴
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46800/the-little-white-rose
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scotland #HughMacDiarmid #StAndrewsDay
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The Little White Rose
(To John Gawsworth)The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet—and breaks the heart.—Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Little White Rose”
A poem for St Andrew’s Day 🏴
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46800/the-little-white-rose
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scotland #HughMacDiarmid #StAndrewsDay
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The Little White Rose
(To John Gawsworth)The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet—and breaks the heart.—Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Little White Rose”
A poem for St Andrew’s Day 🏴
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46800/the-little-white-rose
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scotland #HughMacDiarmid #StAndrewsDay
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The Little White Rose
(To John Gawsworth)The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet—and breaks the heart.—Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Little White Rose”
A poem for St Andrew’s Day 🏴
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46800/the-little-white-rose
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scotland #HughMacDiarmid #StAndrewsDay
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The Bonnie Broukit Bairn
Hugh MacDiarmidMars is braw in crammasy,
Venus in a green silk goun,
The auld mune shak’s her gowden feathers,
Their starry talk’s a wheen o’ blethers,
Nane for thee a thochtie sparin’,
Earth, thou bonnie broukit bairn!
– But greet, an’ in your tears ye’ll droun
The haill clanjamfrie!#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid
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The deid-hole’s a sma-boukit place for you.
You need tae be blawn aboot the cosmos
so’s your live matter mells wi the spaces
and you become the stour starns are made o…—Alastair Mackie: In Memoriam Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)
Christopher Murray Grieve – Hugh MacDiarmid – died #OTD, 9 September
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid
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“SANGSCHAW… gave other writers permission to push the boundaries of Scots as a language of literature, capable of expressing deep thought and not just for light comedy or mawkish whimsy”
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first book
https://www.thenational.scot/culture/25436484.100-year-tribute-hugh-macdiarmid-marking-crucial-work/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid