An Anthology of Orkney Verse / compiled and edited by Ernest W. Marwick

Contents:

POETRY OF THE NORSE SEA
"The Lay of the North"; "The Everlasting Battle"; "The Woof of War"; "The Fatal Sisters"; "Memorials of a Crusade"; Hymns in Praise of St Magnus - "Hymn at Lauds" and "Antiphons at Matins"; "Lay of the Jomsvikings".

FRAGMENTS OF FOLK POETRY
"New Year's Song"; "King Henry He a-Hunting' Gane"; "The Play o De Lathie Odivere"; "The Grey Selchie"; "The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry"; "Cat and Mouse Game"; "The Witch's Incantation"; "Charms"; "Nursery Rhymes";

Thomas Traill, First of Holland: "Till All the Floods Run Dry"; "My Love's in Germany".

ORKNEY POETS OF THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES
David Vedder (1790-1854): "To Orkney"; "The Witch"; "The Temple of Nature".
John Malcom (1795-1835): "From Orkney"; "To a Lady"; "Memory"; "Lines to Spain".
David Balfour of Balfour (1811-1887): "The Boky Hound"; "The Early Cock".
George Smellie (1811-1897): "The Northern Lights"; "A Farewell"; "Winter Storms, Orkney".
Walter Traill Dennison (1886-1894): "Paety Toral's Travellye"; "The Rooin o the Tang"; Glossary.
Henry Duff Traill (1842-1900): "A Drawing Room Ballad"; "The Age of Despair".
Thomas Smith Peace (1844-1934): "Waes Hale Orcadia!"; Lines from "Noltland"; "The Men of the North Patrol"; "Seagulls".
Duncan John Robertson (1860-1941): "Sons of the Isles"; "Kirkwall"; "Waith and Wrack"; "To M.S."; "Of Time and Death".
James Leask (born 1869): "The Soul of a Girl"; "Kirkwall Cathedral".
John T Wilson (born 1870): "The Orcades"; "Reincarnation"; "Dulcie Dulcissima"; "Fate".
David Horne (1876-1940): "The Ba"; The Cock o Byam"; "The Sycamore".
Harriet Campbell (1878-1933): "Kitty Buddoo"; "Gairsay Isle"; "Mirbister".
Edwin Muir (1887-[1959]): "The Sufficient Place"; "Merlin"; "The Mythical Journey", "To Ann Scott-Moncrieff".
Robert Rendall (1898-[1967]): "The Shepherds"; "Birsay"; "The Fisherman"; "Cragsman's Widow".
Eric Linklater (1899-[1974]): "The Raft"; "Soldiers and Guns"; "The Fathomless Shepherd".
William Groundwater (born 1905): "To Beauty"; "Requiescant".
Ann Scott-Moncrieff (1914-1943): "The Brig o Waithe"; "A Night in the Country".
George Mackay Brown (1921-[1996]): "Dream of Winter"; "The Road Home"; "The Winds Embrace you, My Lover".
Alison Leonard (born 1925): "Sanctuary"; "Reach me the Stars".

ADDITIONAL POEMS
From the Kirkwallian [KGS Newsletter]: "Sonnet"; "Rondel"; "Abbey Craigs"; "Frost Pictures"; "Young Trees"; "Sonnet".
W. D. Yair: "Lament for the Fairies"
T T Alexander; "Song of the Spates"

TRAVELLERS TALES - POEMS ABOUT ORKNEY
Tr. James Wallace: "Claudian Describes Orkney"
Tr. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: "An Italian Visits Orkney"
William Fowler: "Sonet in Orkney"
J. Emerson: Poetical Descriptions of Orkney, 1852.
Lord Byron: "Character of Torquil"
Sir Walter Scott: Sir Walter Scott on Orkney
William Edmonstone Aytoun: "The Duke of Orkney is Repulsed".
John Stuart Blackie from 'Lays of the Highlands and Islands' : "The Old Man of Hoy"; "Inside Maeshowe"; "At the Standing Stones".
Robert Menzies Fergusson from 'The Viking's Bride': "The Orcadian Mermaid"; "The Orcadian Cradle Song"; The Swa o the Sea".
John Masefield: "The Taking of Morgause".
Fanny Copeland, songs from 'The Selkies': "Prologue"; "Seal Song"; "Aura's Song"; "Song of the Trows"; "The Island Song".
C Fox Smith: "The Orkney Man".
John Cook: "Lifeboat"; "To an Orkney Cheese".
Maurice Lindsay: "Earl Magnus before Haakon on Egilsay"; "The Wreck of the Johanna Thorden"
Norman Holland: "Remembering Orkney".

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES; NOTES; INDEX OF FIRST LINES