John Barbour Never Poems

  • 1.
    [Edward Bruce marches toward Dundalk; he debates whether to fight]

    Bot he that rest anoyit ay
    And wald in travaill be alway,
    ...
  • 2.
    [Bruce escapes to Lochmaben]


    The Bruys went till his innys swyth,
    ...
  • 3.
    The lord of Lorn attacks the king's men]


    The lord off Lorne wonnyt thar-by
    ...
  • 4.
    [English harshness to prisoners]

    In Rawchryne leve we now the king
    In rest foroutyn barganyng,
    ...
  • 5.
    [Criticism of the compact about Stirling Castle]

    And quhen this connand thus wes mad
    Schir Philip intill Ingland raid
    ...
  • 6.
    King Robert in Northumberland]

    Sone eftre that the erle Thomas
    Fra Wardaill thus reparyt was
    ...
Total 6 Never Poems by John Barbour

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Give me the scorn of the stars and a peak defiant;
Wail of the pines and a wind with the shout of a giant;
Night and a trail unknown and a heart reliant.

Give me to live and love in the old, bold fashion;
A soldier's billet at night and a soldier's ration;
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