Who is William Kerr

William Kerr is the name of:Politics and nobilityWilliam Kerr, 1st Earl of Lothian (c. 1605–1675), Scottish noblemanWilliam Kerr, 2nd Marquess of Lothian (1661–1722), Scottish peer and soldierWilliam Kerr, 3rd Marquess of Lothian (c. 1690–1767), Scottish noblemanWilliam Kerr, 4th Marquess of Lothian (1710–1775), also a Member of ParliamentWilliam Kerr, 5th Marquess of Lothian (1737–1815), British soldier and peerWilliam Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian (1763–1824), son of William Kerr, 5th Marquess of LothianSir William Kerr, 3rd Baronet (died 1716), one of the Scottish representatives to the first Parliament of Great BritainSir William Kerr, 4th Baronet (died 1741), of the Kerr baronetsSir William Kerr, 6th Baronet (died 1755), of the Kerr baronetsWilliam Johnson Kerr (1787–184...
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William Kerr Poems

  • In Memoriam D. O. M
    Chestnut candles are lit again
    For the dead that died in spring:
    Dead lovers walk the orchard ways,
    And the dead cuckoos sing. ...
  • Counting Sheep
    Half-awake I walked
    A dimly-seen sweet hawthorn lane
    Until sleep came;
    I lingered at a gate and talked ...
  • The Audit
    Mere living wears the most of life away:
    Even the lilies take thought for many things,
    For frost in April and for drought in May,
    And from no careless heart the skylark sings. ...
  • Her New-year Posy
    When I seek the world through
    For images of you,
    Though apple-blossom is glad
    And the lily stately-sad, ...
  • Past And Present
    Daisies are over Nyren, and Hambledon
    Hardly remembers any summer gone:
    And never again the Kentish elms shall see
    Mynn, or Fuller Pilch, or Colin Blythe. ...
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The Song Of The Soldier-Born
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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;
A heart that leaps to the fight with a soldier's passion.

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