Choose a poem from our favourites below.

"The Daffodils" by William Wordsworth || "If" by Rudyard Kipling

Excerpts from Pope's "An Essay on Man" || "Cargoes" by John Masefield

"Lament for Culloden" by Robert Burns || "Lament for Flodden" by Jean Elliot

"Jock of Hazeldean" by Sir Walter Scott || "Ozymandias of Egypt" by Percy B. Shelley

"To his love" by William Shakespeare || "Caller Herrin'" by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne

Excerpt from "Hiawatha's Childhood" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Some verses from "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray

"The Land o' the Leal" by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne

"The Green Eye of the Yellow God" by J. Milton Hayes

"The Flower of Scotland" by Roy Williamson

"Sea Fever" by John Masefield




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