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Lost
for words?
Lost and found On these pages are the poems we have been searching for. Have a browse, and if you see one you think you know, please use our form to tell us about it! Can you help us find these quotations? Submitted Thursday, August 31, 2006 At the Queen's Jubilee ceremony in 1977, Ian Gilmour recited a poem called 'The King's Mile', with the line "There's a wee wee moose in Holyrood Hoose". If anyone was there, and can tell us anything about the poem, please get in touch.We are trying to identify a relatively recent Scottish poem (the author may be Douglas Dunn) in which a man is recalling how his father took him to the pier when he was a boy. He recalls the smell of the tar, and speaks to his absent father saying something like 'Dad, can you see me now?' Answer: The poem is 'To Alexander Graham', by W.S. Graham (in his New Collected Poems, Faber, 2004). The poet is dreaming: 'It was my father standing As real as life. I smelt The quay's tar and the ropes..' "My true love is a smuggler who sails upon the sea I wish I was a seaman to go along with he" This was first read at school in the 1950s. If you read it then too, and remember who it was by or where to find it, please let us know. Answer: It's a traditional folk song called 'The Smuggler', included in the anthology Poetry & Song, Book 2, chosen by James Gibson (Macmillan, 1967). The first verse is: 'O my true love's a smuggler and sails upon the sea; I wish I were a smuggler to go along with he; To go along with he for the satins and the wine, And run the tubs at Slapton when the stars do shine.' This section uses Blogger If you are interested in seeing more of one of the poems we have found, contact librarian2@spl.org.uk
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