[Holograph copies of the following poems by William…]

Holograph copies of the following poems by William Motherwell: The Temptation, Roll, Danube, on, The King's Life Guardsman, The Troubadour's Lament, O an I were the jet black craw, November winds are howling, O think nae mair o' me sweet may, Mild Mary's Well, When I beneath the cold red earth am sleeping, A Scottish Song, It well might break the noblest heart, Would to your heart I were as dear, I look on thee once more, Oh for the bright dreams of glad youth again, O hae ye seen my Jeanie, lad, The Hunter's Well, Joy not thou false one, The Spectre Ship, Why will ye in that mantle hide, The Waithman's Wail, Unmeet for me this gilded book, Beneath a placid brow, Fragmenta Poetica (I had a dream a weary dream), O my luve's brow is white, Ding dong, Earl William, Think not my friend that distance break, The Recreant, Can it be so? oh surely no, Like that grey headed mariner whom the sea, I'll never mount a horse again, Will ye gang bonnie lassie wi' me wi' me, Gilboah! Gilboah! the mighty are dead! A Dirge, Its whisper'd in parlour its whisper'd in ha, Our sister has fled like a beam of light, The Crazy Maiden, Beginnes ye Geste of Schyr Gormalyn, Of Exmouth and Algiers (dated 8 Nov. 1826), Zara, Lady Margaret, Sweet Earlsburn, Oh that this weary war of life, The Knights Requiem, My hearts ower tough, Till I am dead and gone, Sing on ye melancholy winds, O thou art dead and gone to rest, Round the holy shrine of St James the divine, On Arno's broad and placid bosom shines, The Jarl Olof, O cruel luve, A merrye Songe calde Cupides Banishmente, Tho giddy one I love thee still, Tom the Tackit, Melancholy, A Caveat to the Winde, Hollo my Fancy, The thowsand ndke of feillis and feis

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