Edinburgh Painted by John Fulleylove; described by Rosaline Masson

Life holds not an hour that is better to live in: the past is a tale that is told, The future a sun-flecked shadow, alive and asleep, with a blessing in store. SWINBURNE.

The moon passed out of Holyrood, white-lipped, to open sky; The night wind whimpered on the Crags to see the ghosts go by; And stately, silent, sorrowful, the lonely lion lay, G...

It is, to be sure, more picturesque to lament the desolation of towns on hills and haughs than the degradation of an Edinburgh close; but I cannot help thinking on the simple an...

There, watching high the least alarms, Thy rough, rude fortress gleams afar; Like some bold veteran, gray in arms, And marked with many a scamy scar; The ponderous wall and mass...

I ken a toon, wa’d roond, and biggit weel, Where the women’s a’ weel-faured, and the men’s brave and leal, And ye ca’ ilka ane by a weel-kent name; And when I gang to yon toon,-...

Benevolence, charitableness, tolerance, sympathy with those about him in their joys and their sorrows, kindly readiness to serve others when he could, utter absence of envy or r...

There is a saying that no one who has suffered an Episcopalian childhood knows the story of Jonah and the gourd, and that the reply given is invariably, “Jonah and the gourd? Th...

Fareweel, Edinburgh, and a’ your daughters fair; Your Palace in the shelter’d glen, your Castle in the air; Your rocky brows, your grassy knowes, and eke your mountains bauld; W...

Even thus, methinks, a city reared should be, Yea, an imperial city that might hold Five times a hundred noble towns in fee, And either with their might of Babel old, Or the ric...

Social Edinburgh of yesterday,--that is to say, the social life of Edinburgh from the death of Sir Walter Scott to the death of Queen Victoria,--what does it imply? It means all...

The Tropics vanish; and meseems that I From Halkerside, from topmost Allermuir Or steep Caerketton, dreaming gaze again. Far set in fields and woods, the town I see Spring galla...