The ethos, climate and culture of Scotland lends itself to poetry, and the distinctive dialect of Scotland figures large in the poems here. In many cases the poems have variants of stronger and weaker dialectical variation, although we have largely - unless it is un-sympathetic - avoided the most heavily dialectical versions:
- Marion Angus - Mary's Song
- Robert Burns - A Red, Red Rose
- Robert Burns - Address to a Haggis
- Robert Burns - Banks of Doon
- Robert Burns - Is There, for Honest Poverty
- Robert Burns - Tam O'Shanter
- Robert Burns - To a Mouse
- Robert Burns - Up in the Morning Early
- Norman Cameron - Public-House Confidence
- William Dunbar - In Honour of the City of London
- Douglas Dunn - The Kaleidoscope
- James Graham - On the death of a soldier
- Violet Jacob - The Wild Geese
- Jackie Kay - Dusting the Phone
- Liz Lochhead - A New View of Scotland Love Poem
- Hugh MacDiarmid - The Watergaw
- Sorley Maclean - Hallaig
- Louis MacNeice - Bagpipe Music
- William McGonagall - A Descriptive Poem on the Silvery Tay
- William McGonagall - The Tay Bridge Disaster
- Edwin Morgan - Canedolia
- Edwin Morgan - Strawberries
- Edwin Morgan - The Computers First Christmas Card
- Don Paterson - Nil-Nil
- Don Paterson - Rain
- Alastair Reid - Scotland
- Sir Walter Scott - Lochinvar
- Robert Louis Stevenson - From a Railway Carriage
- Robert Louis Stevenson - My Shadow
- Robert Louis Stevenson - Requiem
- Robert Louis Stevenson - The Land of Nod