Edwin Morgan
Edwin Morgan
Edwin George Morgan OBE FRSE was a Scottish poet and translator who was associated with the Scottish Renaissance. He is widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th century. In 1999, Morgan was made the first Glasgow Poet Laureate. In 2004, he was named as the first Scottish national poet: The Scots Makar...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 April 1920
thinking views people
Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.
rain kissing eyelashes
Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder.
dream rain love-you
When you go, if you go, And I should want to die, there's nothing I'd be saved by more than the time you fell asleep in my arms in a trust so gentle I let the darkening room drink up the evening, till rest, or the new rain lightly roused you awake. I asked if you heard the rain in your dream and half dreaming still you only said, I love you.
neglected
I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.