Poems by John Leyden (1775 - 1811)
- Christmas in Penang
- Dirge of the Departed Year
- Macgregor
- Madagascar Song
- Ode on Leaving Velore
- Ode on the Battle of Corunna
- Ode on Visiting Flodden
- Sonnet Written at Woodhouselee
- The Battle of Assaye
- The Celtic Paradise
- The Memory of the Past
- To the Setting Sun
- Verses Written at the Island of Sagur
- Written at St Andrews
- Written in the Isle of Sky
John Leyden was born at Denholm in Scotland. He was a poet and an orientalist. He studied at Edinburgh University and was destined for the priesthood, but gave it up. He learned Arabic and Persian and travelled to India and the Dutch East Indies. Unfortunately he died there of fever.
The Scottish orientalist and author of poems about places, John Leyden