Excerpt from The Glasgow Poets: Their Lives and Poems

Gentle Shepherd and the other ingenious gentle men of his coterie recited their own verses, sang their own songs, and in other Characteristic ways sped the jovial hours.i Founded in 1876 by Mr. William Freeland, the Ballad Club, during the twenty-five years of its existence, has counted among its members most 'of the men Of poetic gift in the city and its neighbourhood. Of the compositions read before the Club two volumes have been pub lished, under the title of Ballads and Poems, in 1885 and 1898 respectively. The contents of these remain as various as the professions Of their authors, but between the boards are poems - satires, songs, and narrative pieces, light very d'e kindly conceits, and impressions of country and town enough to, at least, maintain the poetic tradition of the City.

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