25. My Father was a Farmer: A Ballad (Robert Burns Poems)
MY father was a farmer upon the Carrick border, O, And carefully he bred me in decency and order, O; ...
MY father was a farmer upon the Carrick border, O, And carefully he bred me in decency and order, O; ...
O MY Luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June: O my Luve's like the melodie, That's ...
NOW Robin 1 lies in his last lair, He'll gabble rhyme, nor sing nae mair; Cauld poverty, wi' hungry stare, ...
Chor.-Green grow the rashes, O; Green grow the rashes, O; The sweetest hours that e'er I spend, Are spent amang ...
FAREWELL, dear friend! may guid luck hit you, And 'mang her favourites admit you: If e'er Detraction shore to smit ...
Is there, for honest Poverty That hings his head, and a' that; The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare ...
I MURDER hate by flood or field, Tho' glory's name may screen us; In wars at home I'll spend my ...
ON SEEING ONE ON A LADY'S BONNET AT CHURCH Ha! whare ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie! Your impudence protects you ...
ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUGH, IN APRIL, 1786 Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil ...
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae fareweel, and then for ever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, ...
FAREWELL to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth; Wherever I wander, wherever ...
LET other heroes boast their scars, The marks of sturt and strife: And other poets sing of wars, The plagues ...
Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth; Wherever I wander, wherever ...
LORD ADVOCATEHE clenched his pamphlet in his fist, He quoted and he hinted, Till, in a declamation-mist, His argument he ...
YOUR friendship much can make me blest, O why that bliss destroy! Why urge the only, one request You know ...
WEE, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi' ...
AGAIN the silent wheels of time Their annual round have driven, And you, tho' scarce in maiden prime, Are so ...
BY yon Castle wa', at the close of the day, I heard a man sing, tho' his head it was ...
O THOU who kindly dost provide For every creature's want! We bless Thee, God of Nature wide, For all Thy ...
AN HONEST man here lies at rest As e'er God with his image blest; The friend of man, the friend ...
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne? For ...
SOME books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn'd: Ev'n ministers they hae been ...
On Turning her up in her Nest with the Plough Wee, sleekit, cow'rin', tim'rous beastie, O what a panic's in ...
ITHERS seek they ken na what, Features, carriage, and a' that; Gie me love in her I court, Love to ...
O my Luve's like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June; O my Luve's like the melodie That's ...
KILMARNOCK wabsters, fidge an' claw, An' pour your creeshie nations; An' ye wha leather rax an' draw, Of a' denominations; ...
Coming thro' the rye, poor body, Coming thro' the rye, She draiglet a' her petticoatie Coming thro' the rye. O, ...
O my Luve's like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June; O my Luve's like the melodie That's ...
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