278. On the late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations (Robert Burns Poems)
HEAR, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;- If there's a hole in a' your coats, ...
HEAR, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;- If there's a hole in a' your coats, ...
Chorus.-She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a lo'esome wee thing, This dear ...
MY Harry was a gallant gay, Fu' stately strade he on the plain; But now he's banish'd far away, I'll ...
THIS day, Time winds th' exhausted chain; To run the twelvemonth's length again: I see, the old bald-pated fellow, With ...
IN Politics if thou would'st mix, And mean thy fortunes be; Bear this in mind, be deaf and blind, Let ...
STILL anxious to secure your partial favour, And not less anxious, sure, this night, than ever, A Prologue, Epilogue, or ...
O SAD and heavy, should I part, But for her sake, sae far awa; Unknowing what my way may thwart, ...
THE SOLEMN League and Covenant Now brings a smile, now brings a tear; But sacred Freedom, too, was theirs: If ...
O WHY the deuce should I repine, And be an ill foreboder? I'm twenty-three, and five feet nine, I'll go ...
O MAY, thy morn was ne'er so sweet As the mirk night o' December! For sparkling was the rosy wine, ...
O THOU dread Power, who reign'st above, I know thou wilt me hear, When for this scene of peace and ...
THE BLUDE-RED rose at Yule may blaw, The simmer lilies bloom in snaw, The frost may freeze the deepest sea; ...
O A' ye pious godly flocks, Weel fed on pastures orthodox, Wha now will keep you frae the fox, Or ...
TO you, sir, this summons I've sent, Pray, whip till the pownie is freathing; But if you demand what I ...
O THAT I had ne'er been married, I wad never had nae care, Now I've gotten wife an' weans, An' ...
NOW in her green mantle blythe Nature arrays, And listens the lambkins that bleat o'er her braes; While birds warble ...
DEAR ---, I'll gie ye some advice, You'll tak it no uncivil: You shouldna paint at angels mair, But try ...
WHAT can a young lassie, what shall a young lassie, What can a young lassie do wi' an auld man? ...
TO Riddell, much lamented man, This ivied cot was dear; Wandr'er, dost value matchless worth? This ivied cot revere. (Robert ...
ALTHO' my back be at the wa', And tho' he be the fautor; Altho' my back be at the wa', ...
"PRAISE Woman still," his lordship roars, "Deserv'd or not, no matter?" But thee, whom all my soul adores, Ev'n Flattery ...
OF 1 a' the airts the wind can blaw, I dearly like the west, For there the bonie lassie lives, ...
WHAT needs this din about the town o' Lon'on, How this new play an' that new sang is comin? Why ...
NOW Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o' daisies white Out o'er the ...
IT was a' for our rightfu' King We left fair Scotland's strand; It was a' for our rightfu' King We ...
ELLISLAND, 21st Oct., 1789.WOW, but your letter made me vauntie! And are ye hale, and weel and cantie? I ken'd ...
IF ye gae up to yon hill-tap, Ye'll there see bonie Peggy; She kens her father is a laird, And ...
IT was upon a Lammas night, When corn rigs are bonie, Beneath the moon's unclouded light, I held awa to ...
EXPECT na, sir, in this narration, A fleechin, fleth'rin Dedication, To roose you up, an' ca' you guid, An' sprung ...
THE HEATHER was blooming, the meadows were mawn, Our lads gaed a-hunting ae day at the dawn, O'er moors and ...
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