175. Epigram to Miss Jean Scott (Robert Burns Poems)
O HAD each Scot of ancient times Been, Jeanie Scott, as thou art; The bravest heart on English ground Had ...
O HAD each Scot of ancient times Been, Jeanie Scott, as thou art; The bravest heart on English ground Had ...
I'M now arrived-thanks to the gods!- Thro' pathways rough and muddy, A certain sign that makin roads Is no this ...
WHEN first my brave Johnie lad came to this town, He had a blue bonnet that wanted the crown; But ...
THERE was five Carlins in the South, They fell upon a scheme, To send a lad to London town, To ...
O LEAVE novels, 1 ye Mauchline belles, Ye're safer at your spinning-wheel; Such witching books are baited hooks For rakish ...
SWEET closes the ev'ning on Craigieburn Wood, And blythely awaukens the morrow; But the pride o' the spring in the ...
HERE Souter Hood in death does sleep; To hell if he's gane thither, Satan, gie him thy gear to keep; ...
HER flowing locks, the raven's wing, Adown her neck and bosom hing; How sweet unto that breast to cling, And ...
HERE lie Willie Michie's banes; O Satan, when ye tak him, Gie him the schulin o' your weans, For clever ...
I CALL no Goddess to inspire my strains, A fabled Muse may suit a bard that feigns: Friend of my ...
WEE, modest crimson-tippèd flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender ...
INHUMAN man! curse on thy barb'rous art, And blasted be thy murder-aiming eye; May never pity soothe thee with a ...
THE GLOOMY night is gath'ring fast, Loud roars the wild, inconstant blast, Yon murky cloud is foul with rain, I ...
WHERE are the joys I have met in the morning, That danc'd to the lark's early song? Where is the ...
A' YE wha live by sowps o' drink, A' ye wha live by crambo-clink, A' ye wha live and never ...
GUDEWIFE,I MIND it weel in early date, When I was bardless, young, and blate, An' first could thresh the barn, ...
O SAW ye my Dear, my Philly? O saw ye my Dear, my Philly, She's down i' the grove, she's ...
WHEN first I came to Stewart Kyle, My mind it was na steady; Where'er I gaed, where'er I rade, A ...
HERE'S a health to them that's awa, Here's a health to them that's awa; And wha winna wish gude luck ...
O LORD, when hunger pinches sore, Do thou stand us in stead, And send us, from thy bounteous store, A ...
O ROUGH, rude, ready-witted Rankine, The wale o' cocks for fun an' drinkin! There's mony godly folks are thinkin, Your ...
YE Irish lords, ye knights an' squires, Wha represent our brughs an' shires, An' doucely manage our affairs In parliament, ...
Chorus.-Robin shure in hairst, I shure wi' him. Fient a heuk had I, Yet I stack by him. I GAED ...
HEY, the dusty Miller, And his dusty coat, He will win a shilling, Or he spend a groat: Dusty was ...
O THOU! whatever title suit thee- Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie, Wha in yon cavern grim an' sootie, Clos'd ...
THERE'S a youth in this city, it were a great pity That he from our lassies should wander awa'; For ...
NO more, ye warblers of the wood! no more; Nor pour your descant grating on my soul; Thou young-eyed Spring! ...
Chorus.-You're welcome, Willie Stewart, You're welcome, Willie Stewart, There's ne'er a flower that blooms in May, That's half sae welcome's ...
Chorus-O aye my wife she dang me, An' aft my wife she bang'd me, If ye gie a woman a' ...
LAMENT in rhyme, lament in prose, Wi' saut tears trickling down your nose; Our bardie's fate is at a close, ...
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