Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

Good Press, 19 nov 2019 - 442 pagine

There are literally hundreds of poems by the unrivaled nineteenth-century Scottish poet collected in this volume. They are arranged chronologically and there is a glossary at the end to translate the Scottish dialect.

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... there's something in her gait Gars ony dress look weel. A gaudy dress and gentle air May slightly touch the heart; But it's innocence and modesty That polishes the dart. 'Tis this in Nelly pleases me, 'Tis this enchants my soul; For ...

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... There lies the dear partner of my breast; Her cares for a moment at rest: Must I see thee, my youthful pride, Thus brought so very low! And it's O, fickle Fortune, O! There lie my sweet babies in her arms; No anxious fear their little ...

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... there see bonie Peggy; She kens her father is a laird, And she forsooth's a leddy. There Sophy tight, a lassie bright ... There's few sae bonie, nane sae guid, In a' King George' dominion; If ye should doubt the truth o' this— It's ...

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... There's nae life like the ploughman's in the month o' sweet May. The lav'rock in the morning she'll rise frae her nest, And mount i' the air wi' the dew on her breast, And wi' the merry ploughman she'll whistle and sing, And at night ...

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... there are proper young men, And proper young lasses and a', man; But ken ye the Ronalds that live in the Bennals ... There's ane they ca' Jean, I'll warrant ye've seen As bonie a lass or as braw, man; But for sense and guid taste she ...

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Sommario

Preface

SongI Dreamd I

Ronalds Of The Bennals

Song Bonie Peggy Alison

Prayer In The Prospect Of Death

A Stanza Added In A Mason Lodge

A Ballad

Song Wha Is That At My BowerDoor

To A Mouse On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough

Song For A That1

Scotch Drink

The Authors Earnest Cry And Prayer

Epistle To James Smith

Suppressed Stanzas Of The Vision

To Mr MAdam Of CraigenGillan

To Gavin Hamilton Esq Mauchline

Song O Leave Novels1

The Twa Herds Or The Holy Tulyie

Epitaph On Holy Willie

Second Epistle To J Lapraik

Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux1

Third Epistle To J Lapraik

The Farewell To the Brethren of St James Lodge Tarbolton

The Lass O Ballochmyle

The Brigs Of

Lines On Meeting With Lord Daer1

SongYon Wild Mossy Mountains