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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... Cessnock banks unseen, While his mate sits nestling in the bush; An' she has twa sparkling roguish een. But it's not her air, her form, her face, Tho' matching beauty's fabled queen; ' Tis the mind that shines in ev'ry grace ,

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... face Appears to mourn my woefu' case! My dying words attentive hear, An' bear them to my Master dear. “Tell him, if e'er again he keep As muckle gear as buy a sheep— O, bid him never tie them mair, Wi' wicked strings o' hemp or hair ...

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... face is fair, her heart is true; As spotless as she's bonie, O: The op'ning gowan, wat wi' dew, Nae purer is than Nanie, O. A country lad is my degree, An' few there be that ken me, O; But what care I how few they be, I'm welcome aye to ...

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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