All Poems
/ page 1354 of 3210 /471. Epigram on Jessy Staigs recovery
© Robert Burns
MAXWELL, if merit here you crave,
That merit I deny;
You save fair Jessie from the grave!
An Angel could not die!
272. SongMy Love shes but a Lassie yet
© Robert Burns
MY love, shes but a lassie yet,
My love, shes but a lassie yet;
Well let her stand a year or twa,
Shell no be half sae saucy yet;
467. Inscription to Miss Graham of Fintry
© Robert Burns
HERE, where the Scottish Muse immortal lives,
In sacred strains and tuneful numbers joined,
Accept the gift; though humble he who gives,
Rich is the tribute of the grateful mind.
430. SongDainty Davie
© Robert Burns
NOW rosy May comes in wi flowers,
To deck her gay, green-spreading bowers;
And now comes in the happy hours,
To wander wi my Davie.
415. SongThe last time I cam oer the Moor
© Robert Burns
THE LAST time I came oer the moor,
And left Marias dwelling,
What throes, what tortures passing cure,
Were in my bosom swelling:
To The Poet, John Dyer
© William Wordsworth
BARD of the Fleece, whose skilful genius made
That work a living landscape fair and bright;
Nor hallowed less with musical delight
Than those soft scenes through which thy childhood strayed,
375. SongThe Deuks dang oer my Daddie
© Robert Burns
THE BAIRNS gat out wi an unco shout,
The deuks dang oer my daddie, O!
The fien-ma-care, quo the feirrie auld wife,
He was but a paidlin body, O!
The Song of the Strange Ascetic
© Gilbert Keith Chesterton
If I had been a Heathen,
I'd have praised the purple vine,
172. Note to Mr. Renton of Lamerton
© Robert Burns
YOUR billet, Sir, I grant receipt;
Wi you Ill canter ony gate,
Tho twere a trip to yon blue warl,
Whare birkies march on burning marl:
Then, Sir, God willing, Ill attend ye,
And to his goodness I commend ye.R. BURNS
Idyll XII. The Comrades
© Theocritus
Art come, dear youth? two days and nights away!
(Who burn with love, grow aged in a day.)
As much as apples sweet the damson crude
Excel; the blooming spring the winter rude;
214. SongHow Long and Dreary is the Night
© Robert Burns
How slow ye move, ye heavy hours,
As ye were wae and weary!
It was na sae ye glinted by,
When I was wi my dearie!
It was na sae ye glinted by,
When I was wi my dearie!
208. SongTo the Weavers gin ye go
© Robert Burns
MY heart was ance as blithe and free
As simmer days were lang;
But a bonie, westlin weaver lad
Has gart me change my sang.
168. Boat SongHey, Ca Thro
© Robert Burns
UP wi the carls o Dysart,
And the lads o Buckhaven,
And the kimmers o Largo,
And the lasses o Leven.
340. SongThou Fair Eliza
© Robert Burns
TURN again, thou fair Eliza!
Ae kind blink before we part;
Rue on thy despairing lover,
Canst thou break his faithfu heart?
Incommunicado
© Sylvia Plath
The groundhog on the mountain did not run
But fatly scuttled into the splayed fern
537. SongO bonie was yon rosy Brier
© Robert Burns
O BONIE was yon rosy brier,
That blooms sae far frae haunt o man;
And bonie she, and ah, how dear!
It shaded frae the eenin sun.
'On nerveless, tuneless lines how sadly'
© Charles Harpur
ON nerveless, tuneless lines how sadly
Ringing rhymes may wasted be,