Robert Burns

1759-1796 / Male / Scottish
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My Heart’s In The HighlandsFarewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, / The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth; / Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
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Tam O’ShanterA Tale / “Of Brownyis and of Bogilis full is this Buke.” / —Gawin Douglas.
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Address To The DevilO Prince, O chief of many throned pow’rs! / That led th’ embattled seraphim to war! / (Milton, Paradise Lost)
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The Holy FairA note of seeming truth and trust / Hid crafty observation; / And secret hung, with poison’d crust,
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To A Mountain DaisyON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUGH, IN APRIL, 1786 / Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow’r, / Thou’s met me in an evil hour;
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Duncan GrayDuncan Gray cam here to woo, / Ha, ha, the wooing o’t, / On blythe Yule Night when we were fu’,
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Coming Through The RyeComing thro’ the rye, poor body, / Coming thro’ the rye, / She draiglet a’ her petticoatie
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Auld Lang SyneShould auld acquaintance be forgot, / And never brought to mind? / Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
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The Cotter’s Saturday NightINSCRIBED TO ROBERT AIKEN, ESQ. / Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, / Their homely joys and destiny obscure;
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To A MouseOn Turning her up in her Nest with the Plough / Wee, sleekit, cow’rin’, tim’rous beastie, / O what a panic’s in thy breastie!
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