Robert Burns ✓

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Scottish poet and lyricist (1759–1796)

About Robert Burns

Robert Burns, also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is in a "light Scots dialect" of English, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these writings his political or civil commentary is often at its bluntest.

Notable works:

The Best Plays of 1937-38 and the Year Book of the Drama In America

All Robert Burns Quotes

Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approachesTam maun ride; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast… Arch
Some wee short hour ayont the twal. Hour
Nae man can tether time or tide. Inspirational
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing. Exulting
Life is but a day at most. Day
All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn. All
Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose! Cant
Oh, my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh, my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune June
Some have meat, and cannot eat, And some cannot eat that want it; But we have meat, and we can eat - And let the… Cannot Eat
Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted. Been
And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation. Begins
O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I Along
The social, friendly, honest man, Whate'er he be, 'Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he. Friendly
O thou that in the heavens does dwell! Wha, as it pleases best thysel', Sends ane to heaven and ten to hell, A' for thy… Best

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