Welcome to our Robert Burns poems

Robert Bunrs Poems

Robert Burns poems are know the world over. As Scotland’s national bard his poetry and songs have been celebrated and argued about for over 200 years. He covered many subjects: love, politics, religion, nature and death amongst others. His gentle (and not so gentle) mocking ways took down pomposity and arrogance in extablished hierarchical institutions.

Initially feted by the Edinburgh literary elite his support for the principles of the French revolution saw him shunned and he returned to the west of Scotland where he died at a young age.

We hope you enjoy the Robert Burns poems here and delve into them from time to time. Human nature doesn’t change; the classics can still seem fresh to us today.

We encourage to explore these wonderful poems, particularly around his birthday on the 25th January but also all year round. Dinnae be a sleekit wee beastie wi’ his works……

Come, Let Me Take Thee To My Breast

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Come, let me take thee to my breast, And pledge we ne'er shall sunder; And I shall spurn as vilest dust The world's wealth and grandeur: And do I hear my Jeanie own That equal transports move her? I ask for dearest life alone, That I may live to love her. Thus, in my arms,

Complimentary Epigram On Maria Riddell

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"Praise Woman still," his lordship roars, "Deserv'd ornot, nomatter?" Butthee, whom all my soul adores, Ev'n Flattery cannot flatter: Maria, all my thought and dream, Inspires my vocal shell; The more I praise my lovely theme, The more the truth I tell.

Dainty Davie

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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. Chorus.-Meet me on the warlockknowe, Dainty Davie, Dainty Davie; There I'll spend the day wi' you, My ain dear Dainty Davie. The crystal waters round us fa', The merry birds

Deluded Swain, The Pleasure

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Deluded swain, the pleasure The fickle Fair can give thee, Is but a fairy treasure, Thy hopes will soon deceive thee: The billows on the ocean, The breezes idly roaming, The cloud's uncertain motion, They are buttypes of Woman. O art thou not asham'd To doat upon a feature? If Man thou wouldst be nam'd,

Down The Burn, Davie

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As down the burnthey took their way, And thro' the flowery dale; His cheek to hers he aftdid lay, And love was aye the tale: With "Mary, when shall we return, Sicpleasure to renew?" Quoth Mary-"Love, I like the burn, And aye shall follow you."

Epigram On The Laird Of Laggan

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When Morine, deceas'd, to the Devil went down, 'Twas nothing would serve him but Satan's own crown; "Thy fool's head," quoth Satan, "that crown shall wear never, I grant thou'rt as wicked, butnot quite so clever."

Epigrams Against The Earl Of Galloway

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What dost thou in that mansion fair? Flit, Galloway, and find Some narrow, dirty, dungeon cave, The picture of thy mind. No Stewart art thou, Galloway, The Stewarts 'll were brave; Besides, the Stewarts were butfools, Not one of them a knave. Bright ran thy line, O Galloway, Thro' many a far-fam'd sire! So ran

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