The Rights Of Woman

2018-11-12T18:28:04+00:001792, Poem, Robert Burns Poems, Type, Year|

While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of Empires and the fall of Kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention. First, in the Sexes' intermix'd connection,

The Slave’s Lament

2018-11-12T18:28:04+00:001792, Poem, Robert Burns Poems, Type, Year|

It was in sweet Senegal that my foes did me enthral, For the lands of Virginia,-ginia, O: Torn from that lovely shore, and must never see it more; And alas! I am weary, weary O: Torn from that lovely shore, and must never see it more; And alas! I am weary, weary O. All on

The Weary Pund O’ Tow

2018-11-12T18:28:05+00:001792, Poem, Robert Burns Poems, Type, Year|

Chorus.-The weary pund, the weary pund, The weary pund o' tow; I think my wife will end her life, Before she spin her tow. I bought my wife a staneo' lint, As gudeas e'erdid grow, And a'that she has made o' that Is aepuirpundo' tow. The weary pund, &c. There sat a bottle in a

The Gallant Weaver

2018-11-12T18:27:52+00:001791, Poem, Robert Burns Poems, Type, Year|

Where Cart rins rowin' to the sea, Bymony a flower and spreading tree, There lives a lad, the lad for me, He is a gallant Weaver. O, I had wooers aughtornine, They gied me rings and ribbons fine; And I was fear'd my heart wadtine, And I giedit to the Weaver. My daddie sign'd my

The Posie

2018-11-12T18:27:52+00:001791, Poem, Robert Burns Poems, Type, Year|

O luve will venture in where it daurnaweel be seen, O luvewill venture in where wisdom ancehas been; But I will doun yonriver rove, amangthe wood sae green, And a' to pu' a Posie to my ain dear May. The primrose I will pu', the firstling o' the year, And I will pu' the pink,

The Song Of Death

2018-11-12T18:27:58+00:001791, Robert Burns Poems, Song, Type, Year|

Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies, Now gay with the broad setting sun; Farewell, loves and friendships, ye dear tender ties, Our race of existence is run! Thou grim King of Terrors; thou Life's gloomy foe! Go, frighten the coward and slave; Go, teach them to tremble, felltyrant! butknow Noterrors hast

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