Saw Ye Bonie Lesley

2018-11-12T18:28:01+00:001792, Poem, Robert Burns Poems, Type, Year|

O sawye bonie Lesley, As she gaedo'er the Border? She's gane, like Alexander, To spread her conquests farther. To see her is to love her, And love buther for ever; For Nature made her what she is, And never made anither! Thou art a queen, fair Lesley, Thy subjects, we before thee; Thou art divine,

Scroggam, My Dearie

2018-11-12T18:28:03+00:001792, Poem, Robert Burns Poems, Type, Year|

There was a wife wonn'd in Cockpen, Scroggam; She brew'd gudeale for gentlemen; Sing auld Cowl lay ye down by me, Scroggam, my dearie, ruffum. The gudewife's dochterfell in a fever, Scroggam; The priest o' the parish he fellin anither; Sing auld Cowl lay ye down by me, Scroggam, my dearie, ruffum. They laid the

Sic A Wife As Willie Had

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

Willie Wastle dwalton Tweed, The spot they ca'd it Linkumdoddie; Willie was a wabstergude, Could stowna clue wi' ony body: He had a wife was dour and din, O TinklerMaidgie was her mither; Sic a wife as Willie had, I wad nagie a button for her! She has ane'e, she has but ane, The cat

The Country Lass

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

In simmer, when the hay was mawn, And corn wav'd green in ilka field, While claverblooms white o'er the lea And roses blawin ilka beild! Blythe Bessie in the milking shiel, Says-"I'll be wed, come o'twhat will": Out spake a dame in wrinkled eild; "O' gudeadvisement comes nae ill. "It's ye hae wooers mony ane,

The Deuks Dang O’er My Daddie

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

The bairns gatout wi'anuncoshout, The deuks dango'er my daddie, O! The fien-ma-care, quo'the feirrie auld wife, He was but a paidlin' body, O! He paidles out, and he paidles in, rn' he paidles late and early, O! This seven langyears I hae lienbyhis side, An'he is but a fusionlesscarlie, O. O haud your tongue, my

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

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