Robert Burns
Robert Burns
Robert Burns, also known as Rabbie Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire and various other names and epithets, 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 also in English and a light Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 January 1759
latin teaching school
What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.
morning rose bud
Yon rose-buds in the morning-dew, How pure amang the leaves sae green!
foolish embarrassment blunders
O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.
pain fall son
By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die!
beauty gone fading
Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
pride moon noon
Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon; Not the poet, in the moment Fancy lightens in his e'e, Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture, That thy presence gi'es to me.
religious heart mind
Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?
ale delicate warm
Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale.
care ifs
If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.
society morality bane
Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!
mean term happens
Never generally means "at no point in time." The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not ever going to happen. Sourced
sky voice messages
The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
eye men mind
When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
body sour pow
It's hardly in a body's pow'r,To keep, at times, frae being sour.