Robert Burns Poems

Robert Burns – Lass Of Cessnock Banks, The Song [Footnote 1: The lass is identified as Ellison Begbie, a servant wench, daughter of a Farmer Lang .] A Song of Similes Tune— If he be a Butcher neat and trim. On Cessnock banks a lassie dwells; Could I describe her shape and mein; Our lasses […]

There’ll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame Robert Burns Poetry By yon Castle wa’, at the close of the day, I heard a man sing, tho’ his head it was grey: And as he was singing, the tears doon came,— There’ll never be peace till Jamie comes hame. The Church is in ruins, the […]

Their Groves O’Sweet Myrtle Robert Burns Song Tune— Humours of Glen. Their groves o’ sweet myrtle let Foreign Lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o’ green breckan, Wi’ the burn stealing under the lang, yellow broom. Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers Where […]

Impromptu I’ll Go And Be A Sodger Robert Burns Poetry O why the deuce should I repine, And be an ill foreboder? I’m twenty-three, and five feet nine, I’ll go and be a sodger! I gat some gear wi’ mickle care, I held it weel thegither; But now it’s gane, and something mair— I’ll go […]

The Gallant Weaver Robert Burns Poetry Where Cart rins rowin’ to the sea, By mony a flower and spreading tree, There lives a lad, the lad for me, He is a gallant Weaver. O, I had wooers aught or nine, They gied me rings and ribbons fine; And I was fear’d my heart wad tine, […]

Robert Burns – My Bonie Bell Poem The smiling Spring comes in rejoicing, And surly Winter grimly flies; Now crystal clear are the falling waters, And bonie blue are the sunny skies. Fresh o’er the mountains breaks forth the morning, The ev’ning gilds the ocean’s swell; All creatures joy in the sun’s returning, And I […]

‘Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E’e Song Tune— Laddie, lie near me. ‘Twas na her bonie blue e’e was my ruin, Fair tho’ she be, that was ne’er my undoin’; ‘Twas the dear smile when nae body did mind us, ‘Twas the bewitching, sweet, stown glance o’ kindness: ‘Twas the bewitching, sweet, stown glance o’ […]

Open The Door To Me, Oh Poetry Oh, open the door, some pity to shew, Oh, open the door to me, oh, Tho’ thou hast been false, I’ll ever prove true, Oh, open the door to me, oh. Cauld is the blast upon my pale cheek, But caulder thy love for me, oh: The frost […]

Robert Burns Song She’s Fair And Fause She’s fair and fause that causes my smart, I lo’ed her meikle and lang; She’s broken her vow, she’s broken my heart, And I may e’en gae hang. A coof cam in wi’ routh o’ gear, And I hae tint my dearest dear; But Woman is but warld’s […]

Robert Burns Song For A’ That Tune— For a’ that. Tho’ women’s minds, like winter winds, May shift, and turn, an’ a’ that, The noblest breast adores them maist— A consequence I draw that. Chorus For a’ that, an’ a’ that, And twice as meikle’s a’ that; The bonie lass that I loe best She’ll […]