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Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear. - Elegy on Capt. Matthew Henderson [Cowslips] Mourn, little harebells, o'er the lea; Ye stately foxgloves fair to see! Ye woodbines, hanging bonnilie In scented bowers! Ye roses on your thorny tree The first o' flow'rs. - Elegy on Capt. Matthew Henderson [Flowers] In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep. - Epistle from Esopus to Maria, in Chambers' "Burns' Life and Work", vol. IV, p. 54 [Prison] An' Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended! - Epistle to a Young Friend [Atheism : Religion] And may you better reck the rede, Than ever did th' adviser. - Epistle to a Young Friend [Advice] I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing: But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling! - Epistle to a Young Friend [Sin] Perhaps it may turn out a sand, Perhaps turn out a sermon. - Epistle to a Young Friend [Chance] The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip To laud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honor grip, Let that aye be your border. - Epistle to a Young Friend [Fear] To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life. - Epistle to Dr. Blacklock [Home] What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools. - Epistle to J.L. -----k [Teaching] O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like schoolboys, at the expected warning, To joy and play. - Epistle to James Smith [Life] G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be, Just for a screen. - Epistle to Rev. John M'Math (st. 8) [Religion] Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise. - Flow Gently, Sweet Afton [Afton River : Rivers] A man's a man for a' that! - For A' That and A' That [Man] A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that. - For A' That and A' That [Man] The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. - For A' That and A' That [Man] Life is but a day at most. - Friars' Carse Hermitage [Life] Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O: Her 'prentice hand she tried on man, An' then she made the lasses, O. - Green Grow the Rashes [Women] The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O. - Green Grow the Rashes [Love] Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart. - Henpecked Husband [Wives] It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true, It's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue! - Here's a Health to Them that's Awa' [Scotland] But, oh! fell Death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early. - Highland Mary [Death] The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. - Highland Mary [Love] Hear how he clears the points o' Faith Wi' rattling an' thumpin'! Now meekly calm, now wild in wrath, He's stampin', and he's jumpin'! - Holy Fair (st. 13) [Preaching] Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! - In Eutropium (II, 149) [Affliction] Displaying page 4 of 7 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7
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