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
believed
I think that he believed there was some extramarital thing going on.
heartbreak met
Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.
fire learning spark
Gi'e me a spark o' Nature's fire that's a' the learning I desire.
kids park safer skate streets
I think if we had a skate park we'd be a lot more safer then just going out on the streets and skateboarding and it would just keep kids off the streets generally.
brother high knew known met school
My brother knew this young lady. They went to high school together. It's not like they met one another recently. They've known each other for years.
actions affected people taken
The actions that were taken have affected many more people than the two people involved.
gentle greet husband sage wife
Ah, gentle dames! It gars me greet / To think how mony counsels sweet, / How mony lengthen'd sage advices, / The husband frae the wife despises!
time hours
Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
weed dark years
Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?
life forever and-love
To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
atheist laughing deities
The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature; But still the preaching cant forbear, And ev'n the rigid feature: Yet ne'er with wits profane to range Be complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchange For deity offended.
dream spring ambition
Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.
men church damnation
The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.
life men wisest-man
The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.