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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ROBERT BURNS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1567-1640) Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All scottish legends did his fancy fashion Last Line: Driving his laurell'd plough! Alternate Author Name(s): Stirling, 1st Earl Of Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets | |||
ALL Scottish legends did his fancy fashion, All airs that richly flow, Laughing with frolic, tremulous with passion, Broken with love-lorn woe; Ballads whose beauties years have long been stealing And left few links of gold, Under his quaint and subtle touch of healing Grew fairer, not less old. Grey Cluden, and the vestal's choral cadence, His spell awoke therewith; Till boatmen hung their oars to hear the maidens Upon the banks of Nith. His, too, the strains of battle nobly coming From Bruce, or Wallace wight, Such as the Highlander shall oft be humming Before some famous fight. Nor only these -- for him the hawthorn hoary Was with new wreaths enwrought, The 'crimson-tipped daisy' wore fresh glory, Born of poetic thought. From the 'wee cow'ring beastie' he could borrow A moral strain sublime, A noble tenderness of human sorrow, In wondrous wealth of rhyme. Oh, but the mountain breeze must have been pleasant Upon the sunburnt brow Of that poetic and triumphant peasant Driving his laurell'd plough! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB AURORA by WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1567-1640) DOOMSDAY: TREASURES IN HEAVEN by WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1567-1640) |
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