Burns

Famous quotes containing the word burns:

    “Think, when your castigated pulse
    Gies now and then a wallop,
    What ragings must his veins convulse,
    That still eternal gallop:”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow’r,
    Thou’s met me in an evil hour;
    For I maun crush amang the stoure
    Thy slender stem:
    To spare thee now is past my pow’r,
    Thou bonnie gem.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “What’s done we partly may compute,
    But know not what’s resisted.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)