Burns

Famous quotes containing the word burns:

    “O my luve’s like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June;
    O my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly play’d in tune.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “Ev’n thou who mourn’st the Daisy’s fate,
    That fate is thine—no distant date;
    Stern Ruin’s ploughshare drives , elate,
    Full on thy bloom,
    Till crush’d beneath the furrow’s weight,
    Shall be thy doom.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “Now wae to thee, thou cruel lord,
    A bluidy man I trow thou be;
    For mony a heart thou hast made sair
    That ne’er did wrong to thine or thee.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)