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1 Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 – July 21, 1796) 2 Works 2.1 Sourced 3 Unsourced 4 External links

Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 – July 21, 1796)

Poet Born in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland.

Works

Sourced

• Beauty's of a fading nature--
  Has a season and is gone!
  • Will Ye Go and Marry Katie?

• Liberty ’s in every blow!--
  Let us do or die.
  • Scots wha hae

• "O wad some power the giftie gie us--
  To see oursels as others see us."
  • To a Louse
• "Some books are lies frae end to end."
  • Death and Dr. Hornbook

• "The best laid schemes o’ mice and men--
  Gang aft a-gley;--
  And leave us naught but grief and pain--
  For promised joy."
  • To a Mouse

• "Man’s inhumanity to man--
  Makes countless thousands mourn.--
  Man was made to Mourn."
  • Man was made to Mourn

• ”An honest man ’s the noblest work of God.”
  • The Cotter’s Saturday Night

• "If naebody care for me,--
  I ’ll care for naebody."
  • I hae a Wife o’ my Ain

• "Should auld acquaintance be forgot,--
  And never brought to mind?--
  

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,--
And days o’ lang syne?"

• • Auld Lang Syne

• Oh, my luve’s like a red, red rose,,--
  That’s newly sprung in June;--
  Oh, my luve’s like the melodie--
  That’s sweetly played in tune.
  • A Red, Red Rose

• Nae man can tether time or tide.
  • Tam o’ Shanter

• The rank is but the guinea’s stamp,--
  The man ’s the gowd for a’ that.--
  For a’ that an a’ that.
  • A man's a man for a' that

• "A prince can make 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 an a’ that."

• • A man's a man for a' that

Unsourced

• "Suspense is worse than disappointment."

• "While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention."

External links