Robert Burns

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January 25, 1759 in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland, The United Kingdom

died

July 21, 1796

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male

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Poetry

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Robert Burns (also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as simply The Bard) was a Scottish poet and a 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 these pieces, his political or civil commentary is often at its most blunt.

He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement and after his death became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism. A cultural ic...more

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Average rating: 4.04 · 1,924 ratings · 169 reviews · 330 distinct works

	Poems and Songs by Robert Burns, Stanley Appelbaum (Editor), Dover Thrift Editions 3.87 avg rating — 301 ratings — published 1971 — 19 editions	My rating:
	The Works of Robert Burns 4.13 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 1884 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Robert Burns 4.04 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Selected Poems by Robert Burns, Carol McGuirk (Introduction) 3.97 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1994 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Poems by Robert Burns, Gerard Carruthers (Editor) 3.76 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1930 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Tam O'Shanter 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings — 20 editions	My rating:
	The Poetical Works of Burns by Robert Burns, Raymond Bentman 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1885 — 24 editions	My rating:
	A Night Out with Robert Burns: The Greatest Poems by Robert Burns, Andrew O'Hagan 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Poems, Chiefly In The Scottish Dialect 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	My rating:

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“My love is like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June:
My love is like the melody
That's sweetly played in tune.

How fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in love am I;
And I will love thee still, my dear,
Till all the seas gang dry.

Till all the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt with the sun;
I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands of life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only love.
And fare thee weel awhile!
And I will come again, my love,
Though it were ten thousand mile.”
― Robert Burns

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“But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love forever.”
― Robert Burns

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“But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love forever.
Had we never lou'd sae kindly,
Had we never lou'd sae blindly,
Never met - or never parted -
We had ne'er been broken hearted”
― Robert Burns, Robert Burns

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