Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
ROBERT BURNSFarewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
ROBERT BURNSGod help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow’s head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
ROBERT BURNSA eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
ROBERT BURNSTo make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
ROBERT BURNSO Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
ROBERT BURNSNature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
ROBERT BURNSGie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
ROBERT BURNSHope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
ROBERT BURNSThe best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
ROBERT BURNSAnd like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
ROBERT BURNSBut 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 BURNSGod knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
ROBERT BURNSThere is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
ROBERT BURNSI want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
ROBERT BURNSNow’s the day and now’s the hour.
ROBERT BURNSOr like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
ROBERT BURNS