But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
ROBERT BURNSPleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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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.
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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.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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