Top 25 Quotes by Robert Burns of 184 - Page 7

Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns

Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns

Nursing, Wrath, Sulky

Robert Burns, “Tam O' Shanter”

Humid seal of soft affections, Tend'rest pledge of future bliss, Dearest tie of young connections, Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

Robert Burns

Kissing, Ties, Snow

Robert Burns (1859). “The poetical works and letters of Robert Burns”, p.186

A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.

Robert Burns

Men, Knights, Might

Robert Burns, James Currie (1844). “The Works of Robert Burns: With Dr. Currie's Memoir of the Poet, and an Essay on His Genius and Character”, p.134

Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom!

Robert Burns

Fate, Weight, Ruins

Robert Burns (1859). “The poetical works and letters of Robert Burns”, p.79

Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.

Robert Burns

Summer, Play, Crystals

Robert Burns, P. A. N., Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. New Edition. With Numerous Additions. [The Preface Signed: P. A. N.]”, p.169

[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.

Robert Burns

Song, Scottish, Modern

Great for good, or great for evil.

Robert Burns

Evil, Frailty

If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.

Robert Burns

Care, Ifs

Robert Burns, P. A. N., Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. New Edition. With Numerous Additions. [The Preface Signed: P. A. N.]”, p.152

I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!

Robert Burns

Feelings, Hazards, Sin

'Epistle to a Young Friend' (1786) st. 6

I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care for nae-body.

Robert Burns

Contentment, Body, Care

Robert Burns, James Currie (1848). “The Complete Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.78

When chill November's surly blast Made fields and forests bare.

Robert Burns

Fields, Forests, November

The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play.

Robert Burns

Lakes, Jumping, Sea

Robert Burns (1868). “Poems, Songs, and Letters: Being the Complete Works of Robert Burns”, p.98

'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy!

Robert Burns

World, Thee

Robert Burns (1852). “The life and works of Robert Burns”, p.193

Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?

Robert Burns

Weed, Dark, Years

Robert Burns, James Currie, Gilbert Burns (1820). “The Works of Robert Burns;: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of His Writings, : to which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.265

The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name!

Robert Burns

Wise, Learning, Flames

Robert Burns (1859). “The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Songs and Correspondence”, p.132

Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the chrystal streamlets plays; Come let us spend the lightsome days In the birks of Aberfeldy.

Robert Burns

Summer, Play, Blink

Robert Burns, Robert P. Irvine (2013). “Selected Poems and Songs”, p.145, Oxford University Press

An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended!

Robert Burns

Atheist, Laughter, Laughing

'Epistle to a Young Friend' (1786) st. 9

Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.

Robert Burns

Song, Sweet, Rivers

'Afton Water' (1792)

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Robert Burns

Society, Morality, Bane

Robert Burns (1859). “The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Songs and Correspondence”, p.124

Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining.

Robert Burns

Sweet, Larks, Complaining

Robert Burns (2010). “The Canongate Burns”, p.860, Canongate Books

In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

Robert Burns

Sorrow, Prison, Couches

Robert Burns, Robert Chambers (1838). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. To which are Now Added, Notes Illustrating Historical, Personal, and Local Allusions. [The Editor's Preface Signed: R. C., I.e. Robert Chambers.]”, p.88

Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.

Robert Burns

Dream, Spring, Ambition

Robert Burns (1901). “The Poetry of Robert Burns: Posthumous pieces”

Never generally means "at no point in time." The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not ever going to happen. Sourced

Robert Burns

Mean, Term, Happens