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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BURNS, ROBERT (1759-1796) Matches Found: 60 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BARD'S EPITAPH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there a whim-inspired fool Last Line: Is wisdom's root. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers A POET'S EPITAPH, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stop, mortal! Here thy brother lies Last Line: Who drew them as they are. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Variant Title(s): Burns Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers A TRIBUTE TO THE GENIUS OF ROBERT BURNS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As in the lone sequestered grove Last Line: The wreath of fame. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets AN INCIDENT IN A RAILROAD CAR, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He spoke of burns: men rude and rough Last Line: Who live and speak for aye. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets AT THE BURNS CENTENNIAL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred years! They're quickly fled Last Line: Makes man of prince and peasant! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets AT THE GRAVE OF BURNS; SEVEN YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shiver, spirit fierce and bold Last Line: By seraphim. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets BURNS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To burns! Brave scotia's laurel'd son Last Line: We toast thy fame from year to year. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets BURNS, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That heaven's beloved die early Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry And Poets BURNS, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild rose of alloway! My thanks Last Line: The name of robert burns? Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets BURNS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eld druid oaks of ayr Last Line: Some weary feet will find repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets BURNS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more these simple flowers belong Last Line: "but spare his ""highland mary!" Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Heather; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers BURNS: AN ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fire of fierce and laughing light Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry And Poets CENTENARY POEM, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He passed, our wonder, our regret Last Line: The poet straight from god. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets CENTENARY POEM, RECITED AT BURNS' CENTENARY FESTIVAL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, bard beloved! As pilgrims to thy shrine Last Line: To fame's bright zenith nearer, higher rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Death; Fame; Honor; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Reputation DEA EX MACHINA, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love is like mies van der rohe's Last Line: Her supple shoulders call Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Mies Van Der Rohe, Ludwig (1886-1969); Poetry & Poets DEA EX MACHINA, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love is like mies van der rohe's Last Line: She simply couldn't be, my love, %a millimeter cuter Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Mies Van Der Rohe, Ludwig (1886-1969); Poetry And Poets ELEGIAC SONNET: 82. TO THE SHADE OF BURNS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mute is thy wild harp, now, o bard sublime Last Line: "enjoys with them ""the liberty it loved." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets FIRST ANNIVERSARY BANQUET OF A NEWLY FORMED BURNS' CLUB IN MANCHESTER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High bard of scotia, brightest son of song Last Line: The day we bless—the natal day of burns. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Clubs (associations); Poetry & Poets FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT, by CHARLES WILLIAM SHIRLEY BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More luck to honest poverty Last Line: The man's an ass for a' that. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooks, Shirley Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes FOR THE BURNS CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His birthday. - nay, we need not speak Last Line: The mountain-mist of glory! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets FOR THE MEETING OF THE BURNS CLUB, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mountains glitter in the snow Last Line: The thames, the clyde, the shannon! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets HAD WE TWO MET, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had we two met, blithe-hearted burns Last Line: Is there a hand-rail to the stairs? Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets JUSTICE TO SCOTLAND; AN UNPUBLISHED POEM BY BURNS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O mickle yeuks the keckle doup Last Line: An' cleek my duds for auld lang syne Subject(s): "burns, Robert (1759-1796);poetry & Poets; KEATS IN BURNS COUNTRY, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't so much that burns, like the best Subject(s): Keats, John (1795*1821); Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Scotland LINES WRITTEN IN HIGHLANDS AFTER A VISIT TO BURNS'S COUNTRY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a charm in footing slow across a silent plain Last Line: And keep his vision clear from speck, his inward sight unblind. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Scotland LOCALITIES OF BURNS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the bright crescent gleam'd o'er hill and dale Last Line: As though she look'd to be miscounted still. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets ODE TO THE MEMORY OF BURNS, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soul of the poet! Wheresoe'er Last Line: To bless the spot that holds thy dust. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets ON BURNS, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In whomsoever since poesy began Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry And Poets ON BURNS AND RAMSAY, by ISOBEL (ISABEL) PAGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now burns and ramsay both are dead Last Line: My meter is of diff'rent kinds. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758) ON ROBERT BURNS, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He pass'd thro' life's tempestuous night Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry And Poets ON VISITING THE TOMB OF BURNS, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The town, the churchyard, and the setting sun Last Line: Thy face; I sin against thy native skies. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets PROPOSAL TO ROBERT BURNS, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Let's make a wedding time won't hook Last Line: You won't be asked to share your name Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights RIDIG BODY SINGS, by JAMES CLERK-MAXWELL Poem Text First Line: Gin a body meet a body Last Line: But what the waur am I? Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets RIGID BODY SINGS, by JAMES CLERK MAXWELL Poem Text First Line: Gin a body meet a body / flyin' through the air Last Line: But what the waur am I? Variant Title(s): In Memory Of Edward Wilson Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets ROBERT BURNS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1567-1640) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All scottish legends did his fancy fashion Last Line: Driving his laurell'd plough! Alternate Author Name(s): Stirling, 1st Earl Of Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets ROBERT BURNS, by MILES MENANDER DAWSON Poem Source First Line: He was the people's poet, he was of them Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry And Poets ROBERT BURNS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal robert burns of ayr Last Line: And also an honour to scotland, for your genius it is rare. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets ROBERT BURNS, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What bird in beauty, flight, or song Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry And Poets ROBERT BURNS, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Large hearted minstrel! From the sphere Last Line: That nestle warmly in each heart! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Honor; Poetry & Poets ROBERT BURNS, by WILSON STEWART ROSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All hail, o nithsdale's furrow'd field, a marathon art thou Last Line: O grandest city of the world, for you have burns's grave! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets ROBERT BURNS AND MISTER PIERPONT MORGAN, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, heard ye, brither scots, the 'clash' Last Line: Where his lone heart is sleeping! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Manuscripts; Morgan, John Pierpont (1837-1913); Paper; Poetry & Poets; Printing And Printers ROBERT BURNS; WRITTEN FOR THE BURNS CENTENNIAL, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the frost had killed the daisies Last Line: And the wide world's love has crowned him! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Praise; Scotland SONNET (WRITTEN IN THE COTTAGE WHERE BURNS WAS BORN), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This mortal body of a thousand days Last Line: O smile among the shades, for this is fame! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets SONNET ON READING THE POEM UPON THE MOUNTAIN DAISY, BY BURNS, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While soon the 'gardens' flaunting flowers' decay' Last Line: His heaven-taught numbers fate herself will guard. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Daisies; Flowers; Poetry & Poets THE BURNS FESTIVAL, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stir the beal-fire, wave the banner Last Line: In the wreath of burns's fame! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Festivals; Fire; Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Success; Fairs; Pageants THE HUSBANDMAN OF HEAVEN (LINES WRITTEN NEAR BURIAL-PLACE OF BURNS), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poet, whose very dust, here shed Last Line: Yields to the ploughman of the spheres. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets THE IMPROVISATORE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are the words? Last Line: And that is next to best! Subject(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Dramatists; Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists THE MEMORY OF BURNS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweetly come the holy psalms Last Line: The holly and the pine! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets THE POETS AT TEA: 9. BURNS, WHO LIKED IT ADULTERATED, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weel, gin ye speir, I'm no inclined Last Line: Mix a' thegither. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Tea THE SEVEN STARS: A CONSTELLATION OF SCOTTISH POETS: BURNS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: True child of nature, heir of fame Last Line: A fire unknown to fail or falter. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Scotland THE TOMB OF BURNS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What woos the world to yonder shrine? Last Line: The immortal tide. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Graves; Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones THE TWO BOBBIES, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bobbie burns and bobbie browning Last Line: Bobbie is the boy for me! Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets TO A BULL MOOSE, by EUGENE GLADSTONE O'NEILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Braw, snortin', roarin', fearsome beastie Last Line: The self-same way. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Elections; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Voting; Voters; Suffrage TO LUATH (ROBERT BURNS' DOG), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, luath, man, when you came prancing Last Line: And yours the blame! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Animals; Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Dogs; Poetry & Poets TO RABBIE, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: O rabbie, at her window see Last Line: The stood-up mary morison! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights TO ROBERT BURNS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet singer that I loe the maist Last Line: To see how simple worth may shame %their brightest glent Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry And Poets TO ROBERT BURNS; AN EPISTLE ON INSTINCT, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art a poet, robbie burns Last Line: My friendly sentence. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets TO THE SONS OF BURNS, AFTER VISITING THE GRAVE OF FATHER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid crowded obelisks and urns Last Line: And think, and fear! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets ULTIMA THULE: ROBERT BURNS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see amid the fields of ayr Last Line: Dear guest and ghost! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets WRITTEN IN VISTORS' BOOK AT THE BIRTHPLACE OF ROBERT BURNS, by GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of heavenly stature, but most human smile Last Line: Whose thorns are in his hands. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets |
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