"Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them. His poem (and song) ""Auld Lang Syne"" is often sung at Hogmanay (the last day of the year), and ""Scots Wha Hae"" served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country. Other poems and songs of Burns that remain well known across the world today include ""A Red, Red Rose"", ""A Man's a Man for A' That"", ""To a Louse"", ""To a Mouse"", ""The Battle of Sherramuir"", ""Tam o' Shanter"" and ""Ae Fond Kiss"". Burns was born two miles (3 km) south of"
"Comin' Thro' the Rye ""Comin' Thro' the Rye"" is a poem written in 1782 by Robert Burns (1759–96). The words are put to the melody of the Scottish Minstrel ""Common' Frae The Town"". This is a variant of the tune to which ""Auld Lang Syne"" is usually sung—the melodic shape is almost identical, the difference lying in the tempo and rhythm. G. W. Napier, in an 1876 ""Notes and Queries"", wrote that, The protagonist, ""Jenny"", is not further identified, but there has been reference to a ""Jenny from Dalry"" and a longstanding legend in the Drakemyre suburb of the town"
"is Los Angeles' oldest restaurant operated by the same family in the same location. It was Walt Disney's favorite restaurant. ""The Number of the Beast"" by Iron Maiden is loosely based on the poem. Citations Bibliography Tam o' Shanter (poem) ""Tam o' Shanter"" is a narrative poem written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1790, while living in Dumfries. First published in 1791, it is one of Burns' longer poems, and employs a mixture of Scots and English. The poem describes the habits of Tam, a farmer who often gets drunk with his friends in a public house in"
"specimen is a mystery. In a similar way from ""To a Mouse"", Burns compares the daisy's fate to that of humankind, first, in verse six, to a young girl taken in by her lover and then, in verse seven, to himself. The final stanza is in some ways reminiscent of Andrew Marvell's poem ""To His Coy Mistress"": But at my back I always hear<br> Time's wingèd chariot drawing near; To a Mountain Daisy ""To a Mountain Daisy"" is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1786. It was included in the Kilmarnock volume of Burns's poems, published in that"
"To a Louse ""To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet at Church"" is a 1786 Scots language poem by Robert Burns in his favourite meter, standard Habbie. The poem's theme is contained in the final verse: In this poem the narrator notices a lady in church, with a louse that is roving, unnoticed by her, around in her bonnet. The poet chastises the louse for not realising how important his host is, and then reflects that, to a louse, we are all equal prey, and that we would be disabused of our pretensions if we were to"
"Cock Up Your Beaver Cock Up Your Beaver is a song and poem by Robert Burns, written in 1792. It is written in Scottish dialect and the beaver refers to a kind of hat. It was based on an older song, published as ""Johnny, cock up thy Beaver"". It is widely claimed that this is found in The Dancing Master, a collection of folk tunes published by John Playford of London in 1657. However, this is disputed by Scottish music scholar John Glen who states it first appears in the 1686 edition of ""The Dancing Master"". It was originally published"
"The ewe is bleating after her lamb, The cow is lowing after her calf; The bullock is prancing, The billy-goat farting, Sing merrily, cuckoo! Cuckoo, cuckoo, You sing well, cuckoo, Never stop now. Sing, cuckoo, now; sing, cuckoo; Sing, cuckoo; sing, cuckoo, now! </poem> The translation of ""bucke uerteþ"" is uncertain. Some translate the former word as ""buck-goat"" and the latter as ""turns"" or ""cavorts,"" but the current critical consensus is that the line is the stag or goat ""farts"" (; ). Beneath the Middle English lyrics in the manuscript , there is also a set of Latin lyrics which"
"besmirched by duty, or any other thorn the rose may bear. The Lilly The Lilly is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794. The modest Rose puts forth a thorn, The humble sheep a threat’ning horn: While the Lily white shall in love delight, Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright. The Rose, which is a symbol of love and beauty, puts forth a flaw or a thorn. The humble sheep also calls to attention its horn or flaw. The Lilly, however,"
"in the 18th-century, with many philosophers and writers, including Godwin, William Shield, and others, releasing their horses and mules to walk alongside them. A direct literary connection is to William Crowe's ""To an Ass"" (1793) and the poem incorporates a quote from William Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"". The idea of connecting with a lowly form of animal also appears in many literary works, including Robert Burns poems (example – ""To a Mouse""), Southey's poems (example – ""To a Spider""), the works of Laurence Sterne (both ""Tristram Shandy"" and ""A Sentimental Journey"") and Cervantes's ""Don Quixote"". Richard Holmes, Coleridge's 20th-century biographer, points out"
"To a Mouse ""To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785"" is a Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1785, and was included in the Kilmarnock volume. According to legend, Burns was ploughing in the fields and accidentally destroyed a mouse's nest, which it needed to survive the winter. In fact, Burns's brother claimed that the poet composed the poem while still holding his plough. John Steinbeck took the title of his 1937 novel ""Of Mice and Men"" from a line contained in the penultimate stanza: ""The best laid schemes o' mice"
"the final scene. ""Typhoon"" by Joseph Conrad has a nameless boatswain who tells Captain MacWhirr of a ""lump"" of men going overboard during the peak of the storm. Also, the character Bill Bobstay in Gilbert and Sullivan's musical comedy ""H.M.S. Pinafore"" is alternatively referred to as a ""bos'un"" and a ""boatswain's mate."" Another boatswain from literature is Smee from ""Peter Pan"". Lord Byron had a Newfoundland dog named Boatswain. Byron wrote the famous poem ""Epitaph to a Dog"" and had a monument made for him at Newstead Abbey. Quartermaster is the highest rank in the Sea Scouts, BSA, an older"
"the claim recorded in the heritage plaque above, Burns' poem is based on an earlier poem of the same title and metre: John Anderson, my jo, John I wonder what you mean To lie sae lang in the morning And sit sae late at e'en ... The earlier version was extant c.1744, and is a mildly bawdy ballad in which the wife berates John for his waning performance in bed, recalls his former ardour, and threatens him with the cuckold's horns if he doesn't deliver: ... But 'tis a mickle finer thing To see your hurdies fyke To see your"
"Clancy's President Jack Ryan quotes Burns' famous line, ""The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley"" in the 2013 novel ""Command Authority"". The ""Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D."" season 5 episode 9 ""Best Laid Plans"" takes its name from this poem. To a Mouse ""To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785"" is a Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1785, and was included in the Kilmarnock volume. According to legend, Burns was ploughing in the fields and accidentally destroyed a mouse's nest, which it needed to survive the winter. In"
"they managed to ""hough the Clans like nine-pin kyles"". The other shepherd is just as convinced that the Jacobites ""did pursue / The horsemen back to Forth, man"" with the eventual result that ""...mony a huntit, poor Red-coat / For fear amaist did swarf, man."" Dissatisfied with the first published version of the poem, Burns re-wrote it sometime after 1790. The revised version was published after Burns' death by his editor, James Currie MD in ""The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns: With Explanatory and Glossarial Notes; And a Life of the Author"" (1800). Battle of Sheriffmuir The Battle of"
"Epitaph to a Dog ""Epitaph to a Dog"" (also sometimes referred to as ""Inscription on the Monument to a Newfoundland Dog"") is a poem by the British poet Lord Byron. It was written in 1808 in honour of his Newfoundland dog, Boatswain, who had just died of rabies. When Boatswain contracted the disease, Byron reportedly nursed him without any fear of becoming bitten and infected. The poem is inscribed on Boatswain's tomb, which is larger than Byron's, at Newstead Abbey, Byron's estate. The sections above the poem form a memorial eulogy to Boatswain, and introduce the poem. They are often"
"Robert Burns, who died at the age of 37 after an extended illness. The poem concludes in stanzas VIII–XX with Wordsworth meeting an old, poor leech-gatherer who endures the hardships of his life with patience and acceptance. The poet recovers from his dejection, and views the man as having been sent ""To give me human strength, by apt admonishment"". The poem is based on Wordsworth’s actual encounter with a leech-gatherer on 3 October 1800, near his home at Dove Cottage in Grasmere. However, the poem was not written until May 1802, when Wordsworth experienced the ""despondency"" described in the poem"
"Sockburn Worm In the folklore of Northumbria, the Sockburn Worm was a ferocious wyvern that laid waste to the village of Sockburn in Durham. It was said that the beast was finally slain by John Conyers. The tale is said by many to be the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's poem ""Jabberwocky"" which he wrote while in Croft-on-Tees and Whitburn. Each newly consecrated Bishop-Prince of Durham, while entering the Bishopric for the first time at the local Ford or over the bridge over the River Tees at Croft-on-Tees, was presented with the falchion that John Conyers used on the worm. The"
"wind. The ship was named after Cutty-sark, the nickname of the witch Nannie Dee in Robert Burns's 1791 poem ""Tam o' Shanter"". The ship's figurehead, the original of which has been attributed to carver Fredrick Hellyer of Blackwall, is a stark white carving of a bare-breasted Nannie Dee with long black hair holding a grey horse's tail in her hand. In the poem she wore a linen (Scots: a short chemise or undergarment), that she had been given as a child, which explains why it was ""cutty"", or in other words far too short. The erotic sight of her dancing"
"Ca' the yowes ""Ca' the yowes to the knowes"" (""Drive the ewes to the hills"") is a Scottish folk song collected by Robert Burns from 1794. Although sometimes attributed to Burns himself, the seven-stanza original poem is thought to be the work of Ayrshire poet Isabel Pagan, a contemporary of Burns. The poem was partially revised by Burns, and he added an eighth stanza. Burns later re-wrote the poem on a solitary stroll in the country, and this second version consists of six stanzas. It is possible that Burns was not aware that Pagan was the original author, only noting"
"""Tam O'Shanter"" (1790). Robert Burns Memorial, Stanley Park The Robert Burns Memorial is an outdoor memorial and statue of Scottish poet Robert Burns, located in Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was dedicated on 25 August 1928, becoming the first statue erected in Vancouver. Located at the southern approach to the park near Coal Harbour, upon a tall light-coloured stone plinth, a standing Robert Burns facing the south towards the southern entrance. A plaque appears on the front with his name, followed clockwise of reliefs of scenes from his poems, ""To a mountain daisy"" (1786), ""The cotter's Friday"
"Salinger comes from the poem's name. Holden Caulfield, the protagonist, misinterprets a part of this poem to mean ""if a body catch a body"" rather than ""if a body meet a body."" He keeps picturing children playing in a field of rye near the edge of a cliff, and him catching them when they start to fall off. Comin' Thro' the Rye ""Comin' Thro' the Rye"" is a poem written in 1782 by Robert Burns (1759–96). The words are put to the melody of the Scottish Minstrel ""Common' Frae The Town"". This is a variant of the tune to which"
"'Love-begotten Daughter' or alternatively 'his bastard wean' we find : No poems seem to have been inspired directly by Elizabeth Paton, but she may have been in the poet's mind when he wrote """"The Rantin' Dog."""" A few lines in Burns's first Commonplace Book dated September 1784 relate to her. In 1784, in the song """"O Tibbie, I hae seen the day"""", which were addressed to Isabella Steven, the daughter of a Tarbolton farmer, Burns addresses her with: In this piece the poet may have been referring to Elizabeth as the """"lass beside yon park"""" although he never confirms this."
"his unfinished long poem, ""Auld Reekie"" (1773), dedicated to the life of the city. His borrowing from a variety of dialects prefigured the creation of Synthetic Scots in the twentieth century and he would be a major influence on Robert Burns. Burns (1759–1796), an Ayrshire poet and lyricist, is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and a major figure in the Romantic movement. As well as making original compositions, Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them. His poem (and song) ""Auld Lang Syne"" is often sung at Hogmanay (the last day of"
"of one Who possessed Beauty Without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferosity, And all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning flattery If inscribed over Human Ashes, Is but a just tribute to the Memory of ""Boatswain,"" a Dog Who was born at Newfoundland, May, 1803, And died at Newstead Abbey<br> Nov. 18, 1808. Byron had wanted to be buried with Boatswain, although he would ultimately be buried in the family vault at the nearby church in Hucknall. He was determined to stay at Newstead—""Newstead and I stand or fall together""—and he hoped"
"Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect commonly known as the Kilmarnock volume or Kilmarnock edition, is a collection of poetry by Robert Burns, first printed and issued by John Wilson of Kilmarnock on 31 July 1786. It was the first published edition of Burns' work. It cost 3 shillings and 612 copies were printed. The volume was dedicated to Gavin Hamilton. The Kilmarnock volume contained, besides satire, a number of poems like ""Halloween"" (written in 1785), ""The Twa Dogs"" and ""The Cotter's Saturday Night,"" which are vividly descriptive of the Scots peasant life with"
"protect the bodies of the martyrs from all the other carrion beasts."" Notes Bibliography Beasts of battle The Beasts of battle is a poetic trope in Old English and Old Norse literature. It consists of the wolf, the raven, and the eagle, traditional animals accompanying the warriors to feast on the bodies of the slain. It occurs in eight Old English poems and in the Old Norse Poetic Edda. The term originates with Francis Peabody Magoun, who first used it in 1955, although the combination of the three animals was first considered a theme by Maurice Bowra, in 1952. The"
"Tam o' Shanter (poem) ""Tam o' Shanter"" is a narrative poem written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1790, while living in Dumfries. First published in 1791, it is one of Burns' longer poems, and employs a mixture of Scots and English. The poem describes the habits of Tam, a farmer who often gets drunk with his friends in a public house in the Scottish town of Ayr, and his thoughtless ways, specifically towards his wife, who is waiting at home for him, angry. At the conclusion of one such late-night revel after a market day, Tam rides home"
"The Lilly The Lilly is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794. The modest Rose puts forth a thorn, The humble sheep a threat’ning horn: While the Lily white shall in love delight, Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright. The Rose, which is a symbol of love and beauty, puts forth a flaw or a thorn. The humble sheep also calls to attention its horn or flaw. The Lilly, however, which is pure and white, enjoys love and has no thorn"
"see ourselves through each other's eyes. An alternative interpretation is that the poet is musing to himself how horrified and humbled the pious woman would be if she were aware she was harbouring a common parasite in her hair. To a Louse ""To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet at Church"" is a 1786 Scots language poem by Robert Burns in his favourite meter, standard Habbie. The poem's theme is contained in the final verse: In this poem the narrator notices a lady in church, with a louse that is roving, unnoticed by her, around in her"
"for shame. Ye, who behold perchance this simple urn, Pass on – it honours none you wish to mourn. To mark a friend’s remains these stones arise; I never knew but one -- and here he lies. </poem> Epitaph to a Dog ""Epitaph to a Dog"" (also sometimes referred to as ""Inscription on the Monument to a Newfoundland Dog"") is a poem by the British poet Lord Byron. It was written in 1808 in honour of his Newfoundland dog, Boatswain, who had just died of rabies. When Boatswain contracted the disease, Byron reportedly nursed him without any fear of becoming"
"The woodlark is commemorated in the works of two major poets. ""The Woodlark"", written by Gerard Manley Hopkins, departs from the standard tradition of British nature poetry by trying to transliterate the bird's song into made-up words. The Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote of the bird's ""melting art"" in his poem ""To the Woodlark"". As there are currently no woodlarks in Scotland, and Burns never travelled south of Carlisle, many have speculated that Burns never came in contact with the bird and was in fact writing about the tree pipit, which was commonly referred to as the woodlark in Scotland."
"Wirry-cow In Scotland, a wirry-cow was a bugbear, goblin, ghost, ghoul or other frightful object. Sometimes the term was used for the Devil or a scarecrow. The word was used by Sir Walter Scott in his novel ""Guy Mannering"". The word is derived by John Jamieson from ""worry"" (Modern Scots ""wirry""), in its old sense of harassment in both English and Lowland Scots, from Old English ""wyrgan"" cognate with Dutch ""wurgen"" and German ""würgen""; and ""cowe"", a hobgoblin, an object of terror. ""Wirry"" appears in several other compound words such as ""wirry hen"", a ruffianly character, a rogue; ""wirry-boggle"", a"
"Robert Burns Robert Burns (25 January 175921 July 1796), also known as Rabbie Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire, Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and 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 writings his political or civil commentary is often at its"