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Category Archives: Poems Memorized
With Rue My Heart is Laden
A.E. Housman With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had For many a rose lipt maiden And many a light foot lad. By brooks too broad for leaping The light-foot boys are laid The rose-lipt girls are … Continue reading
To A Louse – On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet, at Church
Robert Burns Ha! whaur ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie? Your impudence protects you sairly; I canna say but ye strunt rarely, Owre gauze and lace; Tho’, faith! I fear ye dine but sparely On sic a place. Ye ugly, creepin, … Continue reading
Of A’ The Airts
Robert Burns Of a’ the airts the wind can blaw, I dearly like the west, For there the bonie lassie lives, The lassie I lo’e best: There’s wild-woods grow, and rivers row, And mony a hill between: But day and … Continue reading
Loveliest of Trees
A.E. Houseman Loveliest of trees the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bow, And stands along the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now of my threescore years and ten Twenty I’ll not see again And take from … Continue reading
Is There for Honest Poverty (For A’ That and A’ That)
Robert Burns Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, an’ a’ that; The coward slave-we pass him by, We dare be poor for a’ that! For a’ that, an’ a’ that, Our toils obscure an’ a’ that, The … Continue reading
To a Mouse
Robert Burns Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie, O, what a panic’s in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi’ bickering brattle! I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee, Wi’ murd’ring pattle! I’m truly sorry man’s … Continue reading
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Address to a Haggis
Robert Burns (This poem is recited to the haggis after it has been brought to the head table of the Burns Supper in a noble procession including a piper, someone carrying the “groaning trencher” laden with the haggis, and others carrying bottles … Continue reading
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Auld Lang Syne I (Burns’ Complete Text)
Robert Burns (word meanings below) Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne? CHORUS: For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We’ll tak a cup of … Continue reading
The Selkirk Grace
By Robert Burns Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, Sae let the Lord be thankit. (This is the prayer traditionally prayed at Burns Suppers.)
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