A selection of songs and lyrical poems by Robert Burns. Longer poems such as Tam O'Shanter and The Cotter's Saturday Night are also included in their entirety. Lovers of Burn's poetry should find this selection enjoyable. It also provides an introduction for those unfamiliar with his work.

The Poems & Songs of Robert Burns (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)

Literature & Fiction

Burns, Robert

Poetry

HarperCollins, UK

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Robert Burns is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Robert Burns then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

Poems (Gift Classics)

Collins

Features the poetry of the national poet of Scotland, including "Tom O'Shanter", "To a Mouse", and "Auld Lang Syne". The anthology also includes an introduction to and brief chronology of Burns's life and text notes explaining his dialect.

Burns Anthology (Collins Gems)

Collins Celtic

Now available in the "Collins Classics" series, the classic James Barke edition of Burns's poems and songs was first published in 1955. This edition retains James Barke's original introduction and also includes: all of Burns's poems and songs, with a helpful glossary explaining difficult words; a chronology of Burns's life and a bibliography, both revised for this edition; and an introduction by the actor, novelist and critic John Cairney, who devised a one-man show on Robert Burns.

Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (Collins Classics)

Barke, James

Cairney, John

HarperCollins, Publishers

Burns, The Selected poems of Robert

Literary

Penguin Classics

This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns's reputation, as a lyricist and as a much-loved Scottish poet. Placing works in probable order of composition, it includes lyrics to his most well known songs, such as the nostalgic "Auld Lang Syne," the romantic "A Red, Red Rose," and the patriotic "Scots What Hae." As a poet, Burns wrote with deceptive simplicity and imaginative sympathy, and demonstrated enormous range—from comic dramatic monologues such as Holy Willie's Prayer, which mocks hypocrisy, to narratives including the celebrated Tam O' Shanter, about the ghostly visions of a drunk. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)

History & Criticism

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...fairest! Fare-thee-weel, thou best and dearest! Thine be ilka joy and treasure, Peace, enjoyment, love, and pleasure! 20 Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae farewell, alas! for ever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I 'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I 'll wage thee! The Lea-Rig. HEN o'er the hill the eastern star Tells bughtin'-time is near, my jo; And owsen frae the furrow'd field Return sae dowf and weary O; Down by the burn, where scented birks Wi' dew are hangin' clear, my jo, I 'll meet thee on the lea-rig, My ain kind dearie O. In mirkest glen, at midnight hour, I'd rove, and ne'er be eerie O, If thro' that glen I gaed to thee, My ain kind dearie, O; Altho' the night were ne'er sae wild, And I were ne'er sae weary O, I 'll meet thee on the lea-rig, My ain kind dearie O. The hunter lo'es the morning sun, To rouse the mountain deer, my jo; At noon the fisher seeks the glen, Alang the burn to steer, my jo; Gi'e me the hour o' gloamin grey, It maks my heart sae cheery O, To meet thee on the lea-rig, My ain kind dearie O. Highland Mary. "V"E banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery! Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie! There Simmer first unfald her robes, And there the langest tarry; For there I took the last fareweel O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasp'd her to my bosom! The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie: For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi' mony a vow and lock'd embrace Our parting was fu' tender; And, pledging aft to meet again, We tore oursel's asunder; But oh fell Death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early! Now green's...

Burns: Selected Poems (The Penguin Poet Library)

A selection of Robert Burns' poetry dating from 1846.

Selected Poetry (The Penguin Poetry Library)

Penguin Group USA

This edition offers to the student and general reader a complete and authoritative text of all Burns's acknowledged work, and of poems reasonably attributed to him, based on a critical review of all the accessible manuscripts and early printings. The identifiable airs for the songs are included in the 18th-century form, and there is a Glossary, a Chronology, and a Bibliography.

Burns: Complete Poems and Songs

Oxford University Press

The Letters of Robert Burns is a complete revision of the earlier text established by J. De Lancey Ferguson. A number of new letters have been added and completed from manuscripts that have come to light since the Ferguson edition--there are letters to twenty-five new correspondents--and footnotes have been expanded to indicate the source of all Burns's quotations where these can be identified. The endnotes have been expanded to indicate letters to which Burns's are answers as well as answers received by Burns to the letters he sent. An appendix contains Currie's List of Letters to Burns, a document of major importance as it represents a selection of letters that were in the poet's possession at the time of his death.

The Letters of Robert Burns: Volume I: 1780-1789

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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