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“O whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad:
Tho' father and mither and a' should gae mad.”

Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad, chorus (1793)

“The voice of Nature loudly cries,
And many a message from the skies,
That something in us never dies.”

New Year's Day, st. 3 (1790)

“O Life! how pleasant is thy morning,
Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning!
Cold-pausing Caution's lesson scorning,
We frisk away,
Like schoolboys at th' expected warning,
To joy and play.”

Robert Burns

Epistle to James Smith.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“To make a happy fireside clime
To weans and wife,—
That is the true pathos and sublime
Of human life.”

Robert Burns

Epistle to Dr. Blacklock.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The landlady and Tam grew gracious
Wi' favours secret, sweet, and precious.”

Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter

Source: Tam o' Shanter (1790), Line 47

“Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears
Her noblest work she classes, O:
Her prentice han' she tried on man,
An' then she made the lasses, O.”

Robert Burns Green Grow the Rashes

Green Grow the Rashes, O, st. 5 (1787)

“Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae farewell, alas, forever!”

Robert Burns Ae fond kiss, and then we sever...

Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever, st. 1
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)

“Oh, my Luve is like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June.
O, my Luve is like the melodie,
That's sweetly played in tune.”

Robert Burns

A Red, Red Rose, st. 1
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)

“When Nature her great masterpiece designed,
And framed her last, best work, the human mind,
Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,
She formed of various stuff the various Man.”

Robert Burns

To Robert Graham, st. 1 (1791)

“That hour, o' night's black arch the keystane.”

Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter

Source: Tam o' Shanter (1790), Line 69

“On ev'ry hand it will allowed be,
He's just—nae better than he should be.”

Robert Burns

A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton (1786)

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

Robert Burns

Stanza 6
Epistle to a Young Friend (1786)

“I'm truly sorry man's dominion
Has broken Nature's social union.”

Robert Burns To a Mouse

To a Mouse, st. 2 (1785)

“And like a passing thought, she fled
In light away.”

Robert Burns

The Vision.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“O life! thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To wretches such as I!”

Robert Burns

Despondency.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“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

Ode on Mrs. Oswald.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Green grow the rashes, O;
Green grow the rashes, O;
The sweetest hours that e'er I spend
Are spent among the lasses, O.”

Robert Burns Green Grow the Rashes

Green Grow the Rashes, O, chorus (1787)

“There's nought but care on ev'ry han',
In every hour that passes, O:
What signifies the life o' man,
An' then she made the lasses, O.”

Robert Burns Green Grow the Rashes

Green Grow the Rashes, O, st. 1 (1787)

“John Barleycorn got up again,
And sore surprised them all.”

Robert Burns John Barleycorn

John Barleycorn, st. 3 (1787)

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

Robert Burns

I Hae a Wife o' my Ain (1788)