Robert Burns: Hour

Robert Burns was Scottish poet and lyricist. Explore interesting quotes on hour.

Robert Burns: 228 quotes13 likes

“Wee, modest, crimson-tippèd flow'r,
Thou's met me in an evil hour;
For I maun crush amang the stoure
Thy slender stem:
To spare thee now is past my pow'r,
Thou bonie gem.”

Robert Burns To a Mountain Daisy

To a Mountain Daisy, st. 1 (1786)

“Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled,
Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,
Welcome to your gory bed
Or to Victorie!

Now's the day, and now's the hour;
See the front o' battle lour!
See approach proud Edward's power—
Chains and slaverie!”

Robert Burns Scots Wha Hae

Scots Wha Hae, st. 1, 2 (1794)

“O Mary, at thy window be!
It is the wished, the trysted hour.”

Robert Burns Mary Morison

Mary Morison, st. 1 (1793)

“Some wee short hours ayont the twal.”

Death and Dr. Hornbook.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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

Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter

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

“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)

“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.”

Robert Burns Highland Mary

Highland Mary, st. 2 (1792)