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Robert Burns: Citations en anglais
“Now a' is done that men can do,
And a' is done in vain.”
It Was A' for Our Rightfu' King, st. 2
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
A Man's A Man For A' That, st. 3-5 (1795)
“Stern Ruin's plowshare drives elate,
Full on thy bloom.”
Robert Burns
To a Mountain Daisy
To a Mountain Daisy, st. 9 (1786)
“In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.”
Epistle from Esopus to Maria
Posthumous Pieces (1799)
“Perhaps it may turn out a sang,
Perhaps turn out a sermon.”
Stanza 1
Epistle to a Young Friend (1786)
“He wales a portion with judicious care;
And "Let us worship God" he says, with solemn air.”
Robert Burns
The Cotter's Saturday Night
Stanza 12
The Cotter's Saturday Night (1786)
“God knows, I'm no the thing I should be,
Nor am I even the thing I could be.”
To The Reverend John M'Math, st. 8
Posthumous Pieces (1799)
On the Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland, st. 1 (1793)
The Banks o' Doon, st. 1
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
“Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.”
Robert Burns
The Cotter's Saturday Night
Stanza 9
The Cotter's Saturday Night (1786)
Robert Burns
Handsome Nell
Handsome Nell (1773) (also known as "My Handsome Nell"), st. 6.
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
The Jolly Beggars, chorus
Posthumous Pieces (1799)
“The white moon is setting behind the white wave,
And Time is setting with me, O!”
Misquotation by W. B. Yeats of Burns's "Open the Door to me, Oh" http://www.robertburns.org/works/397.shtml (1793) in Ideas of good and evil (1907), p. 241; the original reads: "The wan Moon is setting beyond the white wave,/ And Time is setting with me, oh!"
Misattributed
“O Mary, at thy window be!
It is the wished, the trysted hour.”
Robert Burns
Mary Morison
Mary Morison, st. 1 (1793)
Here's a Health to Them That's Awa, st. 1
Posthumous Pieces (1799)
“This day, Time winds th' exhausted chain,
To run the twelvemonth's length again.”
New Year's Day, st. 1 (1790)
“And may you better reck the rede,
Than ever did the adviser!”
Stanza 11.
Epistle to a Young Friend (1786)
Address to the Unco Guid, st. 7 (1787)
“Perhaps Dundee's wild-warbling measures rise,
Or plaintive Martyrs, worthy of the name.”
Robert Burns
The Cotter's Saturday Night
Stanza 13
The Cotter's Saturday Night (1786)
“Some wee short hours ayont the twal.”
Death and Dr. Hornbook.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Affliction's sons are brothers in distress;
A brother to relieve,—how exquisite the bliss!”
A Winter Night.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn.
Man was made to Mourn.”
Man was Made to Mourn (1786)
