Quotes from work

The Cotter's Saturday Night

“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)

“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)

“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)

“From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs,
That makes her loved at home, revered abroad:
Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,
"An honest man's the noblest work of God."”

Robert Burns The Cotter's Saturday Night

Stanza 19
The Cotter's Saturday Night (1786)