Burns

'A Red, Red Rose' and Other Poems

Robert Burns

• Publisher: Michael O'Mara
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781782437093
• eBook ISBN: 9781782437147
• Topic: Literatura
• Subtopic: Poesía europea

In his short life, Robert Burns forged for himself a reputation as a poet and songwriter that has never been eclipsed. Today, more than 200 years after his death, his verse remains among the most popular in the world. Best known for his dialect lyrical verse on nature, love, patriotism and rural life, as well as for such well-loved songs as 'Auld Lang Syne' and 'Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn' ('Scots Wha Hae'), he was equally as skilful with great lyrics on philosophical subjects. Offering everything from simple ballads to great set pieces like 'Tam O'Shanter', this collection celebrates the work of the poor farmer-turned-exciseman who became, literally, the voice of an entire nation.

GLOSSARY OF WORDS

aboon, abon – above, up

ae – one

aff-hand, at once

agley – awry

aiblins – perhaps

airns – irons

aits – oats

ava – at all

awnie – bearded

bawk – a field path

baws’nt – white-streaked

bear – barley

bide – abide, endure

billies – fellow, comrade, brother

birk – birch

bleezing – blazing

blellum – a babbler; a blusterer

boddle – a farthing

bonie – bonnie, pretty, beautiful

braw – handsome, fine, gaily dressed

brawlie – finely, perfectly, heartily

buirdly – stout, stalwart

brunstane – brimstone

byke – a bee hive; a swarm; a crowd

cantie – cheerful, merry

cantraip – magic, witching

carlin, carline – an old woman; a beldam, a witch

chapman – a pedlar

chiel, chield (i. e. child) – a fellow, a young fellow

cit – a citizen; a merchant

claes – clothes

clankie – a severe knock

claught – clutched, seized

cleekit – linked arms

coft – bought

Coil, Coila – RB’s part of Ayrshire

coof – a dolt, a ninny; a dastard

coost (i. e. cast) – threw off, tossed

core – corps

cour – fold, lower

couthie – couthy, loving, affable, cosy, comfortable

crack – talk

cranreuch – hoar-frost

creeshie – greasy

crouse – cheerful, courageous

crowlin – crawling

crummock, cummock – a cudgel, a crooked staff

cushat – the woodpigeon

cutty – short

cutty-stools – stools of repentance

daffin – larking, fun

daurk – task, a day’s labour

deave – to deafen

dight – wipe, clean

dirl – ring, rattle

doited – muddled, doting; stupid, bewildered

dool – sorrow

douce, douse – sedate, sober, prudent

doup – the bottom

doylt – stupid, stupefied

droddum – the breech, rump

drouthy – thirsty

drumlie – muddy, turbid

dub – puddle, slush

duddie – ragged; duds, duddies – rags

eldritch – unearthly, haunted, fearsome

ettle – aim

ev’n-down – downright

fand – found

fatt’rels – ribbon ends

fause – false

fawsont – seemly, well-doing; good-looking

fecht – fight

ferlie – ‘wonder, a term of contempt’ (RB)

feint haet – ‘of negation, nothing’ (RB)

fient – fiend

fiere – brother, friend

flainen, flannen – flannel

flang – flung

foggage – rank grass

fou, fow – full (i. e. of drink)

fyke – to fret, fuss; fidget

gang – to go

gart – made

gash – wise

gate – road, way, manner

gawsie – buxom; jolly.

gear – money, wealth; goods; stuff

Geordie – guinea (d...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Song – Mary Morison
• Winter: A Dirge
• Prayer, in the Prospect of Death
• Fickle Fortune: a Fragment
• I’ll Go and be a Sodger
• No Churchman am I
• Song – Composed in August
• Remorse: a Fragment
• Epitaph on My Ever Honoured Father
• One Night as I Did Wander
• Tho’ Cruel Fate Should Bid Us Part
• Address To A Haggis
• Song – Green Grow The Rashes
• To A Mouse
• To John Kennedy, Dumfries House
• To a Mountain Daisy
• To Ruin
• Will Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary?
• Lines Written on a Banknote
• Nature’s Law – a Poem
• Bonie Dundee
• The Book-Worms
• On Elphinstone’s Translation of Martial’s Epigrams
• The Libeller’s Self-Reproof
• A Bottle and Friend
• Castle Gordon
• On Scaring Some Water-Fowl in Loch-Turit
• A Rose-Bud By My Early Walk
• My Peggy’s Charms
• Love in the Guise of Friendship
• I’m O’er Young to Marry Yet
• M’Pherson’s Farewell
• To Alex. Cunningham, Esq., Writer
• The Day Returns
• A Mother’s Lament
• The Fall of the Leaf
• My Bonie Mary
• Written In Friars Carse Hermitage
• Caledonia – a Ballad
• The Wounded Hare
• On a Bank of Flowers
• The Braes o’ Killiecrankie
• The Banks of Nith
• Tam O’Shanter: A Tale
• John Barleycorn: A Ballad
• The Twa Dogs: A Tale
• To A Louse
• Epistle To A Young Friend
• Strathallan’s Lament
• Address To The Toothache
• A Red, Red Rose
• The Banks O’ Doon
• Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever
• Afton Water
• Lines on Fergusson, the Poet
• Robert Bruce’s March To Bannockburn
• A Man’s A Man For A’ That
• Auld Lang Syne
• Kirkudbright Grace
• Glossary of words
• Index of first lines