Frases célebres de Robert Burns
Robert Burns: Frases en inglés
Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter
Fuente: Tam o' Shanter (1790), Line 59
Fuente: Tam O'Shanter
“But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love forever.”
Bonny Lesley.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: To see her is to love her,
And love but her forever;
For Nature made her what she is,
And never made anither!
“It's hardly in a body's pow'r,
To keep, at times, frae being sour.”
Epistle to Davie, st. 2 (1786)
“Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!”
Robert Burns To a Mouse
To a Mouse, st. 1 (1785)
Contexto: Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi' bickering brattle!
Robert Burns My Heart's in the Highlands
My Heart's in the Highlands, st. 1
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
“The best laid schemes o' mice and men
Gang aft a-gley”
To a Mouse, st. 7 (1785)
Fuente: Collected Poems of Robert Burns
Contexto: The best laid schemes o' mice and men
Gang aft a-gley;
And leave us naught but grief and pain
For promised joy.
Robert Burns Ae fond kiss, and then we sever...
Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever, st. 2
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
Fuente: Robert Burns
“There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.”
Reported as attributed to Burns but unverified in Suzy Platt (ed.), Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations Requested from the Congressional Research Service (Washington, DC : Library of Congress 1989) http://www.bartleby.com/73/172.html <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Fuente: Collected Poems of Robert Burns
Robert Burns Ae fond kiss, and then we sever...
Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever, st. 2
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
Fuente: Collected Poems of Robert Burns
Contexto: But to see her was to love her;
Love but her, and love for ever.
Had we never lov'd sae kindly,
Had we never lov'd sae blindly,
Never met—or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
To a Mouse, st. 7 (1785)
Fuente: Collected Poems of Robert Burns
“Some books are lies frae end to end,
And some great lies were never penn'd…”
Death and Dr. Hornbook, st. 1 (1787)
Variante: Some books are lies frae end to end.
“Oh would some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us.”
Robert Burns To a Louse
To a Louse, st. 8 (1786) http://www.poetry-online.org/burns_to_a_louse.htm <br class="br">Variante: O, wad some Power the giftie gie us<br>To see oursels as others see us!<br>It wad frae monie a blunder free us <br class="br">Fuente: The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns <br class="br">Contexto: O, wad some Power the giftie gie us<br>To see oursels as others see us!<br>It wad frae monie a blunder free us,<br>An' foolish notion.<br>What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us<br>An' ev'n Devotion
Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter
Fuente: Tam o' Shanter (1790), Line 171
“What 's done we partly may compute,
But know not what 's resisted.”
Address to the Unco Guid.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“As Tammie glow'red, amazed, and curious,
The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.”
Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter
Fuente: Tam o' Shanter (1790), Line 143
The Rights of Woman, st. 1 (1792)
My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing, chorus (1792)
“Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty's in every blow—
Let us do or die!”
Robert Burns Scots Wha Hae
Scots Wha Hae, st. 5 (1794)
“An atheist-laugh's a poor exchange
For Deity offended.”
Stanza 9
Epistle to a Young Friend (1786)
“When chill November's surly blast
Made fields and forests bare.”
Man was made to Mourn.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
