

Robert Burns
- songwriter
- poet
- writer
- musicologist
- farmer
- librettist
- Born 1759-01-25
- Died 1796-07-21 (aged 37)
- Nationality Kingdom of Great Britain
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Filmography
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| 1953 | Mogambo | Movie | composer | 37 |
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1759 age 0
Born1796 age 37
Died1953 age 37
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Gin a body meet a body <br/> Comin thro' the rye, <br/> Gin a body kiss a body, <br/> Need a body cry?
Robert Burns, CC BY-SA 4.0
Wee, sleekit, cow'rin', tim'rous beastie, <br> O what a panic's in thy breastie! <br> Thou need na start awa sae hasty, <br> Wi' bickering brattle! <br> I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee, <br> Wi' murd'ring pattle!
Robert Burns, CC BY-SA 4.0
I'm truly sorry Man's dominion <br> Has broken Nature's social union, <br> An' justifies that ill opinion Which makes thee startle, <br> At me, thy poor, earth-born companion, <br> An' fellow-mortal!
Robert Burns, CC BY-SA 4.0
The best laid schemes o' mice and men <br/> Gang aft a-gley; <br/> And leave us naught but grief and pain <br/> For promised joy.
Robert Burns, CC BY-SA 4.0
O L--d thou kens what zeal I bear, <br> When drinkers drink, and swearers swear, <br> And singin' there, and dancin' here, <br> Wi' great an' sma'; For I am keepet by thy fear, <br> Free frae them a'. But yet—O L--d—confess I must— <br> At times I'm fash'd wi' fleshly lust... O L--d—yestreen thou kens—wi' Meg— <br> Thy pardon I sincerely beg! <br> O may 't ne'er be a living plague, <br> To my dishonour! And I'll ne'er lift a lawless leg <br> Again upon her.
Robert Burns, CC BY-SA 4.0
All in this mottie, misty clime, <br> I backward mus'd on wasted time, <br> How I had spent my youthfu' prime <br> An' done nae-thing, <br> But stringing blethers up to rhyme <br> For fools to sing.
Robert Burns, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Facts
Personal details
- Nationalities
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Cause of death
- congenital heart disease
- Languages
- Scots, English
- Genres
- verse, narrative poetry, song, ballad, cantata
- Notable works
- Auld Lang Syne, To a Mouse, Is There for Honest Poverty, Ae fond kiss, and then we sever..., Scots Wha Hae, Tam o' Shanter, Halloween, The Battle of Sherramuir
