Frasi di Robert Burns

Robert Burns è stato un poeta e compositore scozzese, il più noto fra quanti scrissero versi in lingua scots. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Gennaio 1759 – 21. Luglio 1796   •   Altri nomi রবার্ট বার্ণস, Роберт Бернс
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“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!

“The best laid schemes o' mice and men
Gang aft a-gley”

To a Mouse, st. 7 (1785)
Origine: Collected Poems of Robert Burns
Contesto: The best laid schemes o' mice and men
Gang aft a-gley;
And leave us naught but grief and pain
For promised joy.

“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.”

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)
Origine: 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
Disputed
Origine: Collected Poems of Robert Burns

“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”

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)
Origine: Collected Poems of Robert Burns
Contesto: 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.

“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
Variante: O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us
Origine: The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns
Contesto: O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion.
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us
An' ev'n Devotion

“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)
Contesto: 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!

“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

Origine: Tam o' Shanter (1790), Line 143

“When chill November's surly blast
Made fields and forests bare.”

Man was made to Mourn.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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