What did Robert Burns mean by: Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed. Robert Burns Poet · Scotland Copy
+ His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. Author, December 22, 2023December 29, 2024, Robert Burns, Appearance, Class, Education, 0 Robert Burns Poet · Scotland
+ Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min? Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert Burns, Friendship, Memory, Reflection, 0 Robert Burns Poet · Scotland
+ The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert Burns, Exploration, Friendship, Loneliness, 0 Robert Burns Poet · Scotland
+ All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath’d with nodding corn. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert Burns, Abundance, Celebration, Harvest, 0 Robert Burns Poet · Scotland
+ My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert Burns, Escape, Longing, Nature, 0 Robert Burns Poet · Scotland
+ Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie, O, what a panic’s in thy breastie! Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert Burns, Fear, Nature, Vulnerability, 0 Robert Burns Poet · Scotland
+ I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert Burns, Despair, Reflection, Resignation, 0 Robert Burns Poet · Scotland
+ O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert Burns, Longing, Love, Patriotism, 0 Robert Burns Poet · Scotland
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user. William Morris Designer · England