Red, Red Rose

By

Robert Burns

 

O my luve is like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June:
O my luve is like the melodie,
That's sweetly played in tune.

 

As fair art thou, my bonie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry.

 

Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun;
And I will luve thee still my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.

 

And fare thee weel, my only luve!
And fare thee weel a while!
And I will come again, my luve,
Tho' it were ten thousand mile.

 

 

ALEXANDER POPE had a hunchback.

 

He made enough money from his writing at 30 to buy a house by the Thames River at Twickenham.

 

His best poem, The Rape of the Lock, written in heroic couplets, was based on a real life experience of a young man who cut off a lock of hair from the head of a young lady who resents his love.

 

Pope is the most frequently quoted English poet after Shakespeare.

 

The poet who was called "the wicked wasp of Twikenham" because he was a commoner, was coveted by poets and politicians.

 

Some of his quotes are as follows:

 

"To err is human, to forgive divine."

 

"A little learning is a dangerous thing."

 

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast."

 

"The proper study of mankind is man."

 

"Fools rush in where angels fear to thread."