Bonie Peg-A-Ramsay by Robert Burns

Cauld e'enin blasts blaw o'er the pool, an' the birks are bare at Yule. Frost an' mirky drift hide the hills an' glens, yet Peg-a-Ramsay gat grist tae her mill.

By Robert Burns · Genre: Poetry · 104 words

First lines

Cauld is the e'enin blast, / O' Boreas o'er the pool, / An' dawin' it is dreary, / When birks are bare at Yule.

Cauld blaws the e'enin blast, / When bitter bites the frost, / And, in the mirk and dreary drift, / The hills and glens are lost:

Ne'er sae murky blew the night / That drifted o'er the hill, / But bonie Peg-a-Ramsay / Gat grist to her mill.

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Genres

• Poetry — Three fower-line stanzas hae rhyming line-endings, wi' cauld blasts an' drift afore the last turn tae Peg's mill.

Tags

winter · frost · mirky nichts · grist

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• Work type: Poem
• Author: Robert Burns
• Date: Date unknown
• Genres: Poetry
• Length: 104 words
• Structure: 1 section, 3 paragraphs

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