Frae the Friends and Land I Love by Robert Burns
The speaker roves frae freends, the land they love and their best-beloved, wi nae hope o ease or pleasure. Ilka blooming shore will seem desert till friendship, love and peace return, the banished come hame, and loyal lads cross the seas tae win their ain.
By Robert Burns · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Melancholic Poetry · 159 words
First lines
Tune-"Carron Side."
Frae the friends and land I love, / Driv'n by Fortune's felly spite; / Frae my best belov'd I rove, / Never mair to taste delight: / Never mair maun hope to find / Ease frae toil, relief frae care; / When Remembrance wracks the mind, / Pleasures but unveil despair.
Brightest climes shall mirk appear, / Desert ilka blooming shore, / Till the Fates, nae mair severe, / Friendship, love, and peace restore, / Till Revenge, wi' laurel'd head, / Bring our banished hame again; / And ilk loyal, bonie lad / Cross the seas, and win his ain.
Genres
- Lyric Poetry — Twa rhymed stanzas gie the speaker's lament for freends and love left ahint, wi a tune named for singin.
- Melancholic Poetry — Remembrance wracks the speaker's mind, pleasure unveils despair, and even bright climes will seem mirk.
Tags
banishment · pairtin · freendship · despair · hamecomin
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Robert Burns
- Date: Date unknown
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Melancholic Poetry
- Length: 159 words
- Structure: 1 section, 3 paragraphs
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