Inscription at Friars' Carse Hermitage
In memory of Robert Riddell, the speaker asks a wanderer to revere the ivy-covered cottage that was dear to him.
By Robert Burns · Genre: Elegiac Poetry · 41 words
First lines
To the Memory of Robert Riddell.
To Riddell, much lamented man, / This ivied cot was dear; / Wandr'er, dost value matchless worth? / This ivied cot revere.
Genres
- Elegiac Poetry — Four rhyming lines commemorate a lamented man by asking a passerby to honor the cottage he cherished.
Tags
remembrance · mourning · cottage · ivy
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Robert Burns
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Elegiac Poetry
- Length: 41 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
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