Lines Written under the Picture of the Celebrate
The speaker tells Miss Burns's prudish critics to stop their envious attacks, affirms her charms, and admits one unspecified failing. A closing question challenges whether any woman has fewer faults.
By Robert Burns · Genre: Epigram · 38 words
First lines
Cease, ye prudes, your envious railing, / Lovely Burns has charms-confess: / True it is, she had one failing, / Had a woman ever less?
Genres
- Epigram — Four rhyming lines turn a rebuke to prudish critics into a pointed closing question about women's faults.
Tags
prudery · criticism · beauty · faults · epigram
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Lines Written under the Picture of the Celebrated Miss Burns is listed on Textopian as a poem by Robert Burns, dated Date unknown.
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Robert Burns
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Epigram
- Length: 38 words
- Structure: 1 section, 1 paragraphs
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