My Nanie's Awa by Robert Burns
Nanie is awa, and the speaker finds nae pleasure in the green braes, flowers or birdsang. The speaker asks the birds tae stop and autumn tae come, saying that only dreary winter and snaw can bring delight.
By Robert Burns · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Love Poetry · 206 words
First lines
Tune-"There'll never be peace till Jamie comes hame."
Now in her green mantle blythe Nature arrays, / And listens the lambkins that bleat o'er her braes; / While birds warble welcomes in ilka green shaw, / But to me it's delightless-my Nanie's awa.
The snawdrap and primrose our woodlands adorn, / And violetes bathe in the weet o' the morn; / They pain my sad bosom, sae sweetly they blaw, / They mind me o' Nanie-and Nanie's awa.
Thou lav'rock that springs frae the dews of the lawn, / The shepherd to warn o' the grey-breaking dawn, / And thou mellow mavis that hails the night-fa', / Give over for pity-my Nanie's awa.
Genres
- Lyric Poetry — Four rhyming stanzas voice the speaker's sorrow, each ending wi Nanie awa; a tune is named afore the verses.
- Love Poetry — The speaker's langing for Nanie turns flowers and birdsang intae reminders o her absence.
Tags
luve · langing · absence · birdsang · flowers · winter
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Robert Burns
- Date: Date unknown
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Love Poetry
- Length: 206 words
- Structure: 1 section, 5 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Standard (8th-9th Grade)
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