The Raptures of Folly by Robert Burns

The speaker acknowledges old Wisdom’s calm, settled pleasures but chooses to live with young Folly for its raptures.

By Robert Burns · Genre: Lyric Poetry · 45 words

First lines

Thou greybeard, old Wisdom! may boast of thy treasures; / Give me with young Folly to live; / I grant thee thy calm-blooded, time-settled pleasures, / But Folly has raptures to give.

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Genres

• Lyric Poetry — A rhymed quatrain voices the speaker’s preference for Folly’s excitement over Wisdom’s settled pleasures.

Tags

wisdom · folly · pleasure · youth · personification

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• Work type: Poem
• Author: Robert Burns
• Date: Date unknown
• Language: English
• Genres: Lyric Poetry
• Length: 45 words
• Structure: 1 section, 1 paragraphs

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