Young Jamie, Pride of a' the Plain
Jamie ance roved amang the lasses, changin his love wi' every moon, but noo wanders wi' sighs and tears. His scornfu beloved forbids him tae see her mair, while the lasses he slighted laugh at his pangs.
By Robert Burns · Genre: Love Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 183 words
First lines
Tune-"The Carlin of the Glen."
Young Jamie, pride of a' the plain, / Sae gallant and sae gay a swain, / Thro' a' our lasses he did rove, / And reign'd resistless King of Love.
But now, wi' sighs and starting tears, / He strays amang the woods and breirs; / Or in the glens and rocky caves, / His sad complaining dowie raves: -
"I wha sae late did range and rove, / And chang'd with every moon my love, / I little thought the time was near, / Repentance I should buy sae dear.
Genres
- Love Poetry — Jamie laments his beloved's scorn and repents o' changin his love sae aften.
- Lyric Poetry — The rhymed stanzas, set tae a named tune, gie voice tae Jamie's sighs, pangs and repentance.
Tags
love · courtin · repentance · heartache · scorn
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Robert Burns
- Date: Date unknown
- Genres: Love Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 183 words
- Structure: 1 section, 5 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)
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