♥ My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose...♥

Robert Burns
Born in Alloway, Scotland, on January 25, 1759, Robert Burns was the first of William and Agnes Burnes' seven children. His father, a tenant farmer, educated his children at home. Burns also attended one year of mathematics schooling and, between 1765 and 1768, he attended an "adventure" school established by his father and John Murdock. His father died in bankruptcy in 1784, and Burns and his brother Gilbert took over farm. This hard labor later contributed to the heart trouble that Burns' suffered as an adult.

At the age of fifteen, he fell in love and shortly thereafter he wrote his first poem. As a young man, Burns pursued both love and poetry with uncommon zeal. In 1785, he fathered the first of his fourteen children. His biographer, DeLancey Ferguson, had said, "it was not so much that he was conspicuously sinful as that he sinned conspicuously." Between 1784 and 1785, Burns also wrote many of the poems collected in his first book, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, which was printed in 1786 and paid for by subscriptions. This collection was an immediate success and Burns was celebrated throughout England and Scotland as a great "peasant-poet."

In 1788, he and his wife, Jean Armour, settled in Ellisland, where Burns was given a commission as an excise officer. He also began to assist James Johnson in collecting folk songs for an anthology entitled The Scots Musical Museum. Burns' spent the final twelve years of his life editing and imitating traditional folk songs for this volume and for Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs. These volumes were essential in preserving parts of Scotland's cultural heritage and include such well-known songs as "My Luve is Like a Red Red Rose" and "Auld Land Syne." Robert Burns died from heart disease at the age of thirty-seven. On the day of his death, Jean Armour gave birth to his last son, Maxwell.

Most of Burns' poems were written in Scots. They document and celebrate traditional Scottish culture, expressions of farm life, and class and religious distinctions. Burns wrote in a variety of forms: epistles to friends, ballads, and songs. His best-known poem is the mock-heroic Tam o' Shanter. He is also well known for the over three hundred songs he wrote which celebrate love, friendship, work, and drink with often hilarious and tender sympathy. Even today, he is often referred to as the National Bard of Scotland.



♥
A Red, Red Rose -- Poem by Robert Burns (1759-1796)
read by Hayward Morse

♥
O my luve's like a red, red rose.
That's newly sprung in June;
O my luve's like a melodie
That's sweetly play'd in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will love thee still, my Dear,
Till a'the seas gang dry.
Till a' the seas gang dry, my Dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun:
I will luve thee still, my Dear,
While the sands o'life shall run.
And fare thee weel my only Luve!
And fare thee weel a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho' it were ten thousand mile!
♥

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[Cameragirl803]

Very beautiful Heidi:) Glad you reposted, it was nice to hear tonight:) *****

[fariethesun]

@Cameragirl803 Yes...I reposted it. The first video wasn't nice...Thanks for coming back and leave this wonderful comment and the stars Jane :))...Hugs...xo

[vividenergy]

Das ist so wunderschön!!! Ein Freund aus Schottland hat mir gerade dieses Gedicht von Robert Burns geschickt und nun finde ich es hier. Vielen Dank und liebe Grüße aus Hamburg :-)

[fariethesun]

@vividenergy Oh ich freue mich wirklich, dass Du dieses Gedicht magst und mein Video gefunden hast. Ich danke Dir herzlich für Deinen netten Kommentar und ich sah mein video in Deinen Favoriten...Echt nett!!! Schönen Abend nach Hamburg...

[giorgiovigo]

Very good.

[fariethesun]

@giorgiovigo Grazie per il tuo bello commento Giorgio ... Io sono felice. Vi auguro una piacevole serata. Ciao...

[IngridHexerl]

The poem is so beautiful and touching.

I think that the red rose cries with joy a tear. She runs off at the velvet leaves ground and shines like a dewdrop in the sun.

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Thank you for the lovely video.

I wish a happy time.

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By love ♥ Heaven comes to earth

and a piece of earth to heaven.

[imafishgod]

Heidi.. This is gorgeous!! It makes me want to sleep in a bed of Rose petals with my love! You are so very artistic!! I love this !! ♥

xo Paula xo

[TheLowLifeGang]

beautiful

[az1421]

awsome Heidi

[sinbarrerassoyasi]

BRAVISIMO VIDEO

SALUDETES UP¡

[rhopen]

Hello Heidi. I enjoyed this a lot and I I thought your write up on Burns was excellent. -Ron

[fariethesun]

@babs7965 Hallo Nachbarin :)) Ich stimme Dir zu...Doch immer, wenn ich Gedichte lese wird mein Herz ganz weit...Danke Dir für Deinen schönen Kommentar.

Ganz liebe Grüße zurück...xo

[fariethesun]

@declan31329 Glad you love it dear Declan..I.wish you a nice evening and always beautiful moments in your life...xoxo