by Robert Burns My Spouse NancyComplimentary Epigram On Maria RiddellAddress Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her Benefit Night, December 4th, 1793, at the Theatre, Dumfries. Still…
by Robert Burns Address To The Unco Guid, Or T...To John Kennedy, Dumfries HouseThe Inventory[1] In answer to a mandate by the Surveyor of the Taxes Sir, as your mandate did…
(Encyclopedia) Suetonius (Caius Suetonius Tranquillus)Suetoniusswētōˈnēəs [key], c.a.d. 69–c.a.d. 140, Roman biographer. Little is known about his life except that he was briefly the private…
by Ambrose Bierce GRAPESHOTGRAVITATIONGRAVE -n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student. Beside a lonely grave I stood —
With brambles 'twas…
by Robert Burns Epistle To William SimsonOne Night As I Did WanderPostcript My memory's no worth a preen;
I had amaist forgotten clean,
Ye bade me write you what they mean…
by Robert Burns
1771 - 1779
Preface
Robert Burns was born near Ayr, Scotland, 25th of January, 1759. He was the son of William Burnes, or Burness, at the time of the poet's birth a nurseryman…
