The Life and Land of Burns

admire auld banks bard beauty Birks of Aberfeldy bonnie Burns's called character charms composed Dalswinton dear sir Doon Dugald Stewart Dumfries Earl of Glencairn Edinburgh edition elegant Ellisland fair fame fancy farm farmer father favorite feeling genius Glencairn hand happy heart heaven Highland honor hope humble humor inspired Jacobitism John John Anderson Kilmarnock kind kirk lady land lasses letter light lived look Lord lyric Mauchline mind moral Mossgiel mother muse native nature never night Nith Nithsdale noble perhaps pleasure plough poems poet poet's poetic poetry poor rhyme Robert Burns rustic satire says scene Scotland Scottish seems sentiments Shanter social song soul spirit strain stream sweet Tarbolton taste things Thomson thou thought tion true verse voice volume walk Wallace wife WILLIAM DUNBAR wonder words write written wrote young