Of a' the Airts
Robert Burns
Teacher card
- Published
- 1786, in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
- Length
- 19 lines, 122 words, 1 word in 24 is long
- Year band
- Reading load: Years 3–4. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
- Themes
- love, wind
- Time
- 5–10 min, depending on the activity
The text
Of a’ the airts the wind can blaw,I dearly like the west,For there the bonie lassie lives,The lassie I lo’e best:
[Footnote 1: Written during a separation from Mrs. Burns in theirhoneymoon. Burns was preparing a home at Ellisland; Mrs. Burnswas at Mossgiel.—Lang.]
There’s wild-woods grow, and rivers row,And mony a hill between:But day and night my fancys’ flightIs ever wi’ my Jean.
I see her in the dewy flowers,I see her sweet and fair:I hear her in the tunefu’ birds,I hear her charm the air:There’s not a bonie flower that springs,By fountain, shaw, or green;There’s not a bonie bird that sings,But minds me o’ my Jean.
Robert Burns (died 1796), Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (1786), lines 13963–13984 of Project Gutenberg ebook #1279. Public domain in Australia: the author died before 1955. Copied word for word and checked against the ebook.
What to do with it
- Its lines are dealt for names in posy cardsin posy · 19 lines · about 5–10 min
See how posy takes lines from this poem, then make a card for someone using them.
posy.popplepoetry.com/sources#bu-airts - Its lines are dealt for the sky in the weather poemsin weatherline · 19 lines · about 5–10 min
See where weatherline takes lines from this poem, then read today's poem the sky has chosen.
weatherline.popplepoetry.com/sources#bu-airts
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