Up in the Morning Early
Robert Burns
Teacher card
- Published
- 1786, in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
- Length
- 32 lines, 205 words, 1 word in 103 is long
- Year band
- Reading load: Years 3–4. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
- Themes
- wind, winter
- Time
- 5–10 min, depending on the activity
The text
Cauld blaws the wind frae east to west,The drift is driving sairly;Sae loud and shill’s I hear the blast—I’m sure it’s winter fairly.
Chorus.—Up in the morning’s no for me,Up in the morning early;When a’ the hills are covered wi’ snaw,I’m sure it’s winter fairly.
The birds sit chittering in the thorn,A’ day they fare but sparely;And lang’s the night frae e’en to morn—I’m sure it’s winter fairly.Up in the morning’s, &c.
How Long And Dreary Is The Night
How long and dreary is the night,When I am frae my dearie!I sleepless lie frae e’en to morn,Tho’ I were ne’er so weary:I sleepless lie frae e’en to morn,Tho’ I were ne’er sae weary!
When I think on the happy daysI spent wi’ you my dearie:And now what lands between us lie,How can I be but eerie!And now what lands between us lie,How can I be but eerie!
How slow ye move, ye heavy hours,As ye were wae and weary!It wasna sae ye glinted by,When I was wi’ my dearie!It wasna sae ye glinted by,When I was wi’ my dearie!
Robert Burns (died 1796), Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (1786), lines 13634–13671 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 the sky in the weather poemsin weatherline · 32 lines · about 5–10 min
See where weatherline takes lines from this poem, then read today's poem the sky has chosen.
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