THE ATHENAEUMPoems and Songs of Robert BurnsRobert Burns
Poetry
Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textBurns’s first book, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, was printed at Kilmarnock in 1786 in an edition of 612 copies, and sold out within a month. He was twenty-seven, farming at Mossgiel and planning to emigrate to Jamaica, and its success took him to Edinburgh instead. This collection gathers the poems and the songs, from To a Mouse to A Red, Red Rose.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 8 hr 40 min
- Where to find it
- The Burns Room
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #1279. In the public domain in the United States.