i am really enjoying the daily poetry selection of The Writer's Almanac which monoceros introduced us to. it gives snippets of interesting information about whose birthday it is everyday (e.g. today's also the birthday of Virginia Woolf) or what happened during each day in history. it's a great thing to hear a poem a day! and here's today's poem:
Bonie Doon
Ye flowery banks o' bonie Doon,
How can ye blume sae fair?
How can ye chant, ye little birds,
And I sae fu o' care?
Thou'll break my heart, thou bonie bird,
That sings upon the bough;
Thou minds me o' the happy days
When my fause luve was true.
Thou'll break my heart, thou bonie bird,
That sings beside thy mate;
For sae I sat, and sae I sang,
And wist na o' my fate.
Aft hae I roved by bonie Doon
To see the wood-bine twine,
And ilka bird sand o' its luve,
And sae did I o' mine.
Wi' lightsome heart I pu'd a rose
Frae aff its thorny tree;
And my fause luver staw my rose
But left the thorn wi' me.
--- Robert Burns ---
hmm... maybe i should have some Haggis and neeps and tatties tonight... or perhaps i could indulge in poetry reading instead... :C)
posted by ~overacuppa~ on Tuesday, 25 January, 2005 at 10:25 hrsRobert Burns! Yeah!
Posted by: monoceros on Wednesday, 26 January, 2005 at 03:15 hrsyo!
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