With great love about Robert Burns - HIS LOVE MUSE

There are no finer similes in love poetry than those with which the song opens, simple, beautiful and sincere. The song thrills us with its picture of love that conquers time and space.

Being married several times and having a lot of children , Robert Burns was a man of passion.

“In vain the laws their feeble force oppose:

Chain’d at his feet they groan, Love’s vanquished foes” (I BURN, I burn )

“Above that world on wings of love I rise,

I know its worst-and can that worst despise.”

A Red, Red Rose

MY love is like a red red rose That’s newly sprung in June: My love is like the melodie That’s sweetly play’d in tune.   So fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in love am I: And I will love thee still, my dear, Till a’ the seas gang dry.   Till a the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi’ the sun: And I will love thee still, my dear, While the sands o’ life shall run.
	And fare thee weel, my only love, And fare thee weel awhile! And I will come again, my love, Tho’ it were ten thousand mile.

His Love Muse

“I once got heartily in love, and then rhyme and song were the spontaneous language of my heart”

(Robert Burns)

It was for Jean that he wrote the most beautiful and touching love song ever written: