WINTER, A DIRGE. Robert Burns Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Broad Street Oxford OX1 3BG UK
Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive
Taylor Institution Library St Giles' Oxford OX1 3NA UK info@eighteenthcenturypoetry.org https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/
Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T91548 Burns, Robert, 1759-1796. POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT, BY ROBERT BURNS. Kilmarnock printed by John Wilson, M,DCC,LXXXVI. 1786 pp. 166-167. 240p.; 8⁰.

This e-text is part of the Works section of the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA).

XML created for the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA).

Typography, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation have been cautiously modernized. The source of the text is given and all significant editorial interventions have been recorded in textual notes. This text has been edited to conform to the recommendations found in Level 5 of the Best Practices for TEI in Libraries version 4.0.0.

Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) text-indent: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center; text-align: right; text-align: left; display: inline font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;
WINTER , A DIRGE . I. THE Wintry West extends his blast , And hail and rain does blaw ; Or , the stormy North sends driving forth , The blinding sleet and snaw : While , tumbling brown , the Burn comes down , And roars frae bank to brae ; And bird and beast , in covert , rest , And pass the heartless day . II . ' The sweeping blast , the sky o'ercast , Dr. Young . The joyless winter-day , Let others fear , to me more dear , Than all the pride of May : The Tempest's howl , it soothes my soul , My griefs it seems to join ; The leafless trees my fancy please , Their fate resembles mine ! III . Thou POW'R SUPREME , whose mighty Scheme , These woes of mine fulfil ; Here , firm , I rest , they must be best , Because they are Thy Will ! Then all I want ( Oh , do thou grant This one request of mine ! ) Since to enjoy Thou dost deny , Assist me to resign !