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Poem by Robert Burns


Lines Supposed to Have Been Written by Burns, and Forwarded to John Rankine, Ayrshire, Immediately after the Poet’s Decease


He who of Rankine sang, lies stiff and dead,
And a green grassy hillock hides his head;
Alas! alas! a devilish change indeed!



Robert Burns


Robert Burns's other poems:
  1. Canst Thou Leave Me Thus?
  2. The Posies
  3. Nithsdale’s Welcome Hame
  4. It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonnie Face
  5. Address to General Dumourier


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