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Poem by Robert Burns


Epitaph on a Person Nicknamed ‘The Marquis,’ Who Desired Burns to Write One on Him


Here lies a mock Marquis whose titles were shamm’d,
If ever he rise, it will be to be damn’d.

1794

Robert Burns


Robert Burns's other poems:
  1. I Gaed a Waefu' Gate Yestreen
  2. Blythe Was She
  3. Farewell to Ballochmyle
  4. Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns
  5. Young Jamie, Pride of A’ the Plain


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