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Poem by Robert Burns


On Edmund Burke by an Opponent and a Friend to Warren Hastings


Oft have I wonder’d that, on Irish Ground,
No poisonous reptiles ever yet were found:
Reveal’s the secret stands, of Nature’s Work!
She saved her venom, to create a Burke.



Robert Burns


Robert Burns's other poems:
  1. Their Groves O’ sweet Myrtle
  2. The Bonnie Wee Thing
  3. As Down the Burn They Took Their Way
  4. Gala Water
  5. Stay My Charmer


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