Poem by Robert Burns

Verses Written under the Portrait of Fergusson

The poet, in a copy of that author’s works presented 
to a young lady in Edinburgh, March 19, 1787.

CURSE on ungrateful man, that can be pleas’d,
And yet can starve the author of the pleasure!
O thou, my elder brother in misfortune,
By far my elder brother in the Muses,
With tears I pity thy unhappy fate!
Why is the Bard unpitied by the world,
Yet has so keen a relish of its pleasures?

1. Fairest Maid on Devon Banks
2. The Highland Lassie
3. Weary Fa’ You, Duncan Gray
4. Farewell to Ballochmyle
5. Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns

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