Robert Burns on Marriage
1759–1796 Scotland
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5 quotes
She is a winsome wee thing,
She is a handsome wee thing,
She is a lo'esome wee thing,
This sweet wee wife o' mine.
To make a happy fireside clime
To weans and wife,—
That is the true pathos and sublime
Of human life.
The minister kiss'd the fiddler's wife,
An' could na preach for thinkin' o't.
My Love She's but a Lassie yet (1790)
Were such the wife had fallen to my part,
I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart.
The Henpecked Husband (1788)
For a' that, and a' that
An' twice as muckle 's a' that,
I've lost but ane, I've twa behin',
I've wife eneugh for a' that.
Posthumous Pieces (1799)