Today we are presenting one of the famous love poems..... My love is like a red, red rose.....
A Red, Red Rose
O my Luve is like
a red, red rose
That’s newly
sprung in June;
O my Luve is like
the melody
That’s sweetly
played in tune.
So fair art thou,
my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am
I;
And I will luve
thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas
gang dry.
Till a’ the seas
gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt
wi’ the sun;
I will love thee
still, my dear,
While the sands o’
life shall run.
And fare thee
weel, my only luve!
And fare thee weel
awhile!
And I will come
again, my luve,
Though it were ten
thousand mile.
BY
ROBERT BURNS
Robert Burns was born in 1759, in Alloway, Scotland,
to William and Agnes Brown Burnes. Like his father, Burns was a tenant farmer.
However, toward the end of his life he became an excise collector in Dumfries,
where he died in 1796; throughout his life he was also a practicing poet. His
poetry recorded and celebrated aspects of farm life, regional experience,
traditional culture, class culture and distinctions, and religious practice. He
is considered the national poet of Scotland.
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns is a beautiful
romantic poem. In the poem the speaker describes his or her love—meaning either
the person the speaker loves or the speaker's feelings of
love for that person—as being as beautiful, vivid, and fresh as a flower that
has just recently bloomed. This love is as sweet as a beautiful song
played by a skilled musician.
The beloved is so beautiful that the speaker
loves her with a deep and strong passion—so strong, in fact, that the speaker's
love will last until the oceans have become dry. Even after the seas have
evaporated and the earth has decayed, the speaker will still love the
beloved. This love will endure until their own lives have ended and even until
all human life has ended.
The speaker concludes by saying goodbye to the
beloved—who is, the speaker reminds her, the only person the speaker
loves. The speaker wishes her well during their temporary separation. The
speaker reaffirms his or her faithful love by promising to return even if
the journey covers a very long distance and takes a very long time.
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