Love
Lines Written Under The Picture Of The Celebrated Miss Burns
From Poems and Songs, 1787
Love
Cease, ye prudes, your envious railing,
Lovely Burns has charms—confess:
True it is, she had one failing,
Had a woman ever less?
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MLA
Burns, Robert. “Lines Written Under The Picture Of The Celebrated Miss Burns.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/163/.
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Burns, Robert. “Lines Written Under The Picture Of The Celebrated Miss Burns.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/163/.
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