Love

Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay

by Robert Burns 1759–1796

From Poems and Songs, 1795

Love

Cauld is the e’enin blast,
O’ Boreas o’er the pool,
An’ dawin’ it is dreary,
When birks are bare at Yule.

Cauld blaws the e’enin blast,
When bitter bites the frost,
And, in the mirk and dreary drift,
The hills and glens are lost:

Ne’er sae murky blew the night
That drifted o’er the hill,
But bonie Peg-a-Ramsay
Gat grist to her mill.

MLA

Burns, Robert. “Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/500/.

Chicago

Burns, Robert. “Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/500/.

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