Biography rabbie burns thornton yale
Biography rabbie burns thornton yale university
Robbie burns day.
Oh my word, would you look at this! This changes everything! I cannae believe it!
I’ve got no money! And I was gonnae leave Scotland, and go find a job far away…
But the poems I wrote have been published!
Biography rabbie burns thornton yale
I didnae think anybody would read them!But people – important people, mind – are saying… that they’re great!
You know, I have a feeling everyone’s going to hear my name - Robert Burns! Or Rabbie Burns, if you prefer!
Let me tell you my story…
I was born in Ayrshire in Scotland in the year 1759.We weren’t a grand family – we were farmers, and my father built our wee house with his own hands.
He taught me to read and write… and to think for myself!
I was sent off to school sometimes, when we could afford it. But mostly I grew up helping with work on the farm. And it was often when I was working, that I composed my poems.
‘Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie’
I liked to write about everyday things – simple things.Like, how I felt when I destroyed a mouse’s nest, by accident