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Ye Pow’rs wha mak mankind your care, And dish them out their bill o’ fare, Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware That jaups in luggies; But, if ye wish her gratefu’ prayer, Gie her a Haggis! …

There are two stories linked to the poem’s creation. The first considers that Burns invited for dinner at the house of merchant, Andrew Bruce, and composed the poem to amuse the …

Here you you will find all you need to know about organising a Burns Supper, discover Scots language poems old and new, and places to visit that tell the remarkable story of Robert …

The anxieties are not the mouse’s, they are the speaker’s. This poem is wildly self-obsessed and much darker than its popularity in the classroom would suggest. Its proposed subject-matter …

The traditional Burns Night involves the theatre of a supper of haggis, neeps and tatties (mashed turnip and potato), washed down with malt whisky to the accompaniment of a bagpiper, poetry …

graces & toasts Here’s a health to them that’s awa - by Robert Burns { Poem }

Robert Burns from The Canongate Burns: the complete poems and songs of Robert Burns (Canongate, 2001)

To A Haggis Postcard From the poem by Robert Burns. Designed and printed in Scotland by Clare Melinsky. Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o’ the pudding-race! Aboon …

Of Brownyis and of Bogillis full is this buke. — Gawin Douglas When chapman billies leave the street, And drouthy neebors, neebors meet, As market-days are wearing late, An’ folk begin to …