Home » Scottish poets » Robert Burns

Epigram on Miss Davies

Robert Burns

Ask why God made the gem so small?
And why so huge the granite?—
Because God meant mankind should set
That higher value on it.




Quotes of the Day

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
• Francois de La Rochefoucauld


Poems of the Day
    Mary Oliver

    Cold Poem
    Cold now. Close to the edge. Almost unbearable. Clouds bunch up and boil down from the north of the white bear. This tree-splitting ...