1. Home »
  2. Scottish poets »
  3. Robert Burns

Epigram—Commissary Goldie’s Brains

Robert Burns

LORD, to account who dares thee call,
Or e’er dispute thy pleasure?
Else why, within so thick a wall,
Enclose so poor a treasure?




Quotes of the Day

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
• George Carlin


Poems of the Day
  • Anthony Hecht
    Curriculum Vitae
    by Anthony Hecht
    As though it were reluctant to be day, .......Morning deploys a scale .......Of rarities in gray, And winter settles down in its chain-mail, Victorious over legions of gold and red.