Burns Works
Phrases such as 'the best laid schemes o' mice and men' and 'my love is like a red, red rose' have entered the common language. 'Auld Lang Syne', just one of his 328 songs, is sung all over the world every New Year's Eve. 'A Man's a Man for a That' - his anthem to a universal humanity - was the song chosen for the symbolic opening of the new Scottish Parliament at Holyrood and his 'Scots Wha Hae' is the unofficial national anthem.
Click on any of the links below to read just some of Burns works, and see an translation into modern english for each.
The essential Burns Supper poem! Recited over the Haggis before dishing up.
Burns at his most romantic - memorise it for that special someone.
Perhaps Burns’ most famous song. Sung the world over at New Year.
The supernatural saga of oor Tam - and what happened to him once on the way home from the pub.
Burns' ode to the common man.
Burns shows his sensitive side in this poem to a wee mouse whose nest he disturbed with his plough.
Burns laments love lost.
Burns gives worldly-wise advice to a younger man.
A celebratory toast to the character of the Scots.
Burns, a lowlander himself, sings the praises of the Scottish Highlands.