Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1908
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/246
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following Poems and Letter were sent together in one packet by Burns to a friend and patron, a descendant of whom is now selling them. 623 BURNS (Rosurr) AUTOGRAPH MANUSORIPTS or THE FOLLOWING PoEMs, ON ELEVEN QUARTO PAGES :— On THE LATE Capt. GROSE’S PEREGRINATIONS THROUGH SCOTLAND, COLLECTING THE ANTIQUITIES OF THAT KinGpom: Hear, Land o’ Cakes, and brither Scots Frae Maidenkirk, to Johnie Groats ! If there’s a hole in a’ your coats, I rede you tent it: A chield’s amang you, taking notes And faith, he’ll prent it, [ten stanzas of sia lines each| To Miss O¥******** (CRUIKSHANK), A VERY YOUNG LADY, WRITTEN ON THE BLANK LEAF OF A BOOK PRESENTED TO HER BY THE AUTHOR: Beauteous Rose-bud, young and gay, Blooming on the early day, (sic) Never mays’t thou, lovely flower, Chilly shrink in sleety shower. [two stanzas, one of twelve lines and the other of ten lines| SONG : Anna, thy charms my bosom fire And waste my soul with care; But ah! how bootless to admire, When fated to despair. [Two stanzas of four lines each] ON READING IN A NEWSPAPER THE DEATH OF J McL , EsQ., BROTHER TO A YOUNG LADY, A PARTICULAR FRIEND OF THE AUTHOR: Sad thy tale thou idle page, And rueful thy alarms. Death tears the brother of her love From Isabella’s arms. [sia stanzas of four lines each] THE HUMBLE PETITION oF BruAR WATER TO THE NOBLE DUKE OF ATHOLE. Bruar FAs In ATHOLE ARE EXCEEDINGLY PICTURESQUE AND BEAUTIFUL, BUT NOT A BUSH TO BE SEEN ABOUT THEM MARS MUCH THEIR EFFECT: My Lord I know your noble care Woe ne’er assails in vain, Embolden’d thus, I beg you'll hear Your humble slave complain How saucy Phebus’ scorching beams In flaming summer-pride, Dry-withering, waste my foamy streams, And drink my crystal tide. The lightly-jumping, glowrin trouts That thro’ my waters play, If in their random, wanton sports, They near the margin stray, If [a portion only |
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