We expected the violin’s finger on the upturned nerve;
Its importunate cry, too laxly curved:
And you drew us an oboe-outline, clean and acute;
Unadorned statement, accurately carved.

We expected the screen, the background for reverie
Which cloudforms usefully weave:
And you built the immaculate, adamant, blue-green steel
Arch of a balanced wave.

We expected a pool with flowers to diffuse and break
The child-round face of the mirrored moon:
And you blazed a rock-path, begun near the sun, to be finished
By the trained and intrepid feet of men.

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Poems in English 

• Robert Burns: Come, Let Me Take Thee To My Breast: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Phillis The Queen O’ The Fair: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Whistle, And I’ll Come To You, My Lad: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: By Allan Stream: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Had I A Cave: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Phillis The Fair: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Epigram On The Laird Of Laggan: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Epigrams Against The Earl Of Galloway: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Epitaph On A Lap-Dog Named Echo: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Bonie Jean-A Ballad: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Blythe Hae I been On Yon Hill: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Logan Braes: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Last Time I Came O’er The Moor: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Impromptu On General Dumourier’s Desertion From The French Republican Army: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Grace Before And After Meat : by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Grace After Meat: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Extempore Reply To An Invitation: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Kirk and State Excisemen: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Raptures Of Folly: by Robert Burns

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