The Riddle

I dressed a lot of persons

I patched clothes to many others

The rich as well as the poor

I took off thorns

To the sick I pierced boils

I also pierced plenty of ears

Most people need me

They can’t do without me

I adorned too many brides

I made their grooms look handsome

So that they please their admirers

I protected the miserable

I covered and wormed them

With the suitable cloth

I cared a lot for the wrecked

I provided them with food in plenty

I realized later on

That I was doing only good

But as if I was digging in water

No profit coming in return

From the ungrateful man

Yet I kept accomplishing my duty

What I said is an example

I took it from our rich repertory

All the words I’ve used

Are about my doings

And those of the needle

Which remains naked.

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Poems in English 

• Fragment – Wee Willie Gray (Song) by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Farewell to Eliza (Song) by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Impromptu on Dumourier’s Desertion of the French Republican Army by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Grace before and after Meat by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Epitaph for Robert Aiken by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Epistle to a Young Friend by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Address to Beelzebub by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• A Grace after Meat by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• A Dream by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• A Bard’s Epitaph by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Zion by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• You Must n’t Swim… by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• With Scindia to Delphi by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Wilful Missing by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• White Horses by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• When the Great Ark by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling

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