Robert Burns
I have a hundred times wished
that one could resign life
as an officer resigns a commission.
If there is another world, he lives in bliss.
If there is none, he made the best of this.
Gathering her brows like gathering storm,
Nursing her wrath, to keep it warm.
Tam O'Shanter
When up they got an' shook their lugs,
Rejoic'd they werena men but dogs.
The Two Dogs
O would some power the giftie gie us
To see ourselves as others see us.
To a Louse
The best laid schemes of mice an' men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief and pain,
For promis'd joy!
To a Mouse