A Red Red Rose Poem – Full Text Of Poem Written By Robert Burns
A RED RED ROSE POEM – We are going to read the full text of the poem A Red Red Rose written by Robert Burns.
The poem is a 1794 song by Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns. It is also known as “Oh, My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose“, “My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose” or “Red, Red Rose“.
Burns might have been inspired by the concept of deep time that was put forward years earlier by James Hulton.
The song was among the literary works Burns wrote in his final seven years of his life.
Here is the full text of the poem uplifted from Poetry Foundation.
O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune.
So fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.
Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;
I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.
And fare thee weel, my only luve!
And fare thee weel awhile!
And I will come again, my luve,
Though it were ten thousand mile.
Since this is also a song, here it is sung by Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker on YouTube:
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