A Red, Red Rose (Robert Burns)

When I first read this poem by Robert Burns, I thought 'what tripe!'. It's very cliche and while it's well written - what with the meter and the rhyme - I was unimpressed.

But then I read his bio and he was born in the 1700s, so perhaps the phrases (my love is like a red rose, til the seas go dry, the sands of my life....) are only cliche now. Maybe he was guy that first wrote them. That'd be pretty impressive.

It looks like he also wrote Auld Lang Syne and is considered to be the National Bard of Scotland, so I'll assume that he did coin those phrases. Very neat.

Favorite line: "Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear"

Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,