Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Celtjew Libertarian

I love Burns although I have read that he really did love the ladies. Maybe a little too much.


96 posted on 05/04/2005 6:56:31 AM PDT by Shanda
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 92 | View Replies ]


To: Shanda
I love Burns although I have read that he really did love the ladies. Maybe a little too much.

Well, put it this way... He had three daughters named Anne -- that he acknowledged.

Thing is, the man dropped the F-bomb in his works.... Take, for example his "Ode to Spring":

When maukin bucks, at early f***s,
In dewy grass are seen, Sir,
And birds, on boughs, take off their mows
Among the leaves sae green, Sir;
Latona's sun looks liquorish on
Dame Nature's grand impetus
Till his p***k go rise, then westward flies
To roger Madame Thetis.

(Rather appropriately, I just realized, "maukin" is a variant of "malkin" which was Scots dialect for several off-color things.)

118 posted on 05/04/2005 7:06:11 AM PDT by Celtjew Libertarian (Shake Hands with the Serpent: Poetry by Charles Lipsig aka Celtjew http://books.lulu.com/lipsig)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 96 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson