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Description: | Burns copied this version of the elegy to page 52 & 53 of a collection of his then unpublished works known as the Afton Lodge MS. This book of poems was given by Burns to Catherine Stewart, a devotee of his works and wife of Alexander Stewart of Stair.
Elizabeth Burnett died of tuberculosis on 17 June 1790. Back in December 1786, Burns said of her, 'There has not been anything nearly like her in all the combinations of Beauty, Grace, and Goodness the great Creator has formed, since Milton's Eve on the first day of her existence.'.
The second page of this elegy continues the Poet's feelings for Miss Burnett. For example, Burnett carries the epithet of being 'sweet excellence'. She shone 'in youth and beauty's pride' but, having died 'left us darkling in a world of tears'. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1791-01-01 - 1791-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Poem by Robert Burns: 'A fragment, which | Go to resource |
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