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Description: | Written in 1793, it is suggested that 'Burns wrote these verses as a much more preferable alternative to the traditional ballad 'The lass of Lochryan' '.
Burns recited this poem to John Syme. It is suggested Syme said, 'Such was the effect, that a dead silence ensued. It was such a silence as a mind of feeling naturally preserves....'.
This compositions comprises of six quatrains (verses) with musical accompaniment namely, Adagio. The theme of this son/poem is the hardness of heart (flint is thy breast) of Lord Gregory to a former lover. In a gathering storm, she urges the 'mustering thunders' to: 'spare, and pardon my fause Love, His wrangs to Heaven and me!' | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1793-01-01 - 1793-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Poem by Robert Burns: 'Lord Gregory' | Go to resource |
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