Rusticity’s ungainly formMay cloud the highest mind;But when the heart is nobly warm,The good excuse will find.
Propriety’s cold, cautious rulesWarm fervour may o’erlook:But spare poor sensibilityTh’ ungentle, harsh rebuke.
1786 · Poem
Fragment on Sensibility
- Year
- 1786
- Form
- Poem
- Location
- Mossgiel
- Source
- Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns