A Portrait of Robert Burns Robert Burns

1791 · Song

Out over the Forth


Out over the Forth, I look to the North;But what is the north and its Highlands to me?The south nor the east gie ease to my breast,The far foreign land, or the wide rolling sea.
But I look to the west when I gae to rest,That happy my dreams and my slumbers may be;For far in the west lives he I loe best,The man that is dear to my babie and me.
Year
1791
Form
Song
Location
Ellisland
Source
Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns