A Portrait of Robert Burns Robert Burns

1788 · Poem

Versicles on Sign-Posts


His face with smile eternal drest,Just like the Landlord’s to his Guest’s,High as they hang with creaking din,To index out the Country Inn.He looked just as your sign-post Lions do,With aspect fierce, and quite as harmless too.
A head, pure, sinless quite of brain and soul,The very image of a barber’s Poll;It shews a human face, and wears a wig,And looks, when well preserv’d, amazing big.
Year
1788
Form
Poem
Location
Mossgiel
Source
Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns