8 Robert Burns Quotes on Time

Robert Burns quotes on time

1. Beauty's of a fading nature Has a season and is gone!

18. Stern Ruin's plowshare drives elate, Full on thy bloom.

35. This day, Time winds th' exhausted chain, To run the twelvemonth's length again.

41. The golden Hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my Dearie; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.

46. O Mary, at thy window be! It is the wished, the trysted hour.

67. But pleasures are like poppies spread- You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river- A moment white-then melts forever.

68. Nae man can tether time or tide.

69. That hour, o' night's black arch the keystane.