Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | VIII. Wedded Love | | My Wife ’s a Winsome Wee Thing | | Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
| | | SHE is a winsome wee thing, | |
| She is a handsome wee thing, | |
| She is a bonnie wee thing, | |
| This sweet wee wife o’ mine. | |
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| I never saw a fairer, | 5 |
| I never lo’ed a dearer, | |
| And neist my heart I ’ll wear her, | |
| For fear my jewel tine. | |
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| She is a winsome wee thing, | |
| She is a handsome wee thing, | 10 |
| She is a bonnie wee thing, | |
| This sweet wife o’ mine. | |
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| The warld’s wrack we share o’t, | |
| The wrastle and the care o’t: | |
| Wi’ her I ’ll blythely bear it, | 15 |
| And think my lot divine. | | | | |
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