best Burns Quotes?: I'm doing Research for Burns' Night!

[CDNSushi]

We did this many years ago in a "reader's theatre" skit of Burns's life; I recited the poem while walking around the room with a red rose, stopping at various ladies before ending up in front of my wife at the line "But Armour's..." and then giving her the red rose.

T.

Todd's onto something here. I really like that idea. Another poem (song actually) that would work exceedingly well for a short skit or dramatic reading, and using a red rose WOULD be, Burns's My Love is Like a Red Red Rose... It's always been one of my favourites.

O, my luve's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June.
O, my luve's like the melodie,
That's sweetly play'd in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonie lass,
So deep in luve am I,
And I will luve thee still, my Dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry.

Till a' the seas gang dry, my Dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun!
O I will luve thee still, my Dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only Luve,
And fare thee weel a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho' it were ten thousand mile!