by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
O, wat ye wha that lo'es me
Language: Scottish (Scots)
Available translation(s): ENG
O, wat ye wha that lo'es me And has my heart a-keeping? O, sweet is she that lo'es me, As dews o' summer weeping, In tears the rosebuds steeping! Refrain: O, that's the lassie o' my heart, My lassie ever dearer! O, that's the queen o' womankind, And ne'er a ane to peer her! If thou shalt meet a lassie, In grace and beauty charming, That e'en thy chosen lassie, Erewhile thy breast sae warming, Had ne'er sic powers alarming : Refrain If thou hadst heard her talking, (And thy attention's plighted), That ilka body talking, But her, by thee is slighted, And thou art all delighted : Refrain If thou hast met this fair one, When frae her thou hast parted, If every other fair one But her, thou hast deserted, And thou art broken-hearted, Refrain.
J. Haydn sets stanzas 1-2, 4
About the headline (FAQ)
View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns, Cambridge edition, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1897, page 284.
Authorship:
- by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), "O, wat ye wha that lo'es me" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by (Franz) Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809), "Morag", Hob. XXXIa:143bis, JHW XXXII/3 no. 254, stanzas 1-2,4. [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Pierre Mathé) , title unknown, copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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