Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume III. Sorrow and Consolation. 1904. | | | | II. Parting and Absence | | “I love my Jean” | | Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
| | | OF a’ the airts 1 the wind can blaw, | |
| I dearly like the west; | |
| For there the bonnie lassie lives, | |
| The lassie I lo’e best. | |
| There wild woods grow, and rivers row, | 5 |
| And monie a hill ’s between; | |
| But day and night my fancy’s flight | |
| Is ever wi’ my Jean. | |
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| I see her in the dewy flowers, | |
| I see her sweet and fair; | 10 |
| I hear her in the tunefu’ birds, | |
| I hear her charm the air; | |
| There ’s not a bonnie flower that springs | |
| By fountain, shaw, or green; | |
| There ’s not a bonnie bird that sings, | 15 |
| But minds me of my Jean. | |
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