| To A Mouse | |
|---|---|
| by Robert Burns | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Language | Scots |
| Rhyme scheme | AAABAB |
| Publication date | November, 1785 |
"To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785"[1][2] is a Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1785. It was included in the Kilmarnock volume[3] and all of the poet's later editions, such as the Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Edinburgh Edition). According to legend, Burns was ploughing in the fields at his Mossgiel Farm and accidentally destroyed a mouse's nest, which it needed to survive the winter. In fact, Burns's brother, Gilbert, claimed that the poet composed the poem while still holding his plough.[4]
- ^ Burns, Robert. "To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785".
- ^ Burns, Robert. "To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785"..
- ^ Burns, Robert (1786). Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. Kilmarnock: John Wilson. p. 138. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
- ^ Greenblatt, Stephen, ed. (2012). The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 9th ed. Vol. D. New York: W. W. Norton. Print.
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