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Robert Burns
Robert Burns
Born in Alloway, Scotland, on January 25, 1759, Robert Burns was the first of William and Agnes Burnes' seven children. His father, a tenant farmer, educated his children at home....
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FURTHER READING
Poems About Difficult Love
A Love Song
by William Carlos Williams
Be Near Me
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder
by A. E. Housman
I Am Not Yours
by Sara Teasdale
I Do Not Love Thee
by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
Love's Secret
by William Blake
Never give all the heart
by W. B. Yeats
The More Loving One
by W. H. Auden
To His Coy Love
by Michael Drayton
To His Coy Mistress
by Andrew Marvell
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII)
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Anna, Thy Charms  
by Robert Burns

Anna, thy charms my bosom fire,  

And waste my soul with care;
But ah! how bootless to admire,
When fated to despair!

Yet in thy presence, lovely Fair,
To hope may be forgiven;
For sure 'twere impious to despair
So much in sight of heaven.
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