Robert Burns as the Ploughman Poet
Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) working as a ploughman, which inspired his poem To A Mountain Daisy : Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, thou's met me in an evil hour; for I maun crush amang the stour thy slender stem: to spare thee now is past my pow'r, thou bonnie gem
Picture No
10472354
Media ID
46050171
Size
3816px x 5679px
(5.3MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library/JJT
Source
Illustration by J R Skelton in English Literature for Boys and Girls' by H E Marshall, 1909, opposite page 546
Date
1786
