Famous Bonier Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Bonier poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous bonier poems. These examples illustrate what a famous bonier poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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194. Song—Blythe was She

...rn,
 And blythe in Glenturit glen.


BY 1 Oughtertyre grows the aik,
 On Yarrow banks the birken shaw;
But Phemie was a bonier lass
 Than braes o’ Yarrow ever saw.
 Blythe, blythe, &c.


Her looks were like a flow’r in May,
 Her smile was like a simmer morn:
She tripped by the banks o’ Earn,
 As light’s a bird upon a thorn.
 Blythe, blythe, &c.


Her bonie face it was as meek
 As ony lamb upon a lea;
The evening sun was ne’er sae sweet,
 As was the blink o’ Phemie’s e’e.
 Bly...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


28. Poor Mailie's Elegy

...get o’ moorland tips,
Wi’ tauted ket, an’ hairy hips;
For her forbears were brought in ships,
 Frae ’yont the Tweed.
A bonier fleesh ne’er cross’d the clips
 Than Mailie’s dead.


 Wae worth the man wha first did shape
That vile, wanchancie thing—a raip!
It maks guid fellows girn an’ gape,
 Wi’ chokin dread;
An’ Robin’s bonnet wave wi’ crape
 For Mailie dead.


 O, a’ ye bards on bonie Doon!
An’ wha on Ayr your chanters tune!
Come, join the melancholious croon
 O’ Robin’s re...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

371. Song—Lady Mary Ann

...was its smell and bonie was its hue,
And the longer it blossom’d the sweeter it grew,
 For the lily in the bud will be bonier yet.


Young Charlie Cochran was the sprout of an aik,
Bonie and bloomin’ and straught was its make,
The sun took delight to shine for its sake,
 And it will be the brag o’ the forest yet.


The simmer is gane when the leaves they were green,
And the days are awa’ that we hae seen,
But far better days I trust will come again;
 For my bonie laddie’s yo...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

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