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Robert Burns is Scotland’s greatest poet.
His father, William Burns, was a small farmer. So Robert spent part of his time every day helping on the farm.
Robert learned from his father to love and understand other people. From his moth-
er, too, he learned something very important. As she worked she often sang old country-side songs. In the evening she told the children popular folk-tales.
William Burns was poor, but he wanted very much to give his children an education. Robert and his brother went to school, but they had to help their father with the farm work, which left them very little time for doing homework.
Robert began to write poems when he was fifteen years old. In his poems he described with love and understanding everyday things and people.
When he was older, the readers received his first book of poems. He was asked then to help in making a book of old Scottish folksongs. He wrote new words for many of the melodies.
Robert Burns wrote a lot of poems. They are full of the heroes of his mother’s stories, and the farmers and workmen of the countryside. They are full of life.
Today Burns’s work is known and loved by millions of people.
