412. My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
R Burns read by Classic Poetry Aloud: Giving voice to the poetry of the past.\nwww.classicpoetryaloud.com\n\n--------------------------------------------\n\nMy Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose\nby Robert Burns (1759 \u20131896)\n\nMy luve's like a red, red rose,\nThat's newly sprung in June.\nMy luve's like the melodie,\nThat's sweetly play'd in tune.\nAs fair art thou, my bonie lass,\nSo deep in luve am I,\nAnd I will luve thee still, my Dear,\nTill a' the seas gang dry.\n\nTill a' the seas gang dry, my Dear,\nAnd the rocks melt wi' the sun!\nO I will luve thee still, my Dear,\nWhile the sands o' life shall run.\nAnd fare-thee-weel, my only Luve,\nAnd fare-thee-weel a while!\nAnd I will come again, my Luve,\nTho' it were ten thousand mile!\n\nFirst aired: 25 January 2009\n\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\n\nReading \xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2009