BIB_ID
430015
Accession number
MA 46.52
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, author.
Display Date
Scotland?, no date.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 25.5 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Manuscript of the 36 line poem "The tears that I shed" written by Burns, with first line "The tears that I shed much ever fall" and last line "The tears I shed must ever fall."
"5 stanzas, unsigned. Burns says that the song was written by a Miss Cranston, and that he added four lines to accommodate the music ... 'No cold approach, no alter'd mien, / Just what would make suspicion start; / No pause the dire extremes between, / He made me blest--and broke my heart!'"--Kinsley, p. 918.
Part of a collection of 54 letters and poems from Robert Burns to Mrs. Dunlop between 1786 and 1796. Also housed with MA 45. See related records for more information.
"5 stanzas, unsigned. Burns says that the song was written by a Miss Cranston, and that he added four lines to accommodate the music ... 'No cold approach, no alter'd mien, / Just what would make suspicion start; / No pause the dire extremes between, / He made me blest--and broke my heart!'"--Kinsley, p. 918.
Part of a collection of 54 letters and poems from Robert Burns to Mrs. Dunlop between 1786 and 1796. Also housed with MA 45. See related records for more information.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: J WHATMAN.
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