Two poems for Burns Night

I read you a couple of my mother’s favourite Burns poems.
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[@raftastrock]

Raising a glass, beautiful memory of your parents and their shorthand for love and affection. Thank you, Malcolm!

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@aginsfbayarea7350]

"Hang on, we're dram-less" is a simply wonderful expression I am sure to find occasion to use, with attribution, in the future. Love it! Slàinte Mhath!

[@nevermind2886]

That one got me, too 😂.

[@SUGAR_HOUSE_WYE]

Malcolm…What a magnificent mop o’hair you have! Silver or not, my friend you managed to keep it! Thanks for sharing Burns with us!

[@zhartheProprietor]

A great literary awakening is going to happen eventually, and you sir, will be remembered among the literate.

[@kiwitraveller6451]

Raising your glass...my two sons are related to Burns from NZ his nephew Thomas Burns...we have a history book about him here in NZ...thanks Malcolm had forgotten about Robby/Rabbie Burns birthday...have a wee dram...slainte...💜🙏

[@hilaryhackleman6916]

Thank you. That was lovely. We just finished a simple Burns Supper here with My Joe and our toddler, Alban. The dinner becomes more like All Souls’ the older we get, as we remember those who shared the table and poetry with us but cannot join us any longer. Blessings from our family to yours.❤

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

and blessings to you!

[@tomginn3091]

Two things I love doing, popping by and playing along. Happy burns night.

[@VincetheBarber1790]

As an American, I've never heard of Burns or his day. It was a pleasure to learn and listen.

[@hobbitonpiper]

I’ll have to settle for a dram of Glenfiddich 12 in a Glencairn glass since that’s what I have on hand. I always enjoy hearing you read. Cheers! :)

[@snort455]

I dont quite know how I stumbled onto Burns night. I guess the KZbin algorithm. Thank you KZbin. Thank you for the wonderful reading, sir.

[@northstar92]

Parts of Epistle to a Young Friend always stuck with me. I waive the quantum of the sin The hazard of concealing But ach, it hardens all within And petrifies the feeling I still don't really understand but it never left me.

[@doorntreader7624]

What a warm and comfortable time together. Lovely.

[@williamgaly4579]

“We’re dramless.” I died on that one.

[@stoicepictetus3875]

Thank you for reading out loud Burns, Slàinte Mhath!

[@zita-lein]

I absolutely love how you set these up. So adorable! I think I’ll do something similar when I start my channel! ❤️💙

[@scottglynn5724]

❤

[@brianheffernan8982]

Great video, Malcolm. It's good to see you again.

[@tomaria100]

I must learn more about Mr. Burns! Thank you, Malcolm!

[@Arctic_Cat423]

This is a joy worth sharing.

[@rosebasson9758]

Thank you very much, I was so tired, until I heard you....reciting. I felt revived again.😊

[@yusufsayed1583]

Good Morning 😊 Thanks for the read 💯 Have a great day and Greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦

[@hampshirerose9395]

❤ A very happy Burn’s Night to you. Thank you for the beautiful poetry and personal stores you shared with us, making the evening very special. 🥃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😊

[@SouthAlabamaPiper]

Thank you for sharing, loved the poems from Burns

[@minui8758]

How am I only just now discovering this glorious channel?! I’ve had God alone knows many of your sonnets sent to me. It’s an utter joy to put face to work - also how wonderful a face! 😊

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Thanks and Welcome!

[@susanowens1028]

What a lovely visit with you this evening! Looking forward to spending many more together!

[@michaelhull9617]

Thank you, Professor, for another wonderful video.

[@jimmyskiff9858]

What a great atmosphere you have created here Malcolm! Thanks. Jim Moran Liverpool

[@k.howard5927]

This was excellent! so glad the algorithm kicked this up. Ironically getting ready to head out to a Burns Supper. Thank you for the content. 😀

[@RichardIIfan]

Thank you. I used to have a Peterson. Many years ago I bought a copy of the Quiller-Couch Oxford Book of English Verse.

[@tommyvaughanhaus]

Thanks for posting these! Awesome!

[@user-cz7kc1qs1w]

Banks o Doon We sang and in school many years ago ! In Aberdeen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@MitchelSue]

Attended my first Robert Burns Supper last Saturday. 😊 Very enjoyable affair! You just popped up into my feed today, but im quite glad you did!! Thank you for your invite and readings!!

[@bigal2696]

Beautiful reading! I'm moved to take down my own volume of Burns. Thank you!

[@susanday3478]

Is it me, or does Malcomb look EXACTLY how you would imagine father Christmas to look like in narnia.

[@zamiadams4343]

Thank you Malcolm! I'm a Glaswegian and love a whisky like yourself and Wee Rabby, just subbed.

[@tattoofthesun]

I will have a home just like this in time. I have half the book collection!!

[@mudlarkingmarionette]

I suffer from double shelving also ; I start the dusting of the books at the beginning of the month and by the end of the month ; I have completed the living room shelves and then I start again ; trying not to be distracted by fondly remembered volumes. It is like a never ending journey . I remember the people who recommended the books to me . Kindle you say . What I say . Give me a broken spine volume any day and besides you cant write in the margins ,let alone a full page on a kindle. Even the stains are discreet reminders of the chocolate fiends ; the coffee snufflers ,the nicotine knackered and the absinthe apostles . Never loan The Prophet(Kahlil Gibran) ; it has a habit of leaving gaps unless filled by someone new. Not likely now( haha) , my books have now my full devotion . Although , I confess , I do have several volumes of The Prophet , just in case. Tae A Louse is my favourite and a close second is A Man's a Man fur a' that.

[@luciahaase6201]

Wonderful. I'm a poet from the US. That looks like my book shelf! 🙂

[@oldandintheway1955]

Hiyas Malcolm, Yer Burns night posts are always such a delight. Cheers and Sláinte Mhath 🥃 Gary

[@robandrews9165]

New to this channel, popped up this morning as a recommended, not sure why? But glad it did. Fantastic stuff, thank you so much 😊

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Welcome aboard!

[@cascadianpiper]

Very interesting. I’d heard that first poem a long time ago, but only hearing you read it now, it resonated with me as being VERY similar to Goethe’s Heidenöslein. Ha! I’ll have to look at the two together more closely. :)

[@tarsschley5771]

Lovely. Such a great room too.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Thank you! 😊

[@tacpowers]

So good to see you Malcolm, if by none other than on this video...and yet, you make it so personal! You have so many videos out there and yet, I wonder if we might have ever been introduced to the visitor that you always have with you in your study? Maybe I have missed formal introductions from some other video but I thought I might inquire as such anyway. Thank you so much for your time and your beautiful poems!

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

well in one sense of course, you are the visitor, but the person who kindly acts as your proxy and opens the door is my wife.

[@tacpowers]

@@MalcolmGuitespell Excellent!! What a wonder she is! Thank you for clueing me in!

[@MrKeithtoad]

I love your eccentric videos, Malcom. Your poetry, your harris tweed, your pipes, your single malt, your scholarly ways. You represent to me, as a Colonial, what I am proud of about my British Heritage. What I don't get is your "fetishism" about that Middle Eastern Desert Religion that merely stems from the Mythologies of the Hebrew Tribes and through several accidents of History expanded way further than it ever should have. Why, so much disdain for the Spiritual Traditions of North-Western Europe!?! All that pink skin and blue eyes! (Oh maybe not blue eyes.)

[@frogmorepipester7490]

Lovely jibber jabber! Cheers from Frogmore, S.C.

[@dancoomer8090]

Happy Burns Night to you!!

[@Pravda613]

Thank you for another enjoyable chat! (I just looked up "canty" and found that it came from into Middle English from the Low German word for "merry".)

[@devonmohn4635]

Thank you my friend.

[@rainblaze.]

For the bards remembrance hae a dram Or maybe mere an dam the harm Yer heid maybe sare come rosy dawn When left sear tae bare wae just its thorn

[@walkingnerfwithjack1881]

I'm just 13 but love your channel and poems and talks! But I'm too young to drink!

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Welcome, the drink is a pleasure that can and should only come at its proper time, but in the meantime you have all the pleasures of poetry before you, and there's no minimum age for that!

[@danielstoddart]

Malcolm, thank you for this. I've been listening to you read your poetry for years. I don't know if you remember this, but years ago, this must have been well over 10 years ago now, you used to post a poem or two on an audio web application (the name of which escapes me at the moment). I'd listen to those and I became a fan. I was also intrigued by your talks on Charles Williams and the other Inklings. I see you also have a copy of the Oxford Book of English Verse. The old Arthur Quiller-Couch edition, not the newer edition, is what got me through my early university education and I still have and enjoy my copy!

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Thanks. Yes I used to put poems on Audioboom. That Q edition is an absolute classic!

[@danielstoddart]

@@MalcolmGuitespell Yes! That's it! Audioboom. I was working as a web developer and in the mornings over coffee I'd start my day with one of your readings. I tell students that the Q edition of the OBEV (c.1250-1900) is well worth looking for in the used trade. Here's an idea for you that I think would make a good Malcolm Guite video: compare and contrast the first and second editions of the OBEV and discuss why certain poems were dropped or added.

[@edds46]

Thank you

[@danielosullivan3110]

Whiskey with an "e", for me ☘️ Cheers. Please read us some Finn agains awake

[@juliebrantner4862]

Happy Burn’s Night .

[@waynecraske711]

Have you ever considered cataloguing your books, including position details, while you're having to double shelve?

[@americanman4746]

What is the whisky for which you are partaking Malcolm?

[@Sunwolfe]

Aye, Slainte!

[@jerzpiper]

Happy Burns Night ...Sláinte! 🥃

[@orionfoote2890]

God save us from double shelving - can never find a damn thing. Lovely reading though - this channel is such a gem.

[@SempreGumby]

Okay Okay ... just a "touch"

[@bryanmcghee3213]

Bobbie Burns went too england once,and vowed never to return,he did'nt like englanders.

[@TerryC69]

Hi Malcolm! It seems such a shame for a man with the great gifts of Burns to have died before he was forty.

[@mickbrilliantfootballeroft327]

Who's the mystery Jon that knocks you up?

[@StDavidpipes]

I don’t use alcohol so a bit of ginger ale it is.

[@DanielKellyFolkMusic]

Ye Nae fond o' Haggis? NAE FOND O' HAGGIS!?! (neither am I). Happy Birthday Rabbie, wish you were better appreciated and supported in life than you now are in death.

[@user-cd1qs7zb7b]

Sláinte Mhath !!

[@michaelmartinserafin2029]

In addition to Burns Night, it is also my birthday!

[@danielosullivan3110]

My mom used to say "there's no Jew,like an Irish Jew"😂

[@mattmclaughlin6231]

OK. I'm dying to know... what's in the Rattray's tin? Hal O the Wynd and Marlin Flake are two of my all-time favorites.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

It's Marlin Flake!

[@mattmclaughlin6231]

An all time great blend! Makes me feel a bit taller knowing we share some of the same tastes!@@MalcolmGuitespell

[@mattmclaughlin6231]

Not only do you smoke good tobacco, you write wonderful poems. I am a Baptist preacher near Annapolis Maryland in the U.S.. I am preaching through Genesis this year and Sunday happens to be Gen 3 and the fall. As part of my sermon I would like to share your poem Stones into Bread. It about had me in tears this morning. I am using Word in the Wilderness in my devotional time and it about had me in tears this morning. @@MalcolmGuitespell

[@mimicotom]

What could be better? Smoking a pipe and enjoying a single malt whiskey.

[@wchops7578]

I’m enjoying a dram of Glenmorangie 18, slàinte!

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

now that's a very fine dram!

[@sandrofazzolari8833]

Slainthe 🥃🙏

[@katia_x_katia]

I would like to be the camera man! 🤗

[@allantaylor2692]

I shared a dram, Malcolm!

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

excellent

[@StephenGrew]

Slainte..,🙂

[@william6084]

I'm here for Burns night 🍻 I imagine your library carved into a grassy hillock downwind of the common folk, as the wolfmoon illuminates the footsteps of your ancestors...way before religion and the manufacture of holy books and carpetbaggers calling themselves priests

[@bloke1348]

My God....how poignant...