He adjured the title river to "flow gently" and "disturb not [the] dream" of his beloved Mary in "Afton Water."
He warned that "Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate," and that being "crushed beneath the furrow's weight" will also be the reader's "doom," at the end of a poem addressed to "a mountain daisy."  He adjured the title river to "flow gently" and "disturb not [the] dream" of his beloved Mary in "Afton Water." The title character of one of his works begs pardon for lifting "a lawless leg" upon Meg. In addition to "Holy Willie's Prayer," he wrote a mock epic whose hero costs Maggie her tail after he calls encouragement to Nannie, whom he calls Cutty-sark; that "bletherin', blusterin', drunken blellum" is the title character of "Tam o' Shanter." He wrote about turning up with his plow a "Wee, sleekit, cow'rin', tim'rous beastie" in "To a Mouse." FTP, name this poet of "Scots, Wha Hae" and "Auld Lang Syne."
He warned that "Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate," and that being "crushed beneath the furrow's weight" will also be the reader's "doom," at the end of a poem addressed to "a mountain daisy."  
Robert Burns