46+ Tam O Shanter Poem Pics. Had'st thou but been sae wise. Tam o'shanter is an entertaining long poem by robert burns that has been one of his most loved pieces of poetry ever since it was published in 1791.
First published in 1791, at 228 (or 224) lines it is one of burns' longer poems, and employs a mixture of scots and english.
Tam o' shanter was not burns' only venture in the supernatural. Stories, nursery rhymes and poems » poems » classic poems. The poem is not without moments of pathos, and may even have given its first readers a shudder or two in its gleeful summary of the horrible and awefu',/ which even to name wad be unlawfu'… but there's never a doubt that the comic from tam o'shanter, a tale. Had'st thou but been sae wise.