Robert Burns

Ellibanks

Ellibanks - meaning Summary

Boisterous Erotic Rural Boasting

This poem is a frank, bawdy celebration of sexual desire and prowess delivered in Scots dialect. The speaker boasts of vigorous encounters at Ellibanks and Ellibraes, addressing a lover with playful, explicit imagery and claiming sexual agency and skill. The tone mixes comic bravado, physical detail, and local color, turning rural place-names into stages for erotic play. Its energy comes from candid confession, dialectal voice, and repeated assertive lines that emphasize desire, dominance, and mutual pleasure rather than courtly romance.

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Ellibanks and Ellibraes, My blessin's ay befa' them, Tho' I wish I had brunt a' my claes, The first time e'er I saw them: Your succar kisses were sae sweet, Deil damn me gin I ken, man, How ye gart me lay my legs aside, And lift my sark myself, man. There's no a lass in a' the land, Can fuck sae weel as I can; Louse down your breeks, lug out your wand, Hae ye nae mind to try, man: For ye're the lad that wears the breeks, And I'm the lass that loes ye; Deil rive my cunt to candle-wicks, Gif ever I refuse ye!!! I'll clasp my arms about your neck, As souple as an eel, jo; I'll cleek my houghs about your arse, As I were gaun to speel, jo; I'll cleek my houghs about your arse, As I were gaun to speel, jo; And if Jock thief he should slip out, I'll ding him wi' my heel, jo. Green be the broom on Ellibraes, And yellow be the gowan! My wame it fistles ay like flaes, As I come o'er the knowe, man: There I lay glowran to the moon, Your mettle wadna daunton, For hard your hurdies hotch'd aboon, While I below lay panting.

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