Question

The speaker of a poem by this author warns that “Stern Ruin’s ploughshare drives elate, full on thy bloom” while talking about a flower crushed by a plow. In a poem by this author, the speaker wishes (-5[1])for some “rank, mercurial rozet” or “red smeddum” to help out a woman. A poem by this author contains the declaration, “O would some Power the gift give us / To see ourselves as others see us!” That poem by this author is about a creature on a (*) lady’s bonnet at church. The speaker of a poem (10[1])by this author regrets that “Man’s dominion (10[1])/ Has broken Nature’s (10[1])social union.” (10[1]-5[2])That poem by this author is about a “Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie.” (10[1])For (10[1])10 points, name this author of the similarly named poems “To a Louse” and “To a Mouse.” ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Robert Burns [or Robbie Burns; or Rabbie Burns] (The poem in the lead-in is “To a Mountain Daisy.”)
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