To a Mouse

"To A Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest, With The Plough" [ [http://www.robertburns.org/works/75.shtml Robert Burns Country: To A Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest, With The Plough] ] is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1785, and was included in the Kilmarnock volume. As the legend goes, Burns wrote the poem after, as the poem suggests, turning up the winter nest of a mouse on his farm.

John Steinbeck took the title of his 1937 novel "Of Mice and Men" from a line contained in the second last stanza: 'The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley' (often paraphrased in English as 'The best-laid plans of mice and men / Go oft awry').

References

See also

* "To a Louse"

External links

*McGown, George William Thompson. [http://www.archive.org/details/primerofburns00burniala "A Primer of Burns"] , Paisley : A. Gardner, 1907. Fully annotated version of "To a Mouse", with historical background. pp.9-20
* Text of the poem can be found at http://www.bartleby.com/6/76.html