Lyric Poem · War & Remembrance
There’ll never be Peace till Jamie comes hame
by Robert Burns
BY yon Castle wa’, at the close of the day,
I heard a man sing, tho’ his head it was grey:
And as he was singing, the tears doon came,—
There’ll never be peace till Jamie comes hame.
The Church is in ruins, the State is in jars,
Delusions, oppressions, and murderous wars,
We dare na weel say’t, but we ken wha’s to blame,—
There’ll never be peace till Jamie comes hame.
My seven braw sons for Jamie drew sword,
But now I greet round their green beds in the yerd;
It brak the sweet heart o’ my faithful and dame,—
There’ll never be peace till Jamie comes hame.
Now life is a burden that bows me down,
Sin’ I tint my bairns, and he tint his crown;
But till my last moments my words are the same,—
There’ll never be peace till Jamie comes hame.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- There’ll never be Peace till Jamie comes hame
- Poet
- Robert Burns
- Length
- 16 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- War & Remembrance, Love, Sad
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- Shape
- 16 lines · 4 quatrains
- Line length
- Mostly 11-syllable lines.
- Refrain
- “There’ll never be peace till Jamie comes hame.”Repeated lines act as the poem's hinge or drumbeat.
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- Author record
- Robert Burns1759–1796
- Source record
- PoetryDBThere’ll never be Peace till Jamie comes hame by robert-burns, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
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- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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