Robert Burns, famously known as the National Bard of Scotland, is the best-known Scottish language poet till date. Born into family of tenant farmers, he was mostly educated at home by his father. He started laboring at the farm at the age of twelve, which is said to have permanently damaged his health. Also famous for his amours as well as his rebellion against orthodox religion, he wrote his first poem, Handsome Nell, in the praise a farm girl at the age of fifteen. It was a spontaneous expression of his passion as until then he had no inclination to become a poet. However, he continued to write poems inspired by young ladies he met in the neighborhood and elsewhere. Later on, he started to write on other issues as well and eventually published, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect around the age of twenty-seven. Later, he stared contributing to other works such as Scots Musical Museum and A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs, spending his last years in not only making original compositions, but also collecting folk songs from across Scotland.