Mossgiel

There's also a modest bunch of pressed wildflowers she and Nathaniel picked on Burns's Mossgiel Farm—the wild daisies, or gowans, of "Auld Lang Syne."

Visiting an Auld Acquaintance Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011

Robert and Gilbert made an ineffectual struggle to keep on the farm, but after its failure they moved to the farm at Mossgiel, near Mauchline in March, which they maintained with an uphill fight for the next four years.

robert burns | some hae meat « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

The brothers had already taken another farm named Mossgiel.

English Literature for Boys and Girls

Mossgiel -- it might have lightened the last hours of his pilgrimage upon earth.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

Affairs, however, went no better with the family; and in 1784 they migrated to Mossgiel, where he lived and wrought, during four years, for a return scarce equal to the wage of the commonest labourer in our day.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Burns was preparing a home at Ellisland; Mrs. Burns was at Mossgiel.

Song-Of a’ the Airts the Wind can Blaw 1909

His father died in 1784, and with his brother Gilbert the poet rented the farm of Mossgiel; but this venture was as unsuccessful as the others.

Introductory Note 1909

An enlarged edition of his poems was published there in 1787, and the money derived from this enabled him to aid his brother in Mossgiel, and to take and stock for himself the farm of Ellisland in Dumfriesshire.

Introductory Note 1909

With part of the money he relieved his brother Gilbert from pressing obligations at Mossgiel by the loan of one hundred and eighty pounds, and with the rest leased the farm of Ellisland on the bank of the Nith, five or six miles above Dumfries.

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

On the death of their father, Robert and Gilbert Burns moved with the family to the farm of Mossgiel in the next parish of Mauchline.

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907