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Carmichael, Rebekah
A young poetess whose Poems appeared in 1790 and were sold by Peter Hill. Burns's name appears for two copies on the subscription list. On 2nd August 1791, Mrs M'Lehose asked him in a letter: 'Pray have you seen Greenfield's Poems? Or Miss Carmichael's? The last are very poor, I think.' Burns sent Miss Carmichael his own copy of the works of Robert Fergusson with two lines written above and the following verse written under the portrait which served as a frontispiece: "Curs on ungrateful man, that can be pleas'd
And yet can starve the author of the pleasure.
O thou, my elder brother in misfortune,
By far my elder brother in the muse,
With tears I pity thy unhappy fate!
Why is the bard unfitted for the world,
Yet has so keen a relish of its pleasures?"
Miss Carmichael later married a Mr Hay.
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