Now Westlin' Winds

Now Westlin' Winds is a love song and poem by Scottish poet Robert Burns, which was written in 1783 and is best known as a Scottish folk song, as adapted and sung in 1981 by Dick Gaughan and many others. Burns' original title was Composed in August. It was sung by Karine Polwart and Kirsty Grace, at the Royal Opening, by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, of the Scottish Parliament in 2011.

It was recorded in spoken form for the BBC in 2014 by Bill Paterson. It formed part of the Scottish Literature Higher Poetry Studies national exam curriculum, and was chosen as the Herald Poem of the Day in August 2017.

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