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Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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Introductory Note
1771 -1779
Song - Handsome
Nell
Song
- O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The Day
Song - I Dream'd
I Lay
Song
- In The Character Of A Ruined Farmer
Tragic Fragment
- All villain as I am
The Tarbolton
Lasses
Ah,
Woe Is Me, My Mother Dear
Song - Montgomerie's
Peggy
The Ploughman's
Life
1780
The
Ronalds Of The Bennals
Song - Here's
To Thy Health
Song
- The Lass Of Cessnock Banks
Song - Bonie
Peggy Alison
Song - Mary Morison
1781
Winter: A Dirge
A
Prayer, Under The Pressure Of Violent Anguish
Paraphrase
Of The First Psalm
The
First Six Verses Of The Ninetieth Psalm Versified
Prayer,
In The Prospect Of Death
Stanzas,
On The Same Occasion
1782
Fickle Fortune:
A Fragment
Song - Raging
Fortune - Fragment Of
I'll
Go And Be A Sodger
Song - "No
Churchman Am I"
My Father
Was A Farmer
John Barleycorn:
A Ballad
1783
Death
And Dying Words Of Poor Mailie
Poor Mailie's
Elegy
Song - The
Rigs O' Barley
Song
Composed In August
Song - My Nanie, O!
Song -
Green Grow The Rashes
Song
- Wha Is That At My Bower-Door
1784
Remorse:
A Fragment
Epitaph On Wm. Hood,
Senr., In Tarbolton
Epitaph On James Grieve, Laird Of Boghead, Tarbolton
Epitaph On My Own Friend And My Father's Friend, Wm. Muir In Tarbolton
Mill
Epitaph On My Ever
Honoured Father
Ballad
On The American War
Reply
To An Announcement By J. Rankine
Epistle
To John Rankine
A
Poet's Welcome To His Love-Begotten Daughter
Song - O Leave
Novels!
The
Mauchline Lady: A Fragment
My
Girl She's Airy: A Fragment
The Belles
Of Mauchline
Epitaph On A Noisy
Polemic
Epitaph On A Henpecked Country Squire
Epigram On The Said Occasion
Another On The said Occasion
On Tam The Chapman
Epitaph On John Rankine
Lines
On The Author's Death
Man
Was Made To Mourn: A Dirge
The
Twa Herds; Or, The Holy Tulyie
1785
Epistle
To Davie, A Brother Poet
Holy Willie's
Prayer
Epitaph
On Holy Willie
Death
and Doctor Hornbook
Epistle
To J. Lapraik, An Old Scottish Bard
Second
Epistle To J. Lapraik
Epistle
To William Simson
One
Night As I Did Wander
Tho'
Cruel Fate Should Bid Us Part
Song - Rantin',
Rovin' Robin
Elegy
On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux
Epistle
To John Goldie, In Kilmarnock
The Holy Fair
Third
Epistle To J. Lapraik
Epistle
To The Rev. John M'math
Second
Epistle to Davie
Song-Young
Peggy Blooms
Song-Farewell
To Ballochmyle
Fragment-Her
Flowing Locks
Halloween
To A Mouse
Epitaph
On John Dove, Innkeeper
Epitaph
For James Smith
Adam Armour's
Prayer
The
Jolly Beggars: A Cantata
Song - For A' That
Song
- Merry Hae I Been Teethin A Heckle
The
Cotter's Saturday Night
Address To
The Deil
Scotch Drink
1786
The
Auld Farmer's New-Year-Morning Salutation To His Auld Mare, Maggie
The Twa Dogs
The
Author's Earnest Cry And Prayer
The Ordination
Epistle
To James Smith
The Vision
Suppressed Stanza's
Of "The Vision"
The
Rantin' Dog, The Daddie O't
Here's
His Health In Water
Address
To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly Righteous
The Inventory
To
John Kennedy, Dumfries House
To
Mr. M'Adam, Of Craigen-Gillan
To A Louse
Inscribed
On A Work Of Hannah More's
Song,
Composed In Spring
To A Mountain
Daisy
To Ruin
The Lament
Despondency:
An Ode
To Gavin Hamilton,
Esq., Mauchline, Recommending a Boy
Versified
Reply To An Invitation
Song
- Will Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary?
My Highland
Lassie, O
Epistle
To A Young Friend
Address
Of Beelzebub
A Dream
A
Dedication To Gavin Hamilton, Esq.
Versified
Note To Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchline
The
Farewell To the Brethren of St. James' Lodge, Tarbolton
On
A Scotch Bard, Gone To The West Indies
Song - Farewell
To Eliza
A Bard's Epitaph
Epitaph For Robert
Aiken, Esq.
Epitaph For Gavin Hamilton, Esq.
Epitaph On "Wee Johnie"
The Lass
O' Ballochmyle
Lines
To An Old Sweetheart
Motto
Prefixed To The Author's First Publication
Lines
To Mr. John Kennedy
Lines
Written On A Banknote
Stanzas On
Naething
The Farewell
The Calf
Nature's Law-A
Poem
Song-Willie Chalmers
Reply
To A Trimming Epistle Received From A Tailor
The Brigs Of
Ayr
Fragment Of
Song
Epigram
On Rough Roads
Prayer-O
Thou Dread Power
Song
- Farewell To The Banks Of Ayr
Address
To The Toothache
Lines
On Meeting With Lord Daer
Masonic Song
Tam Samson's
Elegy
Epistle
To Major Logan
Fragment
On Sensibility
A Winter Night
Song-Yon
Wild Mossy Mountains
Address
To Edinburgh
Address To
A Haggis
1787
To
Miss Logan, With Beattie's Poems, For A New-Year's Gift, Jan.
1, 1787
Mr.
William Smellie-A Sketch
Rattlin',
Roarin' Willie
Song-Bonie Dundee
Extempore
In The Court Of Session
Inscribed
Under Fergusson's Portrait
Epistle
To Mrs. Scott of Wauchope-House
Verses
Intended To Be Written Below A Noble Earl's Picture
Prologue,
Spoken by Mr. Woods at Edinburgh
Song - The
Bonie Moor-Hen
Song - My Lord
A-Hunting he is gane
Epigram
At Roslin Inn
The Book-Worms
On
Elphinstone's Translation Of Martial's Epigrams
Song-A Bottle
And Friend
Lines
Written Under The Picture Of The Celebrated Miss Burns
Epitaph
For William Nicol, Of The High School, Edinburgh
Epitaph
For Mr. William Michie
Boat song-Hey,
Ca' Thro'
Address
To Wm. Tytler, Esq., Of Woodhouselee
Epigram
To Miss Ainslie In Church
Burlesque
Lament For The Absence Of William Creech' s Absence
Note
To Mr. Renton Of Lamerton
Elegy On "Stella"
The Bard
At Inverary
Epigram
To Miss Jean Scott
On
The Death Of John M'Leod, Esq
Elegy
On The Death Of Sir James Hunter Blair
Impromptu
On Carron Iron Works
To Miss Ferrier
Written
By Somebody On The Window Of an Inn at Stirling
The
Poet's Reply To The Threat Of A Censorious Critic
The
Libeller's Self-Reproof
Verses
Written With A Pencil at the Inn at Kenmore
Song-The
Birks Of Aberfeldy
The
Humble Petition Of Bruar Water
Lines
On The Fall Of Fyers Near Loch-Ness
Epigram
On Parting With A Kind Host In The Highlands
Song - Strathallan's
Lament
Song
- Lady Onlie, Honest Lucky
Song
- Theniel Menzies' Bonie Mary
The
Bonie Lass Of Albany
On
Scaring Some Water-Fowl In Loch-Turit
Song - Blythe
Was She
Song
- A Rose-Bud By My Early Walk
Epitaph
For Mr. W. Cruikshank
Song -
The Banks Of The Devon
Song
- Braving Angry Winter's Storms
Song - My Peggy's
Charms
Song
- The Young Highland Rover
Birthday
Ode For 31st December, 1787
On
The Death Of Robert Dundas, Esq., Of Arniston
Sylvander
To Clarinda
1788
Song
- Love In The Guise Of Friendship
Song
- Go On, Sweet Bird, And Sooth My Care
Song
- Clarinda, Mistress Of My Soul
Song
- I'm O'er Young To Marry Yet
Song
- To The Weavers Gin Ye Go
Song - M'Pherson's
Farewell
Song - Stay My
Charmer
Song - My Hoggie
Song
- Raving Winds Around Her Blowing
Song
- Up In The Morning Early
Song
- How Long And Dreary Is The Night
Song - Hey,
The Dusty Miller
Song - Duncan
Davison
Song
- The Lad They Ca'Jumpin John
Song
- Talk Of Him That's Far Awa
Song - To Daunton
Me
Song -
The Winter It Is Past
Song
- The Bonie Lad That's Far Awa
Verses To
Clarinda, with Drinking Glasses
Song -
The Chevalier's Lament
Epistle
To Hugh Parker
Song
- Of A' The Airts The Wind Can Blaw
Song -
I Hae a Wife O' My Ain
Lines
Written In Friars'-Carse Hermitage
To
Alex. Cunningham, ESQ., Writer, Edinburgh
Song.-Anna, Thy
Charms
The Fete Champetre
Epistle
To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintry
Song.-The Day
Returns
Song.-O,
Were I On Parnassus Hill
A Mother's Lament
Song - The
Fall Of The Leaf
Song
- I Reign In Jeanie's Bosom
Song
- It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonie Face
Song - Auld Lang
Syne
Song - My Bonie
Mary
Written
In Friars Carse Hermitage (Second Version)
The Poet's
Progress
Elegy
On The Year 1788
The Henpecked
Husband
Versicles
On Sign-Posts
1789
Robin
Shure In Hairst
Ode,
Sacred To The Memory Of Mrs. Oswald Of Auchencruive
Pegasus
At Wanlockhead
Sappho
Redivivus-A Fragment
Song-She's
Fair And Fause
Impromptu
Lines To Captain Riddell
Lines To
John M'Murdo, Esq. Of Drumlanrig
Caledonia-A
Ballad
Beware O'
Bonie Ann
Ode
On The Departed Regency Bill
Epistle
To James Tennant Of Glenconner
A
New Psalm For The Chapel Of Kilmarnock
Sketch In Verse
Inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox
The Wounded
Hare
Delia, An Ode
Song
- The Gard'ner Wi' His Paidle
Song - On
A Bank Of Flowers
Song
- Young Jockie Was The Blythest Lad
Song - The
Banks Of Nith
Song - Jamie,
Come Try Me
Song
- I Love My Love In Secret
Song - Sweet
Tibbie Dunbar
Song - The
Captain's Lady
Song - John
Anderson, My Jo
Song
- My Love, She's But A Lassie Yet
Song - Tam Glen
Song -
Carle, An The King Come
Song - The
Laddie's Dear Sel'
Song
- Whistle O'er The Lave O't
Song - My Eppie
Adair
On
The Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland
Epigram
On Francis Grose The Antiquary
The
Kirk Of Scotland's Alarm
Sonnet
to Robert Graham, Esq., On Receiving A Favour
Extemporaneous
Effusion On being appointed to an Excise division
Song
- Willie Brew'd A Peck O' Maut
Song
- Ca' The Yowes To The Knowes
Song
- I Gaed A Waefu' Gate Yestreen
Song
- Highland Harry Back Again
Song
- The Battle Of Sherramuir
Song
- The Braes O' Killiecrankie
Song - Awa' Whigs,
Awa'
Song - A Waukrife
Minnie
Song - The
Captive Ribband
Song -
My Heart's In The Highlands
The Whistle-A
Ballad
Song - To Mary
In Heaven
Epistle
To Dr. Blacklock
The Five Carlins
Election
Ballad For Westerha'
Prologue
Spoken At The Theatre Of Dumfries
1790
Sketch-New
Year's Day [1790]
Scots'
Prologue For Mr. Sutherland
Lines
To A Gentleman
Elegy
On Willie Nicol's Mare
Song
- The Gowden Locks Of Anna
Song - I Murder
Hate
Song
- Gudewife, Count The Lawin
Election Ballad
At the close of the contest for representing the Dumfries Burghs,
1790.
Elegy
On Captain Matthew Henderson
The Epitaph on Captain
Matthew Henderson
Verses
On Captain Grose
Tam O' Shanter:
A Tale
On
The Birth Of A Posthumous Child
Elegy
On The Late Miss Burnet Of Monboddo
1791
Lament
Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring
There'll
Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame
Song - Out
Over The Forth
The Banks O'
Doon (First Version)
The Banks O' Doon (Second Version)
The Banks O' Doon (Third Version)
Lament
For James, Earl Of Glencairn
Lines
Sent To Sir John Whiteford, Bart
Song - Craigieburn
Wood
Song - The
Bonie Wee Thing
Epigram
On Miss Davies
Song
- The Charms Of Lovely Davies
Song
- What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi' An Auld Man
Song - The Posie
On
Glenriddell's Fox Breaking His Chain
Poem
On Pastoral Poetry
Verses
On The Destruction Of The Woods Near Drumlanrig
Song - The
Gallant Weaver
Epigram
At Brownhill Inn
Song
- You're Welcome, Willie Stewart
Song - Lovely
Polly Stewart
Song
- Fragment,-Damon And Sylvia
Song
- Fragment - Johnie Lad, Cock Up Your Beaver
Song - My Eppie
Macnab
Song - Fragment
- Altho' He Has Left Me
Song
- O For Ane An' Twenty, Tam
Song - Thou Fair
Eliza
Song - My Bonie
Bell
Song - Sweet Afton
Address
To The Shade Of Thomson
Song
- Nithsdale's Welcome Hame
Song
- Frae The Friends And Land I Love
Song
- Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation
Song - Ye
Jacobites By Name
Song
- I Hae Been At Crookieden
Epistle
To John Maxwell, ESQ., Of Terraughty
Second
Epistle To Robert Graham, ESQ., Of Fintry
The Song Of
Death
Poem On Sensibility
Epigram - The Toadeater
Epigram
- Divine Service In The Kirk Of Lamington
Epigram - The
Keekin'-Glass
A
Grace Before Dinner
A
Grace After Dinner
Song - O May,
Thy Morn
Song
- Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever
Song
- Behold The Hour, The Boat, Arrive
Song - Thou
Gloomy December
Song
- My Native Land Sae Far Awa
1792
Song
- I do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair
Lines
On Fergusson, The Poet
Song - The
Weary Pund O' Tow
Song
- When She Cam' Ben She Bobbed
Song
- Scroggam, My Dearie
Song - My Collier
Laddie
Song
- Sic A Wife As Willie Had
Song - Lady Mary
Ann
Song - Kellyburn
Braes
Song - The
Slave's Lament
Song - O
Can Ye Labour Lea?
Song
- The Deuks Dang O'er My Daddie
Song
- The Deil's Awa Wi' The Exciseman
Song - The Country
Lass
Song
- Bessy And Her Spinnin' Wheel
Song - Fragment
- Love For Love
Song - Saw
Ye Bonie Lesley
Song - Fragment
Of Song
Song - I'll
Meet Thee On The Lea Rig
Song
- My Wife's A Winsome Wee Thing
Song - Highland
Mary
Song - Auld Rob
Morris
The Rights
Of Woman - Spoken by Miss Fontenelle
Extempore On Some Commemorations Of Thomson
Song - Duncan Gray
Song
- A Health To Them That's Awa
A Tippling
Ballad - When Princes and Prelates
1793
Song
- Poortith Cauld And Restless Love
Epigram On Politics
Song
- Braw Lads O' Galla Water
Sonnet
Written On The Author's Birthday
Song - Wandering
Willie
Wandering Willie
(Revised Version)
Lord Gregory: A
Ballad
Song -
Open The Door To Me, Oh
Song - Lovely
Young Jessie
Song - Meg O'
The Mill
Song - Meg O' The Mill (Another Version)
The Soldier's
Return: A Ballad
Epigram
- The True Loyal Natives
Epigram
- On Commissary Goldie's Brains
Lines
Inscribed In A Lady's Pocket Almanac
Epigram
- Thanksgiving For A National Victory
Epigram
- The Raptures Of Folly
Epigram
- Kirk and State Excisemen
Extempore
Reply To An Invitation
A Grace After
Meat
Grace
Before And After Meat
Impromptu
On General Dumourier's Desertion From The French Republican Army
Song
- The Last Time I Came O'er The Moor
Song - Logan Braes
Song
- Blythe Hae I been On Yon Hill
Song
- O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair
Bonie Jean
- A Ballad
Lines On
John M'Murdo, ESQ.
Epitaph
On A Lap-Dog
Epigrams
Against The Earl Of Galloway
Epigram
On The Laird Of Laggan
Song - Phillis
The Fair
Song - Had I A Cave
Song - By Allan
Stream
Song
- Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad
Song
- Phillis The Queen O' The Fair
Song
- Come, Let Me Take Thee To My Breast
Song - Dainty Davie
Song
- Robert Bruce's March To Bannockburn
Song
- Behold The Hour, The Boat Arrive
Song - Down
The Burn, Davie
Song
- Thou Hast Left Me Ever, Jamie
Song
- Where Are The Joys I have Met?
Song
- Deluded Swain, The Pleasure
Song
- Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair
Song - My Spouse
Nancy
Address
Spoken by Miss Fontenelle
Complimentary
Epigram On Maria Riddell
1794
Remorseful
Apology
Song -
Wilt Thou Be My Dearie?
Song -
A Fiddler In The North
The
Minstrel At Lincluden
A Vision
Song - A Red,
Red Rose
Song
- Young Jamie, Pride Of A' The Plain
Song
- The Flowery Banks Of Cree
Monody On a lady famed
for her Caprice
The Epitaph On the
Same
Epigram
Pinned To Mrs. Walter Riddell's Carriage
Epitaph
For Mr. Walter Riddell
Epistle
From Esopus To Maria
Epitaph
On A Noted Coxcomb
Sonnet
On The Death Of Robert Riddell
Song
- The Lovely Lass O' Inverness
Song -
Charlie, He's My Darling
Song - Bannocks
O' Bear Meal
Song - The
Highland Balou
The
Highland Widow's Lament
Song
- It Was A' For Our Rightfu' King
Ode
For General Washington's Birthday
Inscription
To Miss Graham Of Fintry
Song
- On The Seas And Far Away
Song
- Ca' The Yowes To The Knowes
Song
- She Says She Loes Me Best Of A'
To
The Beautiful Miss Eliza J-N On her Principles of Liberty and
Equality
On Chloris Requesting
me to give her a Spring of Blossomed Thorn.
On
Seeing Mrs. Kemble In Yarico
Epigram
On A Country Laird (Cardoness)
Epigram On A Suicide
Epigram
On A Swearing Coxcomb
Epigram On An
Innkeeper Nicknamed (The Marquis)
Epigram On Andrew
Turner
Song - Pretty Peg
Esteem For
Chloris
Song
- Saw Ye My Dear, My Philly
Song
- How Lang And Dreary Is The Night
Song - Inconstancy
In Love
The
Lover's Morning Salute To His Mistress
Song - The
Winter Of Life
Song
- Behold, My Love, How Green The Groves
Song
- The Charming Month Of May
Song
- Lassie Wi' The Lint-White Locks
Dialogue
song-Philly And Willy
Song
- Contented Wi' Little And Cantie Wi' Mair
Song - Farewell
Thou Stream
Song
- Canst Thou Leave Me Thus, My Katie
Song - My Nanie's
Awa
Song - The Tear-Drop
- Wae is my heart
Song
- For The Sake O' Somebody
1795
Song
- A Man's A Man For A' That
The
Solemn League And Covenant
Epitaph
For Mr. Gabriel Richardson
Epigram
On Mr. James Gracie
Song - Bonie
Peg-a-Ramsay
Inscription
At Friars' Carse Hermitage
Song -
Fragment - There Was A Bonie Lass
Song - Fragment
- Wee Willie Gray
Song
- O Aye My Wife She Dang Me
Song
- Gude Ale Keeps The Heart Aboon
Song
- O Steer Her Up An' Haud Her Gaun
Song -
The Lass O' Ecclefechan
Song
- O Let Me In Thes Ae Night
Song - I'll Aye Ca' In By Yon Town
Ballads on Mr. Heron's Election- Ballad First
Ballads on Mr. Heron's Election- Ballad Second
Ballads on Mr. Heron's Election- Ballad Third
Inscription For An Altar Of Independence
Song
- The Cardin O't, The Spinnin O't
Song - The
Cooper O' Cuddy
Song
- The Lass That Made The Bed To Me
Song
- Had I The Wyte? She Bade Me
Song
- Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?
Song -
Address To The Woodlark
Song - On
Chloris Being Ill
Song
- How Cruel Are The Parents
Song
- 'Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E'e
Song
- Their Groves O'Sweet Myrtle
Song
- Forlorn, My Love, No Comfort Near
Song
- Fragment,-Why, Why Tell The Lover
Song - The Braw
Wooer
Song
- This Is No My Ain Lassie
Song
- O Bonie Was Yon Rosy Brier
Song
- Song Inscribed To Alexander Cunningham
Song
- O That's The Lassie O' My Heart
Song
- Fragment.-The Wren's Nest
Song - News,
Lassies, News
Song - Crowdie
Ever Mair
Song
- Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet
Song
- Jockey's Taen The Parting Kiss
Verses
To Collector Mitchell
1796
The Dean
Of Faculty
Epistle
To Colonel De Peyster
Song - A Lass
Wi' A Tocher
Song
- The Trogger
Complimentary
Versicles To Jessie Lewars
1. The Toast
2. The Menagerie
3. Jessie's illness
4. On Her Recovery
Song
- O Lay Thy Loof In Mine, Lass
Song
- A Health To Ane I Loe Dear
Song
- O Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast
Inscription
To Miss Jessy Lewars
Song
- Fairest Maid On Devon Banks
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