Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

Preface SongHandsome Nell SongO Tibbie, I Hae Seen The Day SongI Dreamd I Lay SongIn The Character Of A Ruined Farme Tragic Fragmen Tarbolton Lasses, The Montgomeries Peggy Ploughmans Life, The Ronalds Of The Bennals, The SongHeres To Thy Health Lass Of Cessnock Banks, The SongBonie Peggy Alison SongMary Morison Winter: A Dirge Prayer, Under The Pressure Of Violent An Paraphrase Of The First Psalm First Six Verses Of The Ninetieth Psalm Prayer, In The Prospect Of Death Stanzas, On The Same Occasion Fickle Fortune: A Fragmen Raging FortuneFragment Of Song ImpromptuIll Go And Be A Sodger SongNo Churchman Am I A Stanza Added In A Mason Lodge My Father Was A Farmer John Barleycorn: A Ballad Death And Dying Words Of Poor Mailie, Th Poor Mailies Elegy SongThe Rigs O Barley Song Composed In Augus Song SongGreen Grow The Rashes SongWha Is That At My Bower-Door Remorse: A Fragmen Epitaph On Wm. Hood, Senr., In Tarbolton Epitaph On James Grieve, Laird Of Boghea Epitaph On My Own Friend And My Fathers Epitaph On My Ever Honoured Father Ballad On The American War Reply To An Announcement By J. Rankine O Epistle To John Rankine A Poets Welcome To His Love-Begotten Dau SongO Leave Novels FragmentThe Mauchline Lady FragmentMy Girl Shes Airy The Belles Of Mauchline Epitaph On A Noisy Polemic Epitaph On A Henpecked Country Squire Epigram On The Said Occasion Another On Tam The Chapman Epitaph On John Rankine Lines On The Authors Death Man Was Made To Mourn: A Dirge The Twa Herds; Or, The Holy Tulyie Epistle To Davie, A Brother Poe Holy Willies Prayer Epitaph On Holy Willie Death and Doctor Hornbook Epistle To J. Lapraik, An Old Scottish B Second Epistle To J. Lapraik Epistle To William Simson Postcr One Night As I Did Wander Tho Cruel Fate Should Bid Us Par SongRantin, 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 Mmath Second Epistle to Davie SongYoung Peggy Blooms SongFarewell To Ballochmyle FragmentHer Flowing Locks Halloween To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nes Epitaph On John Dove, Innkeeper Epitaph For James Smith Adam Armours Prayer The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata SongFor A Tha SongMerry Hae I Been Teethin A Heckle The Cotters Saturday Nigh Address To The Deil Scotch Drink The Auld Farmers New-Year-Morning Saluta The Twa Dogs The Authors Earnest Cry And Prayer The Ordination Epistle To James Smith The Vision Suppressed Stanzas Of The Vision Address To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly The Inventory To John Kennedy, Dumfries House To Mr. MAdam, Of Craigen-Gillan To A Louse, On Seeing One On A Ladys Bon Inscribed On A Work Of Hannah Mores Song, Composed In Spring To A Mountain Daisy, To Ruin The Lamen Despondency: An Ode To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, Versified Reply To An Invitation SongWill Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary? SongMy Highland Lassie, O Epistle To A Young Friend Address Of Beelzebub A Dream A Dedication Versified Note To Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchli The Farewell To the Brethren of St. Jame On A Scotch Bard, Gone To The West Indie SongFarewell To Eliza A Bards Epitaph Epitaph On Wee Johnie The Lass O Ballochmyle Lines To An Old Sweethear Motto Prefixed To The Authors First Publ Lines To Mr. John Kennedy Lines Written On A Banknote Stanzas On Naething The Farewell Thomsons Edward and Eleanora. The Calf Natures LawA Poem SongWillie Chalmers Reply To A Trimming Epistle Received Fro The Brigs Of Ayr Fragment Of Song Epigram On Rough Roads PrayerO Thou Dread Power Farewell Song To The Banks Of Ayr Address To The Toothache Lines On Meeting With Lord Daer Masonic Song Tam Samsons Elegy The Epitaph Per Contra Epistle To Major Logan Fragment On Sensibility A Winter Nigh SongYon Wild Mossy Mountains Address To Edinburgh Address To A Haggis To Miss Logan, With Beatties Poems, For Mr. William SmellieA Sketch SongBonie Dundee Extempore In The Court Of Session Inscrtion For The Headstone Of Ferguss Epistle To Mrs. Scot Verses Intended To Be Written Below A No Prologue The Bonie Moor-Hen SongMy Lord A-Hunting Epigram At Roslin Inn Epigram Addressed To An Artis The Book-Worms On Elphinstones Translation Of Martials SongA Bottle And Friend Epitaph For William Nicol, Of The High S Epitaph For Mr. William Michie Address To Wm. Tytler, Esq., Of Woodhous Epigram To Miss Ainslie In Church Burlesque Lament For The Absence Of Will Note To Mr. Renton Of Lamerton Elegy On Stella The Bard At Inverary Epigram To Miss Jean Scot On The Death Of John MLeod, Esq, Elegy On The Death Of Sir James Hunter B Impromptu On Carron Iron Works To Miss Ferrier Written By Somebody On The Window The Poets Reply To The Threat Of A Censo The Libellers Self-Reproof Verses Written With A Pencil SongThe Birks Of Aberfeldy The Humble Petition Of Bruar Water Lines On The Fall Of Fyers Near Loch-Nes Epigram On Parting With A Kind Host In Strathallans Lamen Castle Gordon SongLady Onlie, Honest Lucky Theniel Menzies Bonie Mary The Bonie Lass Of Albany On Scaring Some Water-Fowl In Loch-Turi Blythe Was She A Rose-Bud By My Early Walk Epitaph For Mr. W. Cruikshank SongThe Banks Of The Devon Braving Angry Winters Storms SongMy Peggys Charms The Young Highland Rover Birthday Ode For 31st December, 1787 On The Death Of Robert Dundas, Esq., Of Sylvander To Clarinda Love In The Guise Of Friendsh Go On, Sweet Bird, And Sooth My Care Clarinda, Mistress Of My Soul Im Oer Young To Marry Ye To The Weavers Gin Ye Go MPhersons Farewell Stay My Charmer SongMy Hoggie Raving Winds Around Her Blowing Up In The Morning Early Hey, The Dusty Miller Duncan Davison The Lad They CaJumpin John Talk Of Him Thats Far Awa To Daunton Me The Winter It Is Pas The Bonie Lad Thats Far Awa Verses To Clarinda The Chevaliers Lamen Epistle To Hugh Parker Of A The Airts The Wind Can Blaw SongI Hae a Wife O My Ain Lines Written In Friars-Carse Hermitage To Alex. Cunningham, ESQ., Writer Song.Anna, Thy Charms The Fete Champetre Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintr Song.The Day Returns Song.O, Were I On Parnassus Hill A Mothers Lamen The Fall Of The Leaf I Reign In Jeanies Bosom Auld Lang Syne My Bonie Mary The Parting Kiss Written In Friars-Carse Hermitage The Poets Progress Elegy On The Year 1788 The Henpecked Husband Versicles On Sign-Posts Robin Shure In Hairs Ode, Sacred To The Memory Of Mrs. Oswald Pegasus At Wanlockhead Sappho RedivivusA Fragmen SongShes Fair And Fause Impromptu Lines To Captain Riddell Lines To John MMurdo, Esq. Of Drumlanrig Rhyming Reply To A Note From Captain Rid CaledoniaA Ballad To Miss Cruickshank 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 The Wounded Hare Delia, An Ode The Gardner Wi His Paidle On A Bank Of Flowers Young Jockie Was The Blythest Lad The Banks Of Nith Jamie, Come Try Me I Love My Love In Secre Sweet Tibbie Dunbar The Captains Lady John Anderson, My Jo My Love, Shes But A Lassie Ye SongTam Glen Carle, An The King Come The Laddies Dear Sel Whistle Oer The Lave O My Eppie Adair On The Late Captain Groses Peregrination Epigram On Francis Grose The Antiquary The Kirk Of Scotlands Alarm Presentation Stanzas To Correspondents Sonnet On Receiving A Favour Extemporaneous Effusion SongWillie Brewd A Peck O Mau Ca The Yowes To The Knowes I Gaed A Waefu Gate Yestreen Highland Harry Back Again The Battle Of Sherramuir The Braes O Killiecrankie Awa Whigs, Awa A Waukrife Minnie The Captive Ribband My Hearts In The Highlands The WhistleA Ballad To Mary In Heaven Epistle To Dr. Blacklock The Five Carlins Election Ballad For Westerha Prologue Spoken At The Theatre Of Dumfri SketchNew Years Day, 1790 Scots Prologue For Mr. Sutherland Lines To A Gentleman, Elegy On Willie Nicols Mare The Gowden Locks Of Anna Postscr SongI Murder Hate Gudewife, Count The Lawin Election Ballad Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson The Epitaph Verses On Captain Grose Tam O Shanter On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child Elegy On The Late Miss Burnet Of Monbodd Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The A Therell Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes SongOut Over The Forth The Banks O DoonFirst Version The Banks O DoonSecond Version The Banks O DoonThird Version Lament For James, Earl Of Glencairn Lines Sent To Sir John Whiteford, Bar Craigieburn Wood Epigram On Miss Davies The Charms Of Lovely Davies What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi An Auld Ma The Posie On Glenriddells Fox Breaking His Chain Poem On Pastoral Poetry Verses On The Destruction Of The Woods N The Gallant Weaver Epigram At Brownhill Inn Lovely Polly Stewar Fragment,Damon And Sylvia Johnie Lad, Cock Up Your Beaver My Eppie Macnab Altho He Has Left Me My Tochers The Jewel O For Ane An Twenty, Tam Thou Fair Eliza My Bonie Bell Sweet Afton Address To The Shade Of Thomson Nithsdales Welcome Hame Frae The Friends And Land I Love Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation Ye Jacobites By Name I Hae Been At Crookieden O Kenmures On And Awa, Willie Epistle To John Maxwell, ESQ., Of Terrau Second Epistle To Robert Graham, ESQ., O The Song Of Death Poem On Sensibility The Toadeater Divine Service In The Kirk Of Lamington The Keekin-Glass A Grace Before Dinner, Extempore A Grace After Dinner, Extempore O May, Thy Morn Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever Behold The Hour, The Boat, Arrive Thou Gloomy December My Native Land Sae Far Awa I do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair Lines On Fergusson, The Poe The Weary Pund O Tow When She Cam Ben She Bobbed Scroggam, My Dearie My Collier Laddie Sic A Wife As Willie Had Lady Mary Ann Kellyburn Braes The Slaves Lamen O Can Ye Labour Lea? The Deuks Dang Oer My Daddie The Deils Awa Wi The Exciseman The Country Lass Bessy And Her Spinnin Wheel Love For Love Saw Ye Bonie Lesley Fragment Of Song Ill Meet Thee On The Lea Rig My Wifes A Winsome Wee Thing Highland Mary Auld Rob Morris The Rights Of Woman Epigram On Seeing Miss Fontenelle In A F Extempore On Some Commemorations Of Thom Duncan Gray Heres A Health To Them Thats Awa A Tpling Ballad Poortith Cauld And Restless Love On Politics Braw Lads O Galla Water Sonnet Written On The Authors Birthday, Wandering WillieFirst Version Wandering WillieRevised Version Lord Gregory Open The Door To Me, Oh Lovely Young Jessie Meg O The Mill Meg O The MillAnother Version The Soldiers Return Versicles, A.D. 1793 The True Loyal Natives On Commissary Goldies Brains Lines Inscribed In A Ladys Pocket Almana Thanksgiving For A National Victory Lines On The Commemoration Of Rodneys Vi The Raptures Of Folly Kirk and State Excisemen Extempore Reply To An Invitation Grace After Mea Grace Before And After Mea Impromptu On General Dumouriers Desertio The Last Time I Came Oer The Moor Logan Braes Blythe Hae I been On Yon Hill O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair Bonie JeanA Ballad Lines On John MMurdo, ESQ. Epitaph On A Lap-Dog Epigrams Against The Earl Of Galloway Epigram On The Laird Of Laggan SongPhillis The Fair SongHad I A Cave SongBy Allan Stream Whistle, And Ill Come To You, My Lad Phillis The Queen O The Fair Come, Let Me Take Thee To My Breas Dainty Davie Robert Bruces March To Bannockburn Behold The Hour, The Boat Arrive Down The Burn, Davie Thou Hast Left Me Ever, Jamie Where Are The Joys I have Met? Deluded Swain, The Pleasure Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair On Mrs. Riddells Birthday My Spouse Nancy Address Complimentary Epigram On Maria Riddell Remorseful Apology Wilt Thou Be My Dearie? A Fiddler In The North The Minstrel At Lincluden A Vision A Red, Red Rose Young Jamie, Pride Of A The Plain The Flowery Banks Of Cree Monody The Epitaph Pinned To Mrs. Walter Riddells Carriage Epitaph For Mr. Walter Riddell Epistle From Esopus To Maria Epitaph On A Noted Coxcomb On Capt. Lascelles On Wm. Graham, Esq., Of Mossknowe On John Bushby, Esq., Tinwald Downs Sonnet On The Death Of Robert Riddell The Lovely Lass O Inverness Charlie, Hes My Darling Bannocks O Bear Meal The Highland Balou The Highland Widows Lamen It Was A For Our Rightfu King Ode For General Washingtons Birthday Inscrtion To Miss Graham Of Fintry On The Seas And Far Away Ca The Yowes To The KnowesSecond Versi She Says She Loes Me Best Of A To Dr. Maxwell To The Beautiful Miss Eliza JN On Chloris On Seeing Mrs. Kemble In Yarico Epigram On A Country Laird, On Being Shewn A Beautiful Country Sea On Hearing It Asserted Falsehood On A Suicide On A Swearing Coxcomb On An Innkeeper Nicknamed The Marquis On Andrew Turner Pretty Peg Esteem For Chloris Saw Ye My Dear, My Philly How Lang And Dreary Is The Nigh Inconstancy In Love The Lovers Morning Salute To His Mistres The Winter Of Life Behold, My Love, How Green The Groves The Charming Month Of May Lassie Wi The Lint-White Locks Dialogue songPhilly And Willy Contented Wi Little And Cantie Wi Mair Farewell Thou Stream Canst Thou Leave Me Thus, My Katie My Nanies Awa The Tear-Drop For The Sake O Somebody A Mans A Man For A Tha Craigieburn Wood The Solemn League And Covenan Lines sent with a Present of a Dozen of Inscrtion On A Goble Apology For Declining An Invitation To D Epitaph For Mr. Gabriel Richardson Epigram On Mr. James Gracie Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay Inscrtion At Friars Carse Hermitage There Was A Bonie Lass Wee Willie Gray O Aye My Wife She Dang Me Gude Ale Keeps The Heart Aboon O Steer Her Up An Haud Her Gaun The Lass O Ecclefechan O Let Me In Thes Ae Nigh Her Answer Ill Aye Ca In By Yon Town O Wat Ye Whas In Yon Town Ballads on Mr. Herons Election, 1795 Inscrtion For An Altar Of Independence The Cardin Ot, The Spinnin O The Cooper O Cuddy The Lass That Made The Bed To Me Had I The Wyte? She Bade Me Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat? Address To The Woodlark Song.On Chloris Being Ill How Cruel Are The Parents Mark Yonder Pomp Of Costly Fashion Twas Na Her Bonie Blue Ee Their Groves OSweet Myrtle Forlorn, My Love, No Comfort Near Fragment,Why, Why Tell The Lover The Braw Wooer This Is No My Ain Lassie O Bonie Was Yon Rosy Brier Song Inscribed To Alexander Cunningham O Thats The Lassie O My Hear Inscrtion Fragment.Leezie Lindsay Fragment.The Wrens Nes News, Lassies, News Crowdie Ever Mair Mallys Meek, Mallys Swee Jockeys Taen The Parting Kiss Verses To Collector Mitchell Postscr The Dean Of Faculty Epistle To Colonel De Peyster A Lass Wi A Tocher Heron Election Ballad, No. IV. Complimentary Versicles To Jessie Lewars O Lay Thy Loof In Mine, Lass A Health To Ane I Loe Dear O Wert Thou In The Cauld Blas Inscrtion To Miss Jessy Lewars Fairest Maid On Devon Banks Glossary