Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

Burns

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• To a Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough, November, 1785

• Epistle To Davie, A Brother Poet

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• PrefaceSample
• Song—Handsome Nell1
• Song—O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The Day
• Song—I Dream’d I Lay
• Song—In The Character Of A Ruined Farmer
• Tragic Fragment
• Tarbolton Lasses, The
• Montgomerie’s Peggy
• Ploughman’s Life, The
• Ronalds Of The Bennals, The
• Song—Here’s To Thy Health
• Lass Of Cessnock Banks, The1
• Song—Bonie Peggy Alison
• Song—Mary Morison
• Winter: A Dirge
• Prayer, Under The Pressure Of Violent Anguish
• Paraphrase Of The First Psalm
• First Six Verses Of The Ninetieth Psalm Versified, The
• Prayer, In The Prospect Of Death
• Stanzas, On The Same Occasion
• Fickle Fortune: A Fragment
• Raging Fortune—Fragment Of Song
• Impromptu—“I’ll Go And Be A Sodger”
• Song—“No Churchman Am I”
• A Stanza Added In A Mason Lodge
• My Father Was A Farmer
• John Barleycorn: A Ballad
• An Unco Mournfu’ Tale
• Poor Mailie’s Elegy
• Song—The Rigs O’ Barley
• Song Composed In August
• Song
• Song—Green Grow The Rashes
• Song—Wha Is That At My Bower-Door
• Remorse: A Fragment
• 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 On His Writing To The Poet,
• Epistle To John Rankine
• A Poet’s Welcome To His Love-Begotten Daughter1
• Song—O Leave Novels1
• Fragment—The Mauchline Lady
• Fragment—My Girl She’s Airy
• The Belles Of Mauchline
• Epigram On The Said Occasion
• Another
• 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
• 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
• Postcript
• One Night As I Did Wander
• Tho’ Cruel Fate Should Bid Us Part
• Song—Rantin’, Rovin’ Robin1
• Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux1
• Epistle To John Goldie, In Kilmarnock
• The Holy Fair1
• 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
• Halloween1
• To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough, November, 1785
• Epitaph On John Dove, Innkeeper
• Epitaph For James Smith
• Adam Armour’s Prayer
• The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata1
• Song—For A’ That1
• Song—Merry Hae I Been Teethin A Heckle
• The Cotter’s Saturday Night
• Address To The Deil
• Scotch Drink
• The Auld Farmer’s New-Year-Morning Salutation To His Auld Mare, Maggie
• The Twa Dogs1
• The Author’s Earnest Cry And Prayer
• The Ordination
• Epistle To James Smith
• The Vision
• Suppressed Stanza’s Of “The Vision”
• Address To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly Righteous
• The Inventory1
• To John Kennedy, Dumfries House
• To Mr. M’Adam, Of Craigen-Gillan
• To A Louse, On Seeing One On A Lady’s Bonnet, At Church
• 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,
• Versified Reply To An Invitation
• Song—Will Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary?
• Song—My Highland Lassie, O
• Epistle To A Young Friend
• Address Of Beelzebub
• A Dream
• A Dedication
• 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
• The Lass O’ Ballochmyle
• Lines To An Old Sweetheart
• Lines To Mr. John Kennedy
• Lines Written On A Banknote
• Stanzas On Naething
• The Farewell
• Thomson’s Edward and Eleanora.
• 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
• Farewell Song To The Banks Of Ayr
• Address To The Toothache
• Lines On Meeting With Lord Daer1
• Masonic Song
• Tam Samson’s Elegy
• Epistle To Major Logan
• A Winter Night
• Song—Yon Wild Mossy Mountains
• Address To Edinburgh
• Address To A Haggis
• To Miss Logan, With Beattie’s Poems, For A New-Year’s Gift, Jan. 1, 1787.
• Mr. William Smellie—A Sketch
• Song—Bonie Dundee
• Extempore In The Court Of Session
• Inscription For The Headstone Of Fergusson The Poet1
• Epistle To Mrs. Scott
• Verses Intended To Be Written Below A Noble Earl’s Picture1
• Prologue
• The Bonie Moor-Hen
• Song—My Lord A-Hunting
• Epigram At Roslin Inn
• Epigram Addressed To An Artist
• Song—A Bottle And Friend
• Epitaph For Mr. William Michie
• Address To Wm. Tytler, Esq., Of Woodhouselee
• Burlesque Lament For The Absence Of William Creech, Publisher
• Note To Mr. Renton Of Lamerton
• Elegy On “Stella”
• The Bard At Inverary
• Brother to a young Lady, a particular friend of the Author’s.
• Elegy On The Death Of Sir James Hunter Blair
• Impromptu On Carron Iron Works
• To Miss Ferrier
• Of an Inn at Stirling, on seeing the Royal Palace in ruin.
• The Poet’s Reply To The Threat Of A Censorious Critic
• The Libeller’s Self-Reproof1
• Over the Chimney—piece in the Parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth.
• Song—The Birks Of Aberfeldy
• The Humble Petition Of Bruar Water
• Lines On The Fall Of Fyers Near Loch-Ness.
• Strathallan’s Lament1
• Castle Gordon
• Song—Lady Onlie, Honest Lucky
• Theniel Menzies’ Bonie Mary
• The Bonie Lass Of Albany1
• On Scaring Some Water-Fowl In Loch-Turit
• A Rose-Bud By My Early Walk
• Song—The Banks Of The Devon
• Braving Angry Winter’s Storms
• Song—My Peggy’s Charms
• The Young Highland Rover
• Birthday Ode For 31st December, 17871
• On The Death Of Robert Dundas, Esq., Of Arniston,
• Sylvander To Clarinda1
• Love In The Guise Of Friendship
• Clarinda, Mistress Of My Soul
• I’m O’er Young To Marry Yet
• To The Weavers Gin Ye Go
• M’Pherson’s Farewell
• Song—My Hoggie
• Raving Winds Around Her Blowing
• Up In The Morning Early
• Hey, The Dusty Miller
• Duncan Davison
• The Lad They Ca’Jumpin John
• Talk Of Him That’s Far Awa
• To Daunton Me
• The Winter It Is Past
• The Bonie Lad That’s Far Awa
• Verses To Clarinda
• The Chevalier’s Lament
• Epistle To Hugh Parker
• Of A’ The Airts The Wind Can Blaw1
• Song—I 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 Fintry
• Song.—The Day Returns
• The Fall Of The Leaf
• I Reign In Jeanie’s Bosom
• Auld Lang Syne
• My Bonie Mary
• The Parting Kiss
• Written In Friar’s-Carse Hermitage
• The Poet’s Progress
• Elegy On The Year 1788
• The Henpecked Husband
• Versicles On Sign-Posts
• Robin Shure In Hairst
• Ode, Sacred To The Memory Of Mrs. Oswald Of Auchencruive
• Pegasus At Wanlockhead
• Song—She’s Fair And Fause
• Impromptu Lines To Captain Riddell
• Lines To John M’Murdo, Esq. Of Drumlanrig
• Rhyming Reply To A Note From Captain Riddell
• Caledonia—A Ballad
• To Miss Cruickshank
• Beware O’ Bonie Ann
• Ode On The Departed Regency Bill
• Epistle To James Tennant Of Glenconner
• On the Thanksgiving-Day for His Majesty’s Recovery.
• Sketch In Verse
• The Wounded Hare
• Delia, An Ode
• The Gard’ner 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 Secret
• Sweet Tibbie Dunbar
• The Captain’s Lady
• John Anderson, My Jo
• My Love, She’s But A Lassie Yet
• Song—Tam Glen
• Carle, An The King Come
• The Laddie’s Dear Sel’
• Whistle O’er The Lave O’t
• Epigram On Francis Grose The Antiquary
• The Kirk Of Scotland’s Alarm
• Presentation Stanzas To Correspondents
• Sonnet On Receiving A Favour
• Song—Willie Brew’d A Peck O’ Maut1
• 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 Heart’s In The Highlands
• The Whistle—A Ballad
• To Mary In Heaven
• Epistle To Dr. Blacklock
• The Five Carlins
• Election Ballad For Westerha’
• Prologue Spoken At The Theatre Of Dumfries
• Sketch—New Year’s Day, 1790
• Scots’ Prologue For Mr. Sutherland
• Elegy On Willie Nicol’s Mare
• The Gowden Locks Of Anna
• Postscript
• Song—I 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 Monboddo
• Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring
• 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
• Craigieburn Wood
• On being asked why she had been formed so little, and Mrs. A—so big.
• The Charms Of Lovely Davies
• What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi’ An Auld Man
• The Posie
• On Glenriddell’s Fox Breaking His Chain
• Poem On Pastoral Poetry
• Verses On The Destruction Of The Woods Near Drumlanrig
• The Gallant Weaver
• Epigram At Brownhill Inn1
• Lovely Polly Stewart
• Fragment,—Damon And Sylvia
• Johnie Lad, Cock Up Your Beaver
• My Eppie Macnab
• My Tocher’s The Jewel
• O For Ane An’ Twenty, Tam
• Thou Fair Eliza
• My Bonie Bell
• Sweet Afton
• Address To The Shade Of Thomson
• Nithsdale’s 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 Kenmure’s On And Awa, Willie
• Epistle To John Maxwell, ESQ., Of Terraughty
• Second Epistle To Robert Graham, ESQ., Of Fintry
• The Song Of Death
• Poem On Sensibility
• 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 Poet
• 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 Slave’s Lament
• O Can Ye Labour Lea?
• The Deuks Dang O’er My Daddie
• The Deil’s Awa Wi’ The Exciseman
• The Country Lass
• Bessy And Her Spinnin’ Wheel
• Love For Love
• Saw Ye Bonie Lesley
• I’ll Meet Thee On The Lea Rig
• My Wife’s A Winsome Wee Thing
• Highland Mary
• Auld Rob Morris
• The Rights Of Woman
• Epigram On Seeing Miss Fontenelle In A Favourite Character
• Extempore On Some Commemorations Of Thomson
• Duncan Gray
• Here’s A Health To Them That’s Awa
• A Tippling Ballad
• Poortith Cauld And Restless Love
• Braw Lads O’ Galla Water
• Sonnet Written On The Author’s Birthday,
• Wandering Willie—First Version
• Wandering Willie—Revised Version
• Lord Gregory
• Open The Door To Me, Oh
• Lovely Young Jessie
• Meg O’ The Mill
• Meg O’ The Mill—Another Version
• The Soldier’s Return
• Lines Inscribed In A Lady’s Pocket Almanac
• Lines On The Commemoration Of Rodney’s Victory
• Kirk and State Excisemen
• Grace Before And After Meat
• Impromptu On General Dumourier’s Desertion From The French Republican Army
• The Last Time I Came O’er The Moor
• Logan Braes
• Blythe Hae I been On Yon Hill
• 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
• Whistle, And I’ll Come To You, My Lad
• Phillis The Queen O’ The Fair
• Come, Let Me Take Thee To My Breast
• Dainty Davie
• 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. Riddell’s 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 Red, Red Rose
• Young Jamie, Pride Of A’ The Plain
• The Flowery Banks Of Cree
• Monody
• Epitaph For Mr. Walter Riddell
• Epistle From Esopus To Maria
• Sonnet On The Death Of Robert Riddell
• The Lovely Lass O’ Inverness
• Charlie, He’s My Darling
• Bannocks O’ Bear Meal
• The Highland Balou
• The Highland Widow’s Lament
• It Was A’ For Our Rightfu’ King
• Ode For General Washington’s Birthday
• Inscription To Miss Graham Of Fintry
• On The Seas And Far Away
• Ca’ The Yowes To The Knowes—Second Version
• She Says She Loes Me Best Of A’
• To The Beautiful Miss Eliza J—N
• On Chloris
• Epigram On A Country Laird,
• On Hearing It Asserted Falsehood
• Pretty Peg
• Esteem For Chloris
• Saw Ye My Dear, My Philly
• How Lang And Dreary Is The Night
• Inconstancy In Love
• The Lover’s Morning Salute To His Mistress
• The Winter Of Life
• Behold, My Love, How Green The Groves
• The Charming Month Of May
• Lassie Wi’ The Lint-White Locks
• Dialogue song—Philly And Willy
• Contented Wi’ Little And Cantie Wi’ Mair
• Farewell Thou Stream
• Canst Thou Leave Me Thus, My Katie
• My Nanie’s Awa
• The Tear-Drop
• For The Sake O’ Somebody
• A Man’s A Man For A’ That
• Craigieburn Wood
• Lines sent with a Present of a Dozen of Porter.
• Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay
• 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 Night
• Her Answer
• I’ll Aye Ca’ In By Yon Town
• O Wat Ye Wha’s In Yon Town
• Ballads on Mr. Heron’s Election, 1795
• Inscription For An Altar Of Independence
• The Cardin O’t, The Spinnin O’t
• 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 E’e
• Their Groves O’Sweet 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 That’s The Lassie O’ My Heart
• Inscription
• Fragment.—The Wren’s Nest
• News, Lassies, News
• Crowdie Ever Mair
• Mally’s Meek, Mally’s Sweet
• Jockey’s Taen The Parting Kiss
• Verses To Collector Mitchell
• Postscript
• 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 Blast
• Inscription To Miss Jessy Lewars
• Fairest Maid On Devon Banks
• Glossary