Poems and Songs of Robert Burns eBook

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Start of eBook	1
POEMS AND SONGS OF ROBERT BURNS	1
Song—Handsome Nell^1	3
Song—I Dream’d I Lay	4
Tragic Fragment	5
Montgomerie’s Peggy	6
Ronalds Of The Bennals, The	6
Lass Of Cessnock Banks, The^1	8
Song—Mary Morison	9
Winter: A Dirge	10
Paraphrase Of The First Psalm	10
Prayer, In The Prospect Of Death	11
Fickle Fortune: A Fragment	12
A Stanza Added In A Mason Lodge	13
John Barleycorn: A Ballad	14
Death And Dying Words Of Poor Mailie, The Author’s Only Pet Yowe., The	14
Poor Mailie’s Elegy	16
Song Composed In August	17
Song—Green Grow The Rashes	18
Remorse: A Fragment	19
Epitaph On James Grieve, Laird Of Boghead, Tarbolton	19
Epitaph On My Ever Honoured Father	19
Epistle To John Rankine	21
Song—O Leave Novels^1	23
Fragment—My Girl She’s Airy	23
Epitaph On A Noisy Polemic	23
Epigram On The Said Occasion	24
On Tam The Chapman	24
Lines On The Author’s Death	24
The Twa Herds; Or, The Holy Tulyie	26
Epistle To Davie, A Brother Poet	27
Epitaph On Holy Willie	31
Epistle To J. Lapraik, An Old Scottish Bard	34
Epistle To William Simson	37
One Night As I Did Wander	40
Song—Rantin’, Rovin’ Robin^1	40
Epistle To John Goldie, In Kilmarnock	41
Third Epistle To J. Lapraik	45
Second Epistle to Davie	47
Song—Farewell To Ballochmyle	48
Halloween^1	49
To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough, November, 1785	55
Epitaph For James Smith	56
The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata^1	56
Song—Merry Hae I Been Teethin A Heckle	62
Address To The Deil	66
The Auld Farmer’s New-Year-Morning Salutation To His Auld Mare, Maggie	69
The Author’s Earnest Cry And Prayer	75
Epistle To James Smith	80
Address To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly Righteous	89
To John Kennedy, Dumfries House	91
To A Louse, On Seeing One On A Lady’s Bonnet, At Church	92
Song, Composed In Spring	93
To Ruin	94
Despondency: An Ode	96
Versified Reply To An Invitation	97
Song—My Highland Lassie, O	98
Address Of Beelzebub	100
A Dream	101
A Dedication	103
On A Scotch Bard, Gone To The West Indies	106
A Bard’s Epitaph	107
The Lass O’ Ballochmyle	107
Motto Prefixed To The Author’s First Publication	108
Lines Written On A Banknote	108
The Farewell	110
The Calf	110
Nature’s Law—A Poem	110
Reply To A Trimming Epistle Received From A Tailor	112
Fragment Of Song	117
Prayer—O Thou Dread Power	118
Farewell Song To The Banks Of Ayr	118
Address To The Toothache	119
Masonic Song	120
The Epitaph	122
Epistle To Major Logan	122
A Winter Night	123
Address To Edinburgh	125
Mr. William Smellie—A Sketch	127
Extempore In The Court Of Session	127
Epistle To Mrs. Scott	128
Prologue	129
Song—My Lord A-Hunting	131
Epigram Addressed To An Artist	131
On Elphinstone’s Translation Of Martial’s Epigrams	131
Epitaph For William Nicol, Of The High School, Edinburgh	132
Address To Wm. Tytler, Esq., Of Woodhouselee	132
Burlesque Lament For The Absence Of William Creech, Publisher	133
The Bard At Inverary	135
Elegy On The Death Of Sir James Hunter Blair	136
To Miss Ferrier	137
The Poet’s Reply To The Threat Of A Censorious Critic	137
The Libeller’s Self-Reproof^1	137
Song—The Birks Of Aberfeldy	138
Epigram On Parting With A Kind Host In The Highlands	140
Castle Gordon	141
Theniel Menzies’ Bonie Mary	141
On Scaring Some Water-Fowl In Loch-Turit	142
Blythe Was She^1	143
Epitaph For Mr. W. Cruikshank^1	143
Braving Angry Winter’s Storms	144
The Young Highland Rover	144
Sylvander To Clarinda^1	146
Love In The Guise Of Friendship	147
Clarinda, Mistress Of My Soul	147
To The Weavers Gin Ye Go	148
Stay My Charmer	149
Raving Winds Around Her Blowing	149
Up In The Morning Early	149
Duncan Davison	150
Talk Of Him That’s Far Awa	151
The Winter It Is Past	151
Verses To Clarinda	152
Epistle To Hugh Parker	152
Song—I Hae a Wife O’ My Ain	153
To Alex. Cunningham, ESQ., Writer	154
The Fete Champetre	154
Song.—The Day Returns	157
A Mother’s Lament	158
I Reign In Jeanie’s Bosom	158
My Bonie Mary	159
Written In Friar’s-Carse Hermitage	160
Elegy On The Year 1788	162
Versicles On Sign-Posts	163
Robin Shure In Hairst	163
Pegasus At Wanlockhead	164
Song—She’s Fair And Fause	165
Lines To John M’Murdo, Esq. Of Drumlanrig	165
Caledonia—A Ballad	166
Beware O’ Bonie Ann	167
Epistle To James Tennant Of Glenconner	168
Sketch In Verse	170
Delia, An Ode	172
The Gard’ner Wi’ His Paidle	172
Young Jockie Was The Blythest Lad	173
Jamie, Come Try Me	173
Sweet Tibbie Dunbar	174
John Anderson, My Jo	174
Song—Tam Glen	175
Whistle O’er The Lave O’t	176
On The Late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations Thro’ Scotland	176
The Kirk Of Scotland’s Alarm	177
Sonnet On Receiving A Favour	180
Song—Willie Brew’d A Peck O’ Maut^1	180
I Gaed A Waefu’ Gate Yestreen	181
The Battle Of Sherramuir	181
A Waukrife Minnie	183
My Heart’s In The Highlands	184
To Mary In Heaven	185
The Five Carlins	187
Prologue Spoken At The Theatre Of Dumfries	188
Scots’ Prologue For Mr. Sutherland	190
Elegy On Willie Nicol’s Mare	192
Postscript	192
Gudewife, Count The Lawin	192
Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson	195
The Epitaph	196
Tam O’ Shanter	197
Elegy On The Late Miss Burnet Of Monboddo	202
Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring	202
Song—Out Over The Forth	203
The Banks O’ Doon—Second Version	204
Lament For James, Earl Of Glencairn	204
Craigieburn Wood	206
The Charms Of Lovely Davies	206
The Posie	207
Poem On Pastoral Poetry	209
The Gallant Weaver	211
Lovely Polly Stewart	211
Johnie Lad, Cock Up Your Beaver	212
Altho’ He Has Left Me	212
O For Ane An’ Twenty, Tam	213
My Bonie Bell	213
Address To The Shade Of Thomson	214
Nithsdale’s Welcome Hame	214
Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation	215
I Hae Been At Crookieden	215
Epistle To John Maxwell, ESQ., Of Terraughty	216
The Song Of Death	218
The Toadeater	219
The Keekin’-Glass	219
A Grace After Dinner, Extempore	219
Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever	220
Thou Gloomy December	220
I do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair	221
The Weary Pund O’ Tow	221
Scroggam, My Dearie	222
Sic A Wife As Willie Had	222
Kellyburn Braes	223
The Deuks Dang O’er My Daddie	225
The Country Lass	226
Love For Love	227
Fragment Of Song	227
My Wife’s A Winsome Wee Thing	228
Auld Rob Morris	228
Epigram On Seeing Miss Fontenelle In A Favourite Character	229
Duncan Gray	230
A Tippling Ballad	231
Poortith Cauld And Restless Love	231
Braw Lads O’ Galla Water	232
Wandering Willie—First Version	232
Lord Gregory	233
Lovely Young Jessie	234
Meg O’ The Mill—Another Version	234
Versicles, A.D. 1793	235
On Commissary Goldie’s Brains	236
Thanksgiving For A National Victory	236
The Raptures Of Folly	236
Extempore Reply To An Invitation	236
Grace Before And After Meat	236
The Last Time I Came O’er The Moor	237
Blythe Hae I been On Yon Hill	238
Bonie Jean—A Ballad	238
Epitaph On A Lap-Dog	239
Epigram On The Laird Of Laggan	239
Song—Had I A Cave	240
Whistle, And I’ll Come To You, My Lad	240
Come, Let Me Take Thee To My Breast	241
Robert Bruce’s March To Bannockburn	242
Down The Burn, Davie	243
Deluded Swain, The Pleasure	243
On Mrs. Riddell’s Birthday	244
Address	244
Complimentary Epigram On Maria Riddell	245
Remorseful Apology	245
A Fiddler In The North	246
A Vision	247
Young Jamie, Pride Of A’ The Plain	247
Monody	248
Pinned To Mrs. Walter Riddell’s Carriage	249
Epistle From Esopus To Maria	249
On Capt. Lascelles	250
On John Bushby, Esq., Tinwald Downs	250
The Lovely Lass O’ Inverness	251
Bannocks O’ Bear Meal	251
The Highland Widow’s Lament	252
Ode For General Washington’s Birthday	253
On The Seas And Far Away	254
To Dr. Maxwell	255
On Chloris	256
On Being Shewn A Beautiful Country Seat	256
On A Suicide	256
On Andrew Turner	256
Esteem For Chloris	257
How Lang And Dreary Is The Night	257
The Lover’s Morning Salute To His Mistress	258
Behold, My Love, How Green The Groves	258
Lassie Wi’ The Lint-White Locks	259
Contented Wi’ Little And Cantie Wi’ Mair	260
Canst Thou Leave Me Thus, My Katie	261
The Tear-Drop	261
A Man’s A Man For A’ That	262
Versicles of 1795	263
Inscription On A Goblet	263
Epitaph For Mr. Gabriel Richardson	263
Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay	263
There Was A Bonie Lass	264
O Aye My Wife She Dang Me	264
O Steer Her Up An’ Haud Her Gaun	264
O Let Me In Thes Ae Night	265
I’ll Aye Ca’ In By Yon Town	265
Ballads on Mr. Heron’s Election, 1795	266
The Cardin O’t, The Spinnin O’t	270
The Lass That Made The Bed To Me	270
Address To The Woodlark	272
How Cruel Are The Parents	273
’Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E’e	273
Forlorn, My Love, No Comfort Near	274
The Braw Wooer	274
O Bonie Was Yon Rosy Brier	276
O That’s The Lassie O’ My Heart	276
Fragment.—Leezie Lindsay	277
News, Lassies, News	277
Mally’s Meek, Mally’s Sweet	278
Verses To Collector Mitchell	278
The Dean Of Faculty	279
A Lass Wi’ A Tocher	280
Complimentary Versicles To Jessie Lewars	281
A Health To Ane I Loe Dear	282
Inscription To Miss Jessy Lewars	282
Fairest Maid On Devon Banks	283