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Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

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Title: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

Author: Robert Burns

 
Release date: January 25, 2005 [eBook #1279]
 Most recently updated: October 29, 2024

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS AND SONGS OF ROBERT BURNS ***
POEMS AND SONGS OF ROBERT BURNS

by Robert Burns

 Introductory Note

 1771 - 1779

 Song-Handsome Nell
 Song-O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The Day
 Song-I Dream'd I Lay
 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^1
 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^1
 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
 Verses on Castle Gordon
 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
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