Poems and Songs of Robert BurnsOn John Bushby, Esq., Tinwald DownsReading editionChapter navigation554 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterPrefaceSong—Handsome Nell1Song—O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The DaySong—I Dream’d I LaySong—In The Character Of A Ruined FarmerTragic FragmentTarbolton Lasses, TheMontgomerie’s PeggyPloughman’s Life, TheRonalds Of The Bennals, TheSong—Here’s To Thy HealthLass Of Cessnock Banks, The1Song—Bonie Peggy AlisonSong—Mary MorisonWinter: A DirgePrayer, Under The Pressure Of Violent AnguishParaphrase Of The First PsalmFirst Six Verses Of The Ninetieth Psalm Versified, ThePrayer, In The Prospect Of DeathStanzas, On The Same OccasionFickle Fortune: A FragmentRaging Fortune—Fragment Of SongImpromptu—“I’ll Go And Be A Sodger”Song—“No Churchman Am I”A Stanza Added In A Mason LodgeMy Father Was A FarmerJohn Barleycorn: A BalladDeath And Dying Words Of Poor Mailie, The Author’s Only Pet Yowe., ThePoor Mailie’s ElegySong—The Rigs O’ BarleySong Composed In AugustSongSong—Green Grow The RashesSong—Wha Is That At My Bower-DoorRemorse: A FragmentEpitaph On Wm. Hood, Senr., In TarboltonEpitaph On James Grieve, Laird Of Boghead, TarboltonEpitaph On My Own Friend And My Father’s Friend, Wm. Muir In Tarbolton MillEpitaph On My Ever Honoured FatherBallad On The American WarReply To An Announcement By J. Rankine On His Writing To The Poet,Epistle To John RankineA Poet’s Welcome To His Love-Begotten Daughter1Song—O Leave Novels1Fragment—The Mauchline LadyFragment—My Girl She’s AiryThe Belles Of MauchlineEpitaph On A Noisy PolemicEpitaph On A Henpecked Country SquireEpigram On The Said OccasionAnotherOn Tam The ChapmanEpitaph On John RankineLines On The Author’s DeathMan Was Made To Mourn: A DirgeThe Twa Herds; Or, The Holy TulyieEpistle To Davie, A Brother PoetHoly Willie’s PrayerEpitaph On Holy WillieDeath and Doctor HornbookEpistle To J. Lapraik, An Old Scottish BardSecond Epistle To J. LapraikEpistle To William SimsonPostcriptOne Night As I Did WanderTho’ Cruel Fate Should Bid Us PartSong—Rantin’, Rovin’ Robin1Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux1Epistle To John Goldie, In KilmarnockThe Holy Fair1Third Epistle To J. LapraikEpistle To The Rev. John M’mathSecond Epistle to DavieSong—Young Peggy BloomsSong—Farewell To BallochmyleFragment—Her Flowing LocksHalloween1To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough, November, 1785Epitaph On John Dove, InnkeeperEpitaph For James SmithAdam Armour’s PrayerThe Jolly Beggars: A Cantata1Song—For A’ That1Song—Merry Hae I Been Teethin A HeckleThe Cotter’s Saturday NightAddress To The DeilScotch DrinkThe Auld Farmer’s New-Year-Morning Salutation To His Auld Mare, MaggieThe Twa Dogs1The Author’s Earnest Cry And PrayerThe OrdinationEpistle To James SmithThe VisionSuppressed Stanza’s Of “The Vision”Address To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly RighteousThe Inventory1To John Kennedy, Dumfries HouseTo Mr. M’Adam, Of Craigen-GillanTo A Louse, On Seeing One On A Lady’s Bonnet, At ChurchInscribed On A Work Of Hannah More’sSong, Composed In SpringTo A Mountain Daisy,To RuinThe LamentDespondency: An OdeTo Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline,Versified Reply To An InvitationSong—Will Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary?Song—My Highland Lassie, OEpistle To A Young FriendAddress Of BeelzebubA DreamA DedicationVersified Note To Dr. Mackenzie, MauchlineThe Farewell To the Brethren of St. James’ Lodge, Tarbolton.On A Scotch Bard, Gone To The West IndiesSong—Farewell To ElizaA Bard’s EpitaphEpitaph On “Wee Johnie”The Lass O’ BallochmyleLines To An Old SweetheartMotto Prefixed To The Author’s First PublicationLines To Mr. John KennedyLines Written On A BanknoteStanzas On NaethingThe FarewellThomson’s Edward and Eleanora.The CalfNature’s Law—A PoemSong—Willie ChalmersReply To A Trimming Epistle Received From A TailorThe Brigs Of AyrFragment Of SongEpigram On Rough RoadsPrayer—O Thou Dread PowerFarewell Song To The Banks Of AyrAddress To The ToothacheLines On Meeting With Lord Daer1Masonic SongTam Samson’s ElegyThe EpitaphPer ContraEpistle To Major LoganFragment On SensibilityA Winter NightSong—Yon Wild Mossy MountainsAddress To EdinburghAddress To A HaggisTo Miss Logan, With Beattie’s Poems, For A New-Year’s Gift, Jan. 1, 1787.Mr. William Smellie—A SketchSong—Bonie DundeeExtempore In The Court Of SessionInscription For The Headstone Of Fergusson The Poet1Epistle To Mrs. ScottVerses Intended To Be Written Below A Noble Earl’s Picture1PrologueThe Bonie Moor-HenSong—My Lord A-HuntingEpigram At Roslin InnEpigram Addressed To An ArtistThe Book-WormsOn Elphinstone’s Translation Of Martial’s EpigramsSong—A Bottle And FriendEpitaph For William Nicol, Of The High School, EdinburghEpitaph For Mr. William MichieAddress To Wm. Tytler, Esq., Of WoodhouseleeEpigram To Miss Ainslie In ChurchBurlesque Lament For The Absence Of William Creech, PublisherNote To Mr. Renton Of LamertonElegy On “Stella”The Bard At InveraryEpigram To Miss Jean ScottOn The Death Of John M’Leod, Esq,Elegy On The Death Of Sir James Hunter BlairImpromptu On Carron Iron WorksTo Miss FerrierWritten By Somebody On The WindowThe Poet’s Reply To The Threat Of A Censorious CriticThe Libeller’s Self-Reproof1Verses Written With A PencilSong—The Birks Of AberfeldyThe Humble Petition Of Bruar WaterLines On The Fall Of Fyers Near Loch-Ness.Epigram On Parting With A Kind Host In The HighlandsStrathallan’s Lament1Castle GordonSong—Lady Onlie, Honest LuckyTheniel Menzies’ Bonie MaryThe Bonie Lass Of Albany1On Scaring Some Water-Fowl In Loch-TuritBlythe Was She1A Rose-Bud By My Early WalkEpitaph For Mr. W. Cruikshank1Song—The Banks Of The DevonBraving Angry Winter’s StormsSong—My Peggy’s CharmsThe Young Highland RoverBirthday Ode For 31st December, 17871On The Death Of Robert Dundas, Esq., Of Arniston,Sylvander To Clarinda1Love In The Guise Of FriendshipGo On, Sweet Bird, And Sooth My CareClarinda, Mistress Of My SoulI’m O’er Young To Marry YetTo The Weavers Gin Ye GoM’Pherson’s FarewellStay My CharmerSong—My HoggieRaving Winds Around Her BlowingUp In The Morning EarlyHey, The Dusty MillerDuncan DavisonThe Lad They Ca’Jumpin JohnTalk Of Him That’s Far AwaTo Daunton MeThe Winter It Is PastThe Bonie Lad That’s Far AwaVerses To ClarindaThe Chevalier’s LamentEpistle To Hugh ParkerOf A’ The Airts The Wind Can Blaw1Song—I Hae a Wife O’ My AinLines Written In Friars’-Carse HermitageTo Alex. Cunningham, ESQ., WriterSong.—Anna, Thy CharmsThe Fete ChampetreEpistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of FintrySong.—The Day ReturnsSong.—O, Were I On Parnassus HillA Mother’s LamentThe Fall Of The LeafI Reign In Jeanie’s BosomAuld Lang SyneMy Bonie MaryThe Parting KissWritten In Friar’s-Carse HermitageThe Poet’s ProgressElegy On The Year 1788The Henpecked HusbandVersicles On Sign-PostsRobin Shure In HairstOde, Sacred To The Memory Of Mrs. Oswald Of AuchencruivePegasus At WanlockheadSappho Redivivus—A FragmentSong—She’s Fair And FauseImpromptu Lines To Captain RiddellLines To John M’Murdo, Esq. Of DrumlanrigRhyming Reply To A Note From Captain RiddellCaledonia—A BalladTo Miss CruickshankBeware O’ Bonie AnnOde On The Departed Regency BillEpistle To James Tennant Of GlenconnerA New Psalm For The Chapel Of KilmarnockSketch In VerseThe Wounded HareDelia, An OdeThe Gard’ner Wi’ His PaidleOn A Bank Of FlowersYoung Jockie Was The Blythest LadThe Banks Of NithJamie, Come Try MeI Love My Love In SecretSweet Tibbie DunbarThe Captain’s LadyJohn Anderson, My JoMy Love, She’s But A Lassie YetSong—Tam GlenCarle, An The King ComeThe Laddie’s Dear Sel’Whistle O’er The Lave O’tMy Eppie AdairOn The Late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations Thro’ ScotlandEpigram On Francis Grose The AntiquaryThe Kirk Of Scotland’s AlarmPresentation Stanzas To CorrespondentsSonnet On Receiving A FavourExtemporaneous EffusionSong—Willie Brew’d A Peck O’ Maut1Ca’ The Yowes To The KnowesI Gaed A Waefu’ Gate YestreenHighland Harry Back AgainThe Battle Of SherramuirThe Braes O’ KilliecrankieAwa’ Whigs, Awa’A Waukrife MinnieThe Captive RibbandMy Heart’s In The HighlandsThe Whistle—A BalladTo Mary In HeavenEpistle To Dr. BlacklockThe Five CarlinsElection Ballad For Westerha’Prologue Spoken At The Theatre Of DumfriesSketch—New Year’s Day, 1790Scots’ Prologue For Mr. SutherlandLines To A Gentleman,Elegy On Willie Nicol’s MareThe Gowden Locks Of AnnaPostscriptSong—I Murder HateGudewife, Count The LawinElection BalladElegy On Captain Matthew HendersonThe EpitaphVerses On Captain GroseTam O’ ShanterOn The Birth Of A Posthumous ChildElegy On The Late Miss Burnet Of MonboddoLament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of SpringThere’ll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes HameSong—Out Over The ForthThe Banks O’ Doon—First VersionThe Banks O’ Doon—Second VersionThe Banks O’ Doon—Third VersionLament For James, Earl Of GlencairnLines Sent To Sir John Whiteford, BartCraigieburn WoodEpigram On Miss DaviesThe Charms Of Lovely DaviesWhat Can A Young Lassie Do Wi’ An Auld ManThe PosieOn Glenriddell’s Fox Breaking His ChainPoem On Pastoral PoetryVerses On The Destruction Of The Woods Near DrumlanrigThe Gallant WeaverEpigram At Brownhill Inn1Lovely Polly StewartFragment,—Damon And SylviaJohnie Lad, Cock Up Your BeaverMy Eppie MacnabAltho’ He Has Left MeMy Tocher’s The JewelO For Ane An’ Twenty, TamThou Fair ElizaMy Bonie BellSweet AftonAddress To The Shade Of ThomsonNithsdale’s Welcome HameFrae The Friends And Land I LoveSuch A Parcel Of Rogues In A NationYe Jacobites By NameI Hae Been At CrookiedenO Kenmure’s On And Awa, WillieEpistle To John Maxwell, ESQ., Of TerraughtySecond Epistle To Robert Graham, ESQ., Of FintryThe Song Of DeathPoem On SensibilityThe ToadeaterDivine Service In The Kirk Of LamingtonThe Keekin’-GlassA Grace Before Dinner, ExtemporeA Grace After Dinner, ExtemporeO May, Thy MornAe Fond Kiss, And Then We SeverBehold The Hour, The Boat, ArriveThou Gloomy DecemberMy Native Land Sae Far AwaI do Confess Thou Art Sae FairLines On Fergusson, The PoetThe Weary Pund O’ TowWhen She Cam’ Ben She BobbedScroggam, My DearieMy Collier LaddieSic A Wife As Willie HadLady Mary AnnKellyburn BraesThe Slave’s LamentO Can Ye Labour Lea?The Deuks Dang O’er My DaddieThe Deil’s Awa Wi’ The ExcisemanThe Country LassBessy And Her Spinnin’ WheelLove For LoveSaw Ye Bonie LesleyFragment Of SongI’ll Meet Thee On The Lea RigMy Wife’s A Winsome Wee ThingHighland MaryAuld Rob MorrisThe Rights Of WomanEpigram On Seeing Miss Fontenelle In A Favourite CharacterExtempore On Some Commemorations Of ThomsonDuncan GrayHere’s A Health To Them That’s AwaA Tippling BalladPoortith Cauld And Restless LoveOn PoliticsBraw Lads O’ Galla WaterSonnet Written On The Author’s Birthday,Wandering Willie—First VersionWandering Willie—Revised VersionLord GregoryOpen The Door To Me, OhLovely Young JessieMeg O’ The MillMeg O’ The Mill—Another VersionThe Soldier’s ReturnThe True Loyal NativesOn Commissary Goldie’s BrainsLines Inscribed In A Lady’s Pocket AlmanacThanksgiving For A National VictoryLines On The Commemoration Of Rodney’s VictoryThe Raptures Of FollyKirk and State ExcisemenExtempore Reply To An InvitationGrace After MeatGrace Before And After MeatImpromptu On General Dumourier’s Desertion From The French Republican ArmyThe Last Time I Came O’er The MoorLogan BraesBlythe Hae I been On Yon HillO Were My Love Yon Lilac FairBonie Jean—A BalladLines On John M’Murdo, ESQ.Epitaph On A Lap-DogEpigrams Against The Earl Of GallowayEpigram On The Laird Of LagganSong—Phillis The FairSong—Had I A CaveSong—By Allan StreamWhistle, And I’ll Come To You, My LadPhillis The Queen O’ The FairCome, Let Me Take Thee To My BreastDainty DavieRobert Bruce’s March To BannockburnBehold The Hour, The Boat ArriveDown The Burn, DavieThou Hast Left Me Ever, JamieWhere Are The Joys I have Met?Deluded Swain, The PleasureThine Am I, My Faithful FairOn Mrs. Riddell’s BirthdayMy Spouse NancyAddressComplimentary Epigram On Maria RiddellRemorseful ApologyWilt Thou Be My Dearie?A Fiddler In The NorthThe Minstrel At LincludenA VisionA Red, Red RoseYoung Jamie, Pride Of A’ The PlainThe Flowery Banks Of CreeMonodyThe EpitaphPinned To Mrs. Walter Riddell’s CarriageEpitaph For Mr. Walter RiddellEpistle From Esopus To MariaEpitaph On A Noted CoxcombOn Capt. LascellesOn Wm. Graham, Esq., Of MossknoweOn John Bushby, Esq., Tinwald DownsSonnet On The Death Of Robert RiddellThe Lovely Lass O’ InvernessCharlie, He’s My DarlingBannocks O’ Bear MealThe Highland BalouThe Highland Widow’s LamentIt Was A’ For Our Rightfu’ KingOde For General Washington’s BirthdayInscription To Miss Graham Of FintryOn The Seas And Far AwayCa’ The Yowes To The Knowes—Second VersionShe Says She Loes Me Best Of A’To Dr. MaxwellTo The Beautiful Miss Eliza J—NOn ChlorisOn Seeing Mrs. Kemble In YaricoEpigram On A Country Laird,On Being Shewn A Beautiful Country SeatOn Hearing It Asserted FalsehoodOn A SuicideOn A Swearing CoxcombOn An Innkeeper Nicknamed “The Marquis”On Andrew TurnerPretty PegEsteem For ChlorisSaw Ye My Dear, My PhillyHow Lang And Dreary Is The NightInconstancy In LoveThe Lover’s Morning Salute To His MistressThe Winter Of LifeBehold, My Love, How Green The GrovesThe Charming Month Of MayLassie Wi’ The Lint-White LocksDialogue song—Philly And WillyContented Wi’ Little And Cantie Wi’ MairFarewell Thou StreamCanst Thou Leave Me Thus, My KatieMy Nanie’s AwaThe Tear-DropFor The Sake O’ SomebodyA Man’s A Man For A’ ThatCraigieburn WoodThe Solemn League And CovenantLines sent with a Present of a Dozen of Porter.Inscription On A GobletApology For Declining An Invitation To DineEpitaph For Mr. Gabriel RichardsonEpigram On Mr. James GracieBonie Peg-a-RamsayInscription At Friars’ Carse HermitageThere Was A Bonie LassWee Willie GrayO Aye My Wife She Dang MeGude Ale Keeps The Heart AboonO Steer Her Up An’ Haud Her GaunThe Lass O’ EcclefechanO Let Me In Thes Ae NightHer AnswerI’ll Aye Ca’ In By Yon TownO Wat Ye Wha’s In Yon TownBallads on Mr. Heron’s Election, 1795Inscription For An Altar Of IndependenceThe Cardin O’t, The Spinnin O’tThe Cooper O’ CuddyThe Lass That Made The Bed To MeHad I The Wyte? She Bade MeDoes Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?Address To The WoodlarkSong.—On Chloris Being IllHow Cruel Are The ParentsMark Yonder Pomp Of Costly Fashion’Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E’eTheir Groves O’Sweet MyrtleForlorn, My Love, No Comfort NearFragment,—Why, Why Tell The LoverThe Braw WooerThis Is No My Ain LassieO Bonie Was Yon Rosy BrierSong Inscribed To Alexander CunninghamO That’s The Lassie O’ My HeartInscriptionFragment.—Leezie LindsayFragment.—The Wren’s NestNews, Lassies, NewsCrowdie Ever MairMally’s Meek, Mally’s SweetJockey’s Taen The Parting KissVerses To Collector MitchellPostscriptThe Dean Of FacultyEpistle To Colonel De PeysterA Lass Wi’ A TocherHeron Election Ballad, No. IV.Complimentary Versicles To Jessie LewarsO Lay Thy Loof In Mine, LassA Health To Ane I Loe DearO Wert Thou In The Cauld BlastInscription To Miss Jessy LewarsFairest Maid On Devon BanksGlossaryPrevious chapter ←On Wm. Graham, Esq., Of MossknoweNext chapter →Sonnet On The Death Of Robert RiddellAll chapters and sections (554)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsPrefaceSong—Handsome Nell1Song—O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The DaySong—I Dream’d I LaySong—In The Character Of A Ruined FarmerTragic FragmentTarbolton Lasses, TheMontgomerie’s PeggyPloughman’s Life, TheRonalds Of The Bennals, TheSong—Here’s To Thy HealthLass Of Cessnock Banks, The1Song—Bonie Peggy AlisonSong—Mary MorisonWinter: A DirgePrayer, Under The Pressure Of Violent AnguishParaphrase Of The First PsalmFirst Six Verses Of The Ninetieth Psalm Versified, ThePrayer, In The Prospect Of DeathStanzas, On The Same OccasionFickle Fortune: A FragmentRaging Fortune—Fragment Of SongImpromptu—“I’ll Go And Be A Sodger”Song—“No Churchman Am I”A Stanza Added In A Mason LodgeMy Father Was A FarmerJohn Barleycorn: A BalladDeath And Dying Words Of Poor Mailie, The Author’s Only Pet Yowe., ThePoor Mailie’s ElegySong—The Rigs O’ BarleySong Composed In AugustSongSong—Green Grow The RashesSong—Wha Is That At My Bower-DoorRemorse: A FragmentEpitaph On Wm. Hood, Senr., In TarboltonEpitaph On James Grieve, Laird Of Boghead, TarboltonEpitaph On My Own Friend And My Father’s Friend, Wm. Muir In Tarbolton MillEpitaph On My Ever Honoured FatherBallad On The American WarReply To An Announcement By J. Rankine On His Writing To The Poet,Epistle To John RankineA Poet’s Welcome To His Love-Begotten Daughter1Song—O Leave Novels1Fragment—The Mauchline LadyFragment—My Girl She’s AiryThe Belles Of MauchlineEpitaph On A Noisy PolemicEpitaph On A Henpecked Country SquireEpigram On The Said OccasionAnotherOn Tam The ChapmanEpitaph On John RankineLines On The Author’s DeathMan Was Made To Mourn: A DirgeThe Twa Herds; Or, The Holy TulyieEpistle To Davie, A Brother PoetHoly Willie’s PrayerEpitaph On Holy WillieDeath and Doctor HornbookEpistle To J. Lapraik, An Old Scottish BardSecond Epistle To J. LapraikEpistle To William SimsonPostcriptOne Night As I Did WanderTho’ Cruel Fate Should Bid Us PartSong—Rantin’, Rovin’ Robin1Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux1Epistle To John Goldie, In KilmarnockThe Holy Fair1Third Epistle To J. LapraikEpistle To The Rev. John M’mathSecond Epistle to DavieSong—Young Peggy BloomsSong—Farewell To BallochmyleFragment—Her Flowing LocksHalloween1To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough, November, 1785Epitaph On John Dove, InnkeeperEpitaph For James SmithAdam Armour’s PrayerThe Jolly Beggars: A Cantata1Song—For A’ That1Song—Merry Hae I Been Teethin A HeckleThe Cotter’s Saturday NightAddress To The DeilScotch DrinkThe Auld Farmer’s New-Year-Morning Salutation To His Auld Mare, MaggieThe Twa Dogs1The Author’s Earnest Cry And PrayerThe OrdinationEpistle To James SmithThe VisionSuppressed Stanza’s Of “The Vision”Address To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly RighteousThe Inventory1To John Kennedy, Dumfries HouseTo Mr. M’Adam, Of Craigen-GillanTo A Louse, On Seeing One On A Lady’s Bonnet, At ChurchInscribed On A Work Of Hannah More’sSong, Composed In SpringTo A Mountain Daisy,To RuinThe LamentDespondency: An OdeTo Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline,Versified Reply To An InvitationSong—Will Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary?Song—My Highland Lassie, OEpistle To A Young FriendAddress Of BeelzebubA DreamA DedicationVersified Note To Dr. Mackenzie, MauchlineThe Farewell To the Brethren of St. James’ Lodge, Tarbolton.On A Scotch Bard, Gone To The West IndiesSong—Farewell To ElizaA Bard’s EpitaphEpitaph On “Wee Johnie”The Lass O’ BallochmyleLines To An Old SweetheartMotto Prefixed To The Author’s First PublicationLines To Mr. John KennedyLines Written On A BanknoteStanzas On NaethingThe FarewellThomson’s Edward and Eleanora.The CalfNature’s Law—A PoemSong—Willie ChalmersReply To A Trimming Epistle Received From A TailorThe Brigs Of AyrFragment Of SongEpigram On Rough RoadsPrayer—O Thou Dread PowerFarewell Song To The Banks Of AyrAddress To The ToothacheLines On Meeting With Lord Daer1Masonic SongTam Samson’s ElegyThe EpitaphPer ContraEpistle To Major LoganFragment On SensibilityA Winter NightSong—Yon Wild Mossy MountainsAddress To EdinburghAddress To A HaggisTo Miss Logan, With Beattie’s Poems, For A New-Year’s Gift, Jan. 1, 1787.Mr. William Smellie—A SketchSong—Bonie DundeeExtempore In The Court Of SessionInscription For The Headstone Of Fergusson The Poet1Epistle To Mrs. ScottVerses Intended To Be Written Below A Noble Earl’s Picture1PrologueThe Bonie Moor-HenSong—My Lord A-HuntingEpigram At Roslin InnEpigram Addressed To An ArtistThe Book-WormsOn Elphinstone’s Translation Of Martial’s EpigramsSong—A Bottle And FriendEpitaph For William Nicol, Of The High School, EdinburghEpitaph For Mr. William MichieAddress To Wm. Tytler, Esq., Of WoodhouseleeEpigram To Miss Ainslie In ChurchBurlesque Lament For The Absence Of William Creech, PublisherNote To Mr. Renton Of LamertonElegy On “Stella”The Bard At InveraryEpigram To Miss Jean ScottOn The Death Of John M’Leod, Esq,Elegy On The Death Of Sir James Hunter BlairImpromptu On Carron Iron WorksTo Miss FerrierWritten By Somebody On The WindowThe Poet’s Reply To The Threat Of A Censorious CriticThe Libeller’s Self-Reproof1Verses Written With A PencilSong—The Birks Of AberfeldyThe Humble Petition Of Bruar WaterLines On The Fall Of Fyers Near Loch-Ness.Epigram On Parting With A Kind Host In The HighlandsStrathallan’s Lament1Castle GordonSong—Lady Onlie, Honest LuckyTheniel Menzies’ Bonie MaryThe Bonie Lass Of Albany1On Scaring Some Water-Fowl In Loch-TuritBlythe Was She1A Rose-Bud By My Early WalkEpitaph For Mr. W. Cruikshank1Song—The Banks Of The DevonBraving Angry Winter’s StormsSong—My Peggy’s CharmsThe Young Highland RoverBirthday Ode For 31st December, 17871On The Death Of Robert Dundas, Esq., Of Arniston,Sylvander To Clarinda1Love In The Guise Of FriendshipGo On, Sweet Bird, And Sooth My CareClarinda, Mistress Of My SoulI’m O’er Young To Marry YetTo The Weavers Gin Ye GoM’Pherson’s FarewellStay My CharmerSong—My HoggieRaving Winds Around Her BlowingUp In The Morning EarlyHey, The Dusty MillerDuncan DavisonThe Lad They Ca’Jumpin JohnTalk Of Him That’s Far AwaTo Daunton MeThe Winter It Is PastThe Bonie Lad That’s Far AwaVerses To ClarindaThe Chevalier’s LamentEpistle To Hugh ParkerOf A’ The Airts The Wind Can Blaw1Song—I Hae a Wife O’ My AinLines Written In Friars’-Carse HermitageTo Alex. Cunningham, ESQ., WriterSong.—Anna, Thy CharmsThe Fete ChampetreEpistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of FintrySong.—The Day ReturnsSong.—O, Were I On Parnassus HillA Mother’s LamentThe Fall Of The LeafI Reign In Jeanie’s BosomAuld Lang SyneMy Bonie MaryThe Parting KissWritten In Friar’s-Carse HermitageThe Poet’s ProgressElegy On The Year 1788The Henpecked HusbandVersicles On Sign-PostsRobin Shure In HairstOde, Sacred To The Memory Of Mrs. Oswald Of AuchencruivePegasus At WanlockheadSappho Redivivus—A FragmentSong—She’s Fair And FauseImpromptu Lines To Captain RiddellLines To John M’Murdo, Esq. Of DrumlanrigRhyming Reply To A Note From Captain RiddellCaledonia—A BalladTo Miss CruickshankBeware O’ Bonie AnnOde On The Departed Regency BillEpistle To James Tennant Of GlenconnerA New Psalm For The Chapel Of KilmarnockSketch In VerseThe Wounded HareDelia, An OdeThe Gard’ner Wi’ His PaidleOn A Bank Of FlowersYoung Jockie Was The Blythest LadThe Banks Of NithJamie, Come Try MeI Love My Love In SecretSweet Tibbie DunbarThe Captain’s LadyJohn Anderson, My JoMy Love, She’s But A Lassie YetSong—Tam GlenCarle, An The King ComeThe Laddie’s Dear Sel’Whistle O’er The Lave O’tMy Eppie AdairOn The Late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations Thro’ ScotlandEpigram On Francis Grose The AntiquaryThe Kirk Of Scotland’s AlarmPresentation Stanzas To CorrespondentsSonnet On Receiving A FavourExtemporaneous EffusionSong—Willie Brew’d A Peck O’ Maut1Ca’ The Yowes To The KnowesI Gaed A Waefu’ Gate YestreenHighland Harry Back AgainThe Battle Of SherramuirThe Braes O’ KilliecrankieAwa’ Whigs, Awa’A Waukrife MinnieThe Captive RibbandMy Heart’s In The HighlandsThe Whistle—A BalladTo Mary In HeavenEpistle To Dr. BlacklockThe Five CarlinsElection Ballad For Westerha’Prologue Spoken At The Theatre Of DumfriesSketch—New Year’s Day, 1790Scots’ Prologue For Mr. SutherlandLines To A Gentleman,Elegy On Willie Nicol’s MareThe Gowden Locks Of AnnaPostscriptSong—I Murder HateGudewife, Count The LawinElection BalladElegy On Captain Matthew HendersonThe EpitaphVerses On Captain GroseTam O’ ShanterOn The Birth Of A Posthumous ChildElegy On The Late Miss Burnet Of MonboddoLament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of SpringThere’ll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes HameSong—Out Over The ForthThe Banks O’ Doon—First VersionThe Banks O’ Doon—Second VersionThe Banks O’ Doon—Third VersionLament For James, Earl Of GlencairnLines Sent To Sir John Whiteford, BartCraigieburn WoodEpigram On Miss DaviesThe Charms Of Lovely DaviesWhat Can A Young Lassie Do Wi’ An Auld ManThe PosieOn Glenriddell’s Fox Breaking His ChainPoem On Pastoral PoetryVerses On The Destruction Of The Woods Near DrumlanrigThe Gallant WeaverEpigram At Brownhill Inn1Lovely Polly StewartFragment,—Damon And SylviaJohnie Lad, Cock Up Your BeaverMy Eppie MacnabAltho’ He Has Left MeMy Tocher’s The JewelO For Ane An’ Twenty, TamThou Fair ElizaMy Bonie BellSweet AftonAddress To The Shade Of ThomsonNithsdale’s Welcome HameFrae The Friends And Land I LoveSuch A Parcel Of Rogues In A NationYe Jacobites By NameI Hae Been At CrookiedenO Kenmure’s On And Awa, WillieEpistle To John Maxwell, ESQ., Of TerraughtySecond Epistle To Robert Graham, ESQ., Of FintryThe Song Of DeathPoem On SensibilityThe ToadeaterDivine Service In The Kirk Of LamingtonThe Keekin’-GlassA Grace Before Dinner, ExtemporeA Grace After Dinner, ExtemporeO May, Thy MornAe Fond Kiss, And Then We SeverBehold The Hour, The Boat, ArriveThou Gloomy DecemberMy Native Land Sae Far AwaI do Confess Thou Art Sae FairLines On Fergusson, The PoetThe Weary Pund O’ TowWhen She Cam’ Ben She BobbedScroggam, My DearieMy Collier LaddieSic A Wife As Willie HadLady Mary AnnKellyburn BraesThe Slave’s LamentO Can Ye Labour Lea?The Deuks Dang O’er My DaddieThe Deil’s Awa Wi’ The ExcisemanThe Country LassBessy And Her Spinnin’ WheelLove For LoveSaw Ye Bonie LesleyFragment Of SongI’ll Meet Thee On The Lea RigMy Wife’s A Winsome Wee ThingHighland MaryAuld Rob MorrisThe Rights Of WomanEpigram On Seeing Miss Fontenelle In A Favourite CharacterExtempore On Some Commemorations Of ThomsonDuncan GrayHere’s A Health To Them That’s AwaA Tippling BalladPoortith Cauld And Restless LoveOn PoliticsBraw Lads O’ Galla WaterSonnet Written On The Author’s Birthday,Wandering Willie—First VersionWandering Willie—Revised VersionLord GregoryOpen The Door To Me, OhLovely Young JessieMeg O’ The MillMeg O’ The Mill—Another VersionThe Soldier’s ReturnThe True Loyal NativesOn Commissary Goldie’s BrainsLines Inscribed In A Lady’s Pocket AlmanacThanksgiving For A National VictoryLines On The Commemoration Of Rodney’s VictoryThe Raptures Of FollyKirk and State ExcisemenExtempore Reply To An InvitationGrace After MeatGrace Before And After MeatImpromptu On General Dumourier’s Desertion From The French Republican ArmyThe Last Time I Came O’er The MoorLogan BraesBlythe Hae I been On Yon HillO Were My Love Yon Lilac FairBonie Jean—A BalladLines On John M’Murdo, ESQ.Epitaph On A Lap-DogEpigrams Against The Earl Of GallowayEpigram On The Laird Of LagganSong—Phillis The FairSong—Had I A CaveSong—By Allan StreamWhistle, And I’ll Come To You, My LadPhillis The Queen O’ The FairCome, Let Me Take Thee To My BreastDainty DavieRobert Bruce’s March To BannockburnBehold The Hour, The Boat ArriveDown The Burn, DavieThou Hast Left Me Ever, JamieWhere Are The Joys I have Met?Deluded Swain, The PleasureThine Am I, My Faithful FairOn Mrs. Riddell’s BirthdayMy Spouse NancyAddressComplimentary Epigram On Maria RiddellRemorseful ApologyWilt Thou Be My Dearie?A Fiddler In The NorthThe Minstrel At LincludenA VisionA Red, Red RoseYoung Jamie, Pride Of A’ The PlainThe Flowery Banks Of CreeMonodyThe EpitaphPinned To Mrs. Walter Riddell’s CarriageEpitaph For Mr. Walter RiddellEpistle From Esopus To MariaEpitaph On A Noted CoxcombOn Capt. LascellesOn Wm. Graham, Esq., Of MossknoweOn John Bushby, Esq., Tinwald DownsSonnet On The Death Of Robert RiddellThe Lovely Lass O’ InvernessCharlie, He’s My DarlingBannocks O’ Bear MealThe Highland BalouThe Highland Widow’s LamentIt Was A’ For Our Rightfu’ KingOde For General Washington’s BirthdayInscription To Miss Graham Of FintryOn The Seas And Far AwayCa’ The Yowes To The Knowes—Second VersionShe Says She Loes Me Best Of A’To Dr. MaxwellTo The Beautiful Miss Eliza J—NOn ChlorisOn Seeing Mrs. Kemble In YaricoEpigram On A Country Laird,On Being Shewn A Beautiful Country SeatOn Hearing It Asserted FalsehoodOn A SuicideOn A Swearing CoxcombOn An Innkeeper Nicknamed “The Marquis”On Andrew TurnerPretty PegEsteem For ChlorisSaw Ye My Dear, My PhillyHow Lang And Dreary Is The NightInconstancy In LoveThe Lover’s Morning Salute To His MistressThe Winter Of LifeBehold, My Love, How Green The GrovesThe Charming Month Of MayLassie Wi’ The Lint-White LocksDialogue song—Philly And WillyContented Wi’ Little And Cantie Wi’ MairFarewell Thou StreamCanst Thou Leave Me Thus, My KatieMy Nanie’s AwaThe Tear-DropFor The Sake O’ SomebodyA Man’s A Man For A’ ThatCraigieburn WoodThe Solemn League And CovenantLines sent with a Present of a Dozen of Porter.Inscription On A GobletApology For Declining An Invitation To DineEpitaph For Mr. Gabriel RichardsonEpigram On Mr. James GracieBonie Peg-a-RamsayInscription At Friars’ Carse HermitageThere Was A Bonie LassWee Willie GrayO Aye My Wife She Dang MeGude Ale Keeps The Heart AboonO Steer Her Up An’ Haud Her GaunThe Lass O’ EcclefechanO Let Me In Thes Ae NightHer AnswerI’ll Aye Ca’ In By Yon TownO Wat Ye Wha’s In Yon TownBallads on Mr. Heron’s Election, 1795Inscription For An Altar Of IndependenceThe Cardin O’t, The Spinnin O’tThe Cooper O’ CuddyThe Lass That Made The Bed To MeHad I The Wyte? She Bade MeDoes Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?Address To The WoodlarkSong.—On Chloris Being IllHow Cruel Are The ParentsMark Yonder Pomp Of Costly Fashion’Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E’eTheir Groves O’Sweet MyrtleForlorn, My Love, No Comfort NearFragment,—Why, Why Tell The LoverThe Braw WooerThis Is No My Ain LassieO Bonie Was Yon Rosy BrierSong Inscribed To Alexander CunninghamO That’s The Lassie O’ My HeartInscriptionFragment.—Leezie LindsayFragment.—The Wren’s NestNews, Lassies, NewsCrowdie Ever MairMally’s Meek, Mally’s SweetJockey’s Taen The Parting KissVerses To Collector MitchellPostscriptThe Dean Of FacultyEpistle To Colonel De PeysterA Lass Wi’ A TocherHeron Election Ballad, No. IV.Complimentary Versicles To Jessie LewarsO Lay Thy Loof In Mine, LassA Health To Ane I Loe DearO Wert Thou In The Cauld BlastInscription To Miss Jessy LewarsFairest Maid On Devon BanksGlossaryHere lies John Bushby—honest man, Cheat him, Devil—if you can!◇← On Wm. 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