The Poems and Songs

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O once I lov'd
Song, composed in August
I dream'd I lay
Song
A Penitential thought, in the hour of Remorse - Intended for a tragedy
Song
A Fragment
Song
Song
Winter, A Dirge
Song
To Ruin
A Prayer, in the Prospect of Death
Stanzas on the same Occasion
A Prayer, Under the Pressure of violent Anguish
[Though fickle Fortune has deceiv'd me]
[O raging Fortune's withering blast]
Extempore
The First Psalm
The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm
Song
Fragment
John Barleycorn. A Ballad
The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie
Poor Mailie's Elegy
[Remorse]
Song
On Ja.s Grieve, Laird of Boghead, Tarbolton
On an Innkeeper in Tarbolton
Song. - In the character of a ruined Farmer -
Mary Morison
Epitaph on my own friend, and my father's friend, Wm Muir in Tarbolton Miln
On a Celebrated Ruling Elder
On a Noisy Polemic
On Wee Johnie
For the Author's Father
For R.A. Esq
For G.H. Esq
A Fragment
Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous
The Ronalds of the Bennals
The Tarbolton Lasses
Song
O leave novels
A Fragment
Green grow the Rashes. A Fragment
Song
Epistle to J. R******, Enclosing some Poems
Lines Addressed to Mr. John Ranken
Verses
Lines
Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet
The Holy Tulzie
Holy Willie's Prayer
Epitaph on Holy Willie
Death and Doctor Hornbook. A True Story
[On Tam the Chapman]
Epistle to J. L*****k, An Old Scotch Bard
To the Same
To W. S*****n, Ochiltree
A Poet's Welcome to his love-begotten Daughter
The Fornicator. A New Song
The Vision
Duan First
Duan Second
Epistle to John Goldie in Kilmarnock
Man was Made to Mourn, A Dirge
A Song. - On Miss P- K-
The Braes o' Ballochmyle
[Third Epistle] to J. Lapraik
To the Rev. John M'Math
To a Mouse, On turning her up in her Nest
The Holy Fair
The Twa Dogs. A Tale
The Cotter's Saturday Night
Halloween
[The Mauchline Wedding]
The Auld Farmer's New-year-morning Salutation
Address to the Deil
Scotch Drink
Brose and Butter
To J. S****
The rantin dog the Daddie o't
The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer
Sketch
To a Louse, On Seeing one on a Lady's Bonnet at Church
Love and Liberty - A Cantata
The Ordination
The Inventory
To Mr. John Kennedy
Adam A-'s Prayer
Song. On Miss W.A
Letter to J-s T-t, Gl-nc-r
[To Mrs. C-]
To a Mountain-Daisy
The Lament
Despondency, an Ode
Jeremiah 15th Ch. 10 V
Epitaph on a Henpecked Country Squire
Epigram on said Occasion
Another
Extempore - to Mr Gavin Hamilton
On a Scotch Bard Gone to the West Indies
[Second Epistle to Davie]
[To] Mr Gavin Hamilton, Mauchline
A Dedication To G**** H******* Esq
A Bard's Epitaph
Epistle to a Young Friend
[Lines written on a Bank-note]
Highland Lassie O -
[Address of Beelzebub]
Libel Summons
Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper, Mauchline
Epitaph on a Wag in Mauchline
[On Willie Chalmers]
A Dream
[To Dr. John Mackenzie]
The Farewell. To the Brethren of St. James's Lodge, Tarbolton
The Farewell
Tam Samson's Elegy
[To John Kennedy]
[Answer to an Epistle from a Taylor]
The Brigs of Ayr, a Poem. Inscribed to J. B*********, Esq; Ayr
Wrote on the blank leaf of a copy of my first Edition
Song
The Northern Lass
A Fragment
The Calf
Nature's Law
Extempore Verses on Dining with Lord Daer
The Sons of old Killie
Epistle to Captn. Willm. Logan at Park
A Winter Night
[Extempore Reply to an Invitation]
Lying at a Reverend Friend's house one night
[The Night was still]
[Rusticity's ungainly Form]
Address to Edinburgh
To a Haggis
Verses intended to be written below a noble Earl's picture
Song
To Miss L-
[There was a lad]
Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux
Epitaph. Here lies Robert Fergusson, Poet
[On Fergusson]
[Ill-fated Genius! Heaven-taught Fergusson]
To a Painter
To Mr E- on his translation of and commentaries on Martial
The Answer [to: The Guidwife of Wauchope-House]
[To Miss Isabella Macleod]
Extempore, in the Court of S-
Extempore Epistle to Mr Mc Adam of Craigengillan
Prologue
Epistle to Mr Tytler of Woodhouselee
[To Miss Ainslie, in Church]
[To William Creech]
[To Symon Gray]
[To Renton of Lamerton]
Bonie Dundee
[At Roslin Inn]
Epigram
On the death of Sir J. Hunter Blair
[To Miss Ferrier]
On reading, in a Newspaper, the Death of - M'L-, Esq
Yon wild mossy mountains
My Harry was a Gallant gay
Verses written on a window of the Inn at Carron
[Lines on Stirling]
On a Schoolmaster in Cleish Parish, Fifeshire
Strathallan's Lament
Written with a Pencil over the Chimney-piece
The Birks of Aberfeldey. - Composed on the spot
[Amang the trees]
The Humble Petition of Bruar Water to the Noble Duke of Athole
A Verse composed and repeated by Burns
Written with a Pencil, standing by the Fall of Fyers, near Loch-Ness
Castle Gordon - intended to be sung to Morag
The young Highland Rover
Theniel Menzies' bony Mary
Lady Onlie
Song. - Composed at Auchtertyre on Miss Euphemia Murray of Lentrose
On scaring some Water-Fowl in Loch-Turit
My Peggy's face
Where braving angry Winter's storms
The banks of the Devon
[Epitaph for William Nicol]
Ca' the ewes
On the death of the late Lord President Dundas
Answer to Clarinda
Scots Ballad
A Birth-day Ode. December 31st 1787
Hunting Song
[On Johnson's Opinion of Hampden]
Song
An Extemporaneous Effusion on being appointed to the Excise
To the Weaver's gin ye go
I'm o'er young to Marry Yet
McPherson's Farewell
Stay, my Charmer, can you leave me?
What will I do gin my Hoggie die
Jumpin John
Up in the Morning Early
Dusty Miller
Duncan Davison
Where Helen Lies
Duncan Gray
The Ploughman
Hey tuti tatey
Raving winds around her blowing
Musing on the roaring Ocean
To daunton me
[Interpolation]
O'er the water to Charlie
Up and warn a' Willie
The Rosebud
[Revision for Clarinda]
And I'll kiss thee yet, yet
Rattlin, roarin Willie
Clarinda
The Winter it is Past
[To Clarinda]
Song
Epitaph on R. Muir
Epistle to Hugh Parker
Thou whom chance may hither lead
Written in Friar's Carse Hermitage on the banks of Nith - June - 1788
Altered from the foregoing - Dec - 1788
The Fкte Champetre
[To Alexander Cunningham]
O Mally's meek, Mally's sweet
I love my Jean
O, were I on Parnassus Hill
The Banks of Nith
To Robt Graham of Fintry Esqr., with a request for an Excise Division
The seventh of November
The blue-eyed Lassie
A Mother's Lament for the loss of her only Son
The lazy mist
Whistle o'er the lave o't
Tam Glen
To the beautiful Miss Eliza J-n, on her principles of Liberty and Equality
[Sketch for an Elegy]
Elegy on Capt. M- H-, a Gentleman
Auld lang syne
Epitaph for J.H. Writer in Ayr
My bony Mary
Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs.- of -
[Versicles on Sign-posts]
To Mr. John Taylor
A Sonnet upon Sonnets
The Cares o' Love
Louis what reck I by thee
Sketch. New Year's Day. To Mrs. Dunlop
Elegy on the Year 1788
Robin shure in hairst
[Come rede me, dame]
[Caledonia]
[At Whigham's Inn, Sanquhar]
[To William Stewart]
[Lines written in the Kirk of Lamington]
Afton Water
Ode to the departed Regency-bill - 1789
On Seeing a Wounded Hare limp by me, which a Fellow had just shot at
A new Psalm for the Chapel of Kilmarnock
To Mr. McMurdo, with a pound of Lundiefoot Snuff
Sketch. Inscribed to The Rt. Hon. Ch. J. Fox Esq
[To Peter Stuart]
The Kirk of Scotland's Garland - a new Song
To Mr. Graham of Fintry, On being appointed to my Excise Division
A Grace before dinner, Extempore
Grace after Meat
Willie brew'd a peck o' maut
The Five Carlins - A Ballad - Tune, Chevy chase
The Laddies by the Banks o' Nith
To Miss C*********, a very young Lady
The Whistle. A Ballad
[Answer to an Invitation]
Answer to Dr. Blacklock
A Song
On the Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations thro' Scotland
Written under the picture of the celebrated Miss Burns
Song
Prologue
Nithsdale's welcome hame
Green Sleeves
[To Alexander Findlater]
[To a Gentleman who had sent him a News-paper]
Elegy on Peg Nicholson
I love my Love in secret
Tibbie Dunbar
The Taylor fell thro' the bed
Ay waukin O
Beware o' bonie Ann
My Wife's a wanton, wee thing
[Lassie lie near me]
The Gardener wi' his paidle - or, The Gardener's March
On a bank of Flowers
My love she's but a lassie yet
Cauld frosty morning
Jamie come try me
The Captain's Lady
Johnie Cope
[O dear Minny, what shall I do?]
[Carl an the king come]
There's a youth in this City
My heart's in the Highlands
John Anderson my Jo
Awa whings awa
I'll mak you be fain to follow me
Merry hae I been teethin a heckle
The White Cockade
My Eppie
The Battle of Sherra-moor
Sandy and Jockie
Young Jockey was the blythest lad
A waukrife Minnie
Song
Killiecrankie
The Campbells are comin
Scots Prologue, For Mrs. Sutherland's Benefit Night
Lament of Mary Queen of Scots on the Approach of Spring
Song
Epistle to Robt. Graham Esq: of Fintry
On the Birth of a Posthumous Child
Song
Tam o' Shanter. A Tale
[Ken ye ought o' Captain Grose?]
Epigram on Capt. Francis Grose, The Celebrated Antiquary
A Fragment, which was meant for the beginning of an Elegy
To Terraughty, on his birth-day
There'll never be peace till Jamie comes hame
I look to the North
The Banks o' Doon (A)
The Banks o' Doon (B)
On Mr. James Gracie
Orananaoig, or, The Song of death
Address, To the Shade of Thomson
Extempore - on some Commemorations of Thomson
Lovely Davies
Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn
To R***** G***** of F*****, Esq
Gloomy December
Song
[There was twa Wives]
O saw ye bonie Lesley
Craigieburn-wood - A Song
Frae the friends and Land I love
Hughie Graham
John come kiss me now
Cock up your Beaver
My Tochers the Jewel
Then Guidwife count the lawin
What can a young lassie do wi' an auld man
The bonie lad that's far awa
I do confess thou art sae fair
Galloway Tam
Song
Lord Ronald my Son
Bonie laddie, Highland laddie
It is na, Jean, thy bonie face
Eppie McNab
Wha is that at my bower door?
The bonny wee thing
Geordie - An old Ballad
As I was a wand'ring
The weary Pund o' Tow
I hae a wife o' my ain
When she cam ben she bobbed
O, for ane and twenty Tam
O Kenmure's on and awa, Willie
Bessy and her spinning wheel
My Collier laddie
The Shepherd's Wife
Johnie Blunt
Country Lassie
Fair Eliza
Ye Jacobites by name
The Posie
Song - Sic a wife as Willie's wife
My bonie laddie's young but he's growin yet
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation
Kellyburnbraes
[Jockey fou and Jenny fain]
The Slave's Lament
Bonie Bell
The gallant Weaver
Hey Ca' thro'
Can ye labor lea
The deuks dang o'er my daddie
As I went out ae May morning
She's fair and fause
The De'il's awa wi' th' Exciseman
Song
My wife's a winsome wee thing
Highland Mary
The Rights of Woman - Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her benefit night
Here's a Health to them that's awa
The lea-rig
Auld Rob Morris
Duncan Gray
[Why should na poor folk mowe]
Here awa', there awa'
Galla Water
Song
Lord Gregory
Sonnet - On hearing a thrush sing on a morning walk in January
Address to General Dumourier
[A Toast]
Open the door to me Oh
Jessie - A new Scots song
Song
When wild War's deadly Blast was blawn
O ken ye what Meg o' the mill has gotten
Ken ye what Meg o' the mill has gotten
Song
Song
On being asked why God had made Miss D- so little and Mrs A- so big
[Maxwell of Cardoness]
[On] Maxwell of Cardoness
Extempore - On being shown a beautiful Country seat belonging to the same
[Annotations in Verse]
O were my Love yon Lilack fair
A Ballad
[Epigrams on Lord Galloway]
[On the death of Echo, a Lap-dog]
[In wood and wild, ye warbling throng]
[Ye warblers of the vocal grove]
On J-hn M-r-ne, laird of L-gg-n
Phillis the fair
Song
Song
Song
Allan Water
Song
Dainty Davie
Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn
To Maria
Down the burn Davie
[Passion's Cry]
The Primrose
Thou hast left me ever
Song
Fair Jenny
On Captn W- R-dd-ck of C-rb-ton
Thine am I, my Chloris fair
[Bonie Mary]
Act Sederunt of the Session - A Scots Ballad
To Captn G-, on being asked why I was not to be of the party
Impromptu, on Mrs. W. Riddell's Birthday, 4th Novr. 1793
Occasional Address, Spoken by Miss Fontenelle, on her Benefit-Night
On seeing Miss Fontenelle in a Favourite Character
English Song
To Miss Graham of Fintray
Monody on Maria
Wilt thou be my Dearie
Sonnet, on the Death of Robert Riddel, Esq. of Glen Riddel, April 1794
On Robert Riddel
Banks of Cree
Pinned to Mrs R-'s carriage
In answer to one who affirmed of a well-known Character here, Dr B-
Extempore [on The Loyal Natives' Verses]
Ode [For General Washington's Birthday]
On W. R-, Esq
A red red Rose
On the seas and far away
To Dr Maxwell, on Miss Jessy Staig's recovery
Ca' the yowes to the knowes
She says she lo'es me best of a'
Saw ye my Phely (quasi dicat, Phillis)
How lang and dreary is the night
Song
The auld man's winter thought
The Lovers morning salute to his Mistress
On seeing Mrs Kemble in Yarico
To the Honble Mr R. M-, of P-nm-re, on his high Phaeton
Song, altered from an old English one
Lassie wi' the lintwhite locks
[To Chloris]
Song
Can you leave me thus, my Katy
Scotish Song
Song
My Nanie's awa
[Dumfries Epigrams]
[C-d faithful likeness]
[Should he escape the slaughter of thine Eyes]
[Pray, who are these Natives]
[On an old acquaintance]
[Friend Commissar]
[On Mr. Burke]
[At the election of Magistrates for Dumfries]
On Chloris requesting me to give her a spray of a sloe-thorn in full blossom
Ode to Spring
Song - For a' that and a' that
Sweet fa's the eve on Craigieburn
The Dumfries Volunteers
Let me in this ae night
Fragment - Epistle from Esopus to Maria
On Miss J. Scott, of Ayr
Song
Song - (On Chloris being ill)
Elegy on Mr William Cruikshank A. M
[The Heron Ballads, 1795]
[Wham will we send to London town]
The Election: A New Song
Johnie B-'s lament
Buy Braw Troggin. An Excellent New Song
Address to the woodlark
Song
Song
Altered from an old English song
Song
Address to the Tooth-Ache
English Song
Scotch Song
Scotish Ballad
Fragment
Poetical Inscription, for an Altar to Independence at Kerrouchtry
[To Chloris]
Song
Scotish Song
Song
[To John Syme]
On Mr Pit's hair-powder tax
[The Solemn League and Covenant]
The Bob o' Dumblane
Poem
The Dean of Faculty - A new Ballad
Hey for a lass wi' a tocher
Poem on Life
Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear
[On Jessy Lewars]
[Talk not to me of savages]
[Fill me with the rosy wine]
[Say, sages, what's the charm on earth]
[But rarely seen since Nature's birth]
To a Young Lady, Miss Jessy L-, Dumfries
[Oh wert thou in the cauld blast]
Song
To Mr. S. McKenzie
A Fragment - On Glenriddel's Fox breaking his chain
[To Captain Riddell]
[Reply to Robert Riddell]
[Grim Grizzle]
Burns grace at Kirkudbright
[Graces - at the Globe Tavern]
[Lines Written on windows of the Globe Tavern, Dumfries]
[The greybeard, old wisdom, may boast of his treasures]
Song
[My bottle is a holy pool]
[In politics if thou would'st mix]
Lines Written on a window, at the King's Arms Tavern, Dumfries
[You're welcome, Willie Stewart]
[At Brownhill Inn]
On W- Gr-h-m Esq: of M-sskn-w
[Epitaph on Mr. Burton]
Epitaph on D- C-
Epitaph Extempore, On a person nicknamed the Marquis
Epitaph on J-hn B-shby
On Captn L-lles
[On John M 'Murdo]
[On Gabriel Richardson]
On Commissary Goldie's Brains
The Hue and Cry of John Lewars
[The Keekin'Glass]
[Inscription on a Goblet]
[On Andrew Turner]
[The Toadeater]
The lovely lass o' Inverness
Song
The Wren's Nest
O an ye were dead Gudeman
Tam Lin
Had I the wyte she bade me
Comin thro' the rye
The rowin 't in her apron
Charlie he's my darling
The Lass of Ecclefechan
We'll hide the Couper behint the door
Leezie Lindsay
For the sake o' Somebody
The cardin o't
Sutors o' Selkirk
Tibbie Fowler
There's three true gude fellows
The bonie lass made the bed to me
Sae far awa
The Reel o' Stumpie
I'll ay ca' in by yon town
The rantin laddie
O May thy morn
As I cam o'er the Cairney mount
Highland laddie
Lovely Polly Stewart
The Highland balou
Bannocks o' bear-meal
Wae is my heart
Here's his health in water [A]
Here's his health in water [B]
Gude Wallace
The auld man's mare's dead
The Taylor
There grows a bonie brier-bush
Here's to thy health my bonie lass
It was a' for our rightfu' king
The Highland widow's lament
O steer her up and had her gaun
Wee Willie Gray
Gudeen to you kimmer
O ay my wife she dang me
Scroggam
O gude ale comes
My Lady's gown there's gairs upon't
Sweetest May
Jockey's ta'en the parting kiss
O lay thy loof in mine lass
Cauld is the e'enin blast
There was a bonie lass
There's news lasses news
O that I had ne'er been Married
The German lairdie