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Delphi Complete Works of Robert Burns (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series)

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by Robert Burns


  Epitaph on “Wee Johnnie”

  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 Bank-note

  Stanzas on Naething

  The Farewell

  The Calf

  Nature’s Law: A Poem

  Willie Chalmers (Song)

  Reply to a Trimming Epistle, received from a Tailor

  The Brigs of Ayr

  The Night was Still (Fragment of a Song)

  Epigram on Rough Roads

  Prayer — O Thou Dread Power

  Farewell to the Banks of Ayr (Song)

  Address to the Toothache

  Lines on Meeting with Lord Daer

  Masonic Song — Ye Sons of Old Killie

  Tam Samson’s Elegy

  Epistle to Major Logan

  Fragment on Sensibility

  A Winter Night

  Yon Wild Mossy Mountains (Song)

  Address to Edinburgh

  Address to a Haggis

  1787

  To Miss Logan, with Beattie’s Poems

  Mr. William Smellie: A Sketch

  Rattlin, Roarin Willie (Song)

  Bonie Dundee: A Fragment (Song)

  Extempore in the Court of Session

  Inscription for the Headstone of Fergusson the Poet

  Lines Inscribed under Fergusson’s Portrait

  Epistle to Mrs. Scott of Wauchope House

  Verses inscribed under a Noble Earl’s Picture

  Prologue, spoken by Mr. Woods at Edinburgh

  The Bonie Moor-hen (Song)

  My Lord a-Hunting he is gane (Song)

  Epigram at RoslinInn

  Epigram Addressed to an Artist

  The Bookworms

  On Elphinstone’s Translation of Martial’s Epigrams

  A Bottle and Friend (Song)

  Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns

  Epitaph for William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh

  Epitaph for Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster

  Boat Song — Hey, Ca’ Thro’

  Address to Wm. Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee

  Epigram to Miss Ainslie in Church

  Burlesque Lament fo Wm. 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, enclosing Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair

  Written by Somebody on the Window of an Inn at Stirling

  Reply to the Threat of a Censorious Critic

  The Libeller’s Self-reproof

  Verses Written with a Pencil at the Inn at Kenmore

  The Birks of Aberfeldy (Song)

  The Humble Petition of Bruar Water

  Lines on the Fall of Fyers

  Epigram on Parting with a kind Host in the Highlands

  Strathallan’s Lament (Song)

  Verses on Castle Gordon

  Lady Onlie, Honest Luckie (Song)

  Theniel Menzies’ Bonie Mary (Song)

  The Bonie Lass of Albany (Song)

  On Scaring some Water-Fowl in Lock Turit

  Blythe was She (Song)

  A Rose-bud by my Early Walk (Song)

  Epitaph for Mr. W. Cruickshank

  The Banks of the Devon (Song)

  Braving Angry Winer’s Storms (Song)

  My Peggy’s Charms (Song)

  The Young Highland Rover (Song)

  Birthday Ode for 31st December, 1787

  On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq., of Arniston

  Sylvander to Clarinda

  1788

  Love in the Guise of Friendship (Song)

  Go on, Sweet Bird, and Soothe my Care (Song)

  Clarina, Mistress of my Soul (Song)

  I’m O’er Young to Marry yet (Song)

  To the Weaver’s gin ye go (Song)

  M’Pherson’s Farewell (Song)

  Stay my Charmer (Song)

  My Hoggie (Song)

  Raving Winds Around her Blowing (Song)

  Up in the Morning Early (Song)

  How Long and Dreary is the Night (Song)

  Hey, the Dusty Miller (Song)

  Duncan Davison (Song)

  The Lad they ca’ Jumpin John (Song)

  Talk of him that’s Far Awa (Song)

  To Daunton Me (Song)

  The Winter it is Past (Song)

  The Bonie Lad that’s Far Awa (Song)

  Verses to Clarinda, with Drinking Glasses

  The Chevalier’s Lament (Song)

  Epistle to Hugh Parker

  Of a’ the Airts the Wind can Blaw (Song)

  I hae a Wife o’ my Ain (Song)

  Verses on Friars’ Carse Hermitage (First Version)

  To Alex. Cunningham, Esq., Writer, Edinburgh

  Anna, thy Charms (Song)

  The Fête Champêtre

  Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry

  The Day Returns (Song)

  O were I on Parnassus Hill (Song)

  A Mother’s Lament for her Son’s Death

  The Fall of the Leaf (Song)

  I Reign in Jeanie’s Bosom (Song)

  It is na, Jean, thy Bonie Face (Song)

  Auld Lang Syne (Song)

  My Bonie Mary (Song)

  Verses on a Parting Kiss

  Written in Friars’ Carse Hermitage (Second Version)

  The Poet’s Progress

  Elegy on the Year 1788

  The Henpecked Husband

  Versicles on Sign-Posts

  1789

  Robin Shure in Hairst (Song)

  Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald of Auchencruive

  Pegasus at Wanlockhead

  Sappho Redivivus: A Fragment

  She’s Fair and Fause (Song)

  Impromptu Lines to Captain Riddell

  Lines to John M’Murdo of Drumlanrig

  Rhyming Reply to a Note from Captain Riddell

  Caledonia: A Ballad

  Verses to Miss Cruickshank

  Beware o’ Bonie Ann (Song)

  Ode on the Departed Regency Bill

  Epistle to James Tennant of Glenconner

  A New Psalm for the Chapel of Kilmarnock

  Sketch in Verse, inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox

  The Wounded Hare

  Delia: An Ode

  The Gardener wi’ his Paidle (Song)

  On a Bank of Flowers (Song)

  Young Jockie was the Blythest Lad (Song)

  The Banks of Nith (Song)

  Jamie, Come Try Me (Song)

  I Love my Love in Secret (Song)

  Sweet Tibbie Dunbar (Song)

  The Captain’s Lady (Song)

  John Anderson, My Jo (Song)

  My Love she’s but a Lassie yet (Song)

  Tam Glen (Song)

  Carle, an’ the King come (Song)

  The Laddie’s dear sel’ (Song)

  Whistle o’er the lave o’t (Song)

  My Eppie Adair (Song)

  On the late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations

  Epigram on Francis Grose the Antiquary

  The Kirk of Scotland’s Alarm: A Ballad

  Sonnet to R. Graham, Esq., on Receiving a Favour

  Extemporaneous Effusion on being appointed to an Excise Division

  Willie brew’d a Peck o’ Maut (Song)

  Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes (older set) (Song)

  I Gaed a Waefu’ Gate Yestreen (Song)

  Highland Harry back again (Song)

  The Battle of Sherramuir (Song)

  The Braes o’ Killiecrankie (Song)

  Awa’, Whigs, Awa’ (Song)

  A Waukrife Minnie (Song)

  The Captive Ribband (Song)

  Farewel
l to the Highlands (Song)

  The Whistle: A Ballad

  To Mary in Heaven (Song)

  Epistle to Dr. Blacklock

  The Five Carlins: An Election Ballad

  Election Ballad for Westerha’

  Prologue spoken at the Theatre of Dumfries

  1790

  Sketch — New Year’s Day, 1790

  Scots Prologue for Mr. Sutherland

  Lines to a Gentleman who sent a Newspaper

  Elegy on Willie Nicol’s Mare

  The Gowden Locks of Anna (Song)

  I Murder hate (Song)

  Gudewife, count the lawin (Song)

  Election Ballad at close of Contest for representing the Dumfries Burghs, 1790

  Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson

  The Epitaph on Captain Matthew Henderson

  Verses on Captain Grose

  Tam o’ Shanter: A Tale

  On the Birth of a Posthumous Child

  Elegy on the late Miss Burnet of Monboddo

  1791

  Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots

  There’ll never be Peace till Jamie comes hame (Song)

  Out over the Forth (Song)

  The Banks o’ Doon (First Version) (Song)

  The Banks o’ Doon (Second Version) (Song)

  The Banks o’ Doon (Third Version) (Song)

  Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn

  Lines to Sir John Whitefoord, Bart

  Craigieburn Wood (Song)

  The Bonie Wee Thing (Song)

  Epigram on Miss Davies

  The Charms of Lovely Davies (Song)

  What can a Young Lassie do wi’ an Auld Man? (Song)

  The Posie (Song)

  On Glenriddell’s Fox breaking his chain: A Fragment

  Poem on Pastoral Poetry

  Verses on the destruction of the Woods near Drumlanrig

  The Gallant Weaver (Song)

  Epigram at Brownhill Inn

  You’re welcome, Willie Stewart (Song)

  Lovely Polly Stewart (Song)

  Damon and Sylvia (Fragment of a Song)

  Johnie lad, Cock up your Beaver (Fragment of a Song)

  My Eppie Macnab (Song)

  Altho’ he has left me (Fragment of a Song)

  My Tocher’s the Jewel (Song)

  O for ane an’ twenty, Tam (Song)

  Thou Fair Eliza (Song)

  My Bonie Bell (Song)

  Sweet Afton (Song)

  Address to the shade of Thomson

  Nithdale’s Welcome Hame (Song)

  Frae the friends and land I love (Song)

  Such a parcel of Rogues in a Nation (Song)

  Ye Jacobites by Name (Song)

  I hae been at Crookieden (Song)

  Kenmure’s on and awa, Willie (Song)

  Epistle to John Maxwell, Esq., of Terraughty

  Second Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry

  The Song of Death

  Poem on Sensibility

  Epigram — The Toad-eater

  Epigram — Divine Service at Lamington

  Epigram — The Keekin Glass

  A Grace before Dinner

  A Grace after Dinner

  O May, thy Morn (Song)

  Ae fond Kiss (Song)

  Behold the Hour, the Boat, arrive (Song)

  Thou Gloomy December (Song)

  My Native Land sae far awa (Song)

  1792

  I do confess thou art sae fair (Song)

  Lines on Fergusson, the Poet

  The weary Pund o’ Tow (Song)

  When she cam ben she bobbed (Song)

  Scroggam, my dearie (Song)

  My Collier Laddie (Song)

  Sic a Wife as Willie had (Song)

  Lady Mary Ann (Song)

  Kellyburn Braes (Song)

  The Slave’s Lament (Song)

  O can ye Labour Lea? (Song)

  The Deuks dang o’er my Daddie (Song)

  The Deil’s awa wi’ the Exciseman (Song)

  The Country Lass (Song)

  Bessy and her Spinnin Wheel (Song)

  Love for love (Fragment of a Song)

  Saw ye Bonie Lesley (Song)

  No cold approach (Fragment of a Song)

  I’ll meet thee on the Lea Rig (Song)

  My Wife’s a winsome wee thing (Song)

  Highland Mary (Song)

  Auld Rob Morris (Song)

  The Rights of Women — Spoken by Miss Fontenelle

  Epigram on Miss Fontenelle

  Extempore on some commemorations of Thomson

  Duncan Gray (Song)

  A Health to them that’s awa (Song)

  A Tippling Ballad — When Princes and Prelates, etc.

  1793

  Poortith cauld and restless love (Song)

  Epigram on Politics

  Braw Lads o’ Gala Water (Song)

  Sonnet on the Author’s Birthday

  Wandering Willie (Song)

  Wandering Willie (Revised Version) (Song)

  Lord Gregory: A Ballad

  Open the door to me, oh (Song)

  Lovely young Jessie (Song)

  Meg o’ the Mill (Song)

  Meg o’ the Mill (Another Version) (Song)

  The Soldier’s Return: A Ballad

  Epigram — The True Loyal Natives

  Epigram — Commissary Goldie’s Brains

  Lines Inscribed in a Lady’s Pocket Almanack

  Epigram — Thanks for a National Victory

  Commemoration of Rodney’s Victory

  Epigram — The Raptures of Folly

  Epigram — Kirk and State Excisemen

  Extempore Reply to an Invitation

  A Grace after Meat

  Grace before and after Meat

  Impromptu on Dumourier’s Desertion of the French Republican Army

  The last time I cam o’er the Moor (Song)

  Logan Braes (Song)

  Blythe hae I been on yon hill (Song)

  O were my love you lilac fair (Song)

  Bonie Jean: A Ballad

  Lines of John M’Murdo, Esq.

  Epitaph on a Lap-dog

  Epigrams against the Earl of Galloway

  Epigram on the Laird of Laggan

  Phillis the Fair (Song)

  Had I a cave (Song)

  By Allan Stream (Song)

  Whistle and I’ll come to you (Song)

  Phillis the Queen o’ the fair (Song)

  Come let me take thee to my breast (Song)

  Dainty Davie (Song)

  Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn (Song)

  Behold the hour, etc. (Second Version) (Song)

  Down the Burn, Davie love (Song)

  Thou hast left me ever, jamie (Song)

  Where are the Joys I have met (Song)

  Deluded swain, the pleasure (Song)

  Thine am I, my faithful Fair (Song)

  Impromptu on Mrs. Riddell’s Birthday

  My Spouse Nancy (Song)

  Address spoken by Miss Fontenelle

  Complimentary Epigram to Mrs. Riddell

  1794

  Remorseful Apology

  Wilt thou be my Dearie (Song)

  A Fiddler in the North (Song)

  The Minstel at Lincluden

  A Vision

  A red, red Rose (Song)

  Young Jamie, pride of a’ the plain (Song)

  The Flowery banks of Cree (Song)

  Monody on a Lady, famed for her Caprice

  Epitaph on the same

  Epigram pinned to Mrs. Riddell’s carriage

  Epitaph for Mr. Walter Riddell

  Epistle from Esopus to Maria

  Epitaph on a noted coxcomb

  Epitaph on Captain Lascelles

  Epitaph on Wm. Graham, Esq., of Mossknowe

  Epitaph on John Busby, Esq., Tinwald Downs

  Sonnet on the Death of Robert Riddell

  The Lovely Lass o’ Inverness (Song)

  Charlie, he’s my Darling (Song)

  The Bannocks o’
Bear Meal (Song)

  The Highland Balou (Song)

  The Highland Widow’s Lament

  It was a’ for our rightfu’ King (Song)

  Ode for General Washington’s Birthday

  Inscription to Miss Graham of Fintry

  On the Seas and far away (Song)

  Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes (Song)

  She says she loes me best of a’ (Song)

  Epigram on Jessy Staig’s recovery

  To the beautiful Miss Eliza J —— n, on her principles of Liberty and Eqality

  On Chloris requesting a sprig of blossom’d thorn

  On seeing Mrs. Kemble in Yarico

  Epigram on a Country Laird (Cardoness)

  Epigram on the same Laird’s Country Seat

  Epigram on Dr. Babington’s looks

  Epigram on a Suicide

  Epigram on a Swearing Coxcomb

  Epigram on an Innkeeper (“The Marquis”)

  Epigram on Andrew Turner

  Pretty Peg, my dearie (Song)

  Esteem for Chloris

  Saw you my dear, my Philly (Song)

  How lang and dreary is the night (Song)

  Inconstancy in love (Song)

  The Lover’s Morning Salute to his Mistress

  The Winter of Life (Song)

  Behold, my love, how green the groves (Song)

  The charming month of May (Song)

  Lassie wi’ the Lint-white Locks (Song)

  Dialogue Song — Philly and Willy

  Contented wi’ little, and cantie wi’ mair (Song)

  Farewell thou stream that winding flows (Song)

  Canst thou leave me thus, my Katie (Song)

  My Nanie’s awa (Song)

  The Tear-drop— “Wae is my heart” (Song)

  For the sake o’ Somebody (Song)

  1795

  A Man’s a Man for a’ that (Song)

  Craigieburn Wood (Second Version) (Song)

  The Solemn League and Covenant

  Lines to John Syme, Esq., with a dozen of Porter

  inscription on Mr. Syme’s crystal goblet

  Apology to Mr. Syme for not dining with him

  Epitaph for Mr. Gabriel Richardson, Brewer

  Epigram on Mr. James Gracie

  Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay (Song)

  Inscription at Friars’ Carse Hermitage

  There was a Bonie Lass (Fragment of a Song)

  Wee Willie Gray (Fragment of a Song)

  O aye my wife she dang me (Song)

  Guid ale keeps the heart aboon (Song)

  Steer her up and haud her gaun (Song)

  The Lass o’ Ecclefechan (Song)

  O let me in this ae night (Song)

  I’ll aye ca’ in by yon town (Song)

  O wat ye wha’s in yon town (Song)

  Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election — No. 1

  Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election — No. 2

  Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election — No. 3

  Inscription for an Alter of Independence

  The Cardin o’t, the Spinning o’t (Song)

  The Cooper o’ Cuddy (Song)

 

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