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The poems and songs of Robert Burns
Title:
The poems and songs of Robert Burns
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with introd., notes, and glossary.
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Publication Information:
New York : Collier, ©1937.
Physical Description:
574 pages, 1 leaf of plates ; 21 cm.
General Note:
"The five-foot shelf of books."
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Contents:
1773-1779. Handsom Nell--O Tibbie, I hae seen the day -- I deam'd I lay -- In the character of a runied farmer -- Tragic fragment -- all villain as I am -- The tarbolton lasses -- Ah, woe is me, my mother der -- Song -- Montgomerie's Peggy -- The ploughman's life.

1780. The Ronalds of the bennals -- Here's to thy health, my bonie lass -- The lass of Sessnock Banks -- Bonie Peggy Alison -- 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 -- A prayer, in the prospect of death -- Stanzas, on the same occasion.

1782. Fickle forturne: a gragment -- Raging fortune: a fragment -- I'll go and be a sodger -- No churchman am I -- My father was a farmer: a ballad -- John Barleycorn: a ballad.

1783. The death and dying words of poor Mailie -- Poor Mailie's elegy -- The rigs o' barley -- Composd in August -- My Nanie, o -- Green grow the rashes -- "Indeed will I," quo' Findlay.

1784. Remorse: a fragment -- Epitaph on William Hood, senior -- Epitaph on James Grieve -- Epitaph on William Muir -- 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 -- O leave novels -- The mauchline lady: a fragment -- The belles of mauchline -- Epitaph on a noisy polemic -- Epitaph on a henpecked squire -- On the said occasion -- Another on the said occcasion -- 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. Opistle to Davie, a brother poet -- Holy Willie's prayer -- Epitaph on Holy Willie -- Death and Dr. Hornbook -- Epistle to J. Lapraik -- Second epistle to J. Lapraik -- Epistle to William Simson -- One night as I did wander -- "My Jean" -- Rantin', Rovin', Robin -- Elegy on the death of Robert Ruisseaux -- Epistle to John Goldie, in Likmarnock -- The holy fair -- Third epistle to J. Lapraik -- Epistle to the Rev. John M'Math -- Second epistle to Davie -- Young Peggy Blooms -- Farewell to ballochmyle -- Her flowing locks -- Halloween -- To a mouse -- Epitaph on John Dove, innjkeeper -- Epitaph for James Smith -- Adam Armour's prayer -- The jolly beggars: a cantata -- For a' that -- Kissing my Katie -- 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 stanzas of "the vision" -- The rantin'dog, the daddio o't -- Here's his health in water -- Address to the unco guid -- The inventory -- To John Kennedy, dumfried house -- To Mr. M'adam, of Craigen-Gillan -- To a louse -- Inscribed on a work of Hannah more's -- 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 -- Will ye go to the indies, my mary -- My highland lassie, o -- Epistle to a young friend -- Address to 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 -- Farewell to eliza -- A bard's epitaph -- Epitaph for robert aiken, esq. -- Epitaph for gavin hamilton, esq. -- Epitaph on "wee johnnie" -- The lass o' ballochmyle -- Lines to an old sweetheart -- Stanzas on naething -- The farewell -- The calf -- Nature's law: a poem -- Willie chalmers -- Reply to a trimming epistle, received from a tailor -- The brigs of qyr -- The night was still -- On rough roads -- O thou dread power -- Farewell to the banks of ayr -- Address to the toothache -- Lines on meeting with lord daer -- Ye sons of old killie -- Tam samson's elegy -- Epistle to major logan -- Fragment on sensibility -- A winter night -- Yon wild mossy mountains -- Address to edinburph -- Address to a haggis.

1787. To miss logan, with beattie's poems -- Mr. William Smellie: a sketch -- Rattlin', roarin' willie -- Bonie dundee: a gragment -- 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 edinburph -- the bonie moor-hen -- My lord a-hunting he is gane -- At roslin inn -- Addressed to an artist -- The bookworms -- On elphinstone's translation of martial's epigrams -- A bottle and friend -- Lines written under the picture of miss burns -- Epitaph for william nicol, high schoo, edinburgh -- Epitaph for mr. william michie, schoolmaster -- He, ca' thro' -- Address to wm. tytler, esq., of woodhouselee -- To miss ainslie in church -- Burlesque lament for wm. creech's absence -- Note to mr. renton of lamerton -- Elegy on stella -- The bard at inversary -- To miss jean scott -- On the death of john m'leod, esq. -- Elegy on the death of sir james hunmter 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 -- Verse written with a pencil at the inn at kenmore -- The birks of aberfeldy -- The humble petition of bruar water -- Lines on the fall of fyers -- On parting with a kind host in the highlands -- Strathallan's lament -- Verses on castle gordon -- Lady onlie, honest luckie -- Theniel menzies bonie mary -- The bonie lass of albany -- On scaring some water-fowl in loch turit -- Blythe was she -- A rose-bud by my early walk -- Epitaph for Mr. W. Cruickshank -- The banks of the Devon -- Braving angry winter's storms -- My peggy's charms -- The young highland rover -- 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 -- Go on, sweet bird, and soothe my cre -- Clarinda, mistress of my soul -- I'm o'er young to marry yet -- To the weaver's gin ye go -- M'Pherson's farewell -- Stay my charmer -- My hoggie -- Raving winds around her blowing -- Up in the morning early -- How long and dreary is the night -- Hey, the dusty miller -- Ducan davison -- The lad they ca' jumpin john -- Talk of him that's far awa -- To daunton me -- The winter it is past -- The bonie lad that's far awa -- Veres to clarinda, with drinking glasses -- The chevalier's lament -- Epistle to hugh parker -- Of a' the airts the wind can blaw -- I hae a wife o' my ain -- Lines written in friars' carse hermitage (First Version) -- To alex, cunningham, esp., writer, edinburgh -- Anna, a thy charms -- The fete champetre -- Epistle to robert graham, esq., of fintry -- The day returns -- O were I on parnassus hill -- A mother's lament for her son's death -- The fall of the leaf -- I reigh in hjeanie's bosom -- It is na, jean, the bonie face -- Auld lan syne -- Mo bonie mary -- Verses on a parting kiss -- Written in friars' case hermitage (Second Version) -- The poet's progress -- Elegy on the year 1788 -- The henpecked husband -- Versicles on sign-posts.

1789. Robin shure in hairst -- Ode, sacred to the memory of mrs. oswald of auchencruive -- Pegasus at wanlockhead -- Sappho redivivus: a fragment -- She's fair and fause -- Impromptu lines to daptain 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 -- Ode on the departed regency bill -- Epistle to james tennant of clenconner -- 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 -- On a bank of flowers -- Young jockie was the blythest lad -- The banks of nith -- Jamie, come try me -- I love my lo9ve in secret -- Sweet tibbie dunbar -- The captain's lady -- John anderson, my jo -- My love she's but a lassie yet -- Tam glen -- Carle an' the king come -- The laddie's dear sel' -- Whistle o'er the lave o't -- My eppie adair -- On the late captain grose's peregrinations -- On francis grose the antiquary -- The kirk of scotland's alarm: a ballad -- Sonnett to r. graham, esq., on receiving a favour -- Extemporaneous effusion on being appointed to an excise division -- Willie brew'd a peck o' maut -- Ca' the yowes to the knowes (older set) -- I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen -- Highland harry back agin -- The battle of sherramuir -- The braes o' killiecrankie -- Awa', whigs, awa' -- A waukrife minnie -- The captive ribband -- Farewell to the highlands -- The whistle: a ballad -- 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 -- I murder hate -- Gudewife, count the lawin -- Election ballad to close of contest for representing the dumfries burghs, 1790 -- Elegy on captain matthew henderson -- The epitaph on captain matthew henderson -- Verese on captain grose -- Tam o'shanter: a tale -- On the birth of a posthumous child -- Elegy on the late miss burnet of monboddo.

Lament of mary, queen of scots -- There'll never be peace till jamie comes hame -- Out over the forth -- The banks o' doon (First Version) -- The banks o' doon (Second Version) -- The banks o' doon (Third Version) -- Lament for maes, earl of glencairn -- Lines sent to sir john whitefore, bart -- Craigieburn wood -- The bonie wee thing -- On miss davies -- The charms of lovely davies -- What can a young lassie do wi' an auld man? -- The posie -- 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 -- At brownhill inn -- You're welcom, willie stewart -- Lovely poly stewart -- Damon and sylvia -- Johnie lad, cock up your beaver -- My eppie macnab -- Altho' he has left me -- My tocher's the jewel -- O for ane an' twenty, tam -- Thou fair eliza -- My bonie bell -- Sweet afton -- Address to the shade of thomson -- Nithdale's welcome hame -- Frae the friend, and land I love -- Such a parcel of rogues ina nation -- He jacobites by name -- I hae been at crookieden -- Kenmure's on and awa, willie -- Epistle to john maxwell, esq., of terraughty -- Second epistle to robert graham, esq., of fintry -- The song of death -- Poem on sensibility -- The toad eater -- Divine service at lamington -- The keekin'glad -- A grace before dinner -- A grace after dinner -- O may, thy morn -- Ae fond kiss -- Behold the hour, the boat, arrive -- Thou gloomy december -- My native land sae far awa.

1792. I do confess thou art sae fair -- Lines on fergusson, the poet -- The weary pund o' tow -- When she cam ben she bobbed -- Scroggam, my dearie -- My collier laddie -- Sic a wife as willie had -- Lady mary ann -- Kellyburn braes -- The slave's lament -- O can ye labour lae -- The deuks dang o'er my daddie -- The deil's awa wi' the exciseman -- The country lass -- Bessy and her spinnin wheel -- Love for love -- Saw ye bonie lesley -- No cold approach -- I'll meet thee on the lea rig -- My wife's a winsome wee thing -- Highland mary -- Auld rob morris -- The right of women spoken by miss fontenelle -- On miss fontenelle -- Extempore on some commemorations of thomson -- Duncan gray -- A health to them that's awa -- A tippling ballad when princes and prelates, etc.

1793. Poortith culd and restless love -- On politics -- Braw lads o' gala water -- Sonnet on the author's birthday -- Wandering willie -- Wandering willie (Revied version) -- Lord gregory: a ballad -- Open the door to me, oh -- Lovely young jessie -- Meg o' the mill -- Meg o' the mill (Another version) -- The soldier's return: a ballad -- The true loyal natives -- Commissary goldie's brains -- Lines inscribed in a lady's pocket almanack -- Thanks for a national victory -- Commemoration of rodney's victory -- the raptures of folly -- Kirk and stae excisemen -- Extempore reply to an invitation -- A grace after meat -- Grace before and after meat -- Impromptu on bumourier's desertion of the french republican army -- The last time I cam o'er the moor -- Logan braes -- Blythe hae I ben onyon hill -- O were my love yon lilac fair -- Bonie jean: a ballad -- Lines on john m'murdo, esq. -- Epitaph on a lap dog -- Epigram s against the earl of galloway -- Epigram on the laird of laggan -- Phillis the fair -- Had I a cave -- By allan stream -- Whistle and I'll come to you -- Phillis the queen o' the fair -- Come let me take thee to my breat -- Dainty davie -- Robert bruce's march to bannockburn -- Behold the hour, etc. (Second version) -- Bown the burn, davie love -- Thou hast left me ever, jamie -- Where are the joys I have met -- Deluded swain, the pleasure -- Thine am I, my faithful fair -- Impromptu on mrs. riddell's birthday -- My spouse nancy -- Address spoken my miss fontenelle -- Complimentary epigram to Mrs. Riddell.

1794. Remorseful apology -- Wilt thou be my dearie -- A fiddler in the north -- The minstrel at lincluden -- A vision -- A red, red rose -- Young jamie, pride of a' the plain -- The flowery banks of cree -- 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. grahm, esq., of mossknowe -- Epitaph on john busby, esq., tinwald downs -- Sonnet on the death of robert riddell -- The lovely lass o' inverness -- Charlie, he's my darling -- The bannocks o' bear meal -- The highland balou -- The highland widow's lament -- It was a' for our rightfu' king -- Ode for general washington's birthday -- Inscription to miss graham of fintry -- On the seas and far away -- Ca/ the yowes to the knowes -- She says she loes me best of a. -- Epigram on jessy staig's recovery -- To the beautiful miss eliza j--n, on her principles of liberty and equality -- On chloris requesting a sprig of blossom'd thorn -- On seeing mrs. kimble in yarico -- 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 -- Esteem for chloris -- Saw you my dear, my philly -- How land and dreary is the night -- Inconstancy in love -- The lover's morning salute to his mistress -- The winter of life -- Behold, my love, how green the groves -- The charming month of may -- Lassie wi' the lint white locks -- Philly and willy -- Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair -- Farewell thou stream that winding flows -- Canst thou leave me thus, my katie -- My nanie's awa -- The tear drop "Wae is my heart" -- For the sake o' somebody.

1795. A man's a man for a' that -- Craigieburn wood (Second version) -- The solemn league and convenant -- 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 -- Inscription at friars' carse hermitage -- There was a bonie lass -- Wee willie gray -- O aye my wife she dang me -- Guid ale keeps the heart aboon -- Steer her up and haud her gaun -- The lass o' ecclefechan -- O let me in this ae night -- I'll aye ca' in by yon town -- O wat ye wha's in yon town -- 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 spinnin o't -- The cooper o' cuddy -- The lass that made the bed to me -- Had i the wyt, she bad me -- The dumfries volunteers -- Address to the woodlark -- On chloris being ill -- How cruel are the parents -- Yonder pomp of costly fashion -- Twas na her bonie blue e'e -- Their groves o' sweet myrtle -- Forlorn, my love, no comfort here -- Why tell the lover -- The braw wooer -- This is no my ain lassie -- O bonie was yon rosy brier -- Now spring has clad the grove in green -- O that's the lassie o' my heart -- Inscription to chloris -- Leezie lindsay -- The wren's nest -- News, lassie, news -- Crowdie ever mair -- Mally's meek, mally's sweet -- Jockie's taen the parting kiss -- Verses to collector mitchell.

1796. The dean of faculty: a new ballad -- Epistle to colonel de peyster -- A lass we' a tocher -- Ballad on mr. heron's election -- no. 4 -- Complimentary versicles to jessie leward -- No. 1 the toast -- No. 2 the menagerie -- No. 3 jessie's illness -- No. 4 on her recovery -- O lay thy loof in mine, lass -- A health to ane I loe dear -- O wert thou in the cauld blast -- Inscription to jessie lewars -- Fairest maid on devon's banks.
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