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)