by Robert Burns
The lass that made the bed to me (Song)
Had I the wyte, she bade me (Song)
The Dumfries Volunteers (Song)
Address to the Woodlark (Song)
On Chloris being ill (Song)
How cruel are the parents (Song)
Yonder pomp of costly fashion (Song)
Twas na her bonie blue e’e (Song)
Their groves o’ sweet myrtle (Song)
Forlorn, my love, no comfort here (Song)
Why tell the lover (Fragment of a Song)
The Braw Wooer (Song)
This is no my ain lassie (Song)
O bonie was yon rosy Brier (Song)
Now Spring has clad the grove in green (Song)
O that’s the lassie o’ my heart (Song)
Inscription to Chloris
Leezie Lindsay (Fragment of a Song)
The Wren’s Nest (Fragment of a Song)
News, lassies, news (Song)
Crowdie ever mair (Song)
Mally’s meek, Mally’s sweet (Song)
Jockie’s taen the parting Kiss (Song)
Verses to Collector Mitchell
Final Poems (1796)
The Dean of Faculty: A new Ballad
Epistle to Colonel de Peyster
A Lass wi’ a Tocher (Song)
Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election — No. 4
Complimentary versicles to Jessie Lewars
O lay thy loof in mine, lass (Song)
A Health to ane I loe dear (Song)
O wert thou in the cauld blast (Song)
Inscription to Jessie Lewars
Fairest Maid on Devon’s Banks (Song)
A Victorian etching of the great poet
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
A-D E-H I-L M-O P-S T-V W-Z
A Bard’s Epitaph
A Bottle and Friend (Song)
A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq.
A Dream
A Fiddler in the North (Song)
A Grace after Dinner
A Grace after Meat
A Grace before Dinner
A Health to ane I loe dear (Song)
A Health to them that’s awa (Song)
A Lass wi’ a Tocher (Song)
A Man’s a Man for a’ that (Song)
A Mother’s Lament for her Son’s Death
A New Psalm for the Chapel of Kilmarnock
A Poet’s Welcome to his Love-Begotten Daughter
A Prayer in the Prospect of Death
A Prayer under the Pressure of Violent Anguish
A red, red Rose (Song)
A Rose-bud by my Early Walk (Song)
A Tippling Ballad — When Princes and Prelates, etc.
A Vision
A Waukrife Minnie (Song)
A Winter Night
Adam Armour’s Prayer
Address spoken by Miss Fontenelle
Address to a Haggis
Address to Beelzebub
Address to Edinburgh
Address to the Deil
Address to the shade of Thomson
Address to the Toothache
Address to the Unco Guid
Address to the Woodlark (Song)
Address to Wm. Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee
Ae fond Kiss (Song)
Ah, woe is me, my Mother dear
Altho’ he has left me (Fragment of a Song)
Anna, thy Charms (Song)
Another on the said Occasion
Apology to Mr. Syme for not dining with him
Auld Lang Syne (Song)
Auld Rob Morris (Song)
Awa’, Whigs, Awa’ (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
Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election — No. 4
Ballad on the American War
Behold the hour, etc. (Second Version) (Song)
Behold the Hour, the Boat, arrive (Song)
Behold, my love, how green the groves (Song)
Bessy and her Spinnin Wheel (Song)
Beware o’ Bonie Ann (Song)
Birthday Ode for 31st December, 1787
Blythe hae I been on yon hill (Song)
Blythe was She (Song)
Boat Song — Hey, Ca’ Thro’
Bonie Dundee: A Fragment (Song)
Bonie Jean: A Ballad
Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay (Song)
Bonie Peggy Alison (Song)
Braving Angry Winer’s Storms (Song)
Braw Lads o’ Gala Water (Song)
Burlesque Lament fo Wm. Creech’s Absence
By Allan Stream (Song)
Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes (older set) (Song)
Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes (Song)
Caledonia: A Ballad
Canst thou leave me thus, my Katie (Song)
Carle, an’ the King come (Song)
Charlie, he’s my Darling (Song)
Clarina, Mistress of my Soul (Song)
Come let me take thee to my breast (Song)
Commemoration of Rodney’s Victory
Complimentary Epigram to Mrs. Riddell
Complimentary versicles to Jessie Lewars
Composed in August (Song)
Composed in Spring (Song)
Contented wi’ little, and cantie wi’ mair (Song)
Craigieburn Wood (Second Version) (Song)
Craigieburn Wood (Song)
Crowdie ever mair (Song)
Dainty Davie (Song)
Damon and Sylvia (Fragment of a Song)
Death and Dr. Hornbook
Delia: An Ode
Deluded swain, the pleasure (Song)
Despondency: An Ode
Dialogue Song — Philly and Willy
Down the Burn, Davie love (Song)
Duncan Davison (Song)
Duncan Gray (Song)
Election Ballad at close of Contest for representing the Dumfries Burghs, 1790
Election Ballad for Westerha’
Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson
Elegy on Stella
Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux
Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair
Elegy on the late Miss Burnet of Monboddo
Elegy on the Year 1788
Elegy on Willie Nicol’s Mare
Epigram — Commissary Goldie’s Brains
Epigram — Divine Service at Lamington
Epigram — Kirk and State Excisemen
Epigram — Thanks for a National Victory
Epigram — The Keekin Glass
Epigram — The Raptures of Folly
Epigram — The Toad-eater
Epigram — The True Loyal Natives
Epigram Addressed to an Artist
Epigram at Brownhill Inn
Epigram at RoslinInn
Epigram on a Country Laird (Cardoness)
Epigram on a Suicide
Epigram on a Swearing Coxcomb
Epigram on an Innkeeper (“The Marquis”)
Epigram on Andrew Turner
Epigram on Dr. Babington’s looks
Epigram on Francis Grose the Antiquary
Epigram on Jessy Staig’s recovery
Epigram on Miss Davies
Epigram on Miss Fontenelle
Epigram on Mr. James Gracie
Epigram on Parting with a kind Host in the Highlands
Epigram on Politics
Epigram on Rough Roads
Epigram on the Laird of Laggan
Epigram on the said Occasion
Epigram on the same Laird’s Country Seat
Epigram pinned to Mrs. Riddell’s carriage
Epigram to Miss Ainslie in Church
Epigram to Miss Jean Scott
Epigrams against the Earl of Galloway
Epistle from Esopus to Maria
Epistle on J. Lapraik
Epistle to a Young Friend
Epistle to Colonel
de Peyster
Epistle to Davie, A Brother Poet
Epistle to Dr. Blacklock
Epistle to Hugh Parker
Epistle to James Smith
Epistle to James Tennant of Glenconner
Epistle to John Goldie, in Kilmarnock
Epistle to John Maxwell, Esq., of Terraughty
Epistle to John Rankine
Epistle to Major Logan
Epistle to Mrs. Scott of Wauchope House
Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry
Epistle to the Rev. John M’Math
Epistle to William Simson
Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq.
Epitaph for James Smith
Epitaph for Mr. Gabriel Richardson, Brewer
Epitaph for Mr. W. Cruickshank
Epitaph for Mr. Walter Riddell
Epitaph for Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster
Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq.
Epitaph for William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh
Epitaph on “Wee Johnnie”
Epitaph on a Henpecked Squire
Epitaph on a Lap-dog
Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic
Epitaph on a noted coxcomb
Epitaph on Captain Lascelles
Epitaph on Holy Willie
Epitaph on James Grieve
Epitaph on John Busby, Esq., Tinwald Downs
Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper
Epitaph on John Rankine
Epitaph on my Ever Honoured Father
Epitaph on the same
Epitaph on William Hood, Senior
Epitaph on William Muir
Epitaph on Wm. Graham, Esq., of Mossknowe
Esteem for Chloris
Extemporaneous Effusion on being appointed to an Excise Division
Extempore in the Court of Session
Extempore on some commemorations of Thomson
Extempore Reply to an Invitation
Fairest Maid on Devon’s Banks (Song)
Farewell thou stream that winding flows (Song)
Farewell to Ballochmyle (Song)
Farewell to Eliza (Song)
Farewell to the Banks of Ayr (Song)
Farewell to the Highlands (Song)
Fickle Fortune: A Fragment
For a’ that (Song)
For the sake o’ Somebody (Song)
Forlorn, my love, no comfort here (Song)
Frae the friends and land I love (Song)
Fragment on Sensibility
Go on, Sweet Bird, and Soothe my Care (Song)
Grace before and after Meat
Green Grow the Rashes (Song)
Gudewife, count the lawin (Song)
Guid ale keeps the heart aboon (Song)
Had I a cave (Song)
Had I the wyte, she bade me (Song)
Halloween
Handsome Nell (Song)
Her Flwoing Locks (Fragment of a Song)
Here’s his Health in Water
Here’s to thy health, my bonie lass (Song)
Hey, the Dusty Miller (Song)
Highland Harry back again (Song)
Highland Mary (Song)
Holy Willie’s Prayer
How cruel are the parents (Song)
How lang and dreary is the night (Song)
How Long and Dreary is the Night (Song)
I do confess thou art sae fair (Song)
I dream’d I lay (Song)
I Gaed a Waefu’ Gate Yestreen (Song)
I hae a Wife o’ my Ain (Song)
I hae been at Crookieden (Song)
I Love my Love in Secret (Song)
I Murder hate (Song)
I Reign in Jeanie’s Bosom (Song)
I’ll aye ca’ in by yon town (Song)
I’ll go and be a Sodger
I’ll meet thee on the Lea Rig (Song)
I’m O’er Young to Marry yet (Song)
Impromptu Lines to Captain Riddell
Impromptu on Carron Iron Works
Impromptu on Dumourier’s Desertion of the French Republican Army
Impromptu on Mrs. Riddell’s Birthday
In the Character of a Ruined Farmer (Song)
Inconstancy in love (Song)
Indeed will I, quo’ Findlay (Song)
Inscribed on a Work of Hannah More’s
Inscription at Friars’ Carse Hermitage
Inscription for an Alter of Independence
Inscription for the Headstone of Fergusson the Poet
inscription on Mr. Syme’s crystal goblet
Inscription to Chloris
Inscription to Jessie Lewars
Inscription to Miss Graham of Fintry
It is na, Jean, thy Bonie Face (Song)
It was a’ for our rightfu’ King (Song)
Jamie, Come Try Me (Song)
Jockie’s taen the parting Kiss (Song)
John Anderson, My Jo (Song)
John Barleycorn: A Ballad
Johnie lad, Cock up your Beaver (Fragment of a Song)
Kellyburn Braes (Song)
Kenmure’s on and awa, Willie (Song)
Kissing my Katie (Song)
Lady Mary Ann (Song)
Lady Onlie, Honest Luckie (Song)
Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn
Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots
Lassie wi’ the Lint-white Locks (Song)
Leezie Lindsay (Fragment of a Song)
Lines Inscribed in a Lady’s Pocket Almanack
Lines Inscribed under Fergusson’s Portrait
Lines of John M’Murdo, Esq.
Lines on Fergusson, the Poet
Lines on Meeting with Lord Daer
Lines on the Author’s Death
Lines on the Fall of Fyers
Lines to a Gentleman who sent a Newspaper
Lines to an Old Sweetheart
Lines to John M’Murdo of Drumlanrig
Lines to John Syme, Esq., with a dozen of Porter
Lines to Mr. John Kennedy
Lines to Sir John Whitefoord, Bart
Lines written on a Bank-note
Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns
Logan Braes (Song)
Lord Gregory: A Ballad
Love for love (Fragment of a Song)
Love in the Guise of Friendship (Song)
Lovely Polly Stewart (Song)
Lovely young Jessie (Song)
M’Pherson’s Farewell (Song)
Mally’s meek, Mally’s sweet (Song)
Man was made to Mourn: A Dirge
Mary Morison (Song)
Masonic Song — Ye Sons of Old Killie
Meg o’ the Mill (Another Version) (Song)
Meg o’ the Mill (Song)
Monody on a Lady, famed for her Caprice
Montgomerie’s Peggy (Song)
Motto prefixed to the Author’s first Publication
Mr. William Smellie: A Sketch
My Bonie Bell (Song)
My Bonie Mary (Song)
My Collier Laddie (Song)
My Eppie Adair (Song)
My Eppie Macnab (Song)
My Father was a Farmer: A Ballad
My Girl she’s Airy: A Fragment
My Highland Lassie, O
My Hoggie (Song)
My Jean! (Fragment of a Song)
My Lord a-Hunting he is gane (Song)
My Love she’s but a Lassie yet (Song)
My Nanie, O! (Song)
My Nanie’s awa (Song)
My Native Land sae far awa (Song)
My Peggy’s Charms (Song)
My Spouse Nancy (Song)
My Tocher’s the Jewel (Song)
My Wife’s a winsome wee thing (Song)
Nature’s Law: A Poem
News, lassies, news (Song)
Nithdale’s Welcome Hame (Song)
No Churchman am I (Song)
No cold approach (Fragment of a Song)
Note to Mr. Renton of Lamerton
Now Spring has clad the grove in gree
n (Song)
O aye my wife she dang me (Song)
O bonie was yon rosy Brier (Song)
O can ye Labour Lea? (Song)
O for ane an’ twenty, Tam (Song)
O lay thy loof in mine, lass (Song)
O Leave Novels! (Song)
O let me in this ae night (Song)
O May, thy Morn (Song)
O that’s the lassie o’ my heart (Song)
O Tibbie, I hae seen the day (Song)
O wat ye wha’s in yon town (Song)
O were I on Parnassus Hill (Song)
O were my love you lilac fair (Song)
O wert thou in the cauld blast (Song)
Ode for General Washington’s Birthday
Ode on the Departed Regency Bill
Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald of Auchencruive
Of a’ the Airts the Wind can Blaw (Song)
On a Bank of Flowers (Song)
On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies
On Chloris being ill (Song)
On Chloris requesting a sprig of blossom’d thorn
On Elphinstone’s Translation of Martial’s Epigrams
On Glenriddell’s Fox breaking his chain: A Fragment
On Scaring some Water-Fowl in Lock Turit
On seeing Mrs. Kemble in Yarico
On Tam the Chapman
On the Birth of a Posthumous Child
On the Death of John M’Leod, Esq.
On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq., of Arniston
On the late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations
On the Seas and far away (Song)
One Night as I did Wander
Open the door to me, oh (Song)
Out over the Forth (Song)
Paraphrase of the First Psalm
Pegasus at Wanlockhead
Phillis the Fair (Song)
Phillis the Queen o’ the fair (Song)
Poem on Pastoral Poetry
Poem on Sensibility
Poor Mailie’s Elegy
Poortith cauld and restless love (Song)
Prayer — O Thou Dread Power
Pretty Peg, my dearie (Song)
Prologue spoken at the Theatre of Dumfries
Prologue, spoken by Mr. Woods at Edinburgh
Raging Fortune: A Fragment (Song)
Rantin, Rovin Robin (Song)
Rattlin, Roarin Willie (Song)
Raving Winds Around her Blowing (Song)
Remorse: A Fragment
Remorseful Apology
Reply to a Trimming Epistle, received from a Tailor
Reply to an Announcement by J. Rankine
Reply to the Threat of a Censorious Critic
Rhyming Reply to a Note from Captain Riddell
Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn (Song)
Robin Shure in Hairst (Song)
Sappho Redivivus: A Fragment
Saw ye Bonie Lesley (Song)
Saw you my dear, my Philly (Song)
Scotch Drink
Scots Prologue for Mr. Sutherland
Scroggam, my dearie (Song)
Second Epistle to Davie