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

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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

 

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