by Robert Burns
Second Epistle to J. Lapraik
Second Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry
She says she loes me best of a’ (Song)
She’s Fair and Fause (Song)
Sic a Wife as Willie had (Song)
Sketch — New Year’s Day, 1790
Sketch in Verse, inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox
Sonnet on the Author’s Birthday
Sonnet on the Death of Robert Riddell
Sonnet to R. Graham, Esq., on Receiving a Favour
Stanzas on Naething
Stanzas, on the same Occasion
Stay my Charmer (Song)
Steer her up and haud her gaun (Song)
Strathallan’s Lament (Song)
Such a parcel of Rogues in a Nation (Song)
Suppressed Stanzas of “The Vision”
Sweet Afton (Song)
Sweet Tibbie Dunbar (Song)
Sylvander to Clarinda
Talk of him that’s Far Awa (Song)
Tam Glen (Song)
Tam o’ Shanter: A Tale
Tam Samson’s Elegy
The Auld Farmer’s New-Year-Morning Salutation to his Auld Mare, Maggie
The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer
The Banks o’ Doon (First Version) (Song)
The Banks o’ Doon (Second Version) (Song)
The Banks o’ Doon (Third Version) (Song)
The Banks of Nith (Song)
The Banks of the Devon (Song)
The Bannocks o’ Bear Meal (Song)
The Bard at Inverary
The Battle of Sherramuir (Song)
The Belles of Mauchline
The Birks of Aberfeldy (Song)
The Bonie Lad that’s Far Awa (Song)
The Bonie Lass of Albany (Song)
The Bonie Moor-hen (Song)
The Bonie Wee Thing (Song)
The Bookworms
The Braes o’ Killiecrankie (Song)
The Braw Wooer (Song)
The Brigs of Ayr
The Calf
The Captain’s Lady (Song)
The Captive Ribband (Song)
The Cardin o’t, the Spinning o’t (Song)
The charming month of May (Song)
The Charms of Lovely Davies (Song)
The Chevalier’s Lament (Song)
The Cooper o’ Cuddy (Song)
The Cotter’s Saturday Night
The Country Lass (Song)
The Day Returns (Song)
The Dean of Faculty: A new Ballad
The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie
The Deil’s awa wi’ the Exciseman (Song)
The Deuks dang o’er my Daddie (Song)
The Dumfries Volunteers (Song)
The Epitaph on Captain Matthew Henderson
The Fall of the Leaf (Song)
The Farewell
The Farewell to the Brethren of St. James’s Lodge, Tarbolton
The Fête Champêtre
The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm versified
The Five Carlins: An Election Ballad
The Flowery banks of Cree (Song)
The Gallant Weaver (Song)
The Gardener wi’ his Paidle (Song)
The Gowden Locks of Anna (Song)
The Henpecked Husband
The Highland Balou (Song)
The Highland Widow’s Lament
The Holy Fair
The Humble Petition of Bruar Water
The Inventory
The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata
The Kirk of Scotland’s Alarm: A Ballad
The Lad they ca’ Jumpin John (Song)
The Laddie’s dear sel’ (Song)
The Lament
The Lass o’ Ballochmyle
The Lass o’ Ecclefechan (Song)
The Lass of Cessnock Banks (Song)
The lass that made the bed to me (Song)
The last time I cam o’er the Moor (Song)
The Libeller’s Self-reproof
The Lovely Lass o’ Inverness (Song)
The Lover’s Morning Salute to his Mistress
The Mauchline Lady: A Fragment
The Minstel at Lincluden
The Night was Still (Fragment of a Song)
The Ordination
The Ploughman’s Life
The Poet’s Progress
The Posie (Song)
The Rantin Dog, the Daddie o’t
The Rights of Women — Spoken by Miss Fontenelle
The Rigs o’ Barley (Song)
The Ronalds of the Bennals
The Slave’s Lament (Song)
The Soldier’s Return: A Ballad
The Solemn League and Covenant
The Song of Death
The Tarbolton Lasses
The Tear-drop— “Wae is my heart” (Song)
The Twa Dogs
The Twa Herds; or, The Holy Tulyie
The Vision
The weary Pund o’ Tow (Song)
The Whistle: A Ballad
The Winter it is Past (Song)
The Winter of Life (Song)
The Wounded Hare
The Wren’s Nest (Fragment of a Song)
The Young Highland Rover (Song)
Their groves o’ sweet myrtle (Song)
Theniel Menzies’ Bonie Mary (Song)
There was a Bonie Lass (Fragment of a Song)
There’ll never be Peace till Jamie comes hame (Song)
Thine am I, my faithful Fair (Song)
Third Epistle to J. Lapraik
This is no my ain lassie (Song)
Thou Fair Eliza (Song)
Thou Gloomy December (Song)
Thou hast left me ever, jamie (Song)
To a Louse
To a Mountain Daisy
To a Mouse
To Alex. Cunningham, Esq., Writer, Edinburgh
To Daunton Me (Song)
To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, recommending a Boy
To John Kennedy, Dumfries House
To Mary in Heaven (Song)
To Miss Ferrier, enclosing Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair
To Miss Logan, with Beattie’s Poems
To Mr. M’Adam, of Craigen-Gillan
To Ruin
To the beautiful Miss Eliza J —— n, on her principles of Liberty and Eqality
To the Weaver’s gin ye go (Song)
Tragic Fragment — All villain as I am
Twas na her bonie blue e’e (Song)
Up in the Morning Early (Song)
Verses inscribed under a Noble Earl’s Picture
Verses on a Parting Kiss
Verses on Captain Grose
Verses on Castle Gordon
Verses on Friars’ Carse Hermitage (First Version)
Verses on the destruction of the Woods near Drumlanrig
Verses to Clarinda, with Drinking Glasses
Verses to Collector Mitchell
Verses to Miss Cruickshank
Verses Written with a Pencil at the Inn at Kenmore
Versicles on Sign-Posts
Versified Note to Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchline
Versified Reply to an Invitation
Wandering Willie (Revised Version) (Song)
Wandering Willie (Song)
Wee Willie Gray (Fragment of a Song)
What can a Young Lassie do wi’ an Auld Man? (Song)
When she cam ben she bobbed (Song)
Where are the Joys I have met (Song)
Whistle and I’ll come to you (Song)
Whistle o’er the lave o’t (Song)
Why tell the lover (Fragment of a Song)
Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary? (Song)
Willie brew’d a Peck o’ Maut (Song)
Willie Chalmers (Song)
Wilt thou be my Dearie (Song)
Winter: A Dirge
Written by Somebody on the Window of an Inn at Stirling
Written in Friars’ Carse Hermitage (Second Version)
Ye Jacobites by Name (Song)
Yon Wild Mossy Mountains (Song)
Yonder pomp of costly fashion (Song)
You’re welcome, Willie Stewart (Song)
Young Jamie, pride of a’ the plain (Song)
Young Jockie was the Blythest Lad (Song)
Young Peggy Blooms (Song)
Glossary of Scots Words
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y
A
A’, all.
A-back, behind, away.
Abiegh, aloof, off.
Ablins, v. aiblins.
Aboon, above up.
Abread, abroad.
Abreed, in breadth.
Ae, one.
Aff, off.
Aff-hand, at once.
Aff-loof, offhand.
A-fiel, afield.
Afore, before.
Aft, oft.
Aften, often.
Agley, awry.
Ahin, behind.
Aiblins, perhaps.
Aidle, foul water.
Aik, oak.
Aiken, oaken.
Ain, own.
Air, early.
Airle, earnest money.
Airn, iron.
Airt, direction.
Airt, to direct.
Aith, oath.
Aits, oats.
Aiver, an old horse.
Aizle, a cinder.
A-jee, ajar; to one side.
Alake, alas.
Alane, alone.
Alang, along.
Amaist, almost.
Amang, among.
An, if.
An’, and.
Ance, once.
Ane, one.
Aneath, beneath.
Anes, ones.
Anither, another.
Aqua-fontis, spring water.
Aqua-vit&æ, whiskey.
Arle, v. airle.
Ase, ashes.
Asklent, askew, askance.
Aspar, aspread.
Asteer, astir.
A’thegither, altogether.
Athort, athwart.
Atweel, in truth.
Atween, between.
Aught, eight.
Aught, possessed of.
Aughten, eighteen.
Aughtlins, at all.
Auld, old.
Auldfarran, auldfarrant, shrewd, old-fashioned, sagacious.
Auld Reekie, Edinburgh.
Auld-warld, old-world.
Aumous, alms.
Ava, at all.
Awa, away.
Awald, backways and doubled up.
Awauk, awake.
Awauken, awaken.
Awe, owe.
Awkart, awkward.
Awnie, bearded.
Ayont, beyond.
B
Ba’, a ball.
Backet, bucket, box.
Backit, backed.
Backlins-comin, coming back.
Back-yett, gate at the back.
Bade, endured.
Bade, asked.
Baggie, stomach.
Baig’nets, bayonets.
Baillie, magistrate of a Scots burgh.
Bainie, bony.
Bairn, child.
Bairntime, brood.
Baith, both.
Bakes, biscuits.
Ballats, ballads.
Balou, lullaby.
Ban, swear.
Ban’, band (of the Presbyterian clergyman).
Bane, bone.
Bang, an effort; a blow; a large number.
Bang, to thump.
Banie, v. bainie.
Bannet, bonnet.
Bannock, bonnock, a thick oatmeal cake.
Bardie, dim. of bard.
Barefit, barefooted.
Barket, barked.
Barley-brie, or bree, barley-brew-ale or whiskey.
Barm, yeast.
Barmie, yeasty.
Barn-yard, stackyard.
Bartie, the Devil.
Bashing, abashing.
Batch, a number.
Batts, the botts; the colic.
Bauckie-bird, the bat.
Baudrons, Baudrans, the cat.
Bauk, cross-beam.
Bauk, v. bawk.
Bauk-en’, beam-end.
Bauld, bold.
Bauldest, boldest.
Bauldly, boldly.
Baumy, balmy.
Bawbee, a half-penny.
Bawdrons, v. baudrons.
Bawk, a field path.
Baws’nt, white-streaked.
Bear, barley.
Beas’, beasts, vermin.
Beastie, dim. of beast.
Beck, a curtsy.
Beet, feed, kindle.
Beild, v. biel.
Belang, belong.
Beld, bald.
Bellum, assault.
Bellys, bellows.
Belyve, by and by.
Ben, a parlor (i. e., the inner apartment); into the parlor.
Benmost, inmost.
Be-north, to the northward of.
Be-south, to the southward of.
Bethankit, grace after meat.
Beuk, a book: devil’s pictur’d beuks — playing-cards.
Bicker, a wooden cup.
Bicker, a short run.
Bicker, to flow swiftly and with a slight noise.
Bickerin, noisy contention.
Bickering, hurrying.
Bid, to ask, to wish, to offer.
Bide, abide, endure.
Biel, bield, a shelter; a sheltered spot.
Biel, comfortable.
Bien, comfortable.
Bien, bienly, comfortably.
Big, to build.
Biggin, building.
Bike, v. byke.
Bill, the bull.
Billie, fellow, comrade, brother.
Bings, heaps.
Birdie, dim. of bird; also maidens.
Birk, the birch.
Birken, birchen.
Birkie, a fellow.
Birr, force, vigor.
Birring, whirring.
Birses, bristles.
Birth, berth.
Bit, small (e.g., bit lassie).
Bit, nick of time.
Bitch-fou, completely drunk.
Bizz, a flurry.
Bizz, buzz.
Bizzard, the buzzard.
Bizzie, busy.
Black-bonnet, the Presbyterian elder.
Black-nebbit, black-beaked.
Blad, v. blaud.
Blae, blue, livid.
Blastet, blastit, blasted.
Blastie, a blasted (i. e., damned) creature; a little wretch.
Blate, modest, bashful.
Blather, bladder.
Blaud, a large quantity.
Blaud, to slap, pelt.
Blaw, blow.
Blaw, to brag.
Blawing, blowing.
Blawn, blown.
Bleer, to blear.
Bleer’t, bleared.
Bleeze, blaze.
Blellum, a babbler; a railer; a blusterer.
Blether, blethers, nonsense.
Blether, to talk nonsense.
Bletherin’, talking nonsense.
Blin’, blind.
Blink, a glance, a moment.
Blink, to glance, to shine.
Blinkers, spies, oglers.
Blinkin, smirking, leering.
Blin’t, blinded.
Blitter, the snipe.
Blue-gown, the livery of the licensed beggar.
Bluid, blood.
Bluidy, bloody.
Blume, to bloom.
Bluntie, a stupid.
Blypes, shreds.
Bobbed, curtsied.
Bocked, vomited.
Boddle, a farthing.
Bode, look for.
Bodkin, tailor’s need
le.
Body, bodie, a person.
Boggie, dim. of bog.
Bogle, a bogie, a hobgoblin.
Bole, a hole, or small recess in the wall.
Bonie, bonnie, pretty, beautiful.
Bonilie, prettily.
Bonnock, v. Bannock.
‘Boon, above.
Boord, board, surface.
Boord-en’, board-end.
Boortress, elders.
Boost, must needs.
Boot, payment to the bargain.
Bore, a chink, recess.
Botch, an angry tumor.
Bouk, a human trunk; bulk.
Bountith, bounty.
‘Bout, about.
Bow-hough’d, bandy-thighed.
Bow-kail, cabbage.
Bow’t, bent.
Brachens, ferns.
Brae, the slope of a hill.
Braid, broad.
Broad-claith, broad-cloth.
Braik, a harrow.
Braing’t, plunged.
Brak, broke.
Brak’s, broke his.
Brankie, gay, fine.
Branks, a wooden curb, a bridle.
Bran’y, brandy.
Brash, short attack.
Brats, small pieces, rags.
Brats, small children.
Brattle, a scamper.
Brattle, noisy onset.
Braw, handsome, fine, gaily dressed.
Brawlie, finely, perfectly, heartily.
Braxies, sheep that have died of braxie (a disease).
Breastie, dim. of breast.
Breastit, sprang forward.
Brechan, ferns.
Breeks, breeches.
Breer, brier.
Brent, brand.
Brent, straight, steep (i. e., not sloping from baldness).
Brie, v. barley-brie.
Brief, writ.
Brier, briar.
Brig, bridge.
Brisket, breast.
Brither, brother.
Brock, a badger.
Brogue, a trick.
Broo, soup, broth, water; liquid in which anything is cooked.
Brooses, wedding races from the church to the home of the bride.
Brose, a thick mixture of meal and warm water; also a synonym for porridge.
Browster wives, ale wives.
Brugh, a burgh.
Brulzie, brulyie, a brawl.
Brunstane, brimstone.
Brunt, burned.
Brust, burst.
Buckie, dim. of buck; a smart younker.
Buckle, a curl.
Buckskin, Virginian: the buckskin kye, negroes.
Budget, tinker’s bag of tools.
Buff, to bang, to thump.
Bughtin, folding.
Buirdly, stalwart.
Bum, the buttocks.
Bum, to hum.
Bum-clock, beetle, cockchafer, Junebug.
Bummle, a drone, a useless fellow.
Bunker, a seat.
Bunters, harlots.
Burdies, dim. of bird or burd (a lady); maidens.
Bure, bore.
Burn, a rivulet.
Burnewin, the blacksmith (i. e., burn the wind).
Burnie, dim. of burn, a rivulet.
Burr-thistle, spear-thistle.
Busk, to dress; to garb; to dress up; to adorn.