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POEMS.

	PAGE
Winter. A Dirge	61
The Death and dying Words of poor Mailie	61
Poor Mailie’s Elegy	62
First Epistle to Davie, a brother Poet	63
Second	65
Address to the Deil	65
The auld Farmer’s New-year Morning Salutation to his auld Mare Maggie	67
To a Haggis	68
A Prayer under the pressure of violent Anguish	69
A Prayer in the prospect of Death	69
Stanzas on the same occasion	69
A Winter Night	70
Remorse. A Fragment	71
The Jolly Beggars. A Cantata	71
Death and Dr. Hornbook. A True Story	76
The Twa Herds; or, the Holy Tulzie	78
Holy Willie’s Prayer	79
Epitaph to Holy Willie	80
The Inventory; in answer to a mandate by the surveyor of taxes	81
The Holy Fair	82
The Ordination	84
The Calf	86
To James Smith	86
The Vision	88
Halloween	92
Man was made to Mourn. A Dirge	95
To Ruin	96
To John Goudie of Kilmarnock, on the publication of his Essays	97
To J. Lapraik, an old Scottish Bard. First Epistle	97
To J. Lapraik. Second Epistle	99
To J. Lapraik. Third Epistle	100
To William Simpson, Ochiltree	101
Address to an illegitimate Child	103
Nature’s Law. A Poem humbly inscribed to G.H., Esq.	103
To the Rev. John M’Math	104
To a Mouse	105
Scotch Drink	106
The Author’s earnest Cry and Prayer to the Scotch Representatives of the House of Commons	107
Address to the unco Guid, or the rigidly Righteous	110
Tam Samson’s Elegy	111
Lament, occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a Friend’s Amour	112
Despondency. An Ode	113
The Cotter’s Saturday Night	114
The first Psalm	117
The first six Verses of the ninetieth Psalm	118
To a Mountain Daisy	118
Epistle to a young Friend	119
To a Louse, on seeing one on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church	120
Epistle to J. Rankine, enclosing some Poems	121
On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies	122
The Farewell	123
Written on the blank leaf of my Poems, presented to an old Sweetheart then married	123
A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq.	123
Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux	125
Letter to James Tennant of Glenconner	125
On the Birth of a posthumous Child	126
To Miss Cruikshank	126
Willie Chalmers	127
Verses left in the room where he slept	128
To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., recommending a boy	128
To Mr. M’Adam, of Craigen-gillan	129
Answer to a Poetical Epistle sent to the Author by a Tailor	129
To J. Rankine. “I am a keeper of the law.”	130
Lines written on a Bank-note	130
A Dream	130
A Bard’s Epitaph	132
The Twa Dogs. A Tale	132
Lines on meeting with Lord Daer	135
Address to Edinburgh	136
Epistle to Major Logan	137
The Brigs of Ayr	138
On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq., of Arniston, late Lord President of the Court of Session	141
On reading in a Newspaper the Death of John M’Leod, Esq.	141
To Miss Logan, with Beattie’s Poems	142
The American War, A fragment	142
The Dean of Faculty. A new Ballad	143
To a Lady, with a Present of a Pair of Drinking-glasses	144
To Clarinda	144
Verses written under the Portrait of the Poet Fergusson	144
Prologue spoken by Mr. Woods, on his Benefit-night, Monday, April 16, 1787	145
Sketch. A Character	145
To Mr. Scott, of Wauchope	145
Epistle to William Creech	146
The humble Petition of Bruar-Water, to the noble Duke of Athole	147
On scaring some Water-fowl in Loch Turit	148
Written with a pencil, over the chimney-piece, in the parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth	149
Written with a pencil, standing by the Fall of Fyers, near Loch Ness	149
To Mr. William Tytler, with the present of the Bard’s picture	150
Written in Friars-Carse Hermitage, on the banks of Nith, June, 1780. First Copy	150
The same. December, 1788. Second Copy	151
To Captain Riddel, of Glenriddel. Extempore lines on returning a Newspaper	152
A Mother’s Lament for the Death of her Son	152
First Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintray	152
On the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair	153
Epistle to Hugh Parker	154
Lines, intended to be written under a Noble Earl’s Picture	155
Elegy on the year 1788. A Sketch	155
Address to the Toothache	155
Ode. Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Oswald, of Auchencruive	156
Fragment inscribed to the Right Hon. C.J. Fox	156
On seeing a wounded Hare limp by me, which a Fellow had just shot	157
To Dr. Blacklock. In answer to a Letter	158
Delia. An Ode	159
To John M’Murdo, Esq.	159
Prologue, spoken at the Theatre, Dumfries, 1st January, 1790	159
Scots Prologue, for Mr. Sutherland’s Benefit-night, Dumfries	160
Sketch. New-year’s Day. To Mrs. Dunlop	160
To a Gentleman who had sent him a Newspaper, and offered to continue it free of expense	161
The Kirk’s Alarm. A Satire. First Version	162
The Kirk’s Alarm. A Ballad. Second Version	163
Peg Nicholson	165
On Captain Matthew Henderson, a gentleman who held the patent for his honours immediately from Almighty God	165
The Five Carlins. A Scots Ballad	167
The Laddies by the Banks o’ Nith	168
Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintray, on the close of the disputed Election between Sir James Johnstone, and Captain Miller, for the Dumfries district of Boroughs	169
On Captain Grose’s Peregrination through Scotland, collecting the Antiquities of that kingdom	170
Written in a wrapper, enclosing a letter to Captain Grose	171
Tam O’ Shanter. A Tale	171
Address of Beelzebub to the President of the Highland Society	174
To John Taylor	175
Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the approach of Spring	175
The Whistle	176
Elegy on Miss Burnet of Monboddo	178
Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn	178
Lines sent to Sir John Whitefoord, Bart., of Whitefoord, with the foregoing Poem	179
Address to the Shade of Thomson, on crowning his Bust at Ednam with bays	179
To Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintray	180
To Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintray, on receiving a favour	181
A Vision	181
To John Maxwell, of Terraughty, on his birthday	182
The Rights of Women, an occasional Address spoken by Miss Fontenelle, on her benefit-night, Nov. 26, 1792	182
Monody on a Lady famed for her caprice	183
Epistle from Esopus to Maria	184
Poem on Pastoral Poetry	185
Sonnet, written on the 25th January, 1793, the birthday of the Author, on hearing a thrush sing in a morning walk	185
Sonnet on the death of Robert Riddel, Esq., of Glenriddel, April, 1794	186
Impromptu on Mrs. Riddel’s birthday	186
Liberty. A Fragment	186
Verses to a young Lady	186
The Vowels. A Tale	187
Verses to John Rankine	187
On Sensibility. To my dear and much-honoured friend, Mrs. Dunlop, of Dunlop	188
Lines sent to a Gentleman whom he had offended	188
Address spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her Benefit-night	188
On seeing Miss Fontenelle in a favourite character	189
To Chloris	189
Poetical Inscription for an Altar to Independence	189
The Heron Ballads. Balled First	190
The Heron Ballads. Ballad Second	190
The Heron Ballads. Ballad Third	192
Poem addressed to Mr. Mitchell, Collector of Excise, Dumfries, 1796	193
To Miss Jessy Lewars, Dumfries, with Johnson’s Musical Museum	193
Poem on Life, addressed to Colonel de Peyster, Dumfries, 1796	193

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