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Contents
Introduction
EARLY LIFE AND LABOUR
THE RADICAL BURNS
NOTES
Editorial Policy and Practice
NOTES
The Kilmarnock Edition. 1786
Nature’s Bard
The Twa Dogs: A Tale
Scotch Drink
The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer
The Holy Fair
Address to the Deil
The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie,
Poor Mailie’s Elegy
Epistle to James Smith
A Dream
The Vision
Duan Second
Halloween
The Auld Farmers New-year Morning Salutation to his Auld Mare, Maggie
The Cotter’s Saturday Night
To a Mouse
Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet
The Lament
Despondency: An Ode
Man Was Made to Mourn: A Dirge
Winter, a Dirge
A Prayer, in the Prospect of Death
To a Mountain Daisy
To Ruin
Epistle to a Young Friend May, 1786
On a Scotch Bard
A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq
For Gavin Hamilton, Esq
To a Louse
Epistle to J. Lapraik:
Second Epistle to J. Lapraik
To William Simson, Ochiltree,
Epistle to John Ranken,
The Rigs o Barley
Composed in August –
From Thee Eliza
The Farewell to The Brethren of St James’s Lodge, Tarbolton
Epitaph on a Henpecked Squire
Epigram on Said Occasion
Another
On a Celebrated Ruling Elder
On a Noisy Polemic
On Wee Johnie
For the Author’s Father
For Robert Aiken, Esq
A Bard’s Epitaph
The Edinburgh Edition. 1787. Dedication to the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Caledonian Hunt
Death and Doctor Hornbook:
The Brigs o Ayr
The Ordination
The Calf
Address to the Unco Guid
Tam Samson’s1Elegy
A Winter Night
Stanzas Written in Prospect of Death
Prayer: O Thou Dread Power
Paraphrase of the First Psalm
A Prayer,
The Ninetieth Psalm Paraphrased
To Miss Logan
Address to a Haggis
Address to Edinburgh
John Barleycorn: A Ballad1
When Guilford Good
My Nanie, O
Green Grow the Rashes, O
Again Rejoicing Nature Sees
The Gloomy Night is Gathering Fast
No Churchman am I
Written in Friar’s Carse Hermitage,
Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson
Lament of Mary Queen of Scots on the Approach of Spring
To Robert Graham of Fintry, Esq
Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn
Lines, Sent to Sir John Whiteford
Prose Introduction to Tam o’ Shanter
Tam o’ Shanter: A Tale
On Seeing a Wounded Hare
Address, to the Shade of Thomson,
On the Late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations
To Miss Cruickshank, a Very Young Lady
Anna Thy Charms
On Reading in a Newspaper, the Death of John M’Leod, Esq
The Humble Petition of Bruar Water,1to the Noble Duke of Athole
On Scaring Some Water-Fowl in Loch Turit,
Verses Written with a Pencil
Written with a Pencil Standing by the Fall of Fyers, near Loch Ness
On the Birth of a Posthumous Child,
Young Peggy
Bonie Dundee
To the Weaver’s Gin Ye Go
I’m o’er Young to Marry Yet
The Birks of Aberfeldey –
McPherson’s Farewell
My Highland Lassie, O
Though Cruel Fate
Stay, My Charmer, Can You Leave Me
Strathallan’s Lament
What Will I Do Gin My Hoggie Die
Jumpin John
Up in the Morning Early
The Dusty Miller
The Young Highland Rover
The Winter It is Past
I Dream’d I Lay
Duncan Davison
Theniel Menzies’ Bonie Mary
Lady Onlie, Honest Lucky,
The Banks of the Devon
Weary Fa’ You, Duncan Gray
The Ploughman
Landlady, Count the Lawin
Raving Winds around Her Blowing
Musing on the Roaring Ocean
Blythe was She –
To Daunton Me –
O’er the Water to Charlie –
A Rosebud, by My Early Walk
To a Blackbird
And I’ll Kiss Thee Yet
Rattlin, Roarin Willie
Where, Braving Angry Winter’s Storms
O Tibby, I Hae Seen the Day
Clarinda
Second Epistle to Davie
Grace Before Meat
Grace After Meat
I Love My Love in Secret
Tibbie Dunbar
Highland Harry Back Again
The Taylor Fell thro' the Bed
Ay Waukin O
Beware O’ Bonie Ann
The Gardener Wi’ His Paidle
On a Bank of Flowers
My Love, She’s but a Lassie Yet –
Jamie, Come Try Me
My Bony Mary
The Lazy Mist
The Captain’s Lady
Of a’ the Airts
Carl and the King Come
Whistle o’er the Lave o’t
O, Were I on Parnassus Hill
There’s a Youth in this City
My Heart’s in the Highlands
John Anderson My Jo
Awa’, Whigs, Awa’
Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes
Kissin My Kate
Mrs Ferguson of Craigdarroch’sLamentation for the Death of her Son,
The Braes o’ Ballochmyle
The Rantin Dog, the Daddie o’t
Thou Lingering Star
Eppie Adair
The Battle of Sherramuir
Sandy and Jockie
Young Jockie was the Blythest Lad
A Waukrife Minnie
Tho’ Women’s Minds
Killiecrankie
Willie Brew’d a Peck o’ Maut
The Day Returns –
The Blue-Eyed Lassie
Tam Glen
The Banks of Nith
Prologue Spoken at the Theatre of Dumfries
Johnie Cope
O Dear Minny, What Shall I Do?
I’ll Make You be Fain to Follow Me
The White Cockade
The Campbells are Comin
Craigie-burn Wood
Frae the Friends and Land I Love
O John, Come Kiss Me Now –
Cock Up Your Beaver
My Tocher’s the Jewel
Then Guidwife, Count the Lawin
The Whistle:
There’ll Never be Peace till Jamie Comes Hame
What Can a Young Lassie Do wi’ an Auld Man
The Bonie Lad that’s Far Awa
I Do Confess Thou art sae Fair –
Sensibility How Charming
Yon Wild Mossy Mountains
It is Na, Jean, Thy Bonie Face
Eppie Macnab –
Wha is That at My Bower Door?
The Bonny Wee Thing
Ae Fond Kiss
As I Was a Wand’ring
Lovely Davies
The Weary Pund o’ Tow
I Hae a Wife o’ My Ain
When She Cam Ben, She Bobbed
O, for Ane and Twenty, Tam
O Kenmure’s on and Awa, Willie
Bessy and her Spinning Wheel
My Collier Laddie
Nithsdale’s Welcome Hame
The Country Lassie
Fair Eliza
Ye Jacobites By Name
The Posie
Ye Flowery Banks o’ Bonie Doon
Ye Banks and Braes o’ Bonie Doon
Willie Wastle
Lady Mary Ann
Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation
Kellyburn Braes –
Jockey Fou and Jenny Fain
The Slave’s Lament
The Song of Death
Afton Water
My Bonie Bell
The Gallant Weaver
Hey, Ca’ Thro’
Can Ye Labour Lea
The Deuk’s Dang o’er My Daddie
She’s Fair and Fause
The Deil’s Awa wi’ th’ Exciseman
Wandering Willie
Braw Lads o’ Galla Water
Auld Rob Morris
Open the Door to Me, Oh
The Sodger’s Return
A Red, Red Rose
Sonnet: On the Death of Robert Riddell Esq. ofGlenriddell,
Wilt Thou Be My Dearie?
O Wat Ye Wha’s in Yon Town
The Dumfries Volunteers
Lines on Seeing the Royal Palace at Stirling in Ruins
Elegy on the Year 1788
Ode to the Departed Regency Bill
Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald OfAuchencruive
A New Psalm for the Chapel of Kilmarnockon the Thanksgiving-Day for His Majesty’sRecovery –
The Kirk’s Alarm
Verses Written upon a Blank Leaf
Epitaph: On Robert Fergusson
On the Late Death of Dr Adam Smith
Epigram on Captain Francis Grose,
Extempore –
The Rights of Woman
On the Commemoration of Rodney’s Victory
The Dagger
Robert Burns and Robert the Bruce
The Ghost of Bruce
Robert Bruce’s Address to His Troops at Bannockburn –
The Ghost of Bruce
An Unpublished Letter on Robert the Bruce
The Scotian Muse:
New Song or A Wet Day at Walmer Castle
Lines on Ambition
Remember the Poor
FRAGMENT – ON POVERTY
To Messrs Muir, Palmer, Skirving and Margarot
The Ewe Bughts
A Cabinet Dinner
Humanity: An Ode
At Dumfries Theatre
The Heron Ballads
The Election – A New Song
John Bushby’s Lamentation
Buy Braw Troggin:
A Man’s a Man for a’ That
A Prose Essay by Burns To the Editor of The Morning Chronicle
The Cob Web – A Song
John Anderson My Joe
O Once I Lov’d a Bonie Lass
Tragic Fragment
One Night as I did Wander
The Lass of Cessnock Banks
Fickle Fortune
O Raging Fortune’s Withering Blast
I’ll Go and be a Sodger
My Father was a Farmer
Montgomerie’s Peggy
Remorse:
On James Grieve, Laird of Boghead, Tarbolton
On an Innkeeper in Tarbolton
The Ruined Farmer
Lines on the Bachelor’s Club, Tarbolton
Mary Morison
Epitaph on My Own Friend, and My Father’sFriend, Wm Muir in Tarbolton Miln
The Ronalds of the Bennals
The Tarbolton Lasses
The Belles of Mauchline
O Leave Novels
The Mauchline Lady
The Twa Herds: An Unco Mournfu’ Tale
Holy Willie’s Prayer
Epitaph on Holy Willie
On Tam the Chapman
A Poet’s Welcome to his Love-Begotten Daughter
Epistle to John Goldie
Third Epistle to J. Lapraik
To The Rev. John M’math
The Mauchline Wedding
Poem on Pastoral Poetry
Love and Liberty:
The Inventory
To John Kennedy,
Adam Armour’s Prayer
The Bonie Lass o’ Ballochmyle
To James Tennant of Glenconner
Inscribed on a Work of Hannah More’s
Ah, Woe is Me, My Mother Dear
To Mr Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline
Nature’s Law
Extempore – To Gavin Hamilton
Lines Written on a Bank-Note
Lines Addressed to Mr John Ranken
Addressed to Mr John Ranken In Reply to an Announcement
Lines to John Ranken –
Address of Beelzebub
Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper, Mauchline
Epitaph on a Wag in Mauchline
To Willie Chalmers’ Sweetheart
To Dr. John Mackenzie
The Farewell
To John Kennedy:
Libel Summons
Answer to a Trimming Epistle Received from a Tailor
To an Old Sweetheart
Extempore Verses on Dining with Lord Daer
Ye Sons of Old Killie
Epistle to Captain William Logan at Park
Extempore Reply to an Invitation
The Night was Still
Rusticity’s Ungainly Form
Verses Intended to be Written Below a Noble Earl’s Picture
There was a Lad
Elegy
On Robert Fergusson – I
On Robert Fergusson – II
To a Painter
On Elphinstone’s Translation of Martial
To the Guidwife of Wauchope House
To Miss Isabella McLeod
Extempore in the Court of Session
Extempore Epistle to Mr. M’adam of Craigengillan
Prologue:
Where Wit May Sparkle –
Epistle to Wm. Tytler of Woodhouselee,
To Miss Ainslie in Church
For William Creech
To Symon Gray
To Mr. Renton of Lamerton
Epigram at Inveraray
Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair
To Miss Ferrier
Verses Written on a Window of the Inn at Carron
Reply to a Censorious Critic
The Reproof
Epitaph for William Michie
Amang the Trees
A Highland Welcome
Castle Gordon
My Peggy’s Face
Epitaph for William Nicol
On the Death of Lord President Dundas –
Sylvander to Clarinda
To Clarinda
The Bonie Lass of Albanie
A Birthday Ode. December 31st 1787
Hunting Song
On Johnson’s Opinion of Hampden
An Extemporaneous Effusion
Where Helen Lies
Your Friendship
Up and Warn a’ Willie
The Chevalier’s Lament
Epitaph on Robert Muir –
Epistle to Hugh Parker
The Fête Champetre
To Alexander Cunningham
O Mally’s Meek, Mally’s Sweet
To Robert Graham of Fintry, Esq.,
On William Creech
On William Smellie
To the Beautiful Miss Eliza J—N,
Sketch for an Elegy
Auld Lang Syne
Epitaph for J. H., Writer in Ayr
Versicles on Sign-Posts
Pegasus at Wanlockhead,
A Sonnet upon Sonnets
The Cares o’ Love
Louis, What Reck I by Thee
Sketch. New Year’s Day:
Robin Shure in Hairst
Caledonia
At Whigham’s Inn, Sanquhar
To William Stewart
Lines Written in Lamington Kirk
Inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox
To John M’murdo
To Peter Stuart
Sonnet to Robert Graham of Fintry
Election Ballad for Westerha’
The Laddies by the Banks o’ Nith
The Five Carlins – A Ballad
Epistle to Dr. Blacklock
Written under the Portrait of Miss Burns
Green Sleeves
To a Gentleman
Elegy on Willie Nicol’s Mare
My Wife’s a Wanton Wee Thing
Scots Prologue,
Election Ballad
Yestreen I Had a Pint o’ Wine
A Fragment –
To Captain Riddell on Returning a Newspaper
Reply to Robert Riddell
On Captain Grose
Elegy on the Late Miss Burnet of Monboddo
I Look to the North
On Mr. James Gracie
Thou Gloomy December
Saw Ye Bonie Lesley
Grim Grizzle
Hughie Graham
Lord Ronald My Son
Bonie Laddie, Highland Laddie
Geordie – An Old Ballad
To John Maxwell, Esq. of Terraughtieon his Birth-Day
The Shepherd’s Wife
Johnie Blunt
Will Ye Go to the Indies, My Mary
Answer to an Invitation
Highland Mary
My Wife’s a Winsome Wee Thing
Here’s a Health to Them That’s Awa
The Lea-Rig
Duncan Gray –
The Creed of Poverty
O Poortith Cauld
Lord Gregory
Sonnet –
On General Dumourier’s Desertion
Young Jessie
Farewell, Thou Stream
Meg o’ the Mill:
Blythe Hae I Been on Yon Hill
Logan Braes
On Miss Davies
Epigram on Maxwell of Cardoness
On Being Shown a Beautiful Country Seat
On Seeing the Beautiful Country Seat ofLord Galloway –
On Lord Galloway2
On Lord Galloway 3
To Lord Galloway
Lines by Burns in The British Album
Lines in a Lady’s Pocket Book
Perish their Names –
Love’s Records –
O, Were My Love Yon Lilack Fair
Bonie Jean
On the Death of Echo, a Lap-Dog
On John Morine, Laird of Laggan
Phillis The Fair
Had I a Cave
O, Whistle an’ I’ll Come to Ye, My Lad
Adown Winding Nith
By Allan Stream
Come, Let Me Take Thee
Dainty Davie
To Maria Riddell
As Down the Burn Davie
Passion’s Cry
The Primrose
Thou Hast Left Me Ever
Behold the Hour
Fair Jenny
On a Noted Coxcomb
Thine am I, My Chloris Fair
To Captain Gordon
Impromptu, on Mrs. Walter Riddell’sBirthday
Occasional Address, Spoken by Miss Fontenelle
On Seeing Miss Fontenelle in a Favourite Character
Husband, Husband, Cease Your Strife
To Miss Graham of Fintry
Monody on a Lady Famed for her Caprice
Pinned to Mrs. Walter Riddell’s Carriage –
On Robert Riddell
The Banks of Cree
On Rev. Dr Babington
Ye True Loyal Natives
Ode for General Washington’s Birthday
Ode for Hibernia’s Sons
On Mr. Walter Riddell, Esq
On the Seas and Far Away
To Dr. Maxwell,
Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes
She Says She Lo’es me Best of a’ –
Why Should We Idly Waste Our Prime
A Revolutionary Lyric
O Saw Ye My Phely
How Lang and Dreary is the Night
Let Not Women E’er Complain
The Auld Man’s Winter Thought
The Lover’s Morning Salute to his Mistress
To the Hon. Mr. Wm. R. Maule of Panmureon his High Phaeton
The Charming Month of May
Lassie wi’ the Lint-White Locks
To Chloris
O Philly, Happy be that Day
Canst Thou Leave Me Thus My Katy
How Green the Groves
Contented wi’ Little
My Nanie’s Awa –
Dumfries Epigrams
Untitled
Extempore
To a Club in Dumfries
On an old Acquaintance who seemed to pass the Bard without notice
Immediate Extempore
On Mr. Burke
On John M’Murdo and Baillie Swan
On Chloris
Craigieburn Wood
The Tree of Liberty
Let Me in this ae Night –
From Esopus to Maria
On Miss Jean Scott
I’ll Ay Ca’ in by Yon Town
On Chloris Being Ill
Elegy on Mr. William Cruikshank, A.M
Address to the Woodlark –
Their Groves o’ Sweet Myrtle
’Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E’e
How Cruel are the Parents
Mark Yonder Pomp
Address to the Toothache
Forlorn My Love
Now Spring has Clad the Grove in Green
The Braw Wooer
Why, Tell Thy Lover
Poetical Inscription for an Altar ofIndependence
To Chloris
O This is No My Ain Lassie
Yon Rosy Brier
Wat Ye Wha that Lo’es Me
To John Syme
To John Syme
On Mr. Pitt’s Hair-Powder Tax
The Solemn League and Covenant
The Bob o’ Dumblane
To Collector Mitchell
A Lass wi’ a Tocher
To Colonel De Peyster
Here’s a Health to Ane I Loe Dear
On Jessy Lewars
The Toast
Jessy’s Illness
Jessie’s Recovery
To Miss Jessy Lewars,
O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast
Fairest Maid on Devon Banks
Remorseful Apology
Graces – at the Globe Tavern
Lines Written on a Window
I Murder Hate
Kirk and State Excisemen
You’re Welcome, Willie Stewart
On Wm. Graham of Mossknowe
On a Swearing Coxcomb
On a Suicide
Epitaph
Epitaph on John Bushby
On Capt. Lascelles
On John M’murdo
On Gabriel Richardson
On Commissary Goldie’s Brains
The Hue and Cry of John Lewars -
The Keekin’ Glass
Inscription on a Goblet
On Andrew Turner
The Toadeater -1
The Toadeater -2
The Lovely Lass o’ Inverness –
As I Stood by Yon Roofless Tower
The Wren’s Nest
John Highlandman
Tam Lin
Had I the Wyte
Comin Thro’ the Rye
The Rowin ’t in Her Apron
Charlie He’s My Darling
The Lass o’ Ecclefechan
The Couper o’ Cuddy
Leezie Lindsay
For the Sake o’ Somebody
The Cardin O’t
The Sutors o’ Selkirk
Tibbie Fowler
There’s Three True Gude Fellows
The Lass that Made the Bed
Sae Far Awa
The Reel o’ Stumpie
The Rantin Laddie –
O May, Thy Morn
As I Cam o’er the Cairney Mount –
Highland Laddie
Lovely Polly Stewart
The Highland Balou
Wae is My Heart
Here’s his Health in Water
Gude Wallace
The Auld Man’s Mare’s Dead
The Taylor
There Grows A Bonie Brier-Bush
Here’s to Thy Health My Bonie Lass
It Was a’ for our Rightfu’ King
The Highland Widow’s Lament
O Steer Her Up an’ Haud Her Gaun
Wee Willie Gray
Gudeen to You Kimmer
O Ay My Wife She Dang Me
Scroggam
O Gude Ale Comes
My Lord A-Hunting He is Gane
Sweetest May
Jockey’s Ta’en the Parting Kiss
O Lay Thy Loof in Mine Lass
Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay
There was a Bonie Lass
There’s News Lasses News
O that I had Ne’er been Married
On Rough Roads
The German Lairdie
Coila, by the Banks of Nith
Fragment to Clarinda
The Ruin’d Maid’s Complaint (final stanza)
On Marriage
The Book-Worms – 1
The Book-Worms – 2
Her Flowing Locks
Epitaph for Hugh Logan, Esq. of Logan
The Henpeck’d Husband
Here’s a Bottle and an Honest Friend
Pretty Peg
No Cold Approach
The Vowels: a Tale
The Dean of the Faculty –
The Merry Muses of Caledonia
My Girl She’s Airy
I’ll Tell You a Tale of a Wife
Bonie Mary
Act Sederunt of the Session – A Scots Ballad
Why Should Na Poor Folk Mowe
A Good Mowe
Nine Inch Will Please a Lady
Ode to Spring
O Saw Ye My Maggie
To Alexander Findlater
The Fornicator
There was Twa Wives
Brose and Butter
Green Grow the Rashes O
Muirland Meg
The Patriarch
Godly Girzie
Wha’ll Mow Me Now?
The Trogger
Here’s His Health in Water
The Jolly Gauger
Gie the Lass Her Fairin’
Undetermined and Rejected Works
UNDETERMINED
The Cheerful Man
At Brownhill Inn
On the Destruction of Drumlanrig Woods
Young Jamie
As I Went Out Ae May Morning
Bannocks o’ Bear-Meal
On a Thanksgiving for a National Victory
A Monody on the Fatal 29th December, 1789
On the Death of Echo, a Lap-Dog
On the Illness of a Favourite Child
REJECTED
When First I Saw Fair Jeanie’s Face
Deluded Swain, the Pleasure
Lassie, Lie Near Me
Lines Written in Gavin Hamilton’s Privy
Delia: An Ode
The Selkirk Grace
Look Up and See
Broom Besoms
On the Duchess of Gordon’s Reel Dancing
Cauld Frosty Morning
Galloway Tam
As I Cam Down by Yon Castle Wa’
Meg o’ the Mill
On Burns’s Horse Being Impounded
To the Memory of the Unfortunate Miss Burns, 1791
Bibliography. MAIN TEXTS AND ABBREVIATIONS
SECONDARY READING
ARCHIVAL SOURCES
Index of Poems
Acknowledgements
About the Author. THE CANONGATE BURNS
Copyright
Introduction
Editorial Policy and Practice
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Had at the time some dainty Fair One,
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