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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 |