Poems by Robert Burns (1759-1796)



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	Robert Burns (1759-1796) Scottish poet Biography Poems by Robert Burns A Bard's Epitaph A Bottle and Friend A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq. A Dream A Farewell A Fragment (�No cold approach, no altered mien��) A Grace Before Dinner A Jeremiad A Man's a Man for A' That A Mother�s Lament for the Death of Her Son A Poetical Epistle to a Tailor A Prayer in the Prospect of Death A Prayer, under the Pressure of Violent Anguish A Red, Red Rose �A Rose-Bud by My Early Walk� A Sonnet Upon Sonnets A Toast Given at a Meeting of the Dumfries-shire Volunteers, Held to Commemorate the Anniversary of Rodney�s Victory, April 12, 1782 A Vision A Winter Night Adam Armour�s Prayer Additional Stanzas to a Song Written by Clarinda Address to a Haggis Address to Beelzebub Address to Edinburgh Address to General Dumourier Address to the Deil Address to the Shade of Thomson, on Crowning His Bust at Ednam, Roxburgh-Shire, with Bays Address to the Toothache Address to the Unco Guid, Or the Rigidly Righteous Address, Spoken by Miss Fontenelle, on Her Benefit-night, December 4, 1793, at the Theatre, Dumfries Addressed to a Lady Whom the Author Feared He Had Offended Adown Winding Nith Ae Fond Kiss Afton Water Ah, Chloris Amang the Trees An Excellent New Song. Fourth Ballad (May 1796) Another (�Lord, we thank an� thee adore�) Another (�O Lord, since we have feasted thus�) Another Epigram Answer to Verses Addressed to the Poet by the Guidwipe of Wauchope-House �An� O! My Eppie� �As Down the Burn They Took Their Way� �As I Was a Wandering� Auld Lang Syne Auld Rob Morris Awa, Whigs Banks of Devon Bannocks o� Barley Behold the Hour Bessy and Her Spinnin� Wheel �Blithe Hae I Been on Yon Hill� Blythe Was She Bonnie Ann Bonnie Bell Bonnie Lesley Bonnie Peg �But Lately Seen� By Allan Stream Caledonia Canst Thou Leave Me Thus? Captain Grose Castle Gordon Ca� the Yowes Charming Month of May Cock Up Your Beaver Come Boat Me O�er to Charlie �Come, Let Me Take Thee� �Coming Through the Rye� Could Aught of Song Count the Lawin Country Lassie Craigieburn Wood Dainty Davie Damon and Sylvia Death and Doctor Hornbook Deluded Swain Despondency Does Haughty Gaul Duncan Gray Elegy on Capt. Matthew Henderson Elegy On Stella Elegy On The Death of Peg Nicholson Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux Elegy on the Late Miss Burnet, of Monboddo Elegy on the Year 1788 Epigram (�When �� , deceased, to the devil went down��) Epigram on a Noted Coxcomb Epigram on Captain Francis Grose, the Celebrated Antiquary Epigram on Elphinstone�s Translation of Martial�s Epigrams Epigram on Said Occasion Epigram on the Roads between Kilmarnock and Stewarton Epigram Written at Inverary Epigram. Immediate Extempore on being Told by W. L. of the Customs Dublin that Com Goldie did not Seem Disposed to Push the Bottle Epistle from Esopus to Maria Epistle to a Young Friend Epistle to Colonel de Peyster Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet Epistle to Hugh Parker Epistle to John Lapraix, An Old Scottish Bard Epistle to John Rankine Epistle to Major Logan Epistle to Mr. M'Adam, of Craigen-Gillan Epistle to Robert Graham of Fintry Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry (Late crippl�d of an arm...) Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry on the Close of the Disputed Election between Sir James Johnstone and Captain Millier, for the Dumfries District of Boroughs Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq Epitaph for J--- H--- Written in Air Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq Epitaph on a Celebrated Ruling Elder Epitaph on a Henpecked Country Squire Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic Epitaph on a Person Nicknamed �The Marquis,� Who Desired Burns to Write One on Him Epitaph on a Shoolmaster. In Cleish Parish, Kinross-Shire Epitaph on a Suicide Epitaph on a Wag in Mauchline Epitaph on Gabriel Richardson Epitaph on Holy Willie Epitaph on James Grieve, Laird of Boghead Epitaph on John Bushby, Writer, Dumfries Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper, Mauchline Epitaph on Miss Jessy Lewars Epitaph on My Father Epitaph on Robert Muir Epitaph on the Poet�s Daughter Epitaph on Walter Riddell Epitaph on Wee Johnny Epitaph on William Nicol, of the High School, Edinburgh Epithalamium Eppie M�Nab Evan Banks Extemporaneous Effusion, on being Appointed to the Excise Extempore in the Court of Session Extempore Lines, in Answer to a Card from an Intimate Friend of Burns, Wishing Him to Spend an Hour at a Tavern Extempore to Mr. Syme, on Refusing to Dine with Him, after Having Been Promised the First of Company, and the First of Cookery Extempore, on Mr. William Smellie, Author of the Philosophy of Natural History, and Member of the Antiquarian and Royal Societies of Edinburgh Extempore. On Passing a Lady�s Carriage �Fairest Maid on Devon Banks� �Fareweel To A'Our Scottish Fame� Farewell to Ballochmyle Farewell to Eliza �Farewell, Thou Stream� For the Sake of Somebody �Forlorn, my Love� �Frae the Friends and Land I Love� Fragment of an Ode to the Memory of Prince Charles Edward Stuart Fragment �Now health forsakes that angel face�� Fragmentary Verses. 1. �His face with smile eternal drest�� Fragmentary Verses. 2. �A head pure, sinless quite, of brain or soul...� Fragmentary Verses. 3. �He looks as sign-board Lions do�� Gala Water Gloomy December �Goode�en to You, Kimmer� Grace after Meat Grace before Meat Gude Wallace Had I a Cave Had I the Wyte Halloween Hee Balou Her Daddie Forbad �Here Stewarts Once In Triumph Reigned� �Heres�s To Thy Health, My Bonnie Lass!� �Here�s a Health To Them That�s Awa� Here�s His Health in Water! Hey For a Lass Wi� a Tocher �Hey, the Dusty Miller� Highland Mary Holy Willie's Prayer �How Cruel are the Parents� How Lang and Dreary �Husband, Husband, Cease Your Strife� �I Burn, I Burn� �I Do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair� �I Dream�d I Lay Where Flowers Were Springing� �I Gaed a Waefu' Gate Yestreen� I Hae a Wife �I Met a Lass, a Bonnie Lass� I See a Form, I See a Face Impromptu (�How daur ye ca� me howlet-face...�) Impromptu on an Innkeeper Named Bacon, Who Intruded Himself Into All Companies Impromptu, on Mrs. Riddel�s Birthday, in November �In Vain Would Prudence� Inscribed on a Tavern Window Inscription for an Altar to Independence, at Kerroughtry, Seat of Mr. Heron, Written in Summer, 1795 Inscription on a Goblet Inscription on the Tombstone Erected By Burns To The Memory Of Gergusson �It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonnie Face� �I�ll Aye Ca� in by Yon Town� I�m Owre Young to Marry Yet �Jamie, Come Try Me� Jean �Jenny M�Craw, She Has Ta�en to the Heather� �Jockey�s Ta�en the Parting Kiss� John Anderson John Barleycorn John Bushby�s Lamentation. Third Ballad Katharine Jaffray Kenmure�s on and awa Lady Mary Ann Lady Onlie Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn Lament of Mary Queen of Scots �Landlady, Count the Lawin� �Lassie Wi� the Lint-white Locks� �Last May a Braw Wooer� �Let Not Woman E�er Complain� Letter to James Tennant of Glenconner Letter to John Goudie, Kilmarnock, on the Publication of His Essays Libertie Lines Inscribed on a Platter Lines on an Interview with Lord Daer Lines on Being Told that the Above Verses Would Affect his Prospects Lines Sent to Sir John Whiteford, of Whiteford, Bart Lines Supposed to Have Been Written by Burns, and Forwarded to John Rankine, Ayrshire, Immediately after the Poet�s Decease Lines under the Picture of Miss Burns Lines Written and Presented to Mrs. Kemble, on Seeing her in the Character of Yarico in the Dumfies Theatre, 1794 Lines Written at Loudon Manse Lines Written Extempore in a Lady's Pocket-Book [Miss Kennedy, Sister-in-Law of Gavin Gamilton] Lines Written in Friars-Carse Hermitage Lines Written on a Bank-Note Lines Written on a Pane of Glass in the Inn at Noffat Lines Written on a Tumbler Lines Written on a Window, at the King�s Arms Tavern, Dumfries Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns Lines Logan Braes Lord Gregory �Louis, What Reck I by Thee?� Lovely Davies Lying at a Reverend Friend�s House One Night Macpherson�s Farewell Man Was Made To Mourn �Mark Yonder Pomp� Mary Morison Meg o� the Mill Monody on a Lady Famed for her Caprice Montgomerie�s Peggy �Musing on the Roaring Ocean� My Bottle My Chloris My Father Was a Farmer �My Harry Was a Gallant Gay� My Heart Was Ance My Heart's in the Highlands My Hoggie �My Lady�s Gown There�s Gairs Upon�t� My Nannie O My Nannie's Awa My Peggy�s Face My Wife�s a Winsome Wee Thing Naething (Probably Addressed to Gavin Hamilton, 1786) Nature�s Law New-Year Day Nithsdale�s Welcome Hame �No Churchman am I� �Now Spring Has Clad� �Now Westlin Winds� �O Aye My Wife She Dang Me� �O Bonnie Was Yon Rosy Brier� �O Can Ye Labour Lea, Young Man� �O Gie My Love Brose, Brose� �O Guid Ale Comes� �O Lassie, Art Thou Sleeping Yet?� �O Lay Thy Loof in Mine, Lass� O Leave Novels O Mally�s Meek, Mally�s Sweet �O Saw Ye My Dear� O Steer Her Up �O That I Had Ne�er Been Married� �O Tibbie, I Hae Seen the Day� �O Wat Ye What My Minnie Did� �O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair� �O Wha is She that Lo�es Me?� O Whare Bid Ye Get O Why the Deuce O, for ane an� Twenty, Tam! �O, Once I Lov�d a Bonnie Lass� �O, Wat Ye Wha�s In Yon Town?� �O, Were I on Parnassus� Hill!� Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald On a Bank of Flowers On a Certain Commemoration On a Country Laird On a Friend On a Request of Chloris On a Scotch Bard, Gone to the West Indies On a Swearing Coxcomb On Andrew Turner On Being Shewn a Beautiful Country Seat On Cessnock Banks On Chloris Being Ill On Commissary Goldie�s Brains On Creech the Bookseller On Edmund Burke by an Opponent and a Friend to Warren Hastings On Glenriddell�s Fox Breaking His Chain On Hearing that there was Falsehood in the Reverend Doctor Babington�s Very Looks On Highland Hospitality On Himself (�Here comes Burns...�) On James Gracie Dean of Guild for Dumfries On Johnson�s Opinion of Hampden On Lord Galloway (�No Stewart art thou, Galloway...�) On Maria (�Praise Woman still,� his lordship roars�) On Maria Dancing On Miss J. Scott, of Ayr On Miss Jessy Lewars On Mr. M�Murdo, Chamberlain to the Duke of Queensberry On Mr. W. Cruikshank of the High School, Edinburgh On Pastoral Poetry On Robert Riddell On Scaring Some Water Fowl In Loch-Turit, a Wild Scene Among the Hills of Ochtertyre On Seeing a Wounded Hare Limp by Me, Which a Fellow Had Just Shot at On Seeing Miss Fontenelle in a Favourite Character On Seeing the Beautiful Seat of Lord Galloway On Seeing the Hon. Wm. R. Maule of Panmure Driving away in His Fine and Elegant Phaeton on the Race Ground at Tinwald Downs, October, 1794 On Sensibility On Stirling On the Author Being Threatened with His Resentment On the Birth of a Posthumous Child, Born in Peculiar Circumstances of Family Distress On the Death of a Lap-dog: Named Echo On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq. On the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair On the Late Captain Grose�s Peregrinations On the Seas and Far Away On Wm. Graham, Esq., of Mossknowe �One Night as I did Wander� Out Over The Forth Peg-A-Ramsey Peggy�s Charms Phillis the Fair Poem, Addressed to Mr. Mitchell, Collector of Excise, Dumfries Poetical Address to Mr. William Tytler, With the Present of the Poet�s Picture Polly Stewart Poor Mailie�s Elegy Poortith Cauld Poverty Prayer for Mary Prologue for Mr. Sutherland�s Benefit-Night, Dumfries Prologue, Spoken at the Theatre, Dumfries, on New Year�s Day Evening [1790] Prologue, Spoken by Mr. Woods, on His Benefit-Night, Monday, April 16. 1787 Raging Fortune Rantin', Rovin' Robin Rattlin�, Roarin� Willie �Raving Winds around Her Blowing� Remorse Reply to a Note from Capt. Riddell Reply to the Minister of Gladsmuir �Robin Shure in Hairst� Sae Fair Her Hair Sae Far Awa Sae Flaxen Were Scotch Drink Scots Wha Hae Scroggam Second Epistle To Davie Sent to a Gentleman whom He had Offended She�s Fair and Fause �Simmer�s a Pleasant Time� �Sir John Cope Trode the North Right Far� Sketch Inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox Sketch �Sleep�st Thou, or Wak�st Thou� Song of Death Sonnet on Hearing a Thrush Sing in a Morning Walk in January Sonnet on the Death of Robert Riddel, Esq. of Glenriddel Stanzas on the Same Occasion Stay My Charmer Strathallan�s Lament �Sweet Fa�s the Eve� Sweetest May Tam Glen Tam O'Shanter Tam Samson�s Elegy Tam the Chapman Thanksgiving for Victory The Auld Farmer�s New-Year Morning Salutation to His Auld Mare Maggie The Author�s Earnest Cry and Prayer to the Scotch Representatives in the House of Commons The Banks of Nith (THE THAMES flows proudly to the sea) The Banks of Nith (To thee, lov�d Nith, thy gladsome plains) The Battle of Sherramuir The Belles of Mauchline The Birks of Aberfeldy �The Blude Red Rose at Yule May Blaw� The Bonnie Lass of Albany The Bonnie Wee Thing The Book-Worms The Brigs of Ayr The Caird�s Second Song The Calf The Captain�s Lady The Cardin� O�t The Carle of Kellyburn Braes The Carles of Dysart The Chevalier�s Lament The Collier Laddie The Cooper O� Cuddle The Cotter�s Saturday Night The Day Returns The Dean of Faculty The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, The Author�s Only Pet Yowe The Death of John M�Leod, Esq The Deil�s awa� wi� the Exciseman The Deuk�s Dang O�er My Daddies The Election. Second Ballad The Fête Champêtre The Farewell (Farewell, old Scotia�s bleak domains) The Farewell. To the Brethren of St. James�s Lodge, Tarbolton The First Kiss at Parting The First Psalm The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm The Flowery Banks of Cree The Following Poem was Written to a Gentleman who had Sent him a Newspaper, and Offered to Continue it Free of Expense The Gallant Weaver The Gloomy Night The Heather Was Blooming The Henpeck�d Husband The Heron Ballads. First Ballad The Highland Laddie The Highland Lassie The Highland Widow�s Lament The Holy Fair The Humble Petition of Bruar Water The Inventory The Jolly Beggars The Joyful Widower The Kirk of Lamington The Kirk�s Alarm The Lament The Lass of Ecclefechan The Lass o� Ballochmyle The Lass That Made the Bed to Me �The Last Braw Bridal That I Was at� The Lazy Mist �The Lovely Lass of Inverness� The Mauchline Wedding The Ordination The Ploughman's Life The Ploughman The Poet�s Welcome to His Love-Begotten Daughter The Posies The Rantin� Dog the Daddie O�t The Recovery of Miss Jessy Lewars The Rights of Woman The Rigs O� Barley The Sailor�s Song The Selkirk Grace The Slave�s Lament The Soldier's Return The Solemn League and Covenant The Tailor Fell Thro� the Bed... The Tailor The Tarbolton Lasses (�If �e gae up to yon hill-tap��) The Tarbolton Lasses (�In Tarbolton ken, there are proper young men��) The Tither Morn The Toadeater The Toast The Tree of Liberty The Twa Dogs The Twa Herds The Vision The Weary Pund O� tow The Whistle The Winter It Is Past �Their Groves O� sweet Myrtle� �Then Know this Truth, Ye Sons of Men!� Theniel Menzies� Bonnie Mary �There Came a Piper out o� Fife� �There Was a Bonnie Lass� �There Was a Lass, and She Was Fair� �There Was a Lass, They Ca'd Her Meg� �There�s a Youth in This City� �There�s News, Lasses� �Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair� Third Epistle to J. Lapraik �Thou Hast Left Me Ever, Jamie� �Though Fickle Fortune� Tho� Cruel Fate Tibbie Dunbar To a Lady who Was Looking up the Text during Sermon To a Lady, with a Present of a Pair of Drinking Glasses To a Louse To a Mountain Daisy, On Turning One Down With The Plough, In April, 1786 To a Mouse, on Turning Up Her Nest With the Plough To a Young Lady, Miss Jessy Lewars, Dumfries, with Books which the Bard Presented her To Alex Cunningham, Esq., Writer To an Artist To Captain Riddel, Glenriddel To Dr. Blacklock To Dr. Maxwell, on Miss Jessy Staig�s Recovery To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, Recommending A Boy To James Smith To John M�Murdo, Esq. To John Taylor To Mary in Heaven To Miss Cruikshank To Miss Ferrier, Enclosing Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair To Miss Logan, with Beattie�s Poems, for a New Year�s Gift To Mr. Gow, Visiting Dumfries To Mr. John Kennedy To Mr. Mackenzie, Surgeon, Mauchline To Mr. Renton, Berwick To Mr. Syme, with a Present of a Dozen of Porter To Robert Graham, Esq. of Fintry, on Receiving a Favour To Ruin To Terraughty, on His Birthday To the Beautiful Eliza J �� n To the Rev. John M�Math To the Same To the Woodlark To William Simpson To*** (�Sir, Yours this moment I unseal��) Tragic Fragment Verses Addressed to J. Rankine Verses Intended to be Written Below a Noble Earl�s Picture Verses on the Destruction of the Woods near Drumlanrig Verses to a Young Lady, Miss Graham of Fintry, with a Present of Songs Verses to J. Rankine Verses Written on a Window of the Inn at Carron Verses Written under the Portrait of Fergusson Verses Written under Violent Grief Wae Is My Heart Wandering Willie �Weary Fa� You, Duncan Gray� �Wee Willie Gray� �Wha Is That At My Bower Door?� �Whan I Sleep I Dream� Whare Hae Ye Been? �When First I Came to Stewart Kyle� When First I Saw �When Guildford Good Our Pilot Stood� �When I Think on the Happy Days� Where Are the Joys Whistle Owre the Lave O�t �Why, Why Tell Thy Lover?� �Will Ye Go to the Indies, My Mary� Willie Brewed Willie Chalmers Willie's Wife �Wilt Thou Be My Dearie?� Winter Written on a Blank Leaf of One of Miss Hannah More�s Works, Which a Lady Had Given Him Written on the Blank Leaf of a Copy of the First Edition of his Poems, Presented to an Old Sweetheart, then Married Written on the Blank Leaf of the Last Edition of his Poems Written with a Pencil over the Chimney-piece in the Parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth Written with a Pencil, Standing by the Fall of Fyers, Near Loch-Ness Ye Banks and Braes �Ye Hae Lien A� Wrang, Lassie� Ye Jacobites by Name Ye Sons of Old Killie. A Masonic Song Yon Wild Mossy Mountains Young Highland Rover �Young Jamie, Pride of A� the Plain� Young Jockey Young Peggy ��Twas Na Her Bonnie Blue Ee� �Contented wi� Little�� �Green Grow the Rashes O�� �O Whistle, and I�ll Come to You, My Lad�� �Open the Door to Me, Oh!� �There�ll Never be Peace till Jamie Comes Hame�� �Go Fetch to Me a Pint o' Wine...� �It was a� for Our Rightfu� King�� �O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast�� The Rating of Robert Burns's Poems 76877 Views Last Poems To Russian version


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