Robert Burns (1759-1796). The Rating of Poems



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	Robert Burns (1759-1796) The Rating of Robert Burns's Poems My Heart's in the Highlands A Red, Red Rose A Man's a Man for A' That The First Kiss at Parting Auld Lang Syne John Barleycorn A Winter Night Ae Fond Kiss Winter Scots Wha Hae Tam O'Shanter Address to a Haggis The Soldier's Return Scotch Drink A Dream To a Mouse, on Turning Up Her Nest With the Plough The Jolly Beggars Halloween John Anderson The Twa Dogs Fareweel To A'Our Scottish Fame To a Louse To a Mountain Daisy, On Turning One Down With The Plough, In April, 1786 Raging Fortune For the Sake of Somebody Epithalamium Address to the Deil Address to Edinburgh The Selkirk Grace Nature�s Law A Bottle and Friend Jean Lord Gregory The Vision Macpherson�s Farewell Address to the Toothache A Rose-Bud by My Early Walk Count the Lawin The Ploughman's Life Poortith Cauld Willie Brewed Sweetest May The Author�s Earnest Cry and Prayer to the Scotch Representatives in the House of Commons A Vision The Cotter�s Saturday Night The Lass That Made the Bed to Me Afton Water Duncan Gray New-Year Day The Tree of Liberty O Aye My Wife She Dang Me The Farewell (Farewell, old Scotia�s bleak domains) A Farewell Wha Is That At My Bower Door? Lines Ye Banks and Braes Answer to Verses Addressed to the Poet by the Guidwipe of Wauchope-House To an Artist The Holy Fair A Bard's Epitaph My Father Was a Farmer The Birks of Aberfeldy �O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast�� There Was a Lass, They Ca'd Her Meg O Mally�s Meek, Mally�s Sweet A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq. The Battle of Sherramuir My Hoggie Highland Mary Despondency Holy Willie's Prayer The Heron Ballads. First Ballad My Harry Was a Gallant Gay Country Lassie �O Whistle, and I�ll Come to You, My Lad�� In Vain Would Prudence I Hae a Wife Man Was Made To Mourn Farewell to Eliza Epistle to a Young Friend The Poet�s Welcome to His Love-Begotten Daughter As I Was a Wandering Elegy On The Death of Peg Nicholson How Cruel are the Parents The Book-Worms The Twa Herds The Rights of Woman Epitaph on the Poet�s Daughter Poverty On Seeing a Wounded Hare Limp by Me, Which a Fellow Had Just Shot at There Was a Bonnie Lass Wandering Willie To the Woodlark The Lament To James Smith I Burn, I Burn The Lazy Mist Libertie Willie Chalmers A Jeremiad Inscription on the Tombstone Erected By Burns To The Memory Of Gergusson The Gloomy Night On a Friend The Brigs of Ayr Lament of Mary Queen of Scots My Bottle Gloomy December On Stirling A Prayer in the Prospect of Death Hey For a Lass Wi� a Tocher Bonnie Bell Coming Through the Rye The Sailor�s Song To Mary in Heaven My Lady�s Gown There�s Gairs Upon�t Dainty Davie Yon Wild Mossy Mountains Though Fickle Fortune Ye Jacobites by Name The Calf Epigram on Said Occasion Thou Hast Left Me Ever, Jamie O Guid Ale Comes On the Seas and Far Away Sonnet on Hearing a Thrush Sing in a Morning Walk in January Written with a Pencil, Standing by the Fall of Fyers, Near Loch-Ness To Alex Cunningham, Esq., Writer The Henpeck�d Husband �Go Fetch to Me a Pint o' Wine...� A Sonnet Upon Sonnets The Collier Laddie On the Late Captain Grose�s Peregrinations �Green Grow the Rashes O�� Gude Wallace Banks of Devon On Seeing Miss Fontenelle in a Favourite Character To Ruin 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 Hey, the Dusty Miller To John Taylor O Tibbie, I Hae Seen the Day The Belles of Mauchline Mary Morison A Mother�s Lament for the Death of Her Son The Auld Farmer�s New-Year Morning Salutation to His Auld Mare Maggie The Gallant Weaver Epigram (�When �� , deceased, to the devil went down��) Here�s a Health To Them That�s Awa A Grace Before Dinner Ca� the Yowes On Seeing the Beautiful Seat of Lord Galloway Had I a Cave Epigram on the Roads between Kilmarnock and Stewarton The Whistle The Deil�s awa� wi� the Exciseman Inscription for an Altar to Independence, at Kerroughtry, Seat of Mr. Heron, Written in Summer, 1795 Lines Written on a Pane of Glass in the Inn at Noffat �Twas Na Her Bonnie Blue Ee Now Westlin Winds The Toadeater Willie's Wife Damon and Sylvia Epitaph on a Suicide Louis, What Reck I by Thee? The Slave�s Lament O Leave Novels Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet Here Stewarts Once In Triumph Reigned Verses Written on a Window of the Inn at Carron The Winter It Is Past O, for ane an� Twenty, Tam! On Sensibility Written on the Blank Leaf of the Last Edition of his Poems On Hearing that there was Falsehood in the Reverend Doctor Babington�s Very Looks Husband, Husband, Cease Your Strife The Kirk of Lamington Letter to John Goudie, Kilmarnock, on the Publication of His Essays Reply to the Minister of Gladsmuir When I Think on the Happy Days Musing on the Roaring Ocean Epistle to Hugh Parker The Highland Laddie Prologue for Mr. Sutherland�s Benefit-Night, Dumfries Epitaph on a Shoolmaster. In Cleish Parish, Kinross-Shire O Why the Deuce O Wat Ye What My Minnie Did On Highland Hospitality Lines Written on a Bank-Note Deluded Swain Epigram on a Noted Coxcomb Meg o� the Mill Heres�s To Thy Health, My Bonnie Lass! Sent to a Gentleman whom He had Offended Epitaph on My Father O Lassie, Art Thou Sleeping Yet? My Peggy�s Face The Banks of Nith (To thee, lov�d Nith, thy gladsome plains) Tam Glen I Do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair Epitaph on a Henpecked Country Squire The Caird�s Second Song The Blude Red Rose at Yule May Blaw Epitaph on James Grieve, Laird of Boghead Jockey�s Ta�en the Parting Kiss On Creech the Bookseller The Inventory Inscribed on a Tavern Window Thanksgiving for Victory Impromptu, on Mrs. Riddel�s Birthday, in November On Commissary Goldie�s Brains Epitaph on Wee Johnny The Following Poem was Written to a Gentleman who had Sent him a Newspaper, and Offered to Continue it Free of Expense A Poetical Epistle to a Tailor The Captain�s Lady She�s Fair and Fause No Churchman am I Poor Mailie�s Elegy To Mr. Syme, with a Present of a Dozen of Porter Lines Inscribed on a Platter Tho� Cruel Fate On Maria Dancing An Excellent New Song. Fourth Ballad (May 1796) The Recovery of Miss Jessy Lewars Another Epigram To William Simpson Tragic Fragment Last May a Braw Wooer Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair Let Not Woman E�er Complain Ye Hae Lien A� Wrang, Lassie Logan Braes The Lass o� Ballochmyle Fragmentary Verses. 3. �He looks as sign-board Lions do�� On a Scotch Bard, Gone to the West Indies Lines Written on a Window, at the King�s Arms Tavern, Dumfries Ye Sons of Old Killie. A Masonic Song An� O! My Eppie Written on the Blank Leaf of a Copy of the First Edition of his Poems, Presented to an Old Sweetheart, then Married There Came a Piper out o� Fife Epitaph on Holy Willie On a Certain Commemoration Song of Death Verses on the Destruction of the Woods near Drumlanrig The Last Braw Bridal That I Was at Rattlin�, Roarin� Willie On Being Shewn a Beautiful Country Seat Address to the Unco Guid, Or the Rigidly Righteous To the Beautiful Eliza J �� n On Andrew Turner Will Ye Go to the Indies, My Mary Naething (Probably Addressed to Gavin Hamilton, 1786) On Pastoral Poetry Jamie, Come Try Me The Tailor Fell Thro� the Bed... Epitaph on a Celebrated Ruling Elder Epistle from Esopus to Maria On Scaring Some Water Fowl In Loch-Turit, a Wild Scene Among the Hills of Ochtertyre On the Death of a Lap-dog: Named Echo Lines Written on a Tumbler Lines under the Picture of Miss Burns The Highland Widow�s Lament Does Haughty Gaul Bonnie Lesley Sketch To the Rev. John M�Math The Toast Landlady, Count the Lawin On a Country Laird Inscription on a Goblet Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq Prologue, Spoken by Mr. Woods, on His Benefit-Night, Monday, April 16. 1787 Young Jockey Extempore. On Passing a Lady�s Carriage My Nannie O Elegy on Capt. Matthew Henderson O Lay Thy Loof in Mine, Lass Addressed to a Lady Whom the Author Feared He Had Offended My Nannie's Awa Epistle to Mr. M'Adam, of Craigen-Gillan To Captain Riddel, Glenriddel Lines Written and Presented to Mrs. Kemble, on Seeing her in the Character of Yarico in the Dumfies Theatre, 1794 The Fête Champêtre Poem, Addressed to Mr. Mitchell, Collector of Excise, Dumfries The Dean of Faculty O Gie My Love Brose, Brose To Dr. Blacklock Epigram on Elphinstone�s Translation of Martial�s Epigrams Additional Stanzas to a Song Written by Clarinda The Solemn League and Covenant A Fragment (�No cold approach, no altered mien��) Grace before Meat Fragmentary Verses. 2. �A head pure, sinless quite, of brain or soul...� Epitaph on William Nicol, of the High School, Edinburgh A Toast Given at a Meeting of the Dumfries-shire Volunteers, Held to Commemorate the Anniversary of Rodney�s Victory, April 12, 1782 To Dr. Maxwell, on Miss Jessy Staig�s Recovery On Miss J. Scott, of Ayr Prayer for Mary On Johnson�s Opinion of Hampden To a Lady who Was Looking up the Text during Sermon Epitaph on Walter Riddell Auld Rob Morris But Lately Seen On Wm. Graham, Esq., of Mossknowe Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn Whare Hae Ye Been? There Was a Lass, and She Was Fair The Tailor The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, The Author�s Only Pet Yowe The Mauchline Wedding To Robert Graham, Esq. of Fintry, on Receiving a Favour On Himself (�Here comes Burns...�) Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux Another (�O Lord, since we have feasted thus�) On Lord Galloway (�No Stewart art thou, Galloway...�) Fragment of an Ode to the Memory of Prince Charles Edward Stuart Sonnet on the Death of Robert Riddel, Esq. of Glenriddel The Tither Morn Impromptu (�How daur ye ca� me howlet-face...�) Third Epistle to J. Lapraik Lying at a Reverend Friend�s House One Night Remorse Scroggam Adam Armour�s Prayer On a Request of Chloris Elegy on the Year 1788 Lines Written Extempore in a Lady's Pocket-Book [Miss Kennedy, Sister-in-Law of Gavin Gamilton] �Open the Door to Me, Oh!� �It was a� for Our Rightfu� King�� Epistle to Major Logan To Miss Cruikshank Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic Epigram on Captain Francis Grose, the Celebrated Antiquary Second Epistle To Davie Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq Then Know this Truth, Ye Sons of Men! The Election. Second Ballad On Robert Riddell The Farewell. To the Brethren of St. James�s Lodge, Tarbolton �Contented wi� Little�� Tibbie Dunbar Sir John Cope Trode the North Right Far The Kirk�s Alarm Epistle to John Rankine I�ll Aye Ca� in by Yon Town Letter to James Tennant of Glenconner Captain Grose Epigram Written at Inverary The Lovely Lass of Inverness Address to the Shade of Thomson, on Crowning His Bust at Ednam, Roxburgh-Shire, with Bays Wae Is My Heart Come Boat Me O�er to Charlie To Terraughty, on His Birthday The Tarbolton Lasses (�In Tarbolton ken, there are proper young men��) Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper, Mauchline Epitaph on Gabriel Richardson Epitaph on a Wag in Mauchline Polly Stewart The Tarbolton Lasses (�If �e gae up to yon hill-tap��) Epitaph on Miss Jessy Lewars Epitaph on John Bushby, Writer, Dumfries To Miss Logan, with Beattie�s Poems, for a New Year�s Gift On Miss Jessy Lewars Awa, Whigs Extempore in the Court of Session Another (�Lord, we thank an� thee adore�) Grace after Meat Extempore to Mr. Syme, on Refusing to Dine with Him, after Having Been Promised the First of Company, and the First of Cookery Lines on an Interview with Lord Daer The Deuk�s Dang O�er My Daddies Fragment �Now health forsakes that angel face�� Lines on Being Told that the Above Verses Would Affect his Prospects Fragmentary Verses. 1. �His face with smile eternal drest�� Epigram. Immediate Extempore on being Told by W. L. of the Customs Dublin that Com Goldie did not Seem Disposed to Push the Bottle On the Birth of a Posthumous Child, Born in Peculiar Circumstances of Family Distress To Miss Ferrier, Enclosing Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair The Carle of Kellyburn Braes On the Author Being Threatened with His Resentment 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 On Glenriddell�s Fox Breaking His Chain Verses to J. Rankine On the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair Address, Spoken by Miss Fontenelle, on Her Benefit-night, December 4, 1793, at the Theatre, Dumfries To*** (�Sir, Yours this moment I unseal��) Epistle to Colonel de Peyster Epistle to Robert Graham of Fintry Monody on a Lady Famed for her Caprice Sketch Inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox To John M�Murdo, Esq. To Mr. John Kennedy Tam the Chapman Verses Written under the Portrait of Fergusson On Mr. M�Murdo, Chamberlain to the Duke of Queensberry To Mr. Renton, Berwick On Mr. W. Cruikshank of the High School, Edinburgh Had I the Wyte Strathallan�s Lament To a Lady, with a Present of a Pair of Drinking Glasses Lines Written at Loudon Manse Jenny M�Craw, She Has Ta�en to the Heather Written with a Pencil over the Chimney-piece in the Parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth On Maria (�Praise Woman still,� his lordship roars�) There�s a Youth in This City I Met a Lass, a Bonnie Lass Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry (Late crippl�d of an arm...) Impromptu on an Innkeeper Named Bacon, Who Intruded Himself Into All Companies To Mr. Gow, Visiting Dumfries The Death of John M�Leod, Esq Extempore Lines, in Answer to a Card from an Intimate Friend of Burns, Wishing Him to Spend an Hour at a Tavern O Can Ye Labour Lea, Young Man Verses Addressed to J. Rankine To Mr. Mackenzie, Surgeon, Mauchline John Bushby�s Lamentation. Third Ballad On James Gracie Dean of Guild for Dumfries Prologue, Spoken at the Theatre, Dumfries, on New Year�s Day Evening [1790] On Edmund Burke by an Opponent and a Friend to Warren Hastings On a Swearing Coxcomb Lines Sent to Sir John Whiteford, of Whiteford, Bart When Guildford Good Our Pilot Stood Poetical Address to Mr. William Tytler, With the Present of the Poet�s Picture Reply to a Note from Capt. Riddell On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq. Extempore, on Mr. William Smellie, Author of the Philosophy of Natural History, and Member of the Antiquarian and Royal Societies of Edinburgh �There�ll Never be Peace till Jamie Comes Hame�� Elegy on the Late Miss Burnet, of Monboddo To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, Recommending A Boy Written on a Blank Leaf of One of Miss Hannah More�s Works, Which a Lady Had Given Him Epitaph on a Person Nicknamed �The Marquis,� Who Desired Burns to Write One on Him Ah, Chloris Extemporaneous Effusion, on being Appointed to the Excise On Chloris Being Ill Kenmure�s on and awa Death and Doctor Hornbook Epitaph for J--- H--- Written in Air Lines Supposed to Have Been Written by Burns, and Forwarded to John Rankine, Ayrshire, Immediately after the Poet�s Decease Epitaph on Robert Muir Evan Banks Bonnie Ann The Cooper O� Cuddle Young Peggy The Weary Pund O� tow Robin Shure in Hairst O, Once I Lov�d a Bonnie Lass Raving Winds around Her Blowing Hee Balou Sae Fair Her Hair Verses Intended to be Written Below a Noble Earl�s Picture O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair Wee Willie Gray The Joyful Widower Phillis the Fair Lassie Wi� the Lint-white Locks Verses Written under Violent Grief Adown Winding Nith O Saw Ye My Dear Her Daddie Forbad Montgomerie�s Peggy Peggy�s Charms Elegy On Stella Lines Written in Friars-Carse Hermitage Where Are the Joys The Rigs O� Barley I�m Owre Young to Marry Yet Wilt Thou Be My Dearie? Here�s His Health in Water! O, Were I on Parnassus� Hill! Frae the Friends and Land I Love On Cessnock Banks Sweet Fa�s the Eve Address to General Dumourier The First Psalm The Ploughman By Allan Stream Whan I Sleep I Dream Nithsdale�s Welcome Hame Blithe Hae I Been on Yon Hill I Dream�d I Lay Where Flowers Were Springing My Wife�s a Winsome Wee Thing The Cardin� O�t Verses to a Young Lady, Miss Graham of Fintry, with a Present of Songs Now Spring Has Clad Young Highland Rover The Heather Was Blooming Come, Let Me Take Thee Katharine Jaffray Forlorn, my Love Behold the Hour Address to Beelzebub Goode�en to You, Kimmer Caledonia Whistle Owre the Lave O�t O Bonnie Was Yon Rosy Brier When First I Saw How Lang and Dreary Charming Month of May O, Wat Ye Wha�s In Yon Town? Amang the Trees To a Young Lady, Miss Jessy Lewars, Dumfries, with Books which the Bard Presented her Sae Far Awa Peg-A-Ramsey As Down the Burn They Took Their Way Stanzas on the Same Occasion Lady Onlie Epistle to John Lapraix, An Old Scottish Bard Cock Up Your Beaver O Steer Her Up There�s News, Lasses O Whare Bid Ye Get The Bonnie Wee Thing A Prayer, under the Pressure of Violent Anguish The Day Returns To the Same Bannocks o� Barley Bonnie Peg Lady Mary Ann Canst Thou Leave Me Thus? O That I Had Ne�er Been Married Could Aught of Song When First I Came to Stewart Kyle I See a Form, I See a Face The Bonnie Lass of Albany Young Jamie, Pride of A� the Plain Sleep�st Thou, or Wak�st Thou The Humble Petition of Bruar Water The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald Their Groves O� sweet Myrtle Weary Fa� You, Duncan Gray Out Over The Forth My Chloris One Night as I did Wander It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonnie Face The Chevalier�s Lament My Heart Was Ance The Lass of Ecclefechan Castle Gordon The Rantin� Dog the Daddie O�t The Carles of Dysart Eppie M�Nab Mark Yonder Pomp The Highland Lassie Lovely Davies Farewell, Thou Stream Theniel Menzies� Bonnie Mary The Ordination Sae Flaxen Were Fairest Maid on Devon Banks O Wha is She that Lo�es Me? Bessy and Her Spinnin� Wheel Craigieburn Wood The Posies On a Bank of Flowers Simmer�s a Pleasant Time Why, Why Tell Thy Lover? Tam Samson�s Elegy Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns Rantin', Rovin' Robin Farewell to Ballochmyle The Banks of Nith (THE THAMES flows proudly to the sea) The Flowery Banks of Cree Stay My Charmer Gala Water Blythe Was She I Gaed a Waefu' Gate Yestreen All Poems 76872 Views Last Poems To Russian version


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