THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS 2

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS 2

The Whistle

 

Elegy on Miss Burnet of Monboddo

 

Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn

 

Lines sent to Sir John Whitefoord, Bart., of Whitefoord, with the

foregoing Poem

 

Address to the Shade of Thomson, on crowning his Bust at Ednam with

bays

 

To Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintray

 

To Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintray, on receiving a favour

 

A Vision

 

To John Maxwell, of Terraughty, on his birthday

 

The Rights of Women, an occasional Address spoken by Miss Fontenelle,

on her benefit-night, Nov. 26, 1792

 

Monody on a Lady famed for her caprice

 

Epistle from Esopus to Maria

 

Poem on Pastoral Poetry

 

Sonnet, written on the 25th January, 1793, the birthday of the Author,

on hearing a thrush sing in a morning walk

 

Sonnet on the death of Robert Riddel, Esq., of Glenriddel, April, 1794

 

Impromptu on Mrs. Riddel's birthday

 

Liberty. A Fragment

 

Verses to a young Lady

 

The Vowels. A Tale

 

Verses to John Rankine

 

On Sensibility. To my dear and much-honoured friend, Mrs. Dunlop, of

Dunlop

 

Lines sent to a Gentleman whom he had offended Address spoken by Miss

Fontenelle on her Benefit-night

 

On seeing Miss Fontenelle in a favourite character

 

To Chloris

 

Poetical Inscription for an Altar to Independence

 

The Heron Ballads. Balled First

 

The Heron Ballads. Ballad Second

 

The Heron Ballads. Ballad Third

 

Poem addressed to Mr. Mitchell, Collector of Excise, Dumfries, 1796

 

To Miss Jessy Lewars, Dumfries, with Johnson's

 

Musical Museum

 

Poem on Life, addressed to Colonel de Peyster, Dumfries, 1796

 

* * * * *

 

 

EPITAPHS, EPIGRAMS, FRAGMENTS, &c.

 

On the Author's Father

 

On R.A., Esq.

 

On a Friend

 

For Gavin Hamilton

 

On wee Johnny

 

On John Dove, Innkeeper, Mauchline

 

On a Wag in Mauchline

 

On a celebrated ruling Elder

 

On a noisy Polemic

 

On Miss Jean Scott

 

On a henpecked Country Squire

 

On the same

 

On the same

 

The Highland Welcome

 

On William Smellie

 

Written on a window of the Inn at Carron

 

The Book-worms

 

Lines on Stirling

 

The Reproof

 

The Reply

 

Lines written under the Picture of the celebrated Miss Burns

 

Extempore in the Court of Session

 

The henpecked Husband

 

Written at Inverary

 

On Elphinston's Translation of Martial's Epigrams

 

Inscription on the Head-stone of Fergusson

 

On a Schoolmaster

 

A Grace before Dinner

 

A Grace before Meat

 

On Wat

 

On Captain Francis Grose

 

Impromptu to Miss Ainslie

 

The Kirk of Lamington

 

The League and Covenant

 

Written on a pane of glass in the Inn at Moffat

 

Spoken on being appointed to the Excise

 

Lines on Mrs. Kemble

 

To Mr. Syme

 

To Mr. Syme, with a present of a dozen of porter

 

A Grace

 

Inscription on a goblet

 

The Invitation

 

The Creed of Poverty

 

Written in a Lady's pocket-book

 

The Parson's Looks

 

The Toad-eater

 

On Robert Riddel

 

The Toast

 

On a Person nicknamed the Marquis

 

Lines written on a window

 

Lines written on a window of the Globe Tavern, Dumfries

 

The Selkirk Grace

 

To Dr. Maxwell, on Jessie Staig's Recovery

 

Epitaph

 

Epitaph on William Nicol

 

On the Death of a Lapdog, named Echo

 

On a noted Coxcomb

 

On seeing the beautiful Seat of Lord Galloway

 

On the same

 

On the same

 

To the same, on the Author being threatened with his resentment

 

On a Country Laird

 

On John Bushby

 

The true loyal Natives

 

On a Suicide

 

Extempore, pinned on a Lady's coach

 

Lines to John Rankine

 

Jessy Lewars

 

The Toast

 

On Miss Jessy Lewars

 

On the recovery of Jessy Lewars

 

Tam the Chapman

 

"Here's a bottle and an honest friend"

 

"Tho' fickle fortune has deceived me"

 

To John Kennedy

 

To the same

 

"There's naethin' like the honest nappy"

 

On the blank leaf of a work by Hannah More, presented by Mrs. C

 

To the Men and Brethren of the Masonic Lodge at Tarbolton

 

Impromptu

 

Prayer for Adam Armour

 

* * * * *

 

 

SONGS AND BALLADS.

 

Handsome Nell

 

Luckless Fortune

 

"I dream'd I lay where flowers were springing"

 

Tibbie, I hae seen the day

 

"My father was a farmer upon the Carrick border"

 

John Barleycorn. A Ballad

 

The Rigs o' Barley

 

Montgomery's Peggy

 

The Mauchline Lady

 

The Highland Lassie

 

Peggy

 

The rantin' Dog the Daddie o't

 

"My heart was ance as blithe and free"

 

My Nannie O

 

A Fragment. "One night as I did wander"

 

Bonnie Peggy Alison

 

Green grow the Rashes, O

 

My Jean

 

Robin

 

"Her flowing locks, the raven's wing"

 

"O leave novels, ye Mauchline belles"

 

Young Peggy

 

The Cure for all Care

 

Eliza

 

The Sons of Old Killie

 

And maun I still on Menie doat

 

The Farewell to the Brethren of St. James's Lodge, Tarbolton

 

On Cessnock Banks

 

Mary

 

The Lass of Ballochmyle

 

"The gloomy night is gathering fast"

 

"O whar did ye get that hauver meal bannock?"

 

The Joyful Widower

 

"O Whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad"

 

"I am my mammy's ae bairn"

 

The Birks of Aberfeldy

 

Macpherson's Farewell

 

Braw, braw Lads of Galla Water

 

"Stay, my charmer, can you leave me?"

 

Strathallan's Lament

 

My Hoggie

 

Her Daddie forbad, her Minnie forbad

 

Up in the Morning early

 

The young Highland Rover

 

Hey the dusty Miller

 

Duncan Davison

 

Theniel Menzies' bonnie Mary

 

The Banks of the Devon

 

Weary fa' you, Duncan Gray

 

The Ploughman

 

Landlady, count the Lawin

 

"Raving winds around her blowing"

 

"How long and dreary is the night"

 

Musing on the roaring Ocean

 

Blithe, blithe and merry was she

 

The blude red rose at Yule may blaw

 

O'er the Water to Charlie

 

A Rose-bud by my early walk

 

Rattlin', roarin' Willie

 

Where braving angry Winter's Storms

 

Tibbie Dunbar

 

Bonnie Castle Gordon

 

My Harry was a gallant gay

 

The Tailor fell through the bed, thimbles an' a'

 

Ay Waukin O!

 

Beware o' Bonnie Ann

 

The Gardener wi' his paidle

 

Blooming Nelly

 

The day returns, my bosom burns

 

My Love she's but a lassie yet

 

Jamie, come try me

 

Go fetch to me a Pint O' Wine

 

The Lazy Mist

 

O mount and go

 

Of a' the airts the wind can blaw

 

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 Ewes to the Knowes

 

Merry hae I been teethin' a heckle

 

The Braes of Ballochmyle

 

To Mary in Heaven

 

Eppie Adair

 

The Battle of Sherriff-muir

 

Young Jockey was the blithest lad

 

O Willie brewed a peck o' maut

 

The braes o' Killiecrankie, O

 

I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen

 

The Banks of Nith

 

Tam Glen

 

Frae the friends and land I love

 

Craigie-burn Wood

 

Cock up your Beaver

 

O meikle thinks my luve o' my beauty

 

Gudewife, count the Lawin

 

There'll never be peace till Jamie comes hame

 

The bonnie lad that's far awa

 

I do confess thou art sae fair