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- Close sectionVIII. Poems 1791: Ellisland and Dumfries
- 324 A Fragment, which was meant for the beginning of an Elegy on the late Miss Burnet of Monboddo
- 325 To Terraughty, on his birthday
- 326 There'll never be peace till Jamie comes home
- 327 I look to the North
- 328 The Banks o' Doon (A)
- The Banks o' Doon (B)
- 329 On Mr. James Gracie
- 330 Orananaoig, or, The Song of death
- 331 Address, To the Shade of Thomson, on crowning his Bust
- 332 Extempore -- on some Commemorations of Thomson
- 333 Lovely Davies
- 334 Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn
- 334A. Lines, Sent to Sir John Whiteford, of Whiteford, Bart. with the foregoing Poem
- 335 To R***** G***** of F*****, Esq.
- 336 Gloomy December
- 337 Song
James Kinsley (ed.), The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, Vol. 2: Text
Contents
- Close section Front Matter
- Close sectionVII. Poems 1790: Ellisland
- 282 To a Gentleman who had sent him a Newspaper
- 283 Elegy on Peg Nicholson
- 284 I love my Love in secret
- 285 Tibbie Dunbar
- 286 The Taylor fell through the bed, &c.
- 287 Ay waukin O
- 288 Beware of bonny Ann
- 289 My Wife's a wanton, wee thing
- 290 Lassie lie near me
- 291. The Gardener with his paddle
- 292 On a bank of Flowers
- 293 My love she's but a lassie yet
- 294 Cold frosty morning
- 295 Jamie come try me
- 296 The Captain's Lady
- 297 Johnnie Cope
- 298 O dear Minny, what shall I do?
- 299 Call and the king come
- 300 There's a youth in this City
- 301 My heart's in the Highlands
- 302 John Anderson my Jo
- 303 Awa whigs awa
- 304 I'll make you be fain to follow me
- 305 Merry have I been teething a heckle
- 306 The White Cockade
- 307 My Eppie
- 308 The Battle of Sherra-moor
- 309 Sandy and Jockie
- 310 Young Jockey was the blithest lad
- 311 A waukrife Minnie
- 312 Song
- 313 Killiecrankie
- 314 The Campbells are coming
- 315 Scots Prologue, For Mrs. Sutherland's Benefit Night
- 316 Lament of Mary Queen of Scots on the Approach of Spring
- 317 Song
- 318 Epistle to Robert Graham Esq. of Fintry on the Election
- 319 On the Birth of a Posthumous Child
- 320 Song
- 321 Tam o' Shanter. A Tale
- 322 Ken you ought of Captain Grose
- 323 Epigram on Capt. Francis Grose, The Celebrated Antiquary
- Close sectionVIII. Poems 1791: Ellisland and Dumfries
- 324 A Fragment, which was meant for the beginning of an Elegy on the late Miss Burnet of Monboddo
- 325 To Terraughty, on his birthday
- 326 There'll never be peace till Jamie comes home
- 327 I look to the North
- 328 The Banks o' Doon (A)
- The Banks o' Doon (B)
- 329 On Mr. James Gracie
- 330 Orananaoig, or, The Song of death
- 331 Address, To the Shade of Thomson, on crowning his Bust
- 332 Extempore -- on some Commemorations of Thomson
- 333 Lovely Davies
- 334 Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn
- 334A. Lines, Sent to Sir John Whiteford, of Whiteford, Bart. with the foregoing Poem
- 335 To R***** G***** of F*****, Esq.
- 336 Gloomy December
- 337 Song
- Close sectionIX. Poems 1792: Dumfries
- 338 There was two Wives
- 339 O saw you bonny Lesley
- 340 Craigieburn wood -- A Song
- 341 For the friends and Land I love
- 342 Hughie Graham
- 343 John come kiss me now
- 344 Cock up your Beaver
- 345 My Tochers the Jewel
- 346 Then Guidwife count the lawin
- 347 What can a young lassie do with an old man
- 348 The bonny lad that's far away
- 349 I do confess you are so fair
- 350 Galloway Tam
- 351 Song
- 352 Lord Ronald my Son
- 353 Bonny laddie, Highland laddie
- 354 It is na, Jean, your bonny face
- 355 Eppie McNab
- 356 What is that at my bower door?
- 357 The bonny wee thing
- 358 Geordie -- An old Ballad
- 359 As I was a-wandering
- 360 The weary Pund o' Tow
- 361 I have a wife on my arm
- 362 When she came ben she bobbed
- 363 O, for one and twenty Tam
- 364 O Kenmure's on and away, Willie
- 365 Bessy and her spinning wheel
- 366 My Collier laddie
- 367 The Shepherd's Wife
- 368 Johnnie Blunt
- 369 Country Lassie
- 370 Fair Eliza
- 371 You Jacobites by name
- 372 The Posie
- 373 Song -- Sic a wife as Willie's wife
- 374 My bonnie laddie's young but he's growing yet
- 375 Such a parcel of rogues in a nation
- 376 Kellyburnbraes
- 377 Jockey fou and Jenny fain
- 378 The Slave's Lament
- 379 Bonny Bell
- 380 The gallant Weaver
- 381 Hey Ca' through
- 382 Can you labour lea
- 383 The deuks dang o'er my daddie
- 384 As I went out on May morning
- 385 She's fair and false &c.
- 386 The Devil's away with the Excise man
- 387 Song
- 388 My wife's a winsome wee thing
- 389 Highland Mary
- 390 The Rights of Woman -- Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her benefit night
- 391 Here's a Health to them that's away
- 392 The lea-rig
- 393 Old Rob Morris
- 394 Duncan Gray
- 395 Why should no poor folk mow
- 396 Here away, there away
- Close sectionX. Poems 1793: Dumfries
- 397 Galla Water
- 398 Song
- 399 Lord Gregory
- 400 Sonnet -- On hearing a thrush sing on a morning walk in January
- 401 Address to General Dumourier
- 402 A Toast
- 403 Open the door to me Oh
- 404 Jessie -- A new Scots song
- 405 Song
- 406 When wild War's deadly Blast was blown
- 407A. O ken you what Meg o' the mill has gotten
- 407B. Ken you what Meg o' the mill has gotten
- 408 Song
- 409 Song
- 410 On being asked why God had made Miss D---- so little and Mrs A---- so big
- 411 On Maxwell of Cardoness
- 411B. Extempore -- On being shown a beautiful Country seat belonging to the same
- 412 Annotations in Verse
- 413 O were my Love that Lilac fair
- 414 A Ballad
- 415 Epigrams on Lord Galloway
- 416 On the death of Echo, a Lapdog
- 417 On J-hn M-r-ne, lord of L-gg-n
- 418 Phillis the fair
- 419 Song
- 420 Song
- 421 Song
- 422 Allan Water
- 423 Song
- 424 Dainty Davie
- 425 Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn
- 426 To Maria--Epigram--On Lord Buchan's assertion
- 427 Down the burn Davie
- 428 Passion's Cry
- 429 The Primrose
- 430 You have left me ever
- 431 Song
- 432 Fair Jenny
- 433 On Captain W---- R-dd-ck of C-rb--ton
- 434 Thine am I, my Chloris fair
- 435 Bonny Mary
- 436 Act Sederunt of the Session -- A Scots Ballad
- 437 To Captain G----, on being asked why I was not to be at the party at Syme's
- 438 Impromptu, on Mrs. W. Riddell's Birthday
- 439 Occasional Address, Spoken by Miss Fontenelle, on her Benefit-Night
- 440 On seeing Miss Fontenelle in a Favourite Character
- 441 English song
- Close sectionXI. Poems 1794: Dumfries
- 442 To Miss Graham of Fintray
- 443 Monody on Maria
- 444 Will you be my Dearie
- 445 Sonnet, on the Death of Robert Riddel, Esq.
- 446 On Robert Riddel
- 447 Banks of Cree
- 448 Pinned to Mrs R----'s carriage
- 449 In answer to one who affirmed of Dr. B---- that there was falsehood in his very looks
- 450 Extempore
- 451 Ode for General Washington's Birthday
- 452 On W. R----, Esq.
- 453 A red red Rose
- 454 On the seas and far away
- 455 To Dr Maxwell, on Miss Jessy Staig's recovery
- 456 Ca' the yowes to the knowes [B]
- 457 She says she loves me best of all
- 458 Saw you my Phely (quasi dicat, Phillis)
- 459 How long and dreary is the night
- 460 Song
- 461 The old man's winter thought
- 462 The Lover's morning salute to his Mistress
- 463 On seeing Mrs. Kemble in Yarico
- 464 To the Honourable Mr. R. M----, of P-nm-re
- 465 Song, altered from an old English one
- 466 Lassie with the lint white locks
- 467 To Chloris
- 468 Song
- 469 Can you leave me thus, my Katy
- 470 Scottish Song
- 471 Song
- 472 My Nanie's away
- Close section473–479. Dumfries Epigrams
- 480 On Chloris requesting me to give her a spray of a sloe-thorn in full blossom
- Close sectionXII. Poems 1795–1796: Dumfries
- 481 Ode to Spring
- 482 Song -- For all that and all that
- 483 Sweet fares the eve on Craigieburn
- 484 The Dumfries Volunteers
- 485 Let me in this ae night
- 486 Fragment -- Epistle from Esopus to Maria
- 487 On Miss J. Scott, of Ayr
- 488 Song
- 489 Song -- On Chloris being ill
- 490 Elegy on Mr. William Cruikshank A.M.
- Close sectionThe Heron Ballads, 1795
- 495 Address to the wood lark
- 496 Song
- 497 Song
- 498 Altered from an old English song
- 499 Song
- 500 Address to the Toothache
- 501 English Song
- 502 Scotch Song
- 503 Scottish Ballad
- 504 Fragment
- 505 Poetical Inscription, for An Altar to Independence
- 506 To Chloris
- 507 Song
- 508 Scottish Song
- 509 Song
- Close section510 To John Syme
- 511 On Mr. Pit's hair-powder tax
- 512 The Solemn League and Covenant
- 513 The Bob of Dumblane
- 514 Poem Addressed to Mr. Mitchell, Collector of Excise
- 515 The Dean of Faculty -- A new Ballad
- 516 Hey for a lass with a tocher
- 517 Poem on Life, Addressed to Colonel De Peyster
- 518 Here's a health to all I love dear
- Close section519-22. On Jessy Leward
- 523 To a Young Lady, Miss Jessy L----, with Books
- 524 Oh were you in the cold blast
- 525 Song
- 526 To Mr. S. McKenzie
- 527 A Fragment -- On Glenriddel's Fox breaking his chain
- 528 To Captain Riddell
- 529 Reply to Robert Riddell
- 530 Grim Grizzle
- 531 Burn's grace at Kirkudbright
- 532 Graces -- at the Globe Tavern
- Close sectionLines Written on windows of the Globe Tavern
- 537 Lines Written on a window at the King's Arms Tavern
- 538 You're welcome, Willie Stewart
- 539 At Brownhill Inn
- 540 On W---- Gr-h-m Esq: of M-sskn-w
- 541 Epitaph on Mr. Burton
- 542 Epitaph on D---- C----
- 543 Epitaph Extempore On a person nicknamed the Marquis
- 544 Epitaph on J-hn B-shby
- 545 On Captain L----lles
- 546 On John McMurdo
- 547 On Gabriel Richardson
- 548 On Commissary Goldie's Brains
- 549 The Hue and Cry of John Lewars
- 550 The Keekin' Glass
- 551 Inscription on a Goblet
- 552 On Andrew Turner
- 553 The Toad eater
- Close sectionXIII. Last Songs for the Scots Musical Museum
- 554 The lovely lass of Inverness
- 555 Song
- 556 The Wren's Nest
- 557 O and you were dead Gudeman
- 558 Tam Lin
- 559 Had I the wyte she bade me
- 560 Coming through the rye
- 561 The rowin it in her apron
- 562 Charlie he's my darling
- 563 The Lass of Ecclefechan
- 564 We'll hide the Couper behind the door
- 565 Leezie Lindsay
- 566 For the sake o' Somebody
- 567 The cardin o't
- 568 Sutors o' Selkirk
- 569 Tibbie Fowler
- 570 There's three true good fellows
- 571 The bonny lass made the bed to me
- 572 So far away
- 573 The Reel o' Stumpie
- 574 I'll ay call in by that town
- 575 The ranting laddie
- 576 O May your morn
- 577 As I came over the Cairney mount
- 578 Highland laddie
- 579 Lovely Polly Stewart
- 580 The Highland balou
- 581 Bannocks o' bear-meal
- 582 Why is my heart
- 583A. Here's his health in water
- 583B. Here's his health in water
- 584 Good Wallace
- 585 The old man's mare's dead
- 586 The Taylor
- 587 There grows a bonny brier-bush &c.
- 588 Here's to your health my bonny lass
- 589 It was all for our rightful king
- 590 The Highland widow's lament
- 591 O steer her up and gone
- 592 Wee Willie Gray
- 593 Good evening to you kimmer
- 594 O ay my wife she dang me
- 595 Scroggam
- 596 O good ale comes &c.
- 597 My Lady's gown there's gairs upon it
- 598 Sweetest May
- 599 Jockey's taken the parting kiss
- 600 O Lay your love in mine lass
- 601 Cold is the evening blast
- 602 There was a bonny lass
- 603 There's news lasses news
- 604 O that I had never been Married
- 605 The German laddie
- Close sectionXIV. Undated Poems and Dubia
- 606 Epitaph for H---- L----, Esq., of L----
- 607 A Ballad
- 608 Muirland Meg
- 609 The Patriarch
- 610 The Trogger
- 611 Godly Girzie
- 612 The Jolly Gauger
- 613 What'll m-w me now
- 614 I saw you, my Maggie
- 615 Give the lass her Fairing
- 616 The Book Worms
- 617 On Marriage
- 618 Here's a bottle and an honest friend
- 619 Fragment
- 620 A Tale
- 621 The Henpecked Husband
- 622 On a dog of Lord Eglinton's
- 623 Epitaph
- 624 Delia
- 625 The Tree of Liberty
- 626 Broom Besoms (A)
- 627 Broom Besoms (B)
- 628 Fragment
- 629 Epigram on Rough Roads
- 630 On the Duchess of Gordon's Reel Dancing
- 631 To the Memory of the Unfortunate Miss Burns
- 632 Bonny Peg
- Close section End Matter
