- 1Preface
- 21771 - 1779
- 3Song — O Tibbie, I Hae Seen the Day
- 4Song — I Dream’d I Lay
- 5Song — In the Character of a Ruined Farmer
- 6Tragic Fragment
- 7Tarbolton Lasses, the
- 8Montgomerie’s Peggy
- 9Ploughman’s Life, the
- 101780 — Ronalds of the Bennals, the
- 11Song — Here’s to Thy Health
- 12Lass of Cessnock Banks, The1
- 13Song — Bonie Peggy Alison
- 14Song — Mary Morison
- 151781 — Winter: A Dirge
- 16Prayer, Under the Pressure of Violent Anguish
- 17Paraphrase of the First Psalm
- 18First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm Versified, the
- 19Prayer, in the Prospect of Death
- 20Stanzas, on the Same Occasion
- 211782 — Fickle Fortune: A Fragment
- 22Raging Fortune — Fragment of Song
- 23Impromptu — “I’ll Go and Be A Sodger”
- 24Song — “No Churchman Am I”
- 25A Stanza Added in a Mason Lodge
- 26My Father Was a Farmer
- 27John Barleycorn: A Ballad
- 281783 — Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, the Author’s Only Pet…
- 29Poor Mailie’s Elegy
- 30Song — The Rigs o’ Barley
- 31Song Composed in August
- 32Song
- 33Song — Green Grow the Rashes
- 34Song — Wha Is That at My Bower-Door
- 351784 — Remorse: A Fragment
- 36Epitaph on Wm. Hood, Senr., in Tarbolton
- 37Epitaph on James Grieve, Laird of Boghead, Tarbolton
- 38Epitaph on My Own Friend and My Father’s Friend, Wm. Muir in Tarbol…
- 39Epitaph on My Ever Honoured Father
- 40Ballad on the American War
- 41Reply to an Announcement by J. Rankine on His Writing to the Poet
- 42Epistle to John Rankine
- 43A Poet’s Welcome to His Love-Begotten Daughter1
- 44Song — O Leave Novels1
- 45Fragment — The Mauchline Lady
- 46Fragment — My Girl She’s Airy
- 47The Belles of Mauchline
- 48Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic · Epitaph on a Henpecked Country Squire…
- 49Another
- 50On Tam the Chapman
- 51Epitaph on John Rankine
- 52Lines on the Author’s Death
- 53Man Was Made to Mourn: A Dirge
- 54The Twa Herds; or, the Holy Tulyie
- 551785 — Epistle to Davie, A Brother Poet
- 56Holy Willie’s Prayer
- 57Epitaph on Holy Willie
- 58Death and Doctor Hornbook
- 59Epistle to J. Lapraik, an Old Scottish Bard
- 60Second Epistle to J. Lapraik
- 61Epistle to William Simson
- 62Postcript
- 63One Night as I Did Wander
- 64Tho’ Cruel Fate Should Bid Us Part
- 65Song — Rantin’, Rovin’ Robin1
- 66Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux1
- 67Epistle to John Goldie, in Kilmarnock
- 68The Holy Fair1
- 69Third Epistle to J. Lapraik
- 70Epistle to the Rev. John M’math
- 71Second Epistle to Davie
- 72Song — Young Peggy Blooms
- 73Song — Farewell to Ballochmyle
- 74Fragment — Her Flowing Locks
- 75Halloween1
- 76To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November…
- 77Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper
- 78Epitaph for James Smith
- 79Adam Armour’s Prayer
- 80The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata1
- 81Song — For a’ That1
- 82Song — Merry Hae I Been Teethin A Heckle
- 83The Cotter’s Saturday Night
- 84Address to the Deil
- 85Scotch Drink
- 861786 — The Auld Farmer’s New-Year-Morning Salutation to His Auld Ma…
- 87The Twa Dogs1
- 88The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer
- 89The Ordination
- 90Epistle to James Smith
- 91The Vision
- 92Suppressed Stanza’s of “The Vision”
- 93Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous
- 94The Inventory1
- 95To John Kennedy, Dumfries House
- 96To Mr. M’Adam, of Craigen-Gillan
- 97To a Louse, on Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet, at Church
- 98Inscribed on a Work of Hannah More’s
- 99Song, Composed in Spring
- 100To a Mountain Daisy
- 101To Ruin
- 102The Lament
- 103Despondency: An Ode
- 104To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline
- 105Versified Reply to an Invitation
- 106Song — Will Ye Go to the Indies, My Mary?
- 107Song — My Highland Lassie, o
- 108Epistle to a Young Friend
- 109Address of Beelzebub
- 110A Dream
- 111A Dedication
- 112Versified Note to Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchline
- 113The Farewell to the Brethren of St. James’ Lodge, Tarbolton
- 114On a Scotch Bard, Gone to the West Indies
- 115Song — Farewell to Eliza
- 116A Bard’s Epitaph
- 117Epitaph on “Wee Johnie”
- 118The Lass o’ Ballochmyle
- 119Lines to an Old Sweetheart
- 120Motto Prefixed to the Author’s First Publication
- 121Lines to Mr. John Kennedy
- 122Lines Written on a Banknote
- 123Stanzas on Naething
- 124The Farewell
- 125Thomson’s Edward and Eleanora
- 126The Calf
- 127Nature’s Law — A Poem
- 128Song — Willie Chalmers
- 129Reply to a Trimming Epistle Received From a Tailor
- 130The Brigs of Ayr
- 131Fragment of Song
- 132Epigram on Rough Roads
- 133Prayer — O Thou Dread Power
- 134Farewell Song to the Banks of Ayr
- 135Address to the Toothache
- 136Lines on Meeting With Lord Daer1
- 137Masonic Song
- 138Tam Samson’s Elegy
- 139The Epitaph — Per Contra
- 140Epistle to Major Logan
- 141Fragment on Sensibility
- 142A Winter Night
- 143Song — Yon Wild Mossy Mountains
- 144Address to Edinburgh
- 145Address to a Haggis
- 1461787 — To Miss Logan, With Beattie’s Poems, for a New-Year’s Gift,…
- 147Mr. William Smellie — A Sketch
- 148Song — Bonie Dundee
- 149Extempore in the Court of Session
- 150Inscription for the Headstone of Fergusson the Poet1
- 151Epistle to Mrs. Scott
- 152Verses Intended to Be Written Below A Noble Earl’s Picture1
- 153Prologue
- 154The Bonie Moor-Hen
- 155Song — My Lord A-Hunting
- 156Epigram at Roslin Inn
- 157Epigram Addressed to an Artist
- 158The Book-Worms · On Elphinstone’s Translation of Martial’s Epigrams…
- 159Epitaph for William Nicol, of the High School, Edinburgh
- 160Epitaph for Mr. William Michie
- 161Address to Wm. Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee
- 162Epigram to Miss Ainslie in Church
- 163Burlesque Lament for the Absence of William Creech, Publisher
- 164Note to Mr. Renton of Lamerton
- 165Elegy on “Stella”
- 166The Bard at Inverary
- 167Epigram to Miss Jean Scott — On the Death of John M’Leod, Esq,
- 168Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair
- 169Impromptu on Carron Iron Works
- 170To Miss Ferrier
- 171Written by Somebody on the Window
- 172The Poet’s Reply to the Threat of a Censorious Critic
- 173The Libeller’s Self-Reproof1
- 174Verses Written With a Pencil
- 175Song — The Birks of Aberfeldy
- 176The Humble Petition of Bruar Water
- 177Lines on the Fall of Fyers Near Loch-Ness
- 178Epigram on Parting With a Kind Host in the Highlands
- 179Strathallan’s Lament1
- 180Castle Gordon
- 181Song — Lady Onlie, Honest Lucky
- 182Theniel Menzies’ Bonie Mary
- 183The Bonie Lass of Albany1
- 184On Scaring Some Water-Fowl in Loch-Turit
- 185Blythe Was She1
- 186A Rose-Bud by My Early Walk
- 187Epitaph for Mr. W. Cruikshank1 — Song — The Banks of the Devon
- 188Braving Angry Winter’s Storms
- 189Song — My Peggy’s Charms
- 190The Young Highland Rover
- 191Birthday Ode for 31st December, 17871
- 192On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq., of Arniston
- 193Sylvander to Clarinda1
- 1941788 — Love in the Guise of Friendship
- 195Go on, Sweet Bird, and Sooth My Care
- 196Clarinda, Mistress of My Soul
- 197I’m O’er Young to Marry Yet
- 198To the Weavers Gin Ye Go
- 199M’Pherson’s Farewell
- 200Stay My Charmer
- 201Song — My Hoggie
- 202Raving Winds Around Her Blowing
- 203Up in the Morning Early
- 204Hey, the Dusty Miller
- 205Duncan Davison
- 206The Lad They Ca’Jumpin John
- 207Talk of Him That’s Far Awa
- 208To Daunton Me
- 209The Winter It Is Past
- 210The Bonie Lad That’s Far Awa
- 211Verses to Clarinda
- 212The Chevalier’s Lament
- 213Epistle to Hugh Parker
- 214Of a’ the Airts the Wind Can Blaw1
- 215Song — I Hae a Wife o’ My Ain
- 216Lines Written in Friars’-Carse Hermitage
- 217To Alex. Cunningham, ESQ., Writer
- 218Song — Anna, Thy Charms
- 219The Fete Champetre
- 220Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry
- 221Song — The Day Returns
- 222Song — O, Were I on Parnassus Hill
- 223A Mother’s Lament
- 224The Fall of the Leaf
- 225I Reign in Jeanie’s Bosom
- 226Auld Lang Syne
- 227My Bonie Mary
- 228The Parting Kiss
- 229Written in Friar’s-Carse Hermitage
- 230The Poet’s Progress
- 231Elegy on the Year 1788
- 232The Henpecked Husband
- 233Versicles on Sign-Posts
- 2341789 — Robin Shure in Hairst
- 235Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald of Auchencruive
- 236Pegasus at Wanlockhead
- 237Sappho Redivivus — A Fragment
- 238Song — She’s Fair and Fause
- 239Impromptu Lines to Captain Riddell
- 240Lines to John M’Murdo, Esq. of Drumlanrig
- 241Rhyming Reply to a Note From Captain Riddell
- 242Caledonia — A Ballad
- 243To Miss Cruickshank
- 244Beware o’ Bonie Ann
- 245Ode on the Departed Regency Bill
- 246Epistle to James Tennant of Glenconner
- 247A New Psalm for the Chapel of Kilmarnock
- 248Sketch in Verse
- 249The Wounded Hare
- 250Delia, an Ode
- 251The Gard’ner Wi’ His Paidle
- 252On a Bank of Flowers
- 253Young Jockie Was the Blythest Lad
- 254The Banks of Nith
- 255Jamie, Come Try Me
- 256I Love My Love in Secret
- 257Sweet Tibbie Dunbar
- 258The Captain’s Lady
- 259John Anderson, My Jo
- 260My Love, She’s but A Lassie Yet
- 261Song — Tam Glen
- 262Carle, an the King Come
- 263The Laddie’s Dear Sel’
- 264Whistle O’er the Lave O’t
- 265My Eppie Adair
- 266On the Late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations Thro’ Scotland
- 267Epigram on Francis Grose the Antiquary
- 268The Kirk of Scotland’s Alarm
- 269Presentation Stanzas to Correspondents
- 270Sonnet on Receiving A Favour
- 271Extemporaneous Effusion
- 272Song — Willie Brew’d A Peck o’ Maut1
- 273Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes
- 274I Gaed A Waefu’ Gate Yestreen
- 275Highland Harry Back Again
- 276The Battle of Sherramuir
- 277The Braes o’ Killiecrankie
- 278Awa’ Whigs, Awa’
- 279A Waukrife Minnie
- 280The Captive Ribband
- 281My Heart’s in the Highlands
- 282The Whistle — A Ballad
- 283To Mary in Heaven
- 284Epistle to Dr. Blacklock
- 285The Five Carlins
- 286Election Ballad for Westerha’
- 287Prologue Spoken at the Theatre of Dumfries
- 2881790 — Sketch — New Year’s Day, 1790
- 289Scots’ Prologue for Mr. Sutherland
- 290Lines to a Gentleman
- 291Elegy on Willie Nicol’s Mare
- 292The Gowden Locks of Anna
- 293Postscript
- 294Song — I Murder Hate
- 295Gudewife, Count the Lawin
- 296Election Ballad
- 297Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson
- 298The Epitaph
- 299Verses on Captain Grose
- 300Tam o’ Shanter
- 301On the Birth of a Posthumous Child
- 302Elegy on the Late Miss Burnet of Monboddo
- 3031791 — Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots, on the Approach of Spring
- 304There’ll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame
- 305Song — Out Over the Forth
- 306The Banks o’ Doon — First Version
- 307The Banks o’ Doon — Second Version
- 308The Banks o’ Doon — Third Version
- 309Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn
- 310Lines Sent to Sir John Whiteford, Bart
- 311Craigieburn Wood
- 312Epigram on Miss Davies
- 313The Charms of Lovely Davies
- 314What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi’ an Auld Man
- 315The Posie
- 316On Glenriddell’s Fox Breaking His Chain
- 317Poem on Pastoral Poetry
- 318Verses on the Destruction of the Woods Near Drumlanrig
- 319The Gallant Weaver
- 320Epigram at Brownhill Inn1
- 321Lovely Polly Stewart
- 322Fragment — Damon and Sylvia
- 323Johnie Lad, Cock Up Your Beaver
- 324My Eppie Macnab
- 325Altho’ He Has Left Me
- 326My Tocher’s the Jewel
- 327O for Ane an’ Twenty, Tam
- 328Thou Fair Eliza
- 329My Bonie Bell
- 330Sweet Afton
- 331Address to the Shade of Thomson
- 332Nithsdale’s Welcome Hame
- 333Frae the Friends and Land I Love
- 334Such A Parcel of Rogues in a Nation
- 335Ye Jacobites by Name
- 336I Hae Been at Crookieden
- 337O Kenmure’s on and Awa, Willie
- 338Epistle to John Maxwell, ESQ., of Terraughty
- 339Second Epistle to Robert Graham, ESQ., of Fintry
- 340The Song of Death
- 341Poem on Sensibility
- 342The Toadeater
- 343Divine Service in the Kirk of Lamington
- 344The Keekin’-Glass — A Grace Before Dinner, Extempore
- 345A Grace After Dinner, Extempore
- 346O May, Thy Morn
- 347Ae Fond Kiss, and Then We Sever
- 348Behold the Hour, the Boat, Arrive
- 349Thou Gloomy December
- 350My Native Land Sae Far Awa
- 3511792 — I Do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair
- 352Lines on Fergusson, the Poet
- 353The Weary Pund o’ Tow
- 354When She Cam’ Ben She Bobbed
- 355Scroggam, My Dearie
- 356My Collier Laddie
- 357Sic A Wife as Willie Had
- 358Lady Mary Ann
- 359Kellyburn Braes
- 360The Slave’s Lament
- 361O Can Ye Labour Lea?
- 362The Deuks Dang O’er My Daddie
- 363The Deil’s Awa Wi’ the Exciseman
- 364The Country Lass
- 365Bessy and Her Spinnin’ Wheel
- 366Love for Love
- 367Saw Ye Bonie Lesley
- 368Fragment of Song — I’ll Meet Thee on the Lea Rig
- 369My Wife’s A Winsome Wee Thing
- 370Highland Mary
- 371Auld Rob Morris
- 372The Rights of Woman
- 373Epigram on Seeing Miss Fontenelle in a Favourite Character
- 374Extempore on Some Commemorations of Thomson
- 375Duncan Gray
- 376Here’s A Health to Them That’s Awa
- 377A Tippling Ballad
- 3781793 — Poortith Cauld and Restless Love
- 379On Politics — Braw Lads o’ Galla Water
- 380Sonnet Written on the Author’s Birthday
- 381Wandering Willie — First Version
- 382Wandering Willie — Revised Version
- 383Lord Gregory
- 384Open the Door to Me, Oh
- 385Lovely Young Jessie
- 386Meg o’ the Mill
- 387Meg o’ the Mill — Another Version
- 388The Soldier’s Return
- 389Versicles, A.D. 1793
- 390On Commissary Goldie’s Brains — Lines Inscribed in a Lady’s Pocket…
- 391Thanksgiving for a National Victory
- 392Lines on the Commemoration of Rodney’s Victory
- 393The Raptures of Folly
- 394Kirk and State Excisemen
- 395Extempore Reply to an Invitation
- 396Grace After Meat — Grace Before and After Meat
- 397Impromptu on General Dumourier’s Desertion From the French Republic…
- 398The Last Time I Came O’er the Moor
- 399Logan Braes
- 400Blythe Hae I Been on Yon Hill
- 401O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair
- 402Bonie Jean — A Ballad
- 403Lines on John M’Murdo, ESQ
- 404Epitaph on a Lap-Dog
- 405Epigrams Against the Earl of Galloway
- 406Epigram on the Laird of Laggan
- 407Song — Phillis the Fair
- 408Song — Had I A Cave
- 409Song — By Allan Stream
- 410Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad
- 411Phillis the Queen o’ the Fair
- 412Come, Let Me Take Thee to My Breast
- 413Dainty Davie
- 414Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn
- 415Behold the Hour, the Boat Arrive
- 416Down the Burn, Davie
- 417Thou Hast Left Me Ever, Jamie
- 418Where Are the Joys I Have Met?
- 419Deluded Swain, the Pleasure
- 420Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair
- 421On Mrs. Riddell’s Birthday
- 422My Spouse Nancy
- 423Address
- 424Complimentary Epigram on Maria Riddell
- 4251794 — Remorseful Apology
- 426Wilt Thou Be My Dearie?
- 427A Fiddler in the North
- 428The Minstrel at Lincluden
- 429A Vision
- 430A Red, Red Rose
- 431Young Jamie, Pride of a’ the Plain
- 432The Flowery Banks of Cree
- 433Monody
- 434The Epitaph
- 435Pinned to Mrs. Walter Riddell’s Carriage
- 436Epitaph for Mr. Walter Riddell
- 437Epistle From Esopus to Maria
- 438Epitaph on a Noted Coxcomb
- 439On Capt. Lascelles
- 440On Wm. Graham, Esq., of Mossknowe
- 441On John Bushby, Esq., Tinwald Downs — Sonnet on the Death of Robert…
- 442The Lovely Lass o’ Inverness
- 443Charlie, He’s My Darling
- 444Bannocks o’ Bear Meal
- 445The Highland Balou
- 446The Highland Widow’s Lament
- 447It Was a’ for Our Rightfu’ King
- 448Ode for General Washington’s Birthday
- 449Inscription to Miss Graham of Fintry
- 450On the Seas and Far Away
- 451Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes — Second Version
- 452She Says She Loes Me Best of A’
- 453To Dr. Maxwell
- 454To the Beautiful Miss Eliza J — N
- 455On Chloris
- 456On Seeing Mrs. Kemble in Yarico — Epigram on a Country Laird
- 457On Being Shewn A Beautiful Country Seat
- 458On Hearing It Asserted Falsehood
- 459On a Suicide — On a Swearing Coxcomb
- 460On an Innkeeper Nicknamed “The Marquis” — On Andrew Turner
- 461Pretty Peg
- 462Esteem for Chloris
- 463Saw Ye My Dear, My Philly
- 464How Lang and Dreary Is the Night
- 465Inconstancy in Love
- 466The Lover’s Morning Salute to His Mistress
- 467The Winter of Life
- 468Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves
- 469The Charming Month of May
- 470Lassie Wi’ the Lint-White Locks
- 471Dialogue Song — Philly and Willy
- 472Contented Wi’ Little and Cantie Wi’ Mair
- 473Farewell Thou Stream
- 474Canst Thou Leave Me Thus, My Katie
- 475My Nanie’s Awa
- 476The Tear-Drop
- 477For the Sake o’ Somebody
- 4781795 — A Man’s A Man for a’ That
- 479Craigieburn Wood
- 480Versicles of 1795
- 481Lines Sent With a Present of a Dozen of Porter
- 482Inscription on a Goblet
- 483Apology for Declining an Invitation to Dine
- 484Epitaph for Mr. Gabriel Richardson — Epigram on Mr. James Gracie
- 485Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay
- 486Inscription at Friars’ Carse Hermitage
- 487There Was a Bonie Lass
- 488Wee Willie Gray
- 489O Aye My Wife She Dang Me
- 490Gude Ale Keeps the Heart Aboon
- 491O Steer Her Up an’ Haud Her Gaun
- 492The Lass o’ Ecclefechan
- 493O Let Me in Thes Ae Night
- 494Her Answer
- 495I’ll Aye Ca’ in by Yon Town
- 496O Wat Ye Wha’s in Yon Town
- 497Ballads on Mr. Heron’s Election, 1795
- 498Inscription for an Altar of Independence
- 499The Cardin O’t, the Spinnin O’t
- 500The Cooper o’ Cuddy
- 501The Lass That Made the Bed to Me
- 502Had I the Wyte? She Bade Me
- 503Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?
- 504Address to the Woodlark
- 505Song — On Chloris Being Ill
- 506How Cruel Are the Parents
- 507Mark Yonder Pomp of Costly Fashion
- 508’Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E’e
- 509Their Groves O’Sweet Myrtle
- 510Forlorn, My Love, No Comfort Near
- 511Fragment — Why, Why Tell the Lover
- 512The Braw Wooer
- 513This Is No My Ain Lassie
- 514O Bonie Was Yon Rosy Brier
- 515Song Inscribed to Alexander Cunningham
- 516O That’s the Lassie o’ My Heart
- 517Inscription
- 518Fragment — Leezie Lindsay
- 519Fragment — The Wren’s Nest
- 520News, Lassies, News
- 521Crowdie Ever Mair
- 522Mally’s Meek, Mally’s Sweet
- 523Jockey’s Taen the Parting Kiss
- 524Verses to Collector Mitchell
- 525Postscript
- 5261796 — The Dean of Faculty
- 527Epistle to Colonel de Peyster
- 528A Lass Wi’ A Tocher
- 529Heron Election Ballad, No. IV
- 530Complimentary Versicles to Jessie Lewars
- 531O Lay Thy Loof in Mine, Lass
- 532A Health to Ane I Loe Dear
- 533O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast
- 534Inscription to Miss Jessy Lewars
- 535Fairest Maid on Devon Banks
- 536Glossary
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