Author:Robert Burns (1759-1796)/Poetry

Poetry

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Address of Beelzebub
• Address Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on Her Benefit Night
• Address to a Haggis
• Address to Edinburgh
• Address to the Deil
• Address to the Shade of Thomson
• Address to the Toothache
• Address to the Unco Guid, or The Rigidly Righteous
• Address to the Woodlark
• Address to Wm. Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee
• Ae Fond Kiss, and Then We Sever
• Ah, Woe is Me, My Mother Dear
• Altho' He Has Left Me
• Anna, Thy Charms
• Another (Epigram on the Said Occasion...On a Henpecked Country Squire)
• Apology for Declining an Invitation to Dine
• Auld Lang Syne
• Auld Rob Morris
• Awa' Whigs, Awa'
• Auld Farmer's Salutation to His Auld Mare Maggy, on Giving Her a Ripp of Corn, to Hansel in the New Year

B

• Ballad on the American War
• Ballads on Mr. Heron's Election - Ballad First
• Ballads on Mr. Heron's Election - Ballad Second
• Ballads on Mr. Heron's Election - Ballad Third
• The Banks O' Doon
  • The Banks O' Doon (1st version)
  • The Banks o' Doon
  • The Banks o' Doon (Version printed in the Musical Museum)
• Bannocks O' Bear Meal
• A Bard's Epitaph
• Behold the Hour, the Boat Arrive
• Behold the Hour, the Boat, Arrive
• Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves
• Bessy and Her Spinnin' Wheel
• Beware O' Bonie Ann
• Birthday Ode for 31st December, 1787
• Blythe Hae I been on Yon Hill
• Blythe was She
• Bonie Dundee
• Bonie Jean-a Ballad
• Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay
• Bonie Peggy Alison
• The Bonnie Lass of Albanie
• Bonnie Lesley
• A Bottle and Friend
• Braving Angry Winter's Storms
• Braw Lads O' Galla Water
• The Braw Wooer
• The Brigs of Ayr
• Burlesque Lament for the Absence of William Creech, Publisher
• By Allan Stream

C

• Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes
• Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes (Second Version)
• Caledonia
• The Calf
• Canst Thou Leave Me Thus, My Katie
• The Cardin O't, The Spinnin O't
• Carle, an the King Come
• Castle Gordon
• Charlie, He's My Darling
• The Charming Month of May
• Clarinda, Mistress of My Soul
• Cock Up Your Beaver
• Come, Let Me Take Thee to My Breast
• Comin' Through the Rye
• Complimentary Epigram on Maria Riddell
• Complimentary Versicles to Jessie Lewars
• Compliments of John Syme of Ryedale
• Composed in Spring
• Contented Wi' Little and Cantie Wi' Mair
• The Cooper O' Cuddy
• The Cotter's Saturday Night
• Craigieburn Wood (1791)
• Craigieburn Wood (1795)
• Crowdie Ever Mair

D

• Dainty Davie
• Damon and Sylvia
• The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, The Author's Only Pet Yowe. An Unco Mournfu' Tale
• The Deil's awa wi' the Exciseman
• Death and Doctor Hornbook
• Delia, an Ode
• The Dean of Faculty
• A Dedication
• Deluded Swain, the Pleasure
• Despondency: An Ode
• Divine Service in the Kirk of Lamington
• Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?
• A Dream
• Down the Burn, Davie
• Duncan Davison
• Duncan Gray

E

• Election Ballad
• Election Ballad for Westerha'
• Elegy on "Stella"
• Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson
• Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux
• Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair
• Elegy on the Late Miss Burnet of Monboddo
• Elegy on the Year 1788 (1799)
• Elegy on Willie Nicol's Mare
• Epigram Addressed to an Artist
• Epigram at Brownhill Inn
• Epigram at Roslin Inn
• Epigram on a Country Laird
• Epigram on Francis Grose the Antiquary
• Epigram on Miss Davies
• Epigram on Mr. James Gracie
• Epigram on Parting with a Kind Host in the Highlands
• Epigram on Rough Roads
• Epigram on Seeing Miss Fontenelle in a Favourite Character
• Epigram on the Laird of Laggan
• Epigram on the Said Occasion (On s Henpecked Country Squire)
• Epigram to Miss Ainslie in Church
• Epigram to Miss Jean Scott
• Epigrams against the Earl of Galloway
• Epistle from Esopus to Maria
• Epistle to a Young Friend
• Epistle to Colonel De Peyster
• Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet
• Epistle to Dr. Blacklock
• Epistle to Hugh Parker
• Epistle to J. Lapraik, an Old Scottish Bard
• Epistle to James Tennant of Glenconner
• Epistle to John Goldie, in Kilmarnock
• Epistle to John Maxwell, ESQ., of Terraughty
• Epistle to John Rankine
• Epistle to Major Logan
• Epistle to Mrs. Scott
• Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry
• Epistle to the Rev. John M'math
• Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq. (1786)
• Epitaph for H - L -, Esq., of L -
• Epitaph for James Smith
• Epitaph for Mr. Gabriel Richardson
• Epitaph for Mr. W. Cruikshank
• Epitaph for Mr. Walter Riddell
• Epitaph for Mr. William Michie
• Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq.
• Epitaph for William Nicol, of the High School, Edinburgh
• Epitaph on "Wee Johnie"
• Epitaph on a Lap-Dog Named Echo
• Epitaph on a Noted Coxcomb
• Epitaph on Holy Willie
• Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper
• Epitaph on John Rankine
• Epitaph On My Ever Honoured Father (1784)
• Epitaph on Wm. Hood, Senr., in Tarbolton
• Esteem for Chloris
• Extemporaneous Effusion
• Extempore in the Court of Session
• Extempore on Some Commemorations of Thomson
• Extempore Reply to an Invitation

F

• Fairest Maid on Devon Banks
• Farewell Thou Stream
• Farewell to Ballochmyle
• Farewell to Eliza
• Fickle Fortune
• A Fiddler in the North
• The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm Versified
• The Flowery Banks of Cree
• For A' That
• For the Sake o' Somebody
• Forlorn, My Love, No Comfort Near
• The Fornicator
• Frae the Friends and Land I Love
• Fragment of Song (1786)
• Fragment of Song (1792)

G

• The Gallant Weaver
• Gloomy December
• Go On, Sweet Bird, and Sooth My Care
• The Gowden Locks o' Anna
• A Grace after Dinner, Extempore
• Grace after Meat
• Grace before and after Meat
• A Grace before Dinner, Extempore
• Green Grow the Rashes
• Gude Ale Keeps the Heart Aboon
• Gudewife, Count the Lawin

H

• Had I the Wyte? She Bade Me
• Halloween
• A Health to Ane I Loe Dear
• The Highland Balou
• The Highland Lassie
• Highland Mary
• The Highland Widow's Lament
• Holy Willie's Prayer
• How Cruel Are the Parents
• How Lang and Dreary is the Night
• The Humble Petition Of Bruar Water

I

• I Gaed a Waefu' Gate Yestreen (c.1820)
• I'll Aye Ca' in by Yon Town
• Inconstancy in Love
• Inscription
• Inscription for an Altar of Independence (1795)
• Inscription to Miss Graham of Fintry
• Inscription to Miss Jessy Lewars
• It was a' for our Rightful King
• It was upon a Lammas night

J

• Jockey's Taen the Parting Kiss
• John Anderson, My Jo
• John Barleycorn
• The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata
• The Joyful Widower

L

• Lament For James, Earl Of Glencairn (1791)
• The Lass O' Ecclefechan
• The Lass That Made the Bed to Me
• A Lass Wi' A Tocher
• Lassie Wi' the Lint-White Locks
• Lines, written at Dalnacardoch in the Highlands (1799)
• Logan Water
• The Lovely Lass O' Inverness
• The Lover's Morning Salute to His Mistress

M

• Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet
• A Man's a Man for A' That (or: Is There for Honest Poverty)
• Mark Yonder Pomp of Costly Fashion
• Mary Morison
• The Minstrel at Lincluden
• Monody on a lady Famed for Her Caprice
• A Mother's Lament For the Death of Her Son
• My Bonnie Mary (or: The Silver Tassie)
• My Love She's But a Lassie Yet
• My Mary Dear
• My Nanie, O
• My Nanie's Awa
• My Spouse Nancy

N

• A New Psalm For The Chapel Of Kilmarnock
• News, Lassies, News
• Nine Inch Will Please a Lady
• No churchman am I

O

• O Aye My Wife She Dang Me
• O Bonie Was Yon Rosy Brier
• O Lay Thy Loof In Mine, Lass
• O Let Me in Thes Ae Night
• O Steer Her Up An' Haud Her Gaun
• O That's the Lassie O' My Heart
• O Wat Ye Wha's In Yon Town
• O Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast
• Ode for General Washington's Birthday (1784)
• Of a' the Airts
• On a Swearing Coxcomb
• On Chloris Being Ill
• On James Grieve, Laird Of Boghead, Tarbolton. Epitaph (1784)
• On Mrs. Riddell's Birthday
• On The Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland
• On the Seas and Far Away
• The Ordination

P

• Philly and Willy Dialogue
• The Ploughman
• A Poet's Welcome To His Love-Begotten Daughter
• Poor Mailie's Elegy
• Prayer, In The Prospect Of Death
• Pretty Peg

R

• Raging Fortune
• Rantin' Rovin' Robin
• A Red, Red Rose
• Remorseful Apology
• The Rigs o' Barley
• A Rose-Bud By My Early Walk

S

• Saw Ye My Dear, My Philly
• Scotch Drink
• Scots Wha Hae (1793)
• She Says She Loes Me Best of A'
• Sic a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation (1791)
• The Soldier's Return (1793)
• Song (O whistle, and I'll come to ye, my lad)
• Song (Ae fond kiss)
• Song (It was upon a Lammas night)
• Song Inscribed to Alexander Cunningham
• Sonnet on the Death of Robert Riddell
• A Stanza Added In A Mason Lodge
• Sweet Afton

T

• Tam o' Shanter (1790)
• The Tear-Drop
• Their Groves O'Sweet Myrtle
• There Was a Bonie Lass - A fragment
• Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair
• This Is No My Ain Lassie
• Tho' Women's Minds
• Thou Gloomy December
• Thou Hast Left Me Ever, Jamie
• Thou ling'ring star
• A Tippling Ballad
• To a Louse
• To a Mouse
• To Mary in Heaven
• The Trogger
• The Twa Dogs
• To James Smith
• 'Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E'e

U

• Up in the morning early

V

• Verses to Collector Mitchell
• Verses, written on a Window of the Inn at Carron (1799)
• A Vision

W

• A Waukrife Minnie
• Wee Willie Gray - A fragment
• When Princes and Prelates
• Where Are the Joys I have Met?
• Why Should We Idly Waste Our Prime
• Why, Why Tell the Lover (Fragment)
• Will ye go to the Indies
• Willie Brew'd A Peck O' Maut (1789)
• Wilt Thou Be My Dearie?
• Winter: A Dirge
• A Winter Night
• The Winter of Life
• The Wren's Nest (Fragment)

Y

• Yestreen I Had a Pint o' Wine (or: The Gowden Locks o' Anna)
• Young Jamie, Pride of A' the Plain