Introductory

Song—Handsome NellSong—O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The DaySong—I Dream’d I LaySong—I Dream’d I LaySong—In The Character Of A Ruined FarmerTragic Fragment—All villain as I amThe Tarbolton LassesAh, Woe Is Me, My Mother DearSong—Montgomerie’s PeggyThe Ploughman’s Life

The Ronalds Of The BennalsSong—Here’s To Thy HealthSong—The Lass Of Cessnock BanksSong—Bonie Peggy AlisonSong—Mary Morison

Winter: A DirgeA Prayer, Under The Pressure Of Violent AnguishParaphrase Of The First PsalmThe First Six Verses Of The Ninetieth Psalm VersifiedPrayer, In The Prospect Of DeathStanzas, On The Same Occasion

1782Fickle Fortune: A FragmentSong—Raging Fortune—Fragment OfI’ll Go And Be A SodgerSong—“No Churchman Am I”My Father Was A FarmerJohn Barleycorn: A Ballad

Death And Dying Words Of Poor MailiePoor Mailie’s ElegySong—The Rigs O’ BarleySong Composed In AugustSong—My Nanie, O!Song—Green Grow The RashesSong—Wha Is That At My Bower-Door

Remorse: A FragmentEpitaph On Wm. Hood, Senr., In TarboltonEpitaph On James Grieve, Laird Of Boghead, TarboltonEpitaph On My Own Friend And My Father’s Friend, Wm. Muir In TarboltonMillEpitaph On My Ever Honoured FatherBallad On The American WarReply To An Announcement By J. RankineEpistle To John RankineA Poet’s Welcome To His Love-Begotten Daughter^1Song—O Leave Novels!The Mauchline Lady: A FragmentMy Girl She’s Airy: A FragmentThe Belles Of MauchlineEpitaph On A Noisy PolemicEpitaph On A Henpecked Country SquireEpigram On The Said OccasionAnother On The said OccasionOn Tam The ChapmanEpitaph On John RankineLines On The Author’s DeathMan Was Made To Mourn: A DirgeThe Twa Herds; Or, The Holy Tulyie

Epistle To Davie, A Brother PoetHoly Willie’s PrayerEpitaph On Holy WillieDeath and Doctor HornbookEpistle To J. Lapraik, An Old Scottish BardSecond Epistle To J. LapraikEpistle To William SimsonOne Night As I Did WanderTho’ Cruel Fate Should Bid Us PartSong—Rantin’, Rovin’ RobinElegy On The Death Of Robert RuisseauxEpistle To John Goldie, In KilmarnockThe Holy FairThird Epistle To J. LapraikEpistle To The Rev. John M’mathSecond Epistle to DavieSong—Young Peggy BloomsSong—Farewell To BallochmyleFragment—Her Flowing LocksHalloweenTo A MouseEpitaph On John Dove, InnkeeperEpitaph For James SmithAdam Armour’s PrayerThe Jolly Beggars: A CantataSong—For A’ ThatSong—Merry Hae I Been Teethin A HeckleThe Cotter’s Saturday NightAddress To The DeilScotch Drink

The Auld Farmer’s New-Year—Morning Salutation To His Auld Mare,MaggieThe Twa DogsThe Author’s Earnest Cry And PrayerThe OrdinationEpistle To James SmithThe VisionSuppressed Stanza’s Of “The Vision”The Rantin’ Dog, The Daddie O’tHere’s His Health In WaterAddress To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly RighteousThe InventoryTo John Kennedy, Dumfries HouseTo Mr. M’Adam, Of Craigen-GillanTo A LouseInscribed On A Work Of Hannah More’sSong, Composed In SpringTo A Mountain Daisy,To RuinThe LamentDespondency: An OdeTo Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, Recommending a Boy.Versified Reply To An InvitationSong—Will Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary?My Highland Lassie, OEpistle To A Young FriendAddress Of BeelzebubA DreamA Dedication To Gavin Hamilton, Esq.Versified Note To Dr. Mackenzie, MauchlineThe Farewell To the Brethren of St. James’ Lodge, Tarbolton.On A Scotch Bard, Gone To The West IndiesSong—Farewell To ElizaA Bard’s EpitaphEpitaph For Robert Aiken, Esq.Epitaph For Gavin Hamilton, Esq.Epitaph On “Wee Johnie”The Lass O’ BallochmyleLines To An Old SweetheartMotto Prefixed To The Author’s First PublicationLines To Mr. John KennedyLines Written On A BanknoteStanzas On NaethingThe FarewellThe CalfNature’s Law—A PoemSong—Willie ChalmersReply To A Trimming Epistle Received From A TailorThe Brigs Of AyrFragment Of SongEpigram On Rough RoadsPrayer—O Thou Dread PowerSong—Farewell To The Banks Of AyrAddress To The ToothacheLines On Meeting With Lord DaerMasonic SongTam Samson’s ElegyEpistle To Major LoganFragment On SensibilityA Winter NightSong—Yon Wild Mossy MountainsAddress To EdinburghAddress To A Haggis

To Miss Logan, With Beattie’s Poems, For A New-Year’s Gift, Jan. 1,1787.Mr. William Smellie—A SketchRattlin’, Roarin’ WillieSong—Bonie DundeeExtempore In The Court Of SessionInscribed Under Fergusson’s PortraitEpistle To Mrs. Scott of Wauchope-HouseVerses Intended To Be Written Below A Noble Earl’s Picture^1Prologue, Spoken by Mr. Woods at Edinburgh.Song—The Bonie Moor-HenSong—My Lord A-Hunting he is ganeEpigram At Roslin InnThe Book-WormsOn Elphinstone’s Translation Of Martial’s EpigramsSong—A Bottle And FriendLines Written Under The Picture Of The Celebrated Miss BurnsEpitaph For William Nicol, Of The High School, EdinburghEpitaph For Mr. William MichieBoat song—Hey, Ca’ Thro’Address To Wm. Tytler, Esq., Of WoodhouseleeEpigram To Miss Ainslie In ChurchBurlesque Lament For The Absence Of William Creech’ s AbsenceNote To Mr. Renton Of LamertonElegy On “Stella”The Bard At InveraryEpigram To Miss Jean ScottOn The Death Of John M’Leod, Esq,Elegy On The Death Of Sir James Hunter BlairImpromptu On Carron Iron WorksTo Miss FerrierWritten By Somebody On The Window Of an Inn at StirlingThe Poet’s Reply To The Threat Of A Censorious CriticThe Libeller’s Self-ReproofVerses Written With A Pencil at the Inn at KenmoreSong—The Birks Of AberfeldyThe Humble Petition Of Bruar WaterLines On The Fall Of Fyers Near Loch-Ness.Epigram On Parting With A Kind Host In The HighlandsSong—Strathallan’s LamentVerses on Castle GordonSong—Lady Onlie, Honest LuckySong—Theniel Menzies’ Bonie MaryThe Bonie Lass Of AlbanyOn Scaring Some Water-Fowl In Loch-TuritSong—Blythe Was SheSong—A Rose—Bud By My Early WalkEpitaph For Mr. W. CruikshankSong—The Banks Of The Devon

Song—Braving Angry Winter’s StormsSong—My Peggy’s CharmsSong—The Young Highland RoverBirthday Ode For 31st December, 1787^1On The Death Of Robert Dundas, Esq., Of Arniston,Sylvander To Clarinda

1788Song—Love In The Guise Of FriendshipSong—Go On, Sweet Bird, And Sooth My CareSong—Clarinda, Mistress Of My SoulSong—I’m O’er Young To Marry YetSong—To The Weavers Gin Ye GoSong—M’Pherson’s FarewellSong—Stay My CharmerSong—My HoggieSong—Raving Winds Around Her BlowingSong—Up In The Morning EarlySong—How Long And Dreary Is The NightSong—Hey, The Dusty MillerSong—Duncan DavisonSong—The Lad They Ca’Jumpin JohnSong—Talk Of Him That’s Far AwaSong—To Daunton MeSong—The Winter It Is PastSong—The Bonie Lad That’s Far AwaVerses To Clarinda, with Drinking GlassesSong—The Chevalier’s LamentEpistle To Hugh ParkerSong—Of A’ The Airts The Wind Can BlawSong—I Hae a Wife O’ My AinLines Written In Friars’-Carse HermitageTo Alex. Cunningham, ESQ., Writer, EdinburghSong.—Anna, Thy CharmsThe Fete ChampetreEpistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of FintrySong.—The Day ReturnsSong.—O, Were I On Parnassus HillA Mother’s LamentSong—The Fall Of The LeafSong—I Reign In Jeanie’s BosomSong—It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonie FaceSong—Auld Lang SyneSong—My Bonie MaryVerses On Aa Parting KissWritten In Friars Carse Hermitage (Second Version)The Poet’s ProgressElegy On The Year 1788The Henpecked HusbandVersicles On Sign-Posts

Robin Shure In HairstOde, Sacred To The Memory Of Mrs. Oswald Of AuchencruivePegasus At WanlockheadSappho Redivivus—A FragmentSong—She’s Fair And FauseImpromptu Lines To Captain RiddellLines To John M’Murdo, Esq. Of DrumlanrigRhyming Reply To A Note From Captain RiddellCaledonia—A BalladVerses To Miss CruickshankBeware O’ Bonie AnnOde On The Departed Regency BillEpistle To James Tennant Of GlenconnerA New Psalm For The Chapel Of KilmarnockSketch In Verse Inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox.The Wounded HareDelia, An OdeSong—The Gard’ner Wi’ His PaidleSong—On A Bank Of FlowersSong—Young Jockie Was The Blythest LadSong—The Banks Of NithSong—Jamie, Come Try MeSong—I Love My Love In SecretSong—Sweet Tibbie DunbarSong—The Captain’s LadySong—John Anderson, My JoSong—My Love, She’s But A Lassie YetSong—Tam GlenSong—Carle, An The King ComeSong—The Laddie’s Dear Sel’Song—Whistle O’er The Lave O’tSong—My Eppie AdairOn The Late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations Thro’ ScotlandEpigram On Francis Grose The AntiquaryThe Kirk Of Scotland’s AlarmSonnet to Robert Graham, Esq., On Receiving A FavourExtemporaneous Effusion On being appointed to an Excise division.Song—Willie Brew’d A Peck O’ Maut^1Song—Ca’ The Yowes To The KnowesSong—I Gaed A Waefu’ Gate YestreenSong—Highland Harry Back AgainSong—The Battle Of SherramuirSong—The Braes O’ KilliecrankieSong—Awa’ Whigs, Awa’Song—A Waukrife MinnieSong—The Captive RibbandSong—My Heart’s In The HighlandsThe Whistle—A BalladSong—To Mary In HeavenEpistle To Dr. BlacklockThe Five CarlinsElection Ballad For Westerha’Prologue Spoken At The Theatre Of Dumfries

Sketch—New Year’s Day 1790Scots’ Prologue For Mr. SutherlandLines To A Gentleman,Elegy On Willie Nicol’s MareSong—The Gowden Locks Of AnnaSong—I Murder HateSong—Gudewife, Count The LawinElection Ballad At the close of the contestfor representing the Dumfries Burghs, 1790.Elegy On Captain Matthew HendersonThe Epitaphon Captain Matthew HendersonVerses On Captain GroseTam O’ Shanter: A TaleOn The Birth Of A Posthumous ChildElegy On The Late Miss Burnet Of Monboddo

Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of SpringThere’ll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes HameSong—Out Over The ForthThe Banks O’ Doon (First Version)The Banks O’ Doon (Second Version)The Banks O’ Doon (Third Version)Lament For James, Earl Of GlencairnLines Sent To Sir John Whiteford, BartSong—Craigieburn WoodSong—The Bonie Wee ThingEpigram On Miss DaviesSong—The Charms Of Lovely DaviesSong—What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi’ An Auld ManSong—The PosieOn Glenriddell’s Fox Breaking His ChainPoem On Pastoral PoetryVerses On The Destruction Of The Woods Near DrumlanrigSong—The Gallant WeaverEpigram At Brownhill Inn^1Song—You’re Welcome, Willie StewartSong—Lovely Polly StewartSong—Fragment,—Damon And SylviaSong—Fragment—Johnie Lad, Cock Up Your BeaverSong—My Eppie MacnabSong—Fragment—Altho’ He Has Left MeSong—O For Ane An’ Twenty, TamSong—Thou Fair ElizaSong—My Bonie BellSong—Sweet AftonAddress To The Shade Of ThomsonSong—Nithsdale’s Welcome HameSong—Frae The Friends And Land I LoveSong—Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A NationSong—Ye Jacobites By NameSong—I Hae Been At CrookiedenEpistle To John Maxwell, ESQ., Of TerraughtySecond Epistle To Robert Graham, ESQ., Of FintryThe Song Of DeathPoem On SensibilityEpigram—The ToadeaterEpigram—Divine Service In The Kirk Of LamingtonEpigram—The Keekin’-GlassA Grace Before DinnerA Grace After DinnerSong—O May, Thy MornSong—Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We SeverSong—Behold The Hour, The Boat, ArriveSong—Thou Gloomy DecemberSong—My Native Land Sae Far Awa

Song—I do Confess Thou Art Sae FairLines On Fergusson, The PoetSong—The Weary Pund O’ TowSong—When She Cam’ Ben She BobbedSong—Scroggam, My DearieSong—My Collier LaddieSong—Sic A Wife As Willie HadSong—Lady Mary AnnSong—Kellyburn BraesSong—The Slave’s LamentSong—O Can Ye Labour Lea?Song—The Deuks Dang O’er My DaddieSong—The Deil’s Awa Wi’ The ExcisemanSong—The Country LassSong—Bessy And Her Spinnin’ WheelSong—Fragment—Love For LoveSong—Saw Ye Bonie LesleySong—Fragment Of SongSong—I’ll Meet Thee On The Lea RigSong—My Wife’s A Winsome Wee ThingSong—Highland MarySong—Auld Rob MorrisThe Rights Of Woman—Spoken by Miss FontenelleEpigram On Miss FontenelleExtempore On Some Commemorations Of ThomsonSong—Duncan GraySong—A Health To Them That’s AwaA Tippling Ballad—When Princes and Prelates

Song—Poortith Cauld And Restless LoveEpigram On PoliticsSong—Braw Lads O’ Galla WaterSonnet Written On The Author’s Birthday,Song—Wandering WillieWandering Willie (Revised Version)Lord Gregory: A BalladSong—Open The Door To Me, OhSong—Lovely Young JessieSong—Meg O’ The MillSong—Meg O’ The Mill (Another Version)The Soldier’s Return: A BalladEpigram—The True Loyal NativesEpigram—On Commissary Goldie’s BrainsLines Inscribed In A Lady’s Pocket AlmanacEpigram—Thanksgiving For A National VictoryEpigram—The Raptures Of FollyEpigram—Kirk and State ExcisemenExtempore Reply To An InvitationA Grace After MeatGrace Before And After MeatImpromptu On General Dumourier’s Desertion From The French RepublicanArmySong—The Last Time I Came O’er The MoorSong—Logan BraesSong—Blythe Hae I been On Yon HillSong—O Were My Love Yon Lilac FairBonie Jean—A BalladLines On John M’Murdo, ESQ.Epitaph On A Lap-DogEpigrams Against The Earl Of GallowayEpigram On The Laird Of LagganSong—Phillis The FairSong—Had I A CaveSong.—By Allan StreamSong—Whistle, And I’ll Come To You, My LadSong—Phillis The Queen O’ The FairSong—Come, Let Me Take Thee To My BreastSong—Dainty DavieSong—Robert Bruce’s March To BannockburnSong—Behold The Hour, The Boat ArriveSong—Down The Burn, DavieSong—Thou Hast Left Me Ever, JamieSong—Where Are The Joys I have Met?Song—Deluded Swain, The PleasureSong—Thine Am I, My Faithful FairImpromptu On Mrs. Riddell’s BirthdaySong—My Spouse NancyAddress Spoken by Miss FontenelleComplimentary Epigram On Maria Riddell

Remorseful ApologySong—Wilt Thou Be My Dearie?Song—A Fiddler In The NorthThe Minstrel At LincludenA VisionSong—A Red, Red RoseSong—Young Jamie, Pride Of A’ The PlainSong—The Flowery Banks Of CreeMonody On a lady famed for her Caprice.The Epitaph On the SameEpigram Pinned To Mrs. Walter Riddell’s CarriageEpitaph For Mr. Walter RiddellEpistle From Esopus To MariaEpitaph On A Noted CoxcombEpitaph On Capt. LascellesEpitaph On Wm. Graham, Esq., Of MossknoweEpitaph On John Bushby, Esq., Tinwald DownsSonnet On The Death Of Robert RiddellSong—The Lovely Lass O’ InvernessSong—Charlie, He’s My DarlingSong—Bannocks O’ Bear MealSong—The Highland BalouThe Highland Widow’s LamentSong—It Was A’ For Our Rightfu’ KingOde For General Washington’s BirthdayInscription To Miss Graham Of FintrySong—On The Seas And Far AwaySong—Ca’ The Yowes To The KnowesSong—She Says She Loes Me Best Of A’Epigram—On Miss Jessy Staig’s recovery.To The Beautiful Miss Eliza J-N On her Principles of Liberty andEquality.On Chloris Requesting me to give her a Spring of Blossomed Thorn.On Seeing Mrs. Kemble In YaricoEpigram On A Country Laird (Cardoness)Epigram on the Same Laird’s Country SeatEpigram on Dr. Babinton’s LooksEpigram On A SuicideEpigram On A Swearing CoxcombEpigram On An Innkeeper Nicknamed (The Marquis)Epigram On Andrew TurnerSong—Pretty PegEsteem For ChlorisSong—Saw Ye My Dear, My PhillySong—How Lang And Dreary Is The NightSong—Inconstancy In LoveThe Lover’s Morning Salute To His MistressSong—The Winter Of LifeSong—Behold, My Love, How Green The GrovesSong—The Charming Month Of MaySong—Lassie Wi’ The Lint-White LocksDialogue song—Philly And WillySong—Contented Wi’ Little And Cantie Wi’ MairSong—Farewell Thou StreamSong—Canst Thou Leave Me Thus, My KatieSong—My Nanie’s AwaSong—The Tear-Drop—Wae is my heartSong—For The Sake O’ Somebody

Song—A Man’s A Man For A’ ThatThe Solemn League And CovenantLines to John Syme with a Dozen of Porter.Inscription On Mr. Syme’s Crystal GobletApology To Mr. Syme For Not Dining with himEpitaph For Mr. Gabriel RichardsonEpigram On Mr. James GracieSong—Bonie Peg-a-RamsayInscription At Friars’ Carse HermitageSong—Fragment—There Was A Bonie LassSong—Fragment—Wee Willie GraySong—O Aye My Wife She Dang MeSong—Gude Ale Keeps The Heart AboonSong—O Steer Her Up An’ Haud Her GaunSong—The Lass O’ EcclefechanSong—O Let Me In Thes Ae NightSong—I’ll Aye Ca’ In By Yon TownBallads on Mr. Heron’s Election—Ballad FirstBallads on Mr. Heron’s Election—Ballad SecondBallads on Mr. Heron’s Election—Ballad ThirdInscription For An Altar Of IndependenceSong—The Cardin O’t, The Spinnin O’tSong—The Cooper O’ CuddySong—The Lass That Made The Bed To MeSong—Had I The Wyte? She Bade MeSong—Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?Song—Address To The WoodlarkSong.—On Chloris Being IllSong—How Cruel Are The ParentsSong—Yonder Pomp Of Costly FashionSong—’Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E’eSong—Their Groves O’Sweet MyrtleSong—Forlorn, My Love, No Comfort NearSong—Fragment,—Why, Why Tell The LoverSong—The Braw WooerSong—This Is No My Ain LassieSong—O Bonie Was Yon Rosy BrierSong—Song Inscribed To Alexander CunninghamSong—O That’s The Lassie O’ My Heart

Inscription to ChlorisSong—Fragment.—The Wren’s NestSong—News, Lassies, NewsSong—Crowdie Ever MairSong—Mally’s Meek, Mally’s SweetSong—Jockey’s Taen The Parting KissVerses To Collector Mitchell

The Dean Of FacultyEpistle To Colonel De PeysterSong—A Lass Wi’ A TocherSong—The Trogger.Complimentary Versicles To Jessie Lewars

Song—O Lay Thy Loof In Mine, LassSong—A Health To Ane I Loe DearSong—O Wert Thou In The Cauld BlastInscription To Miss Jessy LewarsSong—Fairest Maid On Devon BanksGlossary

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