The Poetical Works of Robert Burns

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THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS. Frontispiece, Bum's Poems, THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS LONDON : RICHARD EDWARD KING, 88, Curtain Road, E.C. LONDON : PRINTED BY RICHARD EDWARD KINO, CURTAIN ROAD, E.O. CONTENTS. 'AGE | -FAGB The Ordination • • • • • 85 2HTRODUCTORY B.OGRAPJTY ... I Scotch Drink ...... 87 The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer to Poems ... . , . . . 41 the Scotch Representatives in the House of Commons . . ... .89 Winter, a Dirge .... 41 The Cotter's Saturday Night ... 92 Tragic Fragment 42 Address to the De'il 97 The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailic 42 The Twa Dogs, a Tale . . . .99 Despondency, an Ode .... 102 The Vision 103 Poor Maiiie's Elegy. . • • 43 John Barleycorn, a Ballad ... 44 Halloween 107 A Prayer, under the Pressure of Violent Anguish 45 Man was Made to Mourn, a Dirge. . >« The Inventory 113 A Prayer in the Prospect of Death. . 45 Epistle to John Goudie, Kilmarnock, on the Publication of his Essays . . 114 Stanzas on the same Occasion ... 46 The First Psalm 46 Answer to a Poetical Epistle from a Tailor . . . l . . . 115 The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm 47 Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous . ... 116 Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet . . 47 The Auld Farmer's New-Year Morning Salutation to his Auld Mare Maggie . 49 To a Mountain Daisy _. 117 Second Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet 1x8 A Winter Night 51 Elegy on the Death of Rot ert Ruisseaux 119 The Poet's Welcome to his Illegitimate Child 53 To -Miss Cruikshank .... 119 Epistle to Gavin Hamilton, Esq., recommending a Boy 120 Epistle to John Rankine, enclosing some Poems 53 Epistle to a Young Friend . . . 120 To a Louse 122 Death and Doctor Hornbook . . ■ 55 The Twa Herds ; or.

The Holy Tulzie . 5/ A Bard's Epitaph 122 Holy Willie's Prayer .... 59 A Dream "3 Epitaph on Holy Willie . • • • 61 The Farewell "S The Holy Fair 61 Verses left in the Room where the Poet Slept one Night at a Reverend Friend's House '26 Epistle to John Lapraik • • 65 Second Epistle to John Lapraik • • 67 To William Simpson, Ochiltrce ■ . 68 A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq; . 126 The Lament "8 Third Epistle to John Lapraik . . 71 Epistle to the Rev. John M'Math . . 72 To Ruin 129 Epistle to Mr. M'Adam, of Craigengillan 74 Lines Written on a Bank-Note . . 130 The Jolly Beggars, a Cantata ... 74 On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies '3° To a Mouse 80 Letter to James Tennant of Glenconner. 8i To an Old Sweetheart after her Mar- On the Birth of a Posthumous Child . • 82 riage I3Z Epistle to James Smith .... 83 Th« Calf I3t VI CONTENTS.

PAGE Tam Samson's Elegy , . 132 The Brigs of Ayr 134 Lines on Meeting with Lord Daer . . 139 Epistle to Major William Logan . . 140 - Address to Edinburgh . . . .141 On Willie Chalmers . . . . .142 To Miss Logan, with Beattie's Poems, as a New- Year's Gift, January 1, 1787 . 143 The American War, a Fragment . . 143 The Dean of Faculty, a New Ballad . 144 Lines under the Portrait of Fergusson . 145 Sketch of a Character .... 145 To Mrs. Scott of Wauchope . . .145 Prologue, Spoken by Mr. Woods on his Benefit Night, Monday, April 16, 1787 147 Epistle to William Creech . . .148 On Scaring some Water-Fowl in Loch- Turit . . . • . . . .149 Lines Written with a Pencil over the Chimney-Piece in the Parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth . . 149 The Hermit 150 The Humble Petition of Bruar Water, to the Noble Duke of Athole . . 151 Written with a Pencil, standing by the Fall of Fyers, near Loch-Ness . . 152 Poetical Address to Mr. William Tytler. 153 Elegy on the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq., of Arniston 153 To a Haggis I55 Verses on Reading in a Newspaper the Death of John M'Leod, Esq. . . 155 To Clarinda je6 To Clarinda, with a Present of a Pair of Drinking-Glasses jeg To Clarinda Tcj To Clarinda jg- Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair 2g7 Written in Friars-Carse Hermitage, on Nith-side .