The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by John Fawside, etc

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The Poetical Works of Robert Burns This edition claims to be one of the most complete yet issued. While not neglecting other sources of information, the editor is chiefly indebted to the editions of Cunningham, Alexander Smith, and G. A. Aitken. Some unauthenticated pieces have been retained, but infor mation respecting them will be found in the "Memoranda." Instead of disfiguring the page with elaborate foot-notes, it has been thought preferable to place such of these, as seemed necessary, at the end of volume : a course which the editor hopes will commend itself to the majority of readers. This edition claims to be one of the most complete yet issued. While not neglecting other sources of information, the editor is chiefly indebted to the editions of Cunningham, Alexander Smith, and G. A. Aitken.

Some unauthenticated pieces have been retained, but infor mation respecting them will be found in the "Memoranda." Instead of disfiguring the page with elaborate foot-notes, it has been thought preferable to place such of these, as seemed necessary, at the end of volume: a course which the editor hopes will commend itself to the majority of readers. ROBERT BURNS Frontispiece. THE POETICAL WORKS OF Robert Burns Edited by JOHN FAWSIDE With a Frontispiece by ALEXANDER NASMYTH LONDON BLISS, SANDS AND FOSTER MDCCCXCVI CONTENTS. PACK Chronology of Burns' Life and Works . . . . . 13 Prefaoe to the First, or Kilmarnock, Edition . . . .19 Dedication to the Second, or Edinburgh, Edition . . . . 21 poems. PAGE The Court of Equity . . .122 The Farewell . . . .124 Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous . . . 125 Nature's Law.

A Poem, humbly inscribed to Gavin Hamilton, Esq. . 127 The Author's earnest Cry and Prayer to the Scotch Representatives in the House of Commons . . 128 To a Mountain Daisy . . 133 Lines to Miss Cruickshank . -134 Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn 135 To a Mouse, on turning her up in her Nest with the Plough . -137 The Poet's welcome to his Illegitimate Child . . . . . 138 Lines on scaring some Water-fowl in Loch-Turit . . . .139 A Dream . ... 140 The Lament, occasioned by the un- • fortunate issue of a Friend's Amour 144 Verses to an old Sweetheart . .146 A Mother's Lament for the Death of her Son . . . . 146 Verses written under violent Grief . 147 A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq. 147 Ode to Ruin . . . . 150 A Prayer in the Prospect of Death . 151 Stanzas on the same occasion . .152 A Prayer, left at a Reverend Friend's House . . . . 152 The First Psalm . . .153 The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm . . . 154 A Prayer under the pressure of violent Anguish . . . .154 PAGE Tam o' Shanter.