Chapters (123)
- ROBERT BURNS HOW TO KNOW HIM
- LIST OF POEMS
- CONTENTS
- ROBERT BURNS
- CHAPTER I BIOGRAPHY
- 1. Alloway, Mount Oliphant, and Lochlea
- THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT
- HANDSOME NELL
- THE DEATH AND DYING WORDS OF POOR MAILIE, THE AUTHOR'S ONLY PET YOWE
- POOR MAILIE'S ELEGY
- MARY MORISON
- MY NANNIE O
- THE RIGS O' BARLEY
- 2. Mossgiel
- A PRAYER IN THE PROSPECT OF DEATH
- THE POET'S WELCOME TO HIS LOVE-BEGOTTEN DAUGHTER
- WILL YE GO TO THE INDIES, MY MARY?
- THE GLOOMY NIGHT
- ON A SCOTCH BARD, GONE TO THE WEST INDIES
- 3. Edinburgh
- AE FOND KISS
- MY NANNIE'S AWA
- CLARINDA
- 4. Ellisland
- I HAE A WIFE
- 5. Dumfries
- CHAPTER II INHERITANCE: LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
- GO FETCH TO ME A PINT O' WINE
- CHAPTER III BURNS AND SCOTTISH SONG
- AULD LANG SYNE
- MY LOVE IS LIKE A RED RED ROSE
- YESTREEN I HAD A PINT O' WINE
- OF A' THE AIRTS
- O THIS IS NO MY AIN LASSIE
- POORTITH CAULD
- MY WIFE'S A WINSOME WEE THING
- HIGHLAND MARY
- TO MARY IN HEAVEN
- CA' THE YOWES (Second Version)
- AFTON WATER
- THE BLUE-EYED LASSIE
- BONNIE LESLEY
- LASSIE WI' THE LINT-WHITE LOCKS
- MONTGOMERIE'S PEGGY
- THE LEA-RIG
- AULD ROB MORRIS
- O, WERT THOU IN THE CAULD BLAST
- GREEN GROW THE RASHES
- THERE WAS A LAD
- CONTENTED WI' LITTLE
- MY FATHER WAS A FARMER
- O FOR ANE AN' TWENTY, TAM!
- YE BANKS AND BRAES (Second Version)
- (Third Version)
- SIMMER'S A PLEASANT TIME
- WHISTLE, AND I'LL COME TO YE, MY LAD
- TAM GLEN
- THE RANTIN' DOG THE DADDIE O'T
- LAST MAY A BRAW WOOER
- FOR THE SAKE O' SOMEBODY
- OPEN THE DOOR TO ME, O!
- WANDERING WILLIE
- HOW LANG AND DREARY
- THE BONNIE LAD THAT'S FAR AWA
- BRAW BRAW LADS
- MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS
- WHAT CAN A YOUNG LASSIE
- TO DAUNTON ME
- I'M OWRE YOUNG TO MARRY YET
- MY LOVE SHE'S BUT A LASSIE YET
- BESSY AND HER SPINNIN'-WHEEL
- JOHN ANDERSON, MY JO
- THE WEARY PUND O' TOW
- O MERRY HAE I BEEN
- HAD I THE WYTE?
- MACPHERSON'S FAREWELL
- THE HIGHLAND BALOU
- DUNCAN GRAY
- DUNCAN DAVISON
- THE DE'IL'S AWA WI' TH' EXCISEMAN
- COMIN' THROUGH THE RYE
- THE DEUK'S DANG O'ER MY DADDIE
- WHA IS THAT AT MY BOWER DOOR?
- WILLIE'S WIFE
- A MAN'S A MAN FOR A' THAT
- SCOTS, WHA HAE ROBERT BRUCE'S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY, BEFORE THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN
- IT WAS A' FOR OUR RIGHTFU' KING
- COME BOAT ME O'ER TO CHARLIE
- THE HIGHLAND LADDIE
- BANNOCKS O' BARLEY
- KENMURE'S ON AND AWA
- THERE'LL NEVER BE PEACE TILL JAMIE COMES HAME
- I HAE BEEN AT CROOKIEDEN
- CHARLIE HE'S MY DARLING
- CHAPTER IV SATIRES AND EPISTLES
- HOLY WILLIE'S PRAYER
- ADDRESS TO THE UNCO GUID, OR THE RIGIDLY RIGHTEOUS
- TO THE REV. JOHN M'MATH
- EPISTLE TO DAVIE, A BROTHER POET
- EPISTLE TO A YOUNG FRIEND
- ON JOHN DOVE, INNKEEPER
- CHAPTER V DESCRIPTIVE AND NARRATIVE POETRY
- HALLOWEEN[4]
- FOOT-NOTES TO HALLOWEEN
- THE TWA DOGS
- THE HOLY FAIR
- WILLIE BREW'D A PECK O' MAUT
- THE JOLLY BEGGARS A Cantata
- TAM O' SHANTER A Tale
- TO A MOUSE, ON TURNING HER UP IN HER NEST WITH THE PLOUGH, NOVEMBER, 1785
- TO A LOUSE On Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet at Church
- TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY On Turning One Down With a Plough in April, 1786
- THE AULD FARMER'S NEW-YEAR MORNING SALUTATION TO HIS AULD MARE, MAGGIE.
- ADDRESS TO THE DEIL
- DEATH AND DOCTOR HORNBOOK
- TAM SAMSON'S ELEGY
- ELEGY ON CAPT. MATTHEW HENDERSON, A Gentleman Who Held the Patent for His Honours Immediately From Almighty God
- SCOTCH DRINK
- TO A HAGGIS
- A BARD'S EPITAPH
- CHAPTER VI CONCLUSION
- THE END
- INDEX
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