Robert Burns (1759-1796). The Rating of Poems



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	Robert Burns (1759-1796) The Rating of Robert Burns's Poems My Heart's in the Highlands A Red, Red Rose A Man's a Man for A' That Auld Lang Syne The First Kiss at Parting John Barleycorn A Winter Night Ae Fond Kiss Winter Scots Wha Hae Tam O'Shanter Address to a Haggis Scotch Drink A Dream The Soldier's Return To a Mouse, on Turning Up Her Nest With the Plough Halloween The Jolly Beggars John Anderson The Twa Dogs Fareweel To A'Our Scottish Fame To a Louse For the Sake of Somebody The Selkirk Grace To a Mountain Daisy, On Turning One Down With The Plough, In April, 1786 Raging Fortune Macpherson�s Farewell Epithalamium Address to the Deil Address to Edinburgh Lord Gregory A Bottle and Friend Nature�s Law Jean Poortith Cauld Address to the Toothache A Rose-Bud by My Early Walk The Vision Count the Lawin Sweetest May Willie Brewed The Ploughman's Life The Author�s Earnest Cry and Prayer to the Scotch Representatives in the House of Commons The Lass That Made the Bed to Me A Vision �O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast�� The Tree of Liberty Wha Is That At My Bower Door? Afton Water The Cotter�s Saturday Night Duncan Gray Lines New-Year Day �O Whistle, and I�ll Come to You, My Lad�� A Farewell O Aye My Wife She Dang Me The Farewell (Farewell, old Scotia�s bleak domains) To an Artist Ye Banks and Braes The Birks of Aberfeldy My Harry Was a Gallant Gay O Mally�s Meek, Mally�s Sweet The Holy Fair Answer to Verses Addressed to the Poet by the Guidwipe of Wauchope-House My Father Was a Farmer A Bard's Epitaph There Was a Lass, They Ca'd Her Meg Holy Willie's Prayer The Heron Ballads. First Ballad A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq. Highland Mary The Battle of Sherramuir My Hoggie I Hae a Wife Country Lassie Despondency Man Was Made To Mourn Farewell to Eliza The Book-Worms Epistle to a Young Friend The Poet�s Welcome to His Love-Begotten Daughter Wandering Willie There Was a Bonnie Lass In Vain Would Prudence As I Was a Wandering Epitaph on the Poet�s Daughter How Cruel are the Parents Elegy On The Death of Peg Nicholson The Twa Herds The Brigs of Ayr On Seeing a Wounded Hare Limp by Me, Which a Fellow Had Just Shot at The Rights of Woman Inscription on the Tombstone Erected By Burns To The Memory Of Gergusson The Sailor�s Song My Bottle Libertie Poverty The Lazy Mist I Burn, I Burn On a Friend To James Smith On Stirling A Jeremiad The Lament A Prayer in the Prospect of Death Dainty Davie Lament of Mary Queen of Scots The Gloomy Night �Green Grow the Rashes O�� Gloomy December Willie Chalmers To the Woodlark Hey For a Lass Wi� a Tocher The Toadeater My Lady�s Gown There�s Gairs Upon�t To Mary in Heaven Thou Hast Left Me Ever, Jamie Yon Wild Mossy Mountains Banks of Devon Ye Jacobites by Name O Guid Ale Comes �Go Fetch to Me a Pint o' Wine...� Sonnet on Hearing a Thrush Sing in a Morning Walk in January Hey, the Dusty Miller A Sonnet Upon Sonnets To Alex Cunningham, Esq., Writer Ca� the Yowes On the Seas and Far Away Epigram on Said Occasion Though Fickle Fortune Gude Wallace O Tibbie, I Hae Seen the Day The Auld Farmer�s New-Year Morning Salutation to His Auld Mare Maggie The Deil�s awa� wi� the Exciseman The Collier Laddie Lines Written on a Pane of Glass in the Inn at Noffat A Mother�s Lament for the Death of Her Son Written with a Pencil, Standing by the Fall of Fyers, Near Loch-Ness On Seeing Miss Fontenelle in a Favourite Character The Henpeck�d Husband Mary Morison A Grace Before Dinner On Hearing that there was Falsehood in the Reverend Doctor Babington�s Very Looks Here�s a Health To Them That�s Awa Epigram on the Roads between Kilmarnock and Stewarton �Twas Na Her Bonnie Blue Ee The Calf Willie's Wife Epigram (�When �� , deceased, to the devil went down��) Musing on the Roaring Ocean On Seeing the Hon. Wm. R. Maule of Panmure Driving away in His Fine and Elegant Phaeton on the Race Ground at Tinwald Downs, October, 1794 Had I a Cave To John Taylor Bonnie Bell The Gallant Weaver The Whistle On the Late Captain Grose�s Peregrinations Damon and Sylvia Louis, What Reck I by Thee? To Ruin On Seeing the Beautiful Seat of Lord Galloway Now Westlin Winds Inscription for an Altar to Independence, at Kerroughtry, Seat of Mr. Heron, Written in Summer, 1795 Epigram on a Noted Coxcomb The Belles of Mauchline Meg o� the Mill Husband, Husband, Cease Your Strife O, for ane an� Twenty, Tam! Verses Written on a Window of the Inn at Carron Deluded Swain Coming Through the Rye The Banks of Nith (To thee, lov�d Nith, thy gladsome plains) The Kirk of Lamington Heres�s To Thy Health, My Bonnie Lass! Jockey�s Ta�en the Parting Kiss O Why the Deuce Epitaph on a Suicide Lines Written on a Bank-Note The Slave�s Lament My Peggy�s Face The Winter It Is Past Epitaph on Wee Johnny Tam Glen O Wat Ye What My Minnie Did On Sensibility The Caird�s Second Song The Blude Red Rose at Yule May Blaw Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet Epitaph on a Henpecked Country Squire Epitaph on a Shoolmaster. In Cleish Parish, Kinross-Shire I Do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair Reply to the Minister of Gladsmuir On Highland Hospitality A Poetical Epistle to a Tailor Last May a Braw Wooer The Highland Laddie Naething (Probably Addressed to Gavin Hamilton, 1786) On Creech the Bookseller O Leave Novels Letter to John Goudie, Kilmarnock, on the Publication of His Essays Here Stewarts Once In Triumph Reigned Sent to a Gentleman whom He had Offended O Lassie, Art Thou Sleeping Yet? Written on the Blank Leaf of the Last Edition of his Poems Epitaph on James Grieve, Laird of Boghead Epistle to Hugh Parker The Captain�s Lady On Andrew Turner Epitaph on Holy Willie To William Simpson When I Think on the Happy Days Written on the Blank Leaf of a Copy of the First Edition of his Poems, Presented to an Old Sweetheart, then Married To the Beautiful Eliza J �� n The Lass o� Ballochmyle On Maria Dancing Epitaph on My Father On a Certain Commemoration An Excellent New Song. Fourth Ballad (May 1796) Impromptu, on Mrs. Riddel�s Birthday, in November The Following Poem was Written to a Gentleman who had Sent him a Newspaper, and Offered to Continue it Free of Expense Prologue for Mr. Sutherland�s Benefit-Night, Dumfries Ye Sons of Old Killie. A Masonic Song Ye Hae Lien A� Wrang, Lassie Prayer for Mary On Commissary Goldie�s Brains Tho� Cruel Fate An� O! My Eppie Address to the Unco Guid, Or the Rigidly Righteous The Inventory Thanksgiving for Victory Song of Death Rattlin�, Roarin� Willie To the Rev. John M�Math On Being Shewn a Beautiful Country Seat To Mr. Syme, with a Present of a Dozen of Porter Another Epigram Logan Braes A Fragment (�No cold approach, no altered mien��) Poor Mailie�s Elegy Bonnie Lesley My Nannie's Awa My Nannie O There Came a Piper out o� Fife Let Not Woman E�er Complain The Tither Morn Epigram on Elphinstone�s Translation of Martial�s Epigrams Will Ye Go to the Indies, My Mary Inscribed on a Tavern Window Does Haughty Gaul On a Scotch Bard, Gone to the West Indies Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair Lines Inscribed on a Platter Fragmentary Verses. 3. �He looks as sign-board Lions do�� Landlady, Count the Lawin The Fête Champêtre Adam Armour�s Prayer Epistle from Esopus to Maria To Dr. Blacklock Lines Written on a Window, at the King�s Arms Tavern, Dumfries On Scaring Some Water Fowl In Loch-Turit, a Wild Scene Among the Hills of Ochtertyre On the Death of a Lap-dog: Named Echo To Captain Riddel, Glenriddel Addressed to a Lady Whom the Author Feared He Had Offended The Election. Second Ballad The Recovery of Miss Jessy Lewars Inscription on a Goblet Come Boat Me O�er to Charlie Jamie, Come Try Me The Mauchline Wedding On a Country Laird On Pastoral Poetry But Lately Seen Extempore. On Passing a Lady�s Carriage Lines under the Picture of Miss Burns The Toast A Toast Given at a Meeting of the Dumfries-shire Volunteers, Held to Commemorate the Anniversary of Rodney�s Victory, April 12, 1782 She�s Fair and Fause Scroggam Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux Auld Rob Morris Elegy on the Year 1788 To a Lady who Was Looking up the Text during Sermon Prologue, Spoken by Mr. Woods, on His Benefit-Night, Monday, April 16. 1787 No Churchman am I On Lord Galloway (�No Stewart art thou, Galloway...�) The Solemn League and Covenant Grace before Meat Another (�Lord, we thank an� thee adore�) The Tailor Fell Thro� the Bed... Epigram on Captain Francis Grose, the Celebrated Antiquary Young Jockey The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, The Author�s Only Pet Yowe O Lay Thy Loof in Mine, Lass Lines Written and Presented to Mrs. Kemble, on Seeing her in the Character of Yarico in the Dumfies Theatre, 1794 The Highland Widow�s Lament Tragic Fragment There Was a Lass, and She Was Fair Verses on the Destruction of the Woods near Drumlanrig Epistle to Major Logan On Wm. Graham, Esq., of Mossknowe Epitaph on William Nicol, of the High School, Edinburgh Elegy on Capt. Matthew Henderson Epitaph on a Celebrated Ruling Elder O Gie My Love Brose, Brose Fragmentary Verses. 2. �A head pure, sinless quite, of brain or soul...� Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq On Himself (�Here comes Burns...�) Another (�O Lord, since we have feasted thus�) Second Epistle To Davie On Glenriddell�s Fox Breaking His Chain The Kirk�s Alarm Captain Grose Then Know this Truth, Ye Sons of Men! On Johnson�s Opinion of Hampden Additional Stanzas to a Song Written by Clarinda To Dr. Maxwell, on Miss Jessy Staig�s Recovery Sketch Epistle to John Rankine On Miss J. Scott, of Ayr Epitaph on Miss Jessy Lewars Sonnet on the Death of Robert Riddel, Esq. of Glenriddel To Mr. Gow, Visiting Dumfries Sir John Cope Trode the North Right Far Epistle to Colonel de Peyster Epitaph on Walter Riddell Wae Is My Heart To John M�Murdo, Esq. �It was a� for Our Rightfu� King�� Remorse Tibbie Dunbar The Lovely Lass of Inverness The Dean of Faculty �Contented wi� Little�� Whare Hae Ye Been? Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn Letter to James Tennant of Glenconner To Terraughty, on His Birthday To Robert Graham, Esq. of Fintry, on Receiving a Favour Lines Written on a Tumbler Extempore in the Court of Session The Last Braw Bridal That I Was at Awa, Whigs Lines Written Extempore in a Lady's Pocket-Book [Miss Kennedy, Sister-in-Law of Gavin Gamilton] Epistle to Mr. M'Adam, of Craigen-Gillan Epitaph on John Bushby, Writer, Dumfries �Open the Door to Me, Oh!� On Robert Riddell Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic Impromptu (�How daur ye ca� me howlet-face...�) Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry on the Close of the Disputed Election between Sir James Johnstone and Captain Millier, for the Dumfries District of Boroughs Monody on a Lady Famed for her Caprice Third Epistle to J. Lapraik To Mr. John Kennedy Sketch Inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox The Tailor Jenny M�Craw, She Has Ta�en to the Heather To Miss Cruikshank Epitaph on a Wag in Mauchline Address to the Shade of Thomson, on Crowning His Bust at Ednam, Roxburgh-Shire, with Bays On the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq On Maria (�Praise Woman still,� his lordship roars�) The Farewell. To the Brethren of St. James�s Lodge, Tarbolton Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper, Mauchline Had I the Wyte On the Author Being Threatened with His Resentment Address, Spoken by Miss Fontenelle, on Her Benefit-night, December 4, 1793, at the Theatre, Dumfries Lying at a Reverend Friend�s House One Night The Tarbolton Lasses (�In Tarbolton ken, there are proper young men��) On Mr. W. Cruikshank of the High School, Edinburgh I�ll Aye Ca� in by Yon Town Lines on an Interview with Lord Daer On a Request of Chloris Polly Stewart On the Birth of a Posthumous Child, Born in Peculiar Circumstances of Family Distress The Tarbolton Lasses (�If �e gae up to yon hill-tap��) Fragment of an Ode to the Memory of Prince Charles Edward Stuart The Carle of Kellyburn Braes On a Swearing Coxcomb To Miss Ferrier, Enclosing Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair Poem, Addressed to Mr. Mitchell, Collector of Excise, Dumfries Epistle to Robert Graham of Fintry Extempore to Mr. Syme, on Refusing to Dine with Him, after Having Been Promised the First of Company, and the First of Cookery To*** (�Sir, Yours this moment I unseal��) To Miss Logan, with Beattie�s Poems, for a New Year�s Gift Verses Written under the Portrait of Fergusson Epigram Written at Inverary Epitaph on Gabriel Richardson There�s a Youth in This City John Bushby�s Lamentation. Third Ballad Tam the Chapman On Mr. M�Murdo, Chamberlain to the Duke of Queensberry The Deuk�s Dang O�er My Daddies To Mr. Renton, Berwick On Miss Jessy Lewars Prologue, Spoken at the Theatre, Dumfries, on New Year�s Day Evening [1790] Epigram. Immediate Extempore on being Told by W. L. of the Customs Dublin that Com Goldie did not Seem Disposed to Push the Bottle O Can Ye Labour Lea, Young Man Lines on Being Told that the Above Verses Would Affect his Prospects Verses to J. Rankine Strathallan�s Lament On James Gracie Dean of Guild for Dumfries To a Lady, with a Present of a Pair of Drinking Glasses Grace after Meat When Guildford Good Our Pilot Stood Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry (Late crippl�d of an arm...) Fragmentary Verses. 1. �His face with smile eternal drest�� On Edmund Burke by an Opponent and a Friend to Warren Hastings Fragment �Now health forsakes that angel face�� Verses Addressed to J. Rankine I Met a Lass, a Bonnie Lass On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq. Lines Written at Loudon Manse Lines Sent to Sir John Whiteford, of Whiteford, Bart To Mr. Mackenzie, Surgeon, Mauchline Poetical Address to Mr. William Tytler, With the Present of the Poet�s Picture Written with a Pencil over the Chimney-piece in the Parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth The Death of John M�Leod, Esq Extempore, on Mr. William Smellie, Author of the Philosophy of Natural History, and Member of the Antiquarian and Royal Societies of Edinburgh Epitaph on a Person Nicknamed �The Marquis,� Who Desired Burns to Write One on Him Extemporaneous Effusion, on being Appointed to the Excise Impromptu on an Innkeeper Named Bacon, Who Intruded Himself Into All Companies �There�ll Never be Peace till Jamie Comes Hame�� Epitaph for J--- H--- Written in Air To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, Recommending A Boy Reply to a Note from Capt. Riddell Lines Supposed to Have Been Written by Burns, and Forwarded to John Rankine, Ayrshire, Immediately after the Poet�s Decease Extempore Lines, in Answer to a Card from an Intimate Friend of Burns, Wishing Him to Spend an Hour at a Tavern Elegy on the Late Miss Burnet, of Monboddo Kenmure�s on and awa Written on a Blank Leaf of One of Miss Hannah More�s Works, Which a Lady Had Given Him Epitaph on Robert Muir On Chloris Being Ill Death and Doctor Hornbook Ah, Chloris Rantin', Rovin' Robin The Joyful Widower Evan Banks O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair The Weary Pund O� tow Sae Fair Her Hair O, Once I Lov�d a Bonnie Lass Bonnie Ann Verses Intended to be Written Below a Noble Earl�s Picture The Rigs O� Barley Young Peggy Robin Shure in Hairst Lassie Wi� the Lint-white Locks The Cooper O� Cuddle Hee Balou Wee Willie Gray I�m Owre Young to Marry Yet Elegy On Stella Where Are the Joys Adown Winding Nith O Saw Ye My Dear Raving Winds around Her Blowing Verses Written under Violent Grief Peggy�s Charms The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm Lines Written in Friars-Carse Hermitage The First Psalm The Heather Was Blooming Sweet Fa�s the Eve Phillis the Fair The Ploughman Bannocks o� Barley Charming Month of May O, Were I on Parnassus� Hill! A Prayer, under the Pressure of Violent Anguish Lady Onlie On Cessnock Banks Whan I Sleep I Dream Cock Up Your Beaver By Allan Stream Here�s His Health in Water! To a Young Lady, Miss Jessy Lewars, Dumfries, with Books which the Bard Presented her I Dream�d I Lay Where Flowers Were Springing Now Spring Has Clad Address to Beelzebub Wilt Thou Be My Dearie? Come, Let Me Take Thee Caledonia When First I Saw O Whare Bid Ye Get Blithe Hae I Been on Yon Hill My Heart Was Ance To the Same Her Daddie Forbad There�s News, Lasses The Day Returns Frae the Friends and Land I Love Verses to a Young Lady, Miss Graham of Fintry, with a Present of Songs Montgomerie�s Peggy Lady Mary Ann Stanzas on the Same Occasion The Cardin� O�t Katharine Jaffray Sae Far Awa Address to General Dumourier Amang the Trees Whistle Owre the Lave O�t O Bonnie Was Yon Rosy Brier On a Bank of Flowers Young Jamie, Pride of A� the Plain Peg-A-Ramsey Goode�en to You, Kimmer I Gaed a Waefu' Gate Yestreen How Lang and Dreary The Carles of Dysart O, Wat Ye Wha�s In Yon Town? Tam Samson�s Elegy The Bonnie Lass of Albany Weary Fa� You, Duncan Gray The Ordination Theniel Menzies� Bonnie Mary The Humble Petition of Bruar Water O Steer Her Up Bonnie Peg As Down the Burn They Took Their Way Stay My Charmer Sae Flaxen Were Behold the Hour Could Aught of Song O That I Had Ne�er Been Married Eppie M�Nab O Wha is She that Lo�es Me? The Highland Lassie When First I Came to Stewart Kyle Craigieburn Wood Epistle to John Lapraix, An Old Scottish Bard Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald My Chloris Lovely Davies The Lass of Ecclefechan Out Over The Forth Why, Why Tell Thy Lover? Young Highland Rover Mark Yonder Pomp Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns My Wife�s a Winsome Wee Thing The Posies Canst Thou Leave Me Thus? Nithsdale�s Welcome Hame The Chevalier�s Lament Forlorn, my Love I See a Form, I See a Face Their Groves O� sweet Myrtle Bessy and Her Spinnin� Wheel One Night as I did Wander The Rantin� Dog the Daddie O�t Farewell to Ballochmyle Gala Water Simmer�s a Pleasant Time Fairest Maid on Devon Banks The Bonnie Wee Thing Farewell, Thou Stream Castle Gordon The Flowery Banks of Cree The Banks of Nith (THE THAMES flows proudly to the sea) Blythe Was She It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonnie Face Sleep�st Thou, or Wak�st Thou All Poems 85620 Views Last Poems To Russian version


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