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 The First Kiss at Parting Auld Lang Syne John Barleycorn A Winter Night Ae Fond Kiss Winter Scots Wha Hae Tam O'Shanter Address to a Haggis Scotch Drink The Soldier's Return A Dream 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 To a Mountain Daisy, On Turning One Down With The Plough, In April, 1786 Raging Fortune Epithalamium The Selkirk Grace Address to the Deil Address to Edinburgh Nature�s Law Lord Gregory A Bottle and Friend Macpherson�s Farewell Jean Poortith Cauld The Vision Count the Lawin Address to the Toothache A Rose-Bud by My Early Walk The Ploughman's Life Willie Brewed Sweetest May The Author�s Earnest Cry and Prayer to the Scotch Representatives in the House of Commons A Vision The Lass That Made the Bed to Me The Tree of Liberty The Cotter�s Saturday Night Afton Water Duncan Gray Wha Is That At My Bower Door? New-Year Day �O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast�� Lines The Farewell (Farewell, old Scotia�s bleak domains) O Aye My Wife She Dang Me A Farewell Ye Banks and Braes Answer to Verses Addressed to the Poet by the Guidwipe of Wauchope-House To an Artist My Hoggie There Was a Lass, They Ca'd Her Meg The Birks of Aberfeldy The Battle of Sherramuir The Holy Fair My Father Was a Farmer �O Whistle, and I�ll Come to You, My Lad�� A Bard's Epitaph O Mally�s Meek, Mally�s Sweet Holy Willie's Prayer My Harry Was a Gallant Gay A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq. The Heron Ballads. First Ballad I Hae a Wife Despondency Country Lassie Highland Mary Man Was Made To Mourn In Vain Would Prudence Farewell to Eliza The Poet�s Welcome to His Love-Begotten Daughter The Book-Worms Epistle to a Young Friend How Cruel are the Parents As I Was a Wandering Elegy On The Death of Peg Nicholson Wandering Willie There Was a Bonnie Lass Epitaph on the Poet�s Daughter On Seeing a Wounded Hare Limp by Me, Which a Fellow Had Just Shot at The Twa Herds The Rights of Woman Inscription on the Tombstone Erected By Burns To The Memory Of Gergusson I Burn, I Burn The Brigs of Ayr Libertie To James Smith The Gloomy Night The Lament Poverty On a Friend To the Woodlark The Lazy Mist My Bottle Lament of Mary Queen of Scots A Jeremiad The Sailor�s Song Dainty Davie Gloomy December Willie Chalmers On Stirling A Prayer in the Prospect of Death Hey For a Lass Wi� a Tocher My Lady�s Gown There�s Gairs Upon�t Yon Wild Mossy Mountains Thou Hast Left Me Ever, Jamie To Mary in Heaven Sonnet on Hearing a Thrush Sing in a Morning Walk in January Ye Jacobites by Name �Green Grow the Rashes O�� O Guid Ale Comes Though Fickle Fortune Bonnie Bell Written with a Pencil, Standing by the Fall of Fyers, Near Loch-Ness Coming Through the Rye �Go Fetch to Me a Pint o' Wine...� On the Seas and Far Away Gude Wallace A Sonnet Upon Sonnets The Calf To Alex Cunningham, Esq., Writer �Twas Na Her Bonnie Blue Ee The Collier Laddie The Toadeater Ca� the Yowes The Henpeck�d Husband The Auld Farmer�s New-Year Morning Salutation to His Auld Mare Maggie Here�s a Health To Them That�s Awa O Tibbie, I Hae Seen the Day Epigram on Said Occasion Hey, the Dusty Miller Banks of Devon On Seeing Miss Fontenelle in a Favourite Character The Deil�s awa� wi� the Exciseman A Mother�s Lament for the Death of Her Son A Grace Before Dinner Epigram on the Roads between Kilmarnock and Stewarton To John Taylor On the Late Captain Grose�s Peregrinations The Whistle The Gallant Weaver Mary Morison 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 Louis, What Reck I by Thee? Lines Written on a Pane of Glass in the Inn at Noffat To Ruin Inscription for an Altar to Independence, at Kerroughtry, Seat of Mr. Heron, Written in Summer, 1795 Epigram (�When �� , deceased, to the devil went down��) Musing on the Roaring Ocean Had I a Cave Willie's Wife The Belles of Mauchline On Seeing the Beautiful Seat of Lord Galloway Verses Written on a Window of the Inn at Carron Damon and Sylvia On Hearing that there was Falsehood in the Reverend Doctor Babington�s Very Looks Now Westlin Winds Deluded Swain Meg o� the Mill Lines Written on a Bank-Note Epigram on a Noted Coxcomb Husband, Husband, Cease Your Strife Letter to John Goudie, Kilmarnock, on the Publication of His Essays The Kirk of Lamington The Banks of Nith (To thee, lov�d Nith, thy gladsome plains) Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet On Sensibility The Slave�s Lament O Why the Deuce The Winter It Is Past Epitaph on a Suicide Written on the Blank Leaf of the Last Edition of his Poems On Creech the Bookseller Jockey�s Ta�en the Parting Kiss Here Stewarts Once In Triumph Reigned Heres�s To Thy Health, My Bonnie Lass! The Highland Laddie My Peggy�s Face I Do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair O Wat Ye What My Minnie Did The Blude Red Rose at Yule May Blaw O, for ane an� Twenty, Tam! O Leave Novels Reply to the Minister of Gladsmuir Epitaph on a Shoolmaster. In Cleish Parish, Kinross-Shire Epistle to Hugh Parker The Caird�s Second Song On Highland Hospitality Impromptu, on Mrs. Riddel�s Birthday, in November Last May a Braw Wooer Sent to a Gentleman whom He had Offended Epitaph on Wee Johnny Tam Glen Epitaph on James Grieve, Laird of Boghead Epitaph on Holy Willie When I Think on the Happy Days O Lassie, Art Thou Sleeping Yet? Written on the Blank Leaf of a Copy of the First Edition of his Poems, Presented to an Old Sweetheart, then Married Epitaph on My Father Epitaph on a Henpecked Country Squire 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 To William Simpson Ye Sons of Old Killie. A Masonic Song On a Certain Commemoration The Inventory To the Rev. John M�Math On Maria Dancing There Came a Piper out o� Fife A Poetical Epistle to a Tailor An� O! My Eppie The Captain�s Lady Tho� Cruel Fate Thanksgiving for Victory To the Beautiful Eliza J �� n Naething (Probably Addressed to Gavin Hamilton, 1786) On Commissary Goldie�s Brains To Mr. Syme, with a Present of a Dozen of Porter The Fête Champêtre Inscribed on a Tavern Window Ye Hae Lien A� Wrang, Lassie Rattlin�, Roarin� Willie Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair Song of Death The Lass o� Ballochmyle Fragmentary Verses. 3. �He looks as sign-board Lions do�� The Recovery of Miss Jessy Lewars On Being Shewn a Beautiful Country Seat Poor Mailie�s Elegy Let Not Woman E�er Complain An Excellent New Song. Fourth Ballad (May 1796) Lines Written on a Window, at the King�s Arms Tavern, Dumfries On the Death of a Lap-dog: Named Echo Landlady, Count the Lawin Logan Braes To Captain Riddel, Glenriddel Prayer for Mary She�s Fair and Fause Bonnie Lesley On a Scotch Bard, Gone to the West Indies On Andrew Turner Lines Inscribed on a Platter Lines under the Picture of Miss Burns Jamie, Come Try Me Will Ye Go to the Indies, My Mary Inscription on a Goblet The Solemn League and Covenant Another Epigram No Churchman am I Verses on the Destruction of the Woods near Drumlanrig The Tither Morn Young Jockey Address to the Unco Guid, Or the Rigidly Righteous A Fragment (�No cold approach, no altered mien��) My Nannie O Epigram on Elphinstone�s Translation of Martial�s Epigrams On Pastoral Poetry Tragic Fragment Adam Armour�s Prayer Epistle from Esopus to Maria The Tailor Fell Thro� the Bed... Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux On Scaring Some Water Fowl In Loch-Turit, a Wild Scene Among the Hills of Ochtertyre Does Haughty Gaul But Lately Seen To Dr. Blacklock The Election. Second Ballad Extempore. On Passing a Lady�s Carriage My Nannie's Awa Prologue, Spoken by Mr. Woods, on His Benefit-Night, Monday, April 16. 1787 Scroggam Addressed to a Lady Whom the Author Feared He Had Offended Grace before Meat On a Country Laird The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, The Author�s Only Pet Yowe Sonnet on the Death of Robert Riddel, Esq. of Glenriddel Lines Written and Presented to Mrs. Kemble, on Seeing her in the Character of Yarico in the Dumfies Theatre, 1794 The Toast The Dean of Faculty Come Boat Me O�er to Charlie Epitaph on William Nicol, of the High School, Edinburgh Elegy on Capt. Matthew Henderson Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq Then Know this Truth, Ye Sons of Men! The Last Braw Bridal That I Was at A Toast Given at a Meeting of the Dumfries-shire Volunteers, Held to Commemorate the Anniversary of Rodney�s Victory, April 12, 1782 Auld Rob Morris Elegy on the Year 1788 Epitaph on Walter Riddell Additional Stanzas to a Song Written by Clarinda On Lord Galloway (�No Stewart art thou, Galloway...�) O Gie My Love Brose, Brose Fragmentary Verses. 2. �A head pure, sinless quite, of brain or soul...� The Mauchline Wedding There Was a Lass, and She Was Fair Lines Written on a Tumbler Epitaph on a Celebrated Ruling Elder To a Lady who Was Looking up the Text during Sermon Epistle to Major Logan Lines Written Extempore in a Lady's Pocket-Book [Miss Kennedy, Sister-in-Law of Gavin Gamilton] Sketch On Johnson�s Opinion of Hampden O Lay Thy Loof in Mine, Lass The Highland Widow�s Lament On Miss J. Scott, of Ayr 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 Impromptu (�How daur ye ca� me howlet-face...�) Letter to James Tennant of Glenconner Epistle to Mr. M'Adam, of Craigen-Gillan On Wm. Graham, Esq., of Mossknowe The Kirk�s Alarm To Robert Graham, Esq. of Fintry, on Receiving a Favour Epigram on Captain Francis Grose, the Celebrated Antiquary Tibbie Dunbar Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn Another (�Lord, we thank an� thee adore�) �Contented wi� Little�� The Lovely Lass of Inverness Poem, Addressed to Mr. Mitchell, Collector of Excise, Dumfries �It was a� for Our Rightfu� King�� Second Epistle To Davie Sir John Cope Trode the North Right Far On Himself (�Here comes Burns...�) Fragment of an Ode to the Memory of Prince Charles Edward Stuart Awa, Whigs Sketch Inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox Captain Grose Epitaph on Miss Jessy Lewars Wae Is My Heart Epistle to John Rankine On Maria (�Praise Woman still,� his lordship roars�) Epistle to Colonel de Peyster To Dr. Maxwell, on Miss Jessy Staig�s Recovery The Tailor Another (�O Lord, since we have feasted thus�) Remorse �Open the Door to Me, Oh!� Third Epistle to J. Lapraik Whare Hae Ye Been? To Miss Cruikshank Jenny M�Craw, She Has Ta�en to the Heather Monody on a Lady Famed for her Caprice On a Request of Chloris On the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair The Tarbolton Lasses (�If �e gae up to yon hill-tap��) Extempore in the Court of Session On Robert Riddell Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq Lines on an Interview with Lord Daer Lying at a Reverend Friend�s House One Night To Mr. John Kennedy To Miss Ferrier, Enclosing Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair The Tarbolton Lasses (�In Tarbolton ken, there are proper young men��) On Glenriddell�s Fox Breaking His Chain Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic Polly Stewart To Terraughty, on His Birthday Epitaph on John Bushby, Writer, Dumfries Address, Spoken by Miss Fontenelle, on Her Benefit-night, December 4, 1793, at the Theatre, Dumfries Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper, Mauchline Address to the Shade of Thomson, on Crowning His Bust at Ednam, Roxburgh-Shire, with Bays Epigram Written at Inverary Epitaph on a Wag in Mauchline To John M�Murdo, Esq. I�ll Aye Ca� in by Yon Town Extempore to Mr. Syme, on Refusing to Dine with Him, after Having Been Promised the First of Company, and the First of Cookery Epitaph on Gabriel Richardson The Farewell. To the Brethren of St. James�s Lodge, Tarbolton The Carle of Kellyburn Braes To a Lady, with a Present of a Pair of Drinking Glasses To Mr. Gow, Visiting Dumfries Tam the Chapman Had I the Wyte The Deuk�s Dang O�er My Daddies To Miss Logan, with Beattie�s Poems, for a New Year�s Gift Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry (Late crippl�d of an arm...) Verses to J. Rankine On Miss Jessy Lewars On the Birth of a Posthumous Child, Born in Peculiar Circumstances of Family Distress To*** (�Sir, Yours this moment I unseal��) Epistle to Robert Graham of Fintry On Mr. M�Murdo, Chamberlain to the Duke of Queensberry Fragment �Now health forsakes that angel face�� On a Swearing Coxcomb Lines on Being Told that the Above Verses Would Affect his Prospects On Mr. W. Cruikshank of the High School, Edinburgh Prologue, Spoken at the Theatre, Dumfries, on New Year�s Day Evening [1790] Verses Written under the Portrait of Fergusson On the Author Being Threatened with His Resentment Epigram. Immediate Extempore on being Told by W. L. of the Customs Dublin that Com Goldie did not Seem Disposed to Push the Bottle Fragmentary Verses. 1. �His face with smile eternal drest�� Lines Written at Loudon Manse O Can Ye Labour Lea, Young Man Strathallan�s Lament There�s a Youth in This City To Mr. Renton, Berwick Extempore, on Mr. William Smellie, Author of the Philosophy of Natural History, and Member of the Antiquarian and Royal Societies of Edinburgh Grace after Meat Verses Addressed to J. Rankine John Bushby�s Lamentation. Third Ballad On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq. The Death of John M�Leod, Esq On James Gracie Dean of Guild for Dumfries On Edmund Burke by an Opponent and a Friend to Warren Hastings When Guildford Good Our Pilot Stood I Met a Lass, a Bonnie Lass Written with a Pencil over the Chimney-piece in the Parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth Epitaph for J--- H--- Written in Air Poetical Address to Mr. William Tytler, With the Present of the Poet�s Picture Extemporaneous Effusion, on being Appointed to the Excise Lines Sent to Sir John Whiteford, of Whiteford, Bart Impromptu on an Innkeeper Named Bacon, Who Intruded Himself Into All Companies Epitaph on a Person Nicknamed �The Marquis,� Who Desired Burns to Write One on Him To Mr. Mackenzie, Surgeon, Mauchline To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, Recommending A Boy �There�ll Never be Peace till Jamie Comes Hame�� Extempore Lines, in Answer to a Card from an Intimate Friend of Burns, Wishing Him to Spend an Hour at a Tavern Reply to a Note from Capt. Riddell Elegy on the Late Miss Burnet, of Monboddo Lines Supposed to Have Been Written by Burns, and Forwarded to John Rankine, Ayrshire, Immediately after the Poet�s Decease 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 Kenmure�s on and awa Death and Doctor Hornbook Ah, Chloris Evan Banks The Weary Pund O� tow The Joyful Widower Sae Fair Her Hair O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair Bonnie Ann Verses Intended to be Written Below a Noble Earl�s Picture O, Once I Lov�d a Bonnie Lass Young Peggy Robin Shure in Hairst The Cooper O� Cuddle Lassie Wi� the Lint-white Locks Hee Balou Raving Winds around Her Blowing Elegy On Stella The Rigs O� Barley O Saw Ye My Dear I�m Owre Young to Marry Yet Where Are the Joys Adown Winding Nith Sweet Fa�s the Eve Peggy�s Charms Phillis the Fair Lines Written in Friars-Carse Hermitage Wee Willie Gray Verses Written under Violent Grief Here�s His Health in Water! The Ploughman The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm On Cessnock Banks Whan I Sleep I Dream The First Psalm Charming Month of May O, Were I on Parnassus� Hill! Now Spring Has Clad Her Daddie Forbad Wilt Thou Be My Dearie? I Dream�d I Lay Where Flowers Were Springing By Allan Stream Come, Let Me Take Thee To a Young Lady, Miss Jessy Lewars, Dumfries, with Books which the Bard Presented her When First I Saw Lady Onlie Verses to a Young Lady, Miss Graham of Fintry, with a Present of Songs Blithe Hae I Been on Yon Hill Montgomerie�s Peggy The Heather Was Blooming Address to Beelzebub Frae the Friends and Land I Love O Whare Bid Ye Get The Day Returns Bannocks o� Barley Forlorn, my Love The Cardin� O�t Cock Up Your Beaver A Prayer, under the Pressure of Violent Anguish Address to General Dumourier Theniel Menzies� Bonnie Mary There�s News, Lasses The Humble Petition of Bruar Water Amang the Trees Caledonia To the Same How Lang and Dreary O Bonnie Was Yon Rosy Brier My Heart Was Ance Goode�en to You, Kimmer Whistle Owre the Lave O�t Nithsdale�s Welcome Hame As Down the Burn They Took Their Way Rantin', Rovin' Robin Bonnie Peg My Wife�s a Winsome Wee Thing One Night as I did Wander Behold the Hour When First I Came to Stewart Kyle The Bonnie Lass of Albany Canst Thou Leave Me Thus? Sae Far Awa Stanzas on the Same Occasion Katharine Jaffray Young Highland Rover Their Groves O� sweet Myrtle O That I Had Ne�er Been Married The Rantin� Dog the Daddie O�t I See a Form, I See a Face Peg-A-Ramsey O, Wat Ye Wha�s In Yon Town? Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald The Bonnie Wee Thing Eppie M�Nab Epistle to John Lapraix, An Old Scottish Bard O Steer Her Up Could Aught of Song My Chloris Lady Mary Ann Out Over The Forth The Lass of Ecclefechan The Chevalier�s Lament Sleep�st Thou, or Wak�st Thou It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonnie Face The Banks of Nith (THE THAMES flows proudly to the sea) Weary Fa� You, Duncan Gray Mark Yonder Pomp The Posies Craigieburn Wood The Ordination Sae Flaxen Were Lovely Davies Bessy and Her Spinnin� Wheel Castle Gordon Tam Samson�s Elegy O Wha is She that Lo�es Me? Why, Why Tell Thy Lover? Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns The Carles of Dysart Simmer�s a Pleasant Time The Highland Lassie The Flowery Banks of Cree Gala Water On a Bank of Flowers Young Jamie, Pride of A� the Plain Fairest Maid on Devon Banks Farewell, Thou Stream Stay My Charmer Farewell to Ballochmyle Blythe Was She I Gaed a Waefu' Gate Yestreen All Poems 80778 Views Last Poems To Russian version


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