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 The Selkirk Grace Epithalamium Macpherson�s Farewell Address to the Deil Address to Edinburgh Lord Gregory Nature�s Law A Bottle and Friend Jean Poortith Cauld Address to the Toothache The Vision A Rose-Bud by My Early Walk Count the Lawin Sweetest May The Ploughman's Life The Author�s Earnest Cry and Prayer to the Scotch Representatives in the House of Commons Willie Brewed A Vision The Lass That Made the Bed to Me The Tree of Liberty �O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast�� Wha Is That At My Bower Door? Afton Water The Cotter�s Saturday Night Duncan Gray New-Year Day Lines O Aye My Wife She Dang Me A Farewell To an Artist The Farewell (Farewell, old Scotia�s bleak domains) �O Whistle, and I�ll Come to You, My Lad�� Ye Banks and Braes The Holy Fair Answer to Verses Addressed to the Poet by the Guidwipe of Wauchope-House The Birks of Aberfeldy O Mally�s Meek, Mally�s Sweet My Father Was a Farmer There Was a Lass, They Ca'd Her Meg A Bard's Epitaph My Harry Was a Gallant Gay Holy Willie's Prayer My Hoggie A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq. The Heron Ballads. First Ballad The Battle of Sherramuir Highland Mary 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 In Vain Would Prudence Wandering Willie There Was a Bonnie Lass Epitaph on the Poet�s Daughter How Cruel are the Parents As I Was a Wandering Elegy On The Death of Peg Nicholson The Twa Herds On Seeing a Wounded Hare Limp by Me, Which a Fellow Had Just Shot at The Brigs of Ayr The Rights of Woman Libertie I Burn, I Burn Inscription on the Tombstone Erected By Burns To The Memory Of Gergusson The Sailor�s Song Poverty To James Smith On a Friend My Bottle The Gloomy Night The Lazy Mist The Lament On Stirling Gloomy December A Jeremiad A Prayer in the Prospect of Death To the Woodlark Lament of Mary Queen of Scots Dainty Davie Willie Chalmers Hey For a Lass Wi� a Tocher �Green Grow the Rashes O�� My Lady�s Gown There�s Gairs Upon�t Yon Wild Mossy Mountains O Guid Ale Comes Thou Hast Left Me Ever, Jamie Ye Jacobites by Name To Mary in Heaven Sonnet on Hearing a Thrush Sing in a Morning Walk in January Though Fickle Fortune �Go Fetch to Me a Pint o' Wine...� The Toadeater Banks of Devon A Sonnet Upon Sonnets To Alex Cunningham, Esq., Writer Hey, the Dusty Miller On the Seas and Far Away Gude Wallace The Deil�s awa� wi� the Exciseman Epigram on Said Occasion Written with a Pencil, Standing by the Fall of Fyers, Near Loch-Ness Ca� the Yowes Bonnie Bell The Auld Farmer�s New-Year Morning Salutation to His Auld Mare Maggie The Calf O Tibbie, I Hae Seen the Day The Henpeck�d Husband The Collier Laddie �Twas Na Her Bonnie Blue Ee Here�s a Health To Them That�s Awa A Mother�s Lament for the Death of Her Son Epigram on the Roads between Kilmarnock and Stewarton A Grace Before Dinner Willie's Wife Lines Written on a Pane of Glass in the Inn at Noffat On Seeing Miss Fontenelle in a Favourite Character Musing on the Roaring Ocean Coming Through the Rye On Hearing that there was Falsehood in the Reverend Doctor Babington�s Very Looks The Whistle Epigram (�When �� , deceased, to the devil went down��) Mary Morison To John Taylor On the Late Captain Grose�s Peregrinations The Gallant Weaver Had I a Cave 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? Inscription for an Altar to Independence, at Kerroughtry, Seat of Mr. Heron, Written in Summer, 1795 To Ruin Damon and Sylvia On Seeing the Beautiful Seat of Lord Galloway The Belles of Mauchline Now Westlin Winds Epigram on a Noted Coxcomb Verses Written on a Window of the Inn at Carron The Banks of Nith (To thee, lov�d Nith, thy gladsome plains) Deluded Swain Husband, Husband, Cease Your Strife Meg o� the Mill Lines Written on a Bank-Note O Why the Deuce O, for ane an� Twenty, Tam! Heres�s To Thy Health, My Bonnie Lass! The Kirk of Lamington On Sensibility Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet The Slave�s Lament Epitaph on a Suicide The Winter It Is Past Jockey�s Ta�en the Parting Kiss O Wat Ye What My Minnie Did Epitaph on Wee Johnny On Highland Hospitality My Peggy�s Face The Blude Red Rose at Yule May Blaw Letter to John Goudie, Kilmarnock, on the Publication of His Essays The Highland Laddie Tam Glen On Creech the Bookseller Written on the Blank Leaf of the Last Edition of his Poems I Do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair O Leave Novels Epitaph on a Shoolmaster. In Cleish Parish, Kinross-Shire Naething (Probably Addressed to Gavin Hamilton, 1786) Epistle to Hugh Parker Epitaph on Holy Willie The Caird�s Second Song Last May a Braw Wooer Sent to a Gentleman whom He had Offended Reply to the Minister of Gladsmuir Here Stewarts Once In Triumph Reigned Epitaph on a Henpecked Country Squire Epitaph on James Grieve, Laird of Boghead Epitaph on My Father A Poetical Epistle to a Tailor O Lassie, Art Thou Sleeping Yet? The Following Poem was Written to a Gentleman who had Sent him a Newspaper, and Offered to Continue it Free of Expense Impromptu, on Mrs. Riddel�s Birthday, in November The Captain�s Lady To William Simpson 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 Prologue for Mr. Sutherland�s Benefit-Night, Dumfries Ye Sons of Old Killie. A Masonic Song When I Think on the Happy Days On a Certain Commemoration An Excellent New Song. Fourth Ballad (May 1796) Song of Death On Maria Dancing On Andrew Turner To the Rev. John M�Math Rattlin�, Roarin� Willie The Lass o� Ballochmyle On Commissary Goldie�s Brains The Inventory Ye Hae Lien A� Wrang, Lassie There Came a Piper out o� Fife Tho� Cruel Fate Poor Mailie�s Elegy An� O! My Eppie Thanksgiving for Victory To Mr. Syme, with a Present of a Dozen of Porter Inscribed on a Tavern Window Another Epigram Logan Braes Let Not Woman E�er Complain On a Scotch Bard, Gone to the West Indies The Fête Champêtre Fragmentary Verses. 3. �He looks as sign-board Lions do�� Prayer for Mary A Fragment (�No cold approach, no altered mien��) Will Ye Go to the Indies, My Mary The Tither Morn Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair Landlady, Count the Lawin Address to the Unco Guid, Or the Rigidly Righteous On Being Shewn a Beautiful Country Seat Does Haughty Gaul Lines under the Picture of Miss Burns Bonnie Lesley On the Death of a Lap-dog: Named Echo Epigram on Elphinstone�s Translation of Martial�s Epigrams Inscription on a Goblet My Nannie O The Recovery of Miss Jessy Lewars On Pastoral Poetry Epistle from Esopus to Maria Lines Inscribed on a Platter To Captain Riddel, Glenriddel On Scaring Some Water Fowl In Loch-Turit, a Wild Scene Among the Hills of Ochtertyre Lines Written on a Window, at the King�s Arms Tavern, Dumfries My Nannie's Awa Addressed to a Lady Whom the Author Feared He Had Offended The Solemn League and Covenant Jamie, Come Try Me Come Boat Me O�er to Charlie Adam Armour�s Prayer The Mauchline Wedding Elegy on the Year 1788 To Dr. Blacklock Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux She�s Fair and Fause No Churchman am I Verses on the Destruction of the Woods near Drumlanrig 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 Young Jockey The Election. Second Ballad Extempore. On Passing a Lady�s Carriage Scroggam On a Country Laird Grace before Meat Tragic Fragment The Tailor Fell Thro� the Bed... The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, The Author�s Only Pet Yowe To a Lady who Was Looking up the Text during Sermon But Lately Seen Another (�Lord, we thank an� thee adore�) On Lord Galloway (�No Stewart art thou, Galloway...�) Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq Prologue, Spoken by Mr. Woods, on His Benefit-Night, Monday, April 16. 1787 O Gie My Love Brose, Brose Then Know this Truth, Ye Sons of Men! Elegy on Capt. Matthew Henderson Auld Rob Morris Epitaph on a Celebrated Ruling Elder There Was a Lass, and She Was Fair Epitaph on William Nicol, of the High School, Edinburgh Epigram on Captain Francis Grose, the Celebrated Antiquary Lines Written and Presented to Mrs. Kemble, on Seeing her in the Character of Yarico in the Dumfies Theatre, 1794 Sonnet on the Death of Robert Riddel, Esq. of Glenriddel Epistle to Major Logan O Lay Thy Loof in Mine, Lass Epitaph on Miss Jessy Lewars The Kirk�s Alarm Epistle to Colonel de Peyster Sketch The Highland Widow�s Lament Fragmentary Verses. 2. �A head pure, sinless quite, of brain or soul...� Epitaph on Walter Riddell Captain Grose Second Epistle To Davie �It was a� for Our Rightfu� King�� The Dean of Faculty Remorse Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn Whare Hae Ye Been? Additional Stanzas to a Song Written by Clarinda Impromptu (�How daur ye ca� me howlet-face...�) Lines Written Extempore in a Lady's Pocket-Book [Miss Kennedy, Sister-in-Law of Gavin Gamilton] On Miss J. Scott, of Ayr Epistle to John Rankine To Robert Graham, Esq. of Fintry, on Receiving a Favour To Dr. Maxwell, on Miss Jessy Staig�s Recovery On Himself (�Here comes Burns...�) The Last Braw Bridal That I Was at �Contented wi� Little�� Sir John Cope Trode the North Right Far Letter to James Tennant of Glenconner Another (�O Lord, since we have feasted thus�) Lines Written on a Tumbler The Lovely Lass of Inverness On Wm. Graham, Esq., of Mossknowe On Glenriddell�s Fox Breaking His Chain To Miss Cruikshank On Johnson�s Opinion of Hampden Sketch Inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox Wae Is My Heart The Tailor Tibbie Dunbar 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 �Open the Door to Me, Oh!� Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq To Mr. John Kennedy Epistle to Mr. M'Adam, of Craigen-Gillan Epitaph on a Wag in Mauchline Epitaph on John Bushby, Writer, Dumfries On the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper, Mauchline Awa, Whigs Fragment of an Ode to the Memory of Prince Charles Edward Stuart Monody on a Lady Famed for her Caprice Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic To Mr. Gow, Visiting Dumfries Poem, Addressed to Mr. Mitchell, Collector of Excise, Dumfries To John M�Murdo, Esq. Extempore in the Court of Session Third Epistle to J. Lapraik On Robert Riddell Jenny M�Craw, She Has Ta�en to the Heather To Terraughty, on His Birthday The Farewell. To the Brethren of St. James�s Lodge, Tarbolton On Maria (�Praise Woman still,� his lordship roars�) Had I the Wyte Address to the Shade of Thomson, on Crowning His Bust at Ednam, Roxburgh-Shire, with Bays The Carle of Kellyburn Braes On a Request of Chloris Lines on an Interview with Lord Daer The Tarbolton Lasses (�If �e gae up to yon hill-tap��) On the Birth of a Posthumous Child, Born in Peculiar Circumstances of Family Distress On the Author Being Threatened with His Resentment I�ll Aye Ca� in by Yon Town Lying at a Reverend Friend�s House One Night The Tarbolton Lasses (�In Tarbolton ken, there are proper young men��) On a Swearing Coxcomb Epitaph on Gabriel Richardson Address, Spoken by Miss Fontenelle, on Her Benefit-night, December 4, 1793, at the Theatre, Dumfries Polly Stewart On Mr. W. Cruikshank of the High School, Edinburgh Epistle to Robert Graham of Fintry Tam the Chapman To Miss Ferrier, Enclosing Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair Epigram Written at Inverary To*** (�Sir, Yours this moment I unseal��) To Miss Logan, with Beattie�s Poems, for a New Year�s Gift Extempore to Mr. Syme, on Refusing to Dine with Him, after Having Been Promised the First of Company, and the First of Cookery Lines on Being Told that the Above Verses Would Affect his Prospects Verses to J. Rankine To Mr. Renton, Berwick To a Lady, with a Present of a Pair of Drinking Glasses Fragment �Now health forsakes that angel face�� Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry (Late crippl�d of an arm...) On Miss Jessy Lewars On Mr. M�Murdo, Chamberlain to the Duke of Queensberry There�s a Youth in This City Prologue, Spoken at the Theatre, Dumfries, on New Year�s Day Evening [1790] Verses Written under the Portrait of Fergusson Epigram. Immediate Extempore on being Told by W. L. of the Customs Dublin that Com Goldie did not Seem Disposed to Push the Bottle The Deuk�s Dang O�er My Daddies John Bushby�s Lamentation. Third Ballad O Can Ye Labour Lea, Young Man Strathallan�s Lament Grace after Meat Fragmentary Verses. 1. �His face with smile eternal drest�� Lines Written at Loudon Manse Verses Addressed to J. Rankine When Guildford Good Our Pilot Stood Lines Sent to Sir John Whiteford, of Whiteford, Bart On James Gracie Dean of Guild for Dumfries On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq. I Met a Lass, a Bonnie Lass Extempore, on Mr. William Smellie, Author of the Philosophy of Natural History, and Member of the Antiquarian and Royal Societies of Edinburgh The Death of John M�Leod, Esq Epitaph on a Person Nicknamed �The Marquis,� Who Desired Burns to Write One on Him On Edmund Burke by an Opponent and a Friend to Warren Hastings Written with a Pencil over the Chimney-piece in the Parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth Extemporaneous Effusion, on being Appointed to the Excise Poetical Address to Mr. William Tytler, With the Present of the Poet�s Picture To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, Recommending A Boy To Mr. Mackenzie, Surgeon, Mauchline �There�ll Never be Peace till Jamie Comes Hame�� Impromptu on an Innkeeper Named Bacon, Who Intruded Himself Into All Companies Epitaph for J--- H--- Written in Air 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 Kenmure�s on and awa Elegy on the Late Miss Burnet, of Monboddo 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 The Joyful Widower Evan Banks The Weary Pund O� tow O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair Sae Fair Her Hair Bonnie Ann O, Once I Lov�d a Bonnie Lass Verses Intended to be Written Below a Noble Earl�s Picture The Rigs O� Barley Rantin', Rovin' Robin Young Peggy Robin Shure in Hairst Lassie Wi� the Lint-white Locks The Cooper O� Cuddle Hee Balou I�m Owre Young to Marry Yet Wee Willie Gray Where Are the Joys Adown Winding Nith Elegy On Stella Raving Winds around Her Blowing O Saw Ye My Dear Peggy�s Charms Phillis the Fair Verses Written under Violent Grief Lines Written in Friars-Carse Hermitage The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm Sweet Fa�s the Eve The Ploughman The First Psalm Whan I Sleep I Dream Bannocks o� Barley Lady Onlie The Heather Was Blooming O, Were I on Parnassus� Hill! On Cessnock Banks Charming Month of May Here�s His Health in Water! A Prayer, under the Pressure of Violent Anguish Now Spring Has Clad To a Young Lady, Miss Jessy Lewars, Dumfries, with Books which the Bard Presented her By Allan Stream Come, Let Me Take Thee Wilt Thou Be My Dearie? I Dream�d I Lay Where Flowers Were Springing Blithe Hae I Been on Yon Hill Cock Up Your Beaver Address to Beelzebub When First I Saw Her Daddie Forbad The Day Returns Frae the Friends and Land I Love Caledonia My Heart Was Ance Verses to a Young Lady, Miss Graham of Fintry, with a Present of Songs O Whare Bid Ye Get There�s News, Lasses The Cardin� O�t Montgomerie�s Peggy To the Same Sae Far Awa Amang the Trees Stanzas on the Same Occasion Address to General Dumourier Goode�en to You, Kimmer Katharine Jaffray O Bonnie Was Yon Rosy Brier How Lang and Dreary Whistle Owre the Lave O�t The Humble Petition of Bruar Water Theniel Menzies� Bonnie Mary The Bonnie Lass of Albany Forlorn, my Love As Down the Burn They Took Their Way Lady Mary Ann O That I Had Ne�er Been Married Bonnie Peg Behold the Hour One Night as I did Wander O Steer Her Up Young Highland Rover The Rantin� Dog the Daddie O�t The Banks of Nith (THE THAMES flows proudly to the sea) When First I Came to Stewart Kyle Nithsdale�s Welcome Hame Canst Thou Leave Me Thus? O, Wat Ye Wha�s In Yon Town? Epistle to John Lapraix, An Old Scottish Bard Peg-A-Ramsey Castle Gordon My Wife�s a Winsome Wee Thing Their Groves O� sweet Myrtle Farewell, Thou Stream Gala Water Blythe Was She The Chevalier�s Lament Stay My Charmer Tam Samson�s Elegy Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald Sleep�st Thou, or Wak�st Thou Lovely Davies Bessy and Her Spinnin� Wheel Craigieburn Wood Sae Flaxen Were Out Over The Forth I See a Form, I See a Face I Gaed a Waefu' Gate Yestreen On a Bank of Flowers The Ordination Young Jamie, Pride of A� the Plain The Lass of Ecclefechan Could Aught of Song My Chloris The Carles of Dysart The Posies Mark Yonder Pomp The Bonnie Wee Thing Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns Eppie M�Nab Simmer�s a Pleasant Time It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonnie Face Fairest Maid on Devon Banks O Wha is She that Lo�es Me? Why, Why Tell Thy Lover? The Flowery Banks of Cree The Highland Lassie Weary Fa� You, Duncan Gray Farewell to Ballochmyle All Poems 83856 Views Last Poems To Russian version


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