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 Address to a Haggis Tam O'Shanter To a Mouse, on Turning Up Her Nest With the Plough A Dream Scotch Drink The Jolly Beggars The Soldier's Return For the Sake of Somebody Halloween The Twa Dogs Macpherson�s Farewell John Anderson To a Louse The Selkirk Grace Poortith Cauld Fareweel To A'Our Scottish Fame Lord Gregory Epithalamium To a Mountain Daisy, On Turning One Down With The Plough, In April, 1786 �O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast�� Raging Fortune A Bottle and Friend Address to the Deil Jean Nature�s Law The Lass That Made the Bed to Me Address to Edinburgh The Tree of Liberty Sweetest May Address to the Toothache A Rose-Bud by My Early Walk The Vision Wha Is That At My Bower Door? Willie Brewed I Hae a Wife A Vision Count the Lawin The Author�s Earnest Cry and Prayer to the Scotch Representatives in the House of Commons Afton Water My Harry Was a Gallant Gay Lines �O Whistle, and I�ll Come to You, My Lad�� The Cotter�s Saturday Night Duncan Gray The Ploughman's Life A Farewell O Mally�s Meek, Mally�s Sweet My Father Was a Farmer A Bard's Epitaph New-Year Day O Aye My Wife She Dang Me To an Artist The Birks of Aberfeldy Ye Banks and Braes The Farewell (Farewell, old Scotia�s bleak domains) The Heron Ballads. First Ballad Farewell to Eliza Country Lassie Highland Mary A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq. The Holy Fair Answer to Verses Addressed to the Poet by the Guidwipe of Wauchope-House Epistle to a Young Friend There Was a Lass, They Ca'd Her Meg The Book-Worms Dainty Davie Man Was Made To Mourn Poverty My Hoggie Holy Willie's Prayer Wandering Willie The Toadeater The Battle of Sherramuir There Was a Bonnie Lass The Poet�s Welcome to His Love-Begotten Daughter Despondency The Sailor�s Song The Lazy Mist �Green Grow the Rashes O�� On Stirling Had I a Cave How Cruel are the Parents As I Was a Wandering �Go Fetch to Me a Pint o' Wine...� The Brigs of Ayr Epitaph on the Poet�s Daughter On Seeing a Wounded Hare Limp by Me, Which a Fellow Had Just Shot at A Prayer in the Prospect of Death Elegy On The Death of Peg Nicholson Banks of Devon In Vain Would Prudence My Bottle Inscription on the Tombstone Erected By Burns To The Memory Of Gergusson Libertie The Lament The Twa Herds The Rights of Woman A Jeremiad I Burn, I Burn To James Smith On a Friend Gloomy December The Gloomy Night Hey, the Dusty Miller The Collier Laddie Yon Wild Mossy Mountains Lament of Mary Queen of Scots To the Woodlark Lines Written on a Pane of Glass in the Inn at Noffat Thou Hast Left Me Ever, Jamie Hey For a Lass Wi� a Tocher To Mary in Heaven Last May a Braw Wooer Ca� the Yowes Musing on the Roaring Ocean Ye Jacobites by Name Willie Chalmers Here�s a Health To Them That�s Awa A Mother�s Lament for the Death of Her Son Will Ye Go to the Indies, My Mary My Lady�s Gown There�s Gairs Upon�t Sonnet on Hearing a Thrush Sing in a Morning Walk in January O Tibbie, I Hae Seen the Day On the Seas and Far Away On Hearing that there was Falsehood in the Reverend Doctor Babington�s Very Looks To Alex Cunningham, Esq., Writer Mary Morison The Deil�s awa� wi� the Exciseman The Auld Farmer�s New-Year Morning Salutation to His Auld Mare Maggie O Guid Ale Comes Heres�s To Thy Health, My Bonnie Lass! A Sonnet Upon Sonnets A Grace Before Dinner �Twas Na Her Bonnie Blue Ee The Henpeck�d Husband Gude Wallace On Seeing Miss Fontenelle in a Favourite Character Epigram on Said Occasion Louis, What Reck I by Thee? Jockey�s Ta�en the Parting Kiss Now Westlin Winds Written with a Pencil, Standing by the Fall of Fyers, Near Loch-Ness The Slave�s Lament 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 Epitaph on a Suicide Epigram (�When �� , deceased, to the devil went down��) The Calf Epigram on the Roads between Kilmarnock and Stewarton Though Fickle Fortune The Gallant Weaver Tam Glen Bonnie Bell The Winter It Is Past To John Taylor O Lassie, Art Thou Sleeping Yet? Epigram on a Noted Coxcomb Willie's Wife The Belles of Mauchline Meg o� the Mill On Wm. Graham, Esq., of Mossknowe Inscription for an Altar to Independence, at Kerroughtry, Seat of Mr. Heron, Written in Summer, 1795 The Blude Red Rose at Yule May Blaw The Caird�s Second Song On the Late Captain Grose�s Peregrinations Damon and Sylvia The Whistle To Ruin My Peggy�s Face Naething (Probably Addressed to Gavin Hamilton, 1786) Lines Written on a Bank-Note The Banks of Nith (To thee, lov�d Nith, thy gladsome plains) Written on the Blank Leaf of a Copy of the First Edition of his Poems, Presented to an Old Sweetheart, then Married Husband, Husband, Cease Your Strife O Why the Deuce Ye Hae Lien A� Wrang, Lassie On Seeing the Beautiful Seat of Lord Galloway Verses Written on a Window of the Inn at Carron O Leave Novels O Wat Ye What My Minnie Did To the Beautiful Eliza J �� n O, for ane an� Twenty, Tam! The Lass o� Ballochmyle On Being Shewn a Beautiful Country Seat Coming Through the Rye A Poetical Epistle to a Tailor The Highland Laddie My Nannie's Awa Deluded Swain On Sensibility On Andrew Turner Epitaph on a Shoolmaster. In Cleish Parish, Kinross-Shire The Kirk of Lamington Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet Epitaph on Wee Johnny I Do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair To Mr. Gow, Visiting Dumfries Reply to the Minister of Gladsmuir On Highland Hospitality Epitaph on a Henpecked Country Squire A Fragment (�No cold approach, no altered mien��) On Commissary Goldie�s Brains Epitaph on James Grieve, Laird of Boghead Impromptu, on Mrs. Riddel�s Birthday, in November Letter to John Goudie, Kilmarnock, on the Publication of His Essays To William Simpson An Excellent New Song. Fourth Ballad (May 1796) The Inventory On Creech the Bookseller The Captain�s Lady Prayer for Mary The Mauchline Wedding Epitaph on Holy Willie Rattlin�, Roarin� Willie Tho� Cruel Fate When I Think on the Happy Days On a Certain Commemoration Sent to a Gentleman whom He had Offended Epitaph on My Father On Maria Dancing On Scaring Some Water Fowl In Loch-Turit, a Wild Scene Among the Hills of Ochtertyre Written on the Blank Leaf of the Last Edition of his Poems Song of Death Bonnie Lesley Epistle to Hugh Parker O Lay Thy Loof in Mine, Lass Address to the Unco Guid, Or the Rigidly Righteous An� O! My Eppie The Following Poem was Written to a Gentleman who had Sent him a Newspaper, and Offered to Continue it Free of Expense Let Not Woman E�er Complain On a Scotch Bard, Gone to the West Indies To the Rev. John M�Math But Lately Seen Prologue for Mr. Sutherland�s Benefit-Night, Dumfries Verses on the Destruction of the Woods near Drumlanrig The Tither Morn Here Stewarts Once In Triumph Reigned My Nannie O Jamie, Come Try Me She�s Fair and Fause Poor Mailie�s Elegy Thanksgiving for Victory There Came a Piper out o� Fife On Glenriddell�s Fox Breaking His Chain Second Epistle To Davie A Toast Given at a Meeting of the Dumfries-shire Volunteers, Held to Commemorate the Anniversary of Rodney�s Victory, April 12, 1782 Another Epigram Ye Sons of Old Killie. A Masonic Song Epigram on Elphinstone�s Translation of Martial�s Epigrams Landlady, Count the Lawin The Election. Second Ballad Adam Armour�s Prayer Does Haughty Gaul Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair Inscribed on a Tavern Window On Pastoral Poetry Epistle from Esopus to Maria Logan Braes The Lovely Lass of Inverness Lines Written on a Window, at the King�s Arms Tavern, Dumfries Fragmentary Verses. 3. �He looks as sign-board Lions do�� On a Country Laird Lines Inscribed on a Platter To Dr. Blacklock Extempore. On Passing a Lady�s Carriage Auld Rob Morris To Mr. Syme, with a Present of a Dozen of Porter The Kirk�s Alarm The Toast Elegy on the Year 1788 To Captain Riddel, Glenriddel The Fête Champêtre Addressed to a Lady Whom the Author Feared He Had Offended Prologue, Spoken by Mr. Woods, on His Benefit-Night, Monday, April 16. 1787 Lines under the Picture of Miss Burns On the Death of a Lap-dog: Named Echo Wae Is My Heart To a Lady who Was Looking up the Text during Sermon Scroggam The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, The Author�s Only Pet Yowe On Lord Galloway (�No Stewart art thou, Galloway...�) Come Boat Me O�er to Charlie No Churchman am I Young Jockey The Highland Widow�s Lament There Was a Lass, and She Was Fair Inscription on a Goblet Tragic Fragment Grace before Meat Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux The Recovery of Miss Jessy Lewars Epigram on Captain Francis Grose, the Celebrated Antiquary Another (�Lord, we thank an� thee adore�) The Tailor Fell Thro� the Bed... O Gie My Love Brose, Brose Remorse Sir John Cope Trode the North Right Far Epistle to Major Logan Fragmentary Verses. 2. �A head pure, sinless quite, of brain or soul...� Sketch Epitaph on a Celebrated Ruling Elder To Terraughty, on His Birthday Jenny M�Craw, She Has Ta�en to the Heather Lines Written and Presented to Mrs. Kemble, on Seeing her in the Character of Yarico in the Dumfies Theatre, 1794 On Himself (�Here comes Burns...�) The Solemn League and Covenant On Miss J. Scott, of Ayr Captain Grose Tibbie Dunbar Elegy on Capt. Matthew Henderson To Dr. Maxwell, on Miss Jessy Staig�s Recovery Epistle to Colonel de Peyster Epitaph on William Nicol, of the High School, Edinburgh On Mr. W. Cruikshank of the High School, Edinburgh Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn Additional Stanzas to a Song Written by Clarinda On Johnson�s Opinion of Hampden �Contented wi� Little�� Lines Written Extempore in a Lady's Pocket-Book [Miss Kennedy, Sister-in-Law of Gavin Gamilton] Letter to James Tennant of Glenconner The Tarbolton Lasses (�In Tarbolton ken, there are proper young men��) �Open the Door to Me, Oh!� Another (�O Lord, since we have feasted thus�) Impromptu (�How daur ye ca� me howlet-face...�) Epistle to John Rankine To John M�Murdo, Esq. Epitaph on a Wag in Mauchline Awa, Whigs Epitaph on Miss Jessy Lewars To Robert Graham, Esq. of Fintry, on Receiving a Favour Address to the Shade of Thomson, on Crowning His Bust at Ednam, Roxburgh-Shire, with Bays �It was a� for Our Rightfu� King�� Sonnet on the Death of Robert Riddel, Esq. of Glenriddel Extempore in the Court of Session Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic Lines Written on a Tumbler Monody on a Lady Famed for her Caprice To Mr. John Kennedy Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq 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 Then Know this Truth, Ye Sons of Men! Sketch Inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox The Farewell. To the Brethren of St. James�s Lodge, Tarbolton The Last Braw Bridal That I Was at On Robert Riddell The Tailor Address, Spoken by Miss Fontenelle, on Her Benefit-night, December 4, 1793, at the Theatre, Dumfries To Miss Cruikshank The Dean of Faculty The Carle of Kellyburn Braes Lying at a Reverend Friend�s House One Night Verses Written under the Portrait of Fergusson Third Epistle to J. Lapraik Epitaph on Walter Riddell On the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair Whare Hae Ye Been? On the Birth of a Posthumous Child, Born in Peculiar Circumstances of Family Distress Had I the Wyte Epistle to Mr. M'Adam, of Craigen-Gillan The Deuk�s Dang O�er My Daddies Polly Stewart Epitaph on John Bushby, Writer, Dumfries To Miss Logan, with Beattie�s Poems, for a New Year�s Gift Prologue, Spoken at the Theatre, Dumfries, on New Year�s Day Evening [1790] On Maria (�Praise Woman still,� his lordship roars�) Epistle to Robert Graham of Fintry Lines on an Interview with Lord Daer I�ll Aye Ca� in by Yon Town On the Author Being Threatened with His Resentment Extempore to Mr. Syme, on Refusing to Dine with Him, after Having Been Promised the First of Company, and the First of Cookery On a Swearing Coxcomb Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper, Mauchline To Miss Ferrier, Enclosing Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq To*** (�Sir, Yours this moment I unseal��) Epigram Written at Inverary There�s a Youth in This City Fragment of an Ode to the Memory of Prince Charles Edward Stuart When Guildford Good Our Pilot Stood Poem, Addressed to Mr. Mitchell, Collector of Excise, Dumfries The Tarbolton Lasses (�If �e gae up to yon hill-tap��) Fragmentary Verses. 1. �His face with smile eternal drest�� Strathallan�s Lament O Can Ye Labour Lea, Young Man Epitaph on Gabriel Richardson To Mr. Renton, Berwick On Miss Jessy Lewars Tam the Chapman To a Lady, with a Present of a Pair of Drinking Glasses Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry (Late crippl�d of an arm...) On a Request of Chloris Epigram. Immediate Extempore on being Told by W. L. of the Customs Dublin that Com Goldie did not Seem Disposed to Push the Bottle John Bushby�s Lamentation. Third Ballad On Mr. M�Murdo, Chamberlain to the Duke of Queensberry On Edmund Burke by an Opponent and a Friend to Warren Hastings On James Gracie Dean of Guild for Dumfries On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq. Grace after Meat Verses to J. Rankine Lines on Being Told that the Above Verses Would Affect his Prospects I Met a Lass, a Bonnie Lass Poetical Address to Mr. William Tytler, With the Present of the Poet�s Picture Extempore, on Mr. William Smellie, Author of the Philosophy of Natural History, and Member of the Antiquarian and Royal Societies of Edinburgh Fragment �Now health forsakes that angel face�� Written with a Pencil over the Chimney-piece in the Parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth Rantin', Rovin' Robin Lines Sent to Sir John Whiteford, of Whiteford, Bart The Death of John M�Leod, Esq �There�ll Never be Peace till Jamie Comes Hame�� Extemporaneous Effusion, on being Appointed to the Excise Verses Addressed to J. Rankine Lines Written at Loudon Manse To Mr. Mackenzie, Surgeon, Mauchline Epitaph on a Person Nicknamed �The Marquis,� Who Desired Burns to Write One on Him To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, Recommending A Boy The Heather Was Blooming Impromptu on an Innkeeper Named Bacon, Who Intruded Himself Into All Companies Epitaph for J--- H--- Written in Air 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 Lines Supposed to Have Been Written by Burns, and Forwarded to John Rankine, Ayrshire, Immediately after the Poet�s Decease Reply to a Note from Capt. Riddell 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 On Chloris Being Ill Epitaph on Robert Muir Sae Fair Her Hair Death and Doctor Hornbook Ah, Chloris Evan Banks O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair The Joyful Widower Bonnie Ann O, Once I Lov�d a Bonnie Lass The Weary Pund O� tow Verses Intended to be Written Below a Noble Earl�s Picture The Rigs O� Barley The Highland Lassie Young Peggy Robin Shure in Hairst Lassie Wi� the Lint-white Locks O Saw Ye My Dear Young Jamie, Pride of A� the Plain Adown Winding Nith Gala Water The Ploughman Simmer�s a Pleasant Time Hee Balou A Prayer, under the Pressure of Violent Anguish Raving Winds around Her Blowing Elegy On Stella My Heart Was Ance Peggy�s Charms Caledonia Wee Willie Gray I�m Owre Young to Marry Yet Charming Month of May One Night as I did Wander Now Spring Has Clad Address to Beelzebub Amang the Trees Come, Let Me Take Thee Blythe Was She O That I Had Ne�er Been Married I Dream�d I Lay Where Flowers Were Springing Where Are the Joys Blithe Hae I Been on Yon Hill Forlorn, my Love Wilt Thou Be My Dearie? Tam Samson�s Elegy The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm Behold the Hour Lines Written in Friars-Carse Hermitage Lovely Davies Sweet Fa�s the Eve The Bonnie Lass of Albany O Whare Bid Ye Get Bessy and Her Spinnin� Wheel Lady Mary Ann The Cooper O� Cuddle Sae Far Awa Out Over The Forth I See a Form, I See a Face I Gaed a Waefu' Gate Yestreen The First Psalm Fairest Maid on Devon Banks O Bonnie Was Yon Rosy Brier Bannocks o� Barley Address to General Dumourier To the Same Verses Written under Violent Grief Farewell to Ballochmyle Craigieburn Wood Young Highland Rover Stanzas on the Same Occasion O Steer Her Up The Chevalier�s Lament On Cessnock Banks Whistle Owre the Lave O�t Cock Up Your Beaver The Posies Canst Thou Leave Me Thus? Bonnie Peg As Down the Burn They Took Their Way Theniel Menzies� Bonnie Mary Epistle to John Lapraix, An Old Scottish Bard How Lang and Dreary Frae the Friends and Land I Love Their Groves O� sweet Myrtle Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald Could Aught of Song My Chloris When First I Saw It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonnie Face Her Daddie Forbad Why, Why Tell Thy Lover? Mark Yonder Pomp Farewell, Thou Stream Phillis the Fair By Allan Stream Here�s His Health in Water! Sleep�st Thou, or Wak�st Thou On a Bank of Flowers The Ordination The Humble Petition of Bruar Water Verses to a Young Lady, Miss Graham of Fintry, with a Present of Songs The Carles of Dysart Katharine Jaffray Sae Flaxen Were O, Were I on Parnassus� Hill! Eppie M�Nab Lady Onlie O Wha is She that Lo�es Me? O, Wat Ye Wha�s In Yon Town? The Bonnie Wee Thing The Rantin� Dog the Daddie O�t The Flowery Banks of Cree To a Young Lady, Miss Jessy Lewars, Dumfries, with Books which the Bard Presented her My Wife�s a Winsome Wee Thing Nithsdale�s Welcome Hame The Lass of Ecclefechan Montgomerie�s Peggy When First I Came to Stewart Kyle The Cardin� O�t Goode�en to You, Kimmer Whan I Sleep I Dream There�s News, Lasses Castle Gordon Weary Fa� You, Duncan Gray The Banks of Nith (THE THAMES flows proudly to the sea) Stay My Charmer The Day Returns Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns Peg-A-Ramsey All Poems 107736 Views Last Poems To Russian version


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