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 Macpherson�s Farewell Raging Fortune 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 Tree of Liberty 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 �O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast�� A Vision 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�� To an Artist O Aye My Wife She Dang Me A Farewell The Farewell (Farewell, old Scotia�s bleak domains) Ye Banks and Braes My Harry Was a Gallant Gay The Birks of Aberfeldy 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 My Hoggie The Battle of Sherramuir I Hae a Wife Country Lassie Farewell to Eliza Despondency Man Was Made To Mourn The Book-Worms Epistle to a Young Friend Wandering Willie The Poet�s Welcome to His Love-Begotten Daughter There Was a Bonnie Lass In Vain Would Prudence As I Was a Wandering How Cruel are the Parents Epitaph on the Poet�s Daughter Elegy On The Death of Peg Nicholson The Twa Herds The Brigs of Ayr The Sailor�s Song The Lazy Mist On Seeing a Wounded Hare Limp by Me, Which a Fellow Had Just Shot at Inscription on the Tombstone Erected By Burns To The Memory Of Gergusson Poverty The Rights of Woman My Bottle Libertie Dainty Davie To James Smith I Burn, I Burn On a Friend The Lament On Stirling A Prayer in the Prospect of Death A Jeremiad The Toadeater 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 Yon Wild Mossy Mountains My Lady�s Gown There�s Gairs Upon�t Thou Hast Left Me Ever, Jamie To Mary in Heaven Banks of Devon Ye Jacobites by Name �Go Fetch to Me a Pint o' Wine...� O Guid Ale Comes Sonnet on Hearing a Thrush Sing in a Morning Walk in January Hey, the Dusty Miller Had I a Cave 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 The Auld Farmer�s New-Year Morning Salutation to His Auld Mare Maggie O Tibbie, I Hae Seen the Day Lines Written on a Pane of Glass in the Inn at Noffat The Collier Laddie The Deil�s awa� wi� the Exciseman On Seeing Miss Fontenelle in a Favourite Character A Mother�s Lament for the Death of Her Son On Hearing that there was Falsehood in the Reverend Doctor Babington�s Very Looks Written with a Pencil, Standing by the Fall of Fyers, Near Loch-Ness The Henpeck�d Husband A Grace Before Dinner Mary Morison Here�s a Health To Them That�s Awa Epigram on the Roads between Kilmarnock and Stewarton The Calf �Twas Na Her Bonnie Blue Ee Willie's Wife Musing on the Roaring Ocean Epigram (�When �� , deceased, to the devil went down��) 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 To John Taylor The Gallant Weaver Bonnie Bell The Whistle On the Late Captain Grose�s Peregrinations Damon and Sylvia Now Westlin Winds Louis, What Reck I by Thee? To Ruin On Seeing the Beautiful Seat of Lord Galloway 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! Heres�s To Thy Health, My Bonnie Lass! 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 The Slave�s Lament O Why the Deuce Jockey�s Ta�en the Parting Kiss Epitaph on a Suicide Lines Written on a Bank-Note Epitaph on Wee Johnny Tam Glen My Peggy�s Face The Caird�s Second Song The Winter It Is Past O Wat Ye What My Minnie Did The Blude Red Rose at Yule May Blaw On Sensibility Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet Epitaph on a Shoolmaster. In Cleish Parish, Kinross-Shire Epitaph on a Henpecked Country Squire I Do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair Naething (Probably Addressed to Gavin Hamilton, 1786) Reply to the Minister of Gladsmuir Last May a Braw Wooer The Highland Laddie A Poetical Epistle to a Tailor On Highland Hospitality O Leave Novels On Creech the Bookseller Letter to John Goudie, Kilmarnock, on the Publication of His Essays O Lassie, Art Thou Sleeping Yet? Here Stewarts Once In Triumph Reigned Sent to a Gentleman whom He had Offended On Andrew Turner 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 Epitaph on Holy Willie 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 The Lass o� Ballochmyle When I Think on the Happy Days On Maria Dancing To the Beautiful Eliza J �� n An Excellent New Song. Fourth Ballad (May 1796) Epitaph on My Father On a Certain Commemoration Impromptu, on Mrs. Riddel�s Birthday, in November Prologue for Mr. Sutherland�s Benefit-Night, Dumfries The Following Poem was Written to a Gentleman who had Sent him a Newspaper, and Offered to Continue it Free of Expense Prayer for Mary On Commissary Goldie�s Brains On Wm. Graham, Esq., of Mossknowe Ye Hae Lien A� Wrang, Lassie Ye Sons of Old Killie. A Masonic Song Tho� Cruel Fate Address to the Unco Guid, Or the Rigidly Righteous An� O! My Eppie Song of Death Thanksgiving for Victory The Inventory Rattlin�, Roarin� Willie On Being Shewn a Beautiful Country Seat To the Rev. John M�Math Bonnie Lesley Poor Mailie�s Elegy To Mr. Syme, with a Present of a Dozen of Porter Logan Braes My Nannie's Awa Another Epigram A Fragment (�No cold approach, no altered mien��) My Nannie O The Tither Morn Let Not Woman E�er Complain There Came a Piper out o� Fife Will Ye Go to the Indies, My Mary Epigram on Elphinstone�s Translation of Martial�s Epigrams Does Haughty Gaul Inscribed on a Tavern Window On a Scotch Bard, Gone to the West Indies Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair Fragmentary Verses. 3. �He looks as sign-board Lions do�� Landlady, Count the Lawin Lines Inscribed on a Platter Adam Armour�s Prayer The Fête Champêtre On the Death of a Lap-dog: Named Echo To Dr. Blacklock Epistle from Esopus to Maria 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 On a Country Laird Jamie, Come Try Me The Mauchline Wedding Inscription on a Goblet Addressed to a Lady Whom the Author Feared He Had Offended To Captain Riddel, Glenriddel Come Boat Me O�er to Charlie The Recovery of Miss Jessy Lewars On Pastoral Poetry But Lately Seen Extempore. On Passing a Lady�s Carriage The Election. Second Ballad Lines under the Picture of Miss Burns The Toast She�s Fair and Fause A Toast Given at a Meeting of the Dumfries-shire Volunteers, Held to Commemorate the Anniversary of Rodney�s Victory, April 12, 1782 Scroggam Auld Rob Morris To a Lady who Was Looking up the Text during Sermon Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux Elegy on the Year 1788 Prologue, Spoken by Mr. Woods, on His Benefit-Night, Monday, April 16. 1787 No Churchman am I Epigram on Captain Francis Grose, the Celebrated Antiquary On Lord Galloway (�No Stewart art thou, Galloway...�) The Solemn League and Covenant Grace before Meat The Tailor Fell Thro� the Bed... The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, The Author�s Only Pet Yowe Young Jockey Another (�Lord, we thank an� thee adore�) Lines Written and Presented to Mrs. Kemble, on Seeing her in the Character of Yarico in the Dumfies Theatre, 1794 O Lay Thy Loof in Mine, Lass 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 Elegy on Capt. Matthew Henderson Epitaph on William Nicol, of the High School, Edinburgh Epitaph on a Celebrated Ruling Elder Fragmentary Verses. 2. �A head pure, sinless quite, of brain or soul...� O Gie My Love Brose, Brose On Johnson�s Opinion of Hampden Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq On Himself (�Here comes Burns...�) On Glenriddell�s Fox Breaking His Chain Another (�O Lord, since we have feasted thus�) Second Epistle To Davie The Kirk�s Alarm Captain Grose Then Know this Truth, Ye Sons of Men! To Mr. Gow, Visiting Dumfries To Dr. Maxwell, on Miss Jessy Staig�s Recovery Wae Is My Heart Additional Stanzas to a Song Written by Clarinda Epistle to John Rankine On Miss J. Scott, of Ayr Epitaph on Miss Jessy Lewars Sketch The Lovely Lass of Inverness Epistle to Colonel de Peyster Sonnet on the Death of Robert Riddel, Esq. of Glenriddel To John M�Murdo, Esq. Tibbie Dunbar Sir John Cope Trode the North Right Far Epitaph on Walter Riddell Remorse �It was a� for Our Rightfu� King�� The Dean of Faculty To Terraughty, on His Birthday Whare Hae Ye Been? �Contented wi� Little�� Letter to James Tennant of Glenconner Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn The Last Braw Bridal That I Was at Extempore in the Court of Session To Robert Graham, Esq. of Fintry, on Receiving a Favour Lines Written on a Tumbler Awa, Whigs Epitaph on John Bushby, Writer, Dumfries Lines Written Extempore in a Lady's Pocket-Book [Miss Kennedy, Sister-in-Law of Gavin Gamilton] �Open the Door to Me, Oh!� Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic Epistle to Mr. M'Adam, of Craigen-Gillan On Robert Riddell Monody on a Lady Famed for her Caprice Impromptu (�How daur ye ca� me howlet-face...�) The Tailor To Mr. John Kennedy Third Epistle to J. Lapraik 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 Sketch Inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox Jenny M�Craw, She Has Ta�en to the Heather Epitaph on a Wag in Mauchline To Miss Cruikshank Address to the Shade of Thomson, on Crowning His Bust at Ednam, Roxburgh-Shire, with Bays On the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair On Mr. W. Cruikshank of the High School, Edinburgh The Farewell. To the Brethren of St. James�s Lodge, Tarbolton On Maria (�Praise Woman still,� his lordship roars�) Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper, Mauchline On the Author Being Threatened with His Resentment Had I the Wyte The Tarbolton Lasses (�In Tarbolton ken, there are proper young men��) 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 I�ll Aye Ca� in by Yon Town Polly Stewart The Tarbolton Lasses (�If �e gae up to yon hill-tap��) Lines on an Interview with Lord Daer Fragment of an Ode to the Memory of Prince Charles Edward Stuart On the Birth of a Posthumous Child, Born in Peculiar Circumstances of Family Distress The Carle of Kellyburn Braes On a Request of Chloris On a Swearing Coxcomb To Miss Ferrier, Enclosing Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair Poem, Addressed to Mr. Mitchell, Collector of Excise, Dumfries Verses Written under the Portrait of Fergusson Extempore to Mr. Syme, on Refusing to Dine with Him, after Having Been Promised the First of Company, and the First of Cookery Epistle to Robert Graham of Fintry To Miss Logan, with Beattie�s Poems, for a New Year�s Gift To*** (�Sir, Yours this moment I unseal��) Epigram Written at Inverary There�s a Youth in This City Epitaph on Gabriel Richardson John Bushby�s Lamentation. Third Ballad Prologue, Spoken at the Theatre, Dumfries, on New Year�s Day Evening [1790] Tam the Chapman The Deuk�s Dang O�er My Daddies On Mr. M�Murdo, Chamberlain to the Duke of Queensberry To Mr. Renton, Berwick Epigram. Immediate Extempore on being Told by W. L. of the Customs Dublin that Com Goldie did not Seem Disposed to Push the Bottle On Miss Jessy Lewars O Can Ye Labour Lea, Young Man Lines on Being Told that the Above Verses Would Affect his Prospects Strathallan�s Lament Verses to J. Rankine 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 Fragmentary Verses. 1. �His face with smile eternal drest�� Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry (Late crippl�d of an arm...) 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 Sent to Sir John Whiteford, of Whiteford, Bart Lines Written at Loudon Manse To Mr. Mackenzie, Surgeon, Mauchline Poetical Address to Mr. William Tytler, With the Present of the Poet�s Picture The Death of John M�Leod, Esq Written with a Pencil over the Chimney-piece in the Parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth 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 The Cooper O� Cuddle Lassie Wi� the Lint-white Locks Hee Balou I�m Owre Young to Marry Yet Wee Willie Gray 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 Heather Was Blooming The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm Lines Written in Friars-Carse Hermitage The First Psalm 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 Whan I Sleep I Dream On Cessnock Banks Cock Up Your Beaver To a Young Lady, Miss Jessy Lewars, Dumfries, with Books which the Bard Presented her By Allan Stream Here�s His Health in Water! I Dream�d I Lay Where Flowers Were Springing Now Spring Has Clad Address to Beelzebub Come, Let Me Take Thee Wilt Thou Be My Dearie? Caledonia When First I Saw O Whare Bid Ye Get My Heart Was Ance Blithe Hae I Been on Yon Hill To the Same Frae the Friends and Land I Love The Day Returns Her Daddie Forbad Verses to a Young Lady, Miss Graham of Fintry, with a Present of Songs There�s News, Lasses Montgomerie�s Peggy Young Jamie, Pride of A� the Plain Lady Mary Ann Stanzas on the Same Occasion Katharine Jaffray The Cardin� O�t Sae Far Awa Amang the Trees Address to General Dumourier The Carles of Dysart Whistle Owre the Lave O�t O Bonnie Was Yon Rosy Brier Goode�en to You, Kimmer On a Bank of Flowers The Ordination Peg-A-Ramsey I Gaed a Waefu' Gate Yestreen Tam Samson�s Elegy O, Wat Ye Wha�s In Yon Town? How Lang and Dreary Sae Flaxen Were The Banks of Nith (THE THAMES flows proudly to the sea) Eppie M�Nab O Steer Her Up The Posies The Bonnie Lass of Albany As Down the Burn They Took Their Way Castle Gordon Farewell to Ballochmyle The Flowery Banks of Cree Epistle to John Lapraix, An Old Scottish Bard Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonnie Face The Lass of Ecclefechan The Highland Lassie Theniel Menzies� Bonnie Mary Weary Fa� You, Duncan Gray Craigieburn Wood The Humble Petition of Bruar Water Canst Thou Leave Me Thus? Simmer�s a Pleasant Time Why, Why Tell Thy Lover? Sleep�st Thou, or Wak�st Thou My Chloris Lovely Davies The Chevalier�s Lament Bonnie Peg O Wha is She that Lo�es Me? Young Highland Rover Their Groves O� sweet Myrtle Bessy and Her Spinnin� Wheel Gala Water Stay My Charmer My Wife�s a Winsome Wee Thing O That I Had Ne�er Been Married Out Over The Forth Fairest Maid on Devon Banks Forlorn, my Love I See a Form, I See a Face The Bonnie Wee Thing Could Aught of Song Nithsdale�s Welcome Hame Behold the Hour Mark Yonder Pomp Farewell, Thou Stream When First I Came to Stewart Kyle One Night as I did Wander Blythe Was She The Rantin� Dog the Daddie O�t All Poems 85898 Views Last Poems To Russian version


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