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 Scotch Drink Tam O'Shanter To a Mouse, on Turning Up Her Nest With the Plough A Dream For the Sake of Somebody The Jolly Beggars The Soldier's Return Halloween The Twa Dogs Macpherson�s Farewell John Anderson To a Louse Poortith Cauld The Selkirk Grace Fareweel To A'Our Scottish Fame �O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast�� Lord Gregory Epithalamium A Bottle and Friend To a Mountain Daisy, On Turning One Down With The Plough, In April, 1786 Jean Raging Fortune The Lass That Made the Bed to Me Nature�s Law Address to the Deil The Tree of Liberty Address to Edinburgh Sweetest May Address to the Toothache A Rose-Bud by My Early Walk I Hae a Wife The Vision Willie Brewed Wha Is That At My Bower Door? My Harry Was a Gallant Gay Count the Lawin A Vision Lines �O Whistle, and I�ll Come to You, My Lad�� The Author�s Earnest Cry and Prayer to the Scotch Representatives in the House of Commons Afton Water The Cotter�s Saturday Night Duncan Gray A Farewell My Father Was a Farmer The Ploughman's Life O Mally�s Meek, Mally�s Sweet A Bard's Epitaph Country Lassie The Birks of Aberfeldy The Heron Ballads. First Ballad Farewell to Eliza New-Year Day Ye Banks and Braes Man Was Made To Mourn O Aye My Wife She Dang Me The Farewell (Farewell, old Scotia�s bleak domains) To an Artist The Book-Worms Answer to Verses Addressed to the Poet by the Guidwipe of Wauchope-House A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq. Highland Mary The Holy Fair Epistle to a Young Friend Poverty Wandering Willie There Was a Bonnie Lass There Was a Lass, They Ca'd Her Meg The Toadeater Dainty Davie The Poet�s Welcome to His Love-Begotten Daughter My Hoggie Holy Willie's Prayer The Battle of Sherramuir Despondency �Green Grow the Rashes O�� The Sailor�s Song �Go Fetch to Me a Pint o' Wine...� Had I a Cave How Cruel are the Parents The Lazy Mist On Seeing a Wounded Hare Limp by Me, Which a Fellow Had Just Shot at As I Was a Wandering On Stirling Inscription on the Tombstone Erected By Burns To The Memory Of Gergusson Epitaph on the Poet�s Daughter The Brigs of Ayr Banks of Devon My Bottle The Lament A Prayer in the Prospect of Death Elegy On The Death of Peg Nicholson Hey, the Dusty Miller Lines Written on a Pane of Glass in the Inn at Noffat Last May a Braw Wooer Libertie Gloomy December The Rights of Woman A Jeremiad In Vain Would Prudence Ye Jacobites by Name The Twa Herds To James Smith On a Friend I Burn, I Burn Hey For a Lass Wi� a Tocher The Gloomy Night Sonnet on Hearing a Thrush Sing in a Morning Walk in January The Collier Laddie Will Ye Go to the Indies, My Mary My Lady�s Gown There�s Gairs Upon�t On Hearing that there was Falsehood in the Reverend Doctor Babington�s Very Looks The Auld Farmer�s New-Year Morning Salutation to His Auld Mare Maggie The Deil�s awa� wi� the Exciseman To the Woodlark Jockey�s Ta�en the Parting Kiss Lament of Mary Queen of Scots Yon Wild Mossy Mountains Musing on the Roaring Ocean Heres�s To Thy Health, My Bonnie Lass! A Mother�s Lament for the Death of Her Son Ca� the Yowes Now Westlin Winds Thou Hast Left Me Ever, Jamie Here�s a Health To Them That�s Awa To Mary in Heaven �Twas Na Her Bonnie Blue Ee Willie Chalmers Mary Morison On the Seas and Far Away O Tibbie, I Hae Seen the Day The Slave�s Lament To Alex Cunningham, Esq., Writer O Guid Ale Comes A Grace Before Dinner O Lassie, Art Thou Sleeping Yet? Epitaph on a Suicide Epigram (�When �� , deceased, to the devil went down��) The Henpeck�d Husband Lines Written on a Bank-Note A Sonnet Upon Sonnets Louis, What Reck I by Thee? On Seeing Miss Fontenelle in a Favourite Character Meg o� the Mill Inscription for an Altar to Independence, at Kerroughtry, Seat of Mr. Heron, Written in Summer, 1795 Epigram on a Noted Coxcomb To John Taylor The Gallant Weaver The Caird�s Second Song Gude Wallace The Winter It Is Past Written with a Pencil, Standing by the Fall of Fyers, Near Loch-Ness The Calf Naething (Probably Addressed to Gavin Hamilton, 1786) Epigram on Said Occasion Written on the Blank Leaf of a Copy of the First Edition of his Poems, Presented to an Old Sweetheart, then Married O Why the Deuce 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 Husband, Husband, Cease Your Strife Ye Hae Lien A� Wrang, Lassie O Leave Novels On Wm. Graham, Esq., of Mossknowe Epigram on the Roads between Kilmarnock and Stewarton Tam Glen Though Fickle Fortune Verses Written on a Window of the Inn at Carron The Lass o� Ballochmyle On Seeing the Beautiful Seat of Lord Galloway Willie's Wife The Belles of Mauchline The Blude Red Rose at Yule May Blaw My Peggy�s Face On Being Shewn a Beautiful Country Seat O Wat Ye What My Minnie Did Bonnie Bell The Banks of Nith (To thee, lov�d Nith, thy gladsome plains) On the Late Captain Grose�s Peregrinations Epitaph on a Shoolmaster. In Cleish Parish, Kinross-Shire The Whistle Damon and Sylvia To Mr. Gow, Visiting Dumfries To Ruin Reply to the Minister of Gladsmuir To the Beautiful Eliza J �� n Epitaph on a Henpecked Country Squire Coming Through the Rye O, for ane an� Twenty, Tam! My Nannie's Awa The Highland Laddie A Poetical Epistle to a Tailor On Andrew Turner Epitaph on James Grieve, Laird of Boghead The Kirk of Lamington Deluded Swain On Sensibility On Highland Hospitality Epitaph on Wee Johnny On a Certain Commemoration On Commissary Goldie�s Brains Epitaph on Holy Willie Rattlin�, Roarin� Willie Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet I Do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair A Fragment (�No cold approach, no altered mien��) The Inventory An Excellent New Song. Fourth Ballad (May 1796) Landlady, Count the Lawin On Scaring Some Water Fowl In Loch-Turit, a Wild Scene Among the Hills of Ochtertyre Impromptu, on Mrs. Riddel�s Birthday, in November Prayer for Mary Jamie, Come Try Me To William Simpson Letter to John Goudie, Kilmarnock, on the Publication of His Essays The Mauchline Wedding Epigram on Elphinstone�s Translation of Martial�s Epigrams On Creech the Bookseller Tho� Cruel Fate When I Think on the Happy Days Epitaph on My Father Inscribed on a Tavern Window The Captain�s Lady Song of Death Extempore. On Passing a Lady�s Carriage On Maria Dancing Lines Written on a Window, at the King�s Arms Tavern, Dumfries Let Not Woman E�er Complain Address to the Unco Guid, Or the Rigidly Righteous Sent to a Gentleman whom He had Offended O Lay Thy Loof in Mine, Lass Verses on the Destruction of the Woods near Drumlanrig An� O! My Eppie She�s Fair and Fause Lines Inscribed on a Platter Bonnie Lesley Epistle to Hugh Parker Written on the Blank Leaf of the Last Edition of his Poems On a Scotch Bard, Gone to the West Indies The Following Poem was Written to a Gentleman who had Sent him a Newspaper, and Offered to Continue it Free of Expense Lines under the Picture of Miss Burns But Lately Seen There Came a Piper out o� Fife Thanksgiving for Victory My Nannie O Prologue for Mr. Sutherland�s Benefit-Night, Dumfries The Tither Morn On Glenriddell�s Fox Breaking His Chain Second Epistle To Davie On Lord Galloway (�No Stewart art thou, Galloway...�) Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic To the Rev. John M�Math A Toast Given at a Meeting of the Dumfries-shire Volunteers, Held to Commemorate the Anniversary of Rodney�s Victory, April 12, 1782 The Election. Second Ballad Here Stewarts Once In Triumph Reigned Poor Mailie�s Elegy Another Epigram Ye Sons of Old Killie. A Masonic Song Adam Armour�s Prayer On a Country Laird Epigram on Captain Francis Grose, the Celebrated Antiquary Elegy on the Year 1788 Does Haughty Gaul Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair Auld Rob Morris On Pastoral Poetry Epistle from Esopus to Maria Logan Braes On Miss J. Scott, of Ayr The Lovely Lass of Inverness Fragmentary Verses. 3. �He looks as sign-board Lions do�� Come Boat Me O�er to Charlie Scroggam The Kirk�s Alarm The Toast The Fête Champêtre Prologue, Spoken by Mr. Woods, on His Benefit-Night, Monday, April 16. 1787 The Tarbolton Lasses (�In Tarbolton ken, there are proper young men��) The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, The Author�s Only Pet Yowe There Was a Lass, and She Was Fair Wae Is My Heart To Dr. Blacklock To Captain Riddel, Glenriddel To Mr. Syme, with a Present of a Dozen of Porter On Johnson�s Opinion of Hampden On the Death of a Lap-dog: Named Echo Addressed to a Lady Whom the Author Feared He Had Offended To a Lady who Was Looking up the Text during Sermon Fragmentary Verses. 1. �His face with smile eternal drest�� No Churchman am I The Highland Widow�s Lament Extempore in the Court of Session Young Jockey On Mr. W. Cruikshank of the High School, Edinburgh Inscription on a Goblet Grace before Meat Tragic Fragment Another (�Lord, we thank an� thee adore�) Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux The Tailor Fell Thro� the Bed... Fragmentary Verses. 2. �A head pure, sinless quite, of brain or soul...� Remorse O Gie My Love Brose, Brose Captain Grose Jenny M�Craw, She Has Ta�en to the Heather Epistle to Major Logan The Recovery of Miss Jessy Lewars Epitaph on a Celebrated Ruling Elder Verses Written under the Portrait of Fergusson To Terraughty, on His Birthday Elegy on Capt. Matthew Henderson Sketch Sir John Cope Trode the North Right Far Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn To Dr. Maxwell, on Miss Jessy Staig�s Recovery On Himself (�Here comes Burns...�) To Robert Graham, Esq. of Fintry, on Receiving a Favour Epitaph on John Bushby, Writer, Dumfries Tibbie Dunbar Epistle to Colonel de Peyster Lines Written and Presented to Mrs. Kemble, on Seeing her in the Character of Yarico in the Dumfies Theatre, 1794 The Solemn League and Covenant Epitaph on William Nicol, of the High School, Edinburgh �Open the Door to Me, Oh!� �Contented wi� Little�� Letter to James Tennant of Glenconner The Tarbolton Lasses (�If �e gae up to yon hill-tap��) Additional Stanzas to a Song Written by Clarinda Lines Written Extempore in a Lady's Pocket-Book [Miss Kennedy, Sister-in-Law of Gavin Gamilton] Epitaph on Miss Jessy Lewars Impromptu (�How daur ye ca� me howlet-face...�) Awa, Whigs Address to the Shade of Thomson, on Crowning His Bust at Ednam, Roxburgh-Shire, with Bays Another (�O Lord, since we have feasted thus�) Epistle to John Rankine The Farewell. To the Brethren of St. James�s Lodge, Tarbolton To Miss Cruikshank 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 Sonnet on the Death of Robert Riddel, Esq. of Glenriddel To John M�Murdo, Esq. Rantin', Rovin' Robin Sketch Inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox �It was a� for Our Rightfu� King�� Monody on a Lady Famed for her Caprice Epitaph on a Wag in Mauchline Lines Written on a Tumbler Then Know this Truth, Ye Sons of Men! Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq On Robert Riddell To Mr. John Kennedy The Tailor Third Epistle to J. Lapraik Address, Spoken by Miss Fontenelle, on Her Benefit-night, December 4, 1793, at the Theatre, Dumfries The Last Braw Bridal That I Was at The Dean of Faculty Lines on an Interview with Lord Daer Had I the Wyte Lying at a Reverend Friend�s House One Night The Carle of Kellyburn Braes On the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair Prologue, Spoken at the Theatre, Dumfries, on New Year�s Day Evening [1790] Epistle to Mr. M'Adam, of Craigen-Gillan Polly Stewart Whare Hae Ye Been? To Miss Logan, with Beattie�s Poems, for a New Year�s Gift On Maria (�Praise Woman still,� his lordship roars�) On the Birth of a Posthumous Child, Born in Peculiar Circumstances of Family Distress Epitaph on Walter Riddell Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq Epistle to Robert Graham of Fintry The Deuk�s Dang O�er My Daddies I�ll Aye Ca� in by Yon Town On the Author Being Threatened with His Resentment Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper, Mauchline On a Swearing Coxcomb To Miss Ferrier, Enclosing Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair 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��) Fragment of an Ode to the Memory of Prince Charles Edward Stuart When Guildford Good Our Pilot Stood There�s a Youth in This City Epigram Written at Inverary Strathallan�s Lament O Can Ye Labour Lea, Young Man Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry (Late crippl�d of an arm...) John Bushby�s Lamentation. Third Ballad Poem, Addressed to Mr. Mitchell, Collector of Excise, Dumfries To Mr. Renton, Berwick To a Lady, with a Present of a Pair of Drinking Glasses 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 Tam the Chapman Epitaph on Gabriel Richardson On a Request of Chloris Grace after Meat On Edmund Burke by an Opponent and a Friend to Warren Hastings On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq. On James Gracie Dean of Guild for Dumfries On Mr. M�Murdo, Chamberlain to the Duke of Queensberry I Met a Lass, a Bonnie Lass Lines on Being Told that the Above Verses Would Affect his Prospects Extempore, on Mr. William Smellie, Author of the Philosophy of Natural History, and Member of the Antiquarian and Royal Societies of Edinburgh Verses to J. Rankine Written with a Pencil over the Chimney-piece in the Parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth Poetical Address to Mr. William Tytler, With the Present of the Poet�s Picture Fragment �Now health forsakes that angel face�� The Heather Was Blooming �There�ll Never be Peace till Jamie Comes Hame�� The Death of John M�Leod, Esq To Mr. Mackenzie, Surgeon, Mauchline Extemporaneous Effusion, on being Appointed to the Excise Lines Sent to Sir John Whiteford, of Whiteford, Bart Lines Written at Loudon Manse Verses Addressed to J. Rankine Epitaph on a Person Nicknamed �The Marquis,� Who Desired Burns to Write One on Him To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, Recommending A Boy Epitaph for J--- H--- Written in Air Impromptu on an Innkeeper Named Bacon, Who Intruded Himself Into All Companies 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 The Highland Lassie The Banks of Nith (THE THAMES flows proudly to the sea) O, Were I on Parnassus� Hill! Young Highland Rover Peg-A-Ramsey Verses to a Young Lady, Miss Graham of Fintry, with a Present of Songs Verses Intended to be Written Below a Noble Earl�s Picture The Bonnie Wee Thing The Rigs O� Barley Young Peggy Robin Shure in Hairst There�s News, Lasses Here�s His Health in Water! My Heart Was Ance Simmer�s a Pleasant Time Blythe Was She Whan I Sleep I Dream Gala Water One Night as I did Wander The Bonnie Lass of Albany A Prayer, under the Pressure of Violent Anguish O That I Had Ne�er Been Married Lassie Wi� the Lint-white Locks O Saw Ye My Dear I�m Owre Young to Marry Yet I See a Form, I See a Face Elegy On Stella Young Jamie, Pride of A� the Plain Caledonia Adown Winding Nith The Ploughman Amang the Trees Peggy�s Charms Raving Winds around Her Blowing Hee Balou Address to Beelzebub Come, Let Me Take Thee Tam Samson�s Elegy Now Spring Has Clad Charming Month of May Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald Blithe Hae I Been on Yon Hill Forlorn, my Love Behold the Hour Wee Willie Gray O Whare Bid Ye Get Lady Mary Ann Craigieburn Wood Could Aught of Song O Steer Her Up Address to General Dumourier I Dream�d I Lay Where Flowers Were Springing The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm My Chloris Frae the Friends and Land I Love Fairest Maid on Devon Banks Wilt Thou Be My Dearie? Where Are the Joys Lovely Davies Mark Yonder Pomp When First I Came to Stewart Kyle How Lang and Dreary Phillis the Fair When First I Saw O, Wat Ye Wha�s In Yon Town? Bessy and Her Spinnin� Wheel By Allan Stream The Rantin� Dog the Daddie O�t Stay My Charmer The Humble Petition of Bruar Water To the Same The First Psalm Sae Flaxen Were Her Daddie Forbad Bannocks o� Barley The Chevalier�s Lament Bonnie Peg Weary Fa� You, Duncan Gray I Gaed a Waefu' Gate Yestreen On a Bank of Flowers Canst Thou Leave Me Thus? Montgomerie�s Peggy O Wha is She that Lo�es Me? Sweet Fa�s the Eve The Ordination Lines Written in Friars-Carse Hermitage Epistle to John Lapraix, An Old Scottish Bard Stanzas on the Same Occasion To a Young Lady, Miss Jessy Lewars, Dumfries, with Books which the Bard Presented her Verses Written under Violent Grief The Day Returns Whistle Owre the Lave O�t The Carles of Dysart Nithsdale�s Welcome Hame Sae Far Awa It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonnie Face Why, Why Tell Thy Lover? O Bonnie Was Yon Rosy Brier As Down the Burn They Took Their Way Theniel Menzies� Bonnie Mary Goode�en to You, Kimmer Castle Gordon Farewell to Ballochmyle Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns My Wife�s a Winsome Wee Thing Katharine Jaffray Cock Up Your Beaver The Posies Eppie M�Nab Lady Onlie On Cessnock Banks Out Over The Forth Their Groves O� sweet Myrtle Farewell, Thou Stream Sleep�st Thou, or Wak�st Thou The Cardin� O�t The Cooper O� Cuddle The Flowery Banks of Cree The Lass of Ecclefechan All Poems 110777 Views Last Poems To Russian version


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