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 Scotch Drink 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 Poortith Cauld To a Louse The Selkirk Grace Fareweel To A'Our Scottish Fame �O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast�� Lord Gregory A Bottle and Friend Epithalamium Jean The Lass That Made the Bed to Me Raging Fortune To a Mountain Daisy, On Turning One Down With The Plough, In April, 1786 Nature�s Law The Tree of Liberty Address to the Deil Address to Edinburgh Sweetest May Address to the Toothache A Rose-Bud by My Early Walk I Hae a Wife Wha Is That At My Bower Door? The Vision Willie Brewed My Harry Was a Gallant Gay �O Whistle, and I�ll Come to You, My Lad�� Lines A Vision Count the Lawin Afton Water The Author�s Earnest Cry and Prayer to the Scotch Representatives in the House of Commons The Cotter�s Saturday Night Duncan Gray A Farewell My Father Was a Farmer A Bard's Epitaph The Ploughman's Life O Mally�s Meek, Mally�s Sweet Country Lassie The Heron Ballads. First Ballad The Birks of Aberfeldy Farewell to Eliza Ye Banks and Braes To an Artist New-Year Day Man Was Made To Mourn O Aye My Wife She Dang Me The Farewell (Farewell, old Scotia�s bleak domains) Epistle to a Young Friend The Book-Worms A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq. Answer to Verses Addressed to the Poet by the Guidwipe of Wauchope-House Wandering Willie Highland Mary The Holy Fair Poverty The Toadeater There Was a Bonnie Lass Dainty Davie There Was a Lass, They Ca'd Her Meg The Poet�s Welcome to His Love-Begotten Daughter My Hoggie Holy Willie's Prayer �Green Grow the Rashes O�� The Sailor�s Song Despondency The Battle of Sherramuir �Go Fetch to Me a Pint o' Wine...� How Cruel are the Parents Had I a Cave The Lazy Mist As I Was a Wandering On Seeing a Wounded Hare Limp by Me, Which a Fellow Had Just Shot at On Stirling Banks of Devon The Brigs of Ayr Inscription on the Tombstone Erected By Burns To The Memory Of Gergusson Epitaph on the Poet�s Daughter My Bottle The Lament A Prayer in the Prospect of Death Last May a Braw Wooer Hey, the Dusty Miller Lines Written on a Pane of Glass in the Inn at Noffat �Twas Na Her Bonnie Blue Ee Elegy On The Death of Peg Nicholson Libertie A Jeremiad Gloomy December Ye Jacobites by Name The Rights of Woman The Gloomy Night In Vain Would Prudence On a Friend My Lady�s Gown There�s Gairs Upon�t To James Smith Hey For a Lass Wi� a Tocher The Twa Herds Will Ye Go to the Indies, My Mary The Collier Laddie Musing on the Roaring Ocean Sonnet on Hearing a Thrush Sing in a Morning Walk in January I Burn, I Burn The Auld Farmer�s New-Year Morning Salutation to His Auld Mare Maggie On Hearing that there was Falsehood in the Reverend Doctor Babington�s Very Looks A Mother�s Lament for the Death of Her Son To the Woodlark Jockey�s Ta�en the Parting Kiss Lament of Mary Queen of Scots The Deil�s awa� wi� the Exciseman Ca� the Yowes Now Westlin Winds Yon Wild Mossy Mountains Heres�s To Thy Health, My Bonnie Lass! Here�s a Health To Them That�s Awa Thou Hast Left Me Ever, Jamie To Mary in Heaven Mary Morison Willie Chalmers O Tibbie, I Hae Seen the Day On the Seas and Far Away The Slave�s Lament O Guid Ale Comes A Grace Before Dinner O Lassie, Art Thou Sleeping Yet? To Alex Cunningham, Esq., Writer Epigram (�When �� , deceased, to the devil went down��) Lines Written on a Bank-Note Epitaph on a Suicide Louis, What Reck I by Thee? A Sonnet Upon Sonnets The Henpeck�d Husband The Winter It Is Past Meg o� the Mill On Seeing Miss Fontenelle in a Favourite Character The Gallant Weaver To John Taylor Inscription for an Altar to Independence, at Kerroughtry, Seat of Mr. Heron, Written in Summer, 1795 The Caird�s Second Song Gude Wallace On the Late Captain Grose�s Peregrinations Epigram on a Noted Coxcomb Naething (Probably Addressed to Gavin Hamilton, 1786) The Calf O Why the Deuce Written on the Blank Leaf of a Copy of the First Edition of his Poems, Presented to an Old Sweetheart, then Married Written with a Pencil, Standing by the Fall of Fyers, Near Loch-Ness Husband, Husband, Cease Your Strife Tam Glen Epigram on Said Occasion On Wm. Graham, Esq., of Mossknowe 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 O Leave Novels Ye Hae Lien A� Wrang, Lassie Though Fickle Fortune Epigram on the Roads between Kilmarnock and Stewarton Willie's Wife The Lass o� Ballochmyle My Peggy�s Face The Blude Red Rose at Yule May Blaw On Being Shewn a Beautiful Country Seat Verses Written on a Window of the Inn at Carron The Banks of Nith (To thee, lov�d Nith, thy gladsome plains) The Belles of Mauchline On Seeing the Beautiful Seat of Lord Galloway O Wat Ye What My Minnie Did Bonnie Bell Epitaph on a Shoolmaster. In Cleish Parish, Kinross-Shire Coming Through the Rye To the Beautiful Eliza J �� n The Whistle To Mr. Gow, Visiting Dumfries To Ruin Damon and Sylvia Reply to the Minister of Gladsmuir Epitaph on a Henpecked Country Squire My Nannie's Awa O, for ane an� Twenty, Tam! The Highland Laddie A Poetical Epistle to a Tailor On Andrew Turner The Kirk of Lamington Deluded Swain On a Certain Commemoration Epitaph on James Grieve, Laird of Boghead Epitaph on Holy Willie On Highland Hospitality On Sensibility Epitaph on Wee Johnny On Commissary Goldie�s Brains A Fragment (�No cold approach, no altered mien��) Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet The Inventory Rattlin�, Roarin� Willie I Do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair Jamie, Come Try Me An Excellent New Song. Fourth Ballad (May 1796) Landlady, Count the Lawin To William Simpson The Mauchline Wedding Impromptu, on Mrs. Riddel�s Birthday, in November Prayer for Mary On Scaring Some Water Fowl In Loch-Turit, a Wild Scene Among the Hills of Ochtertyre Epigram on Elphinstone�s Translation of Martial�s Epigrams Let Not Woman E�er Complain On Creech the Bookseller An� O! My Eppie Epitaph on My Father Letter to John Goudie, Kilmarnock, on the Publication of His Essays When I Think on the Happy Days Song of Death Tho� Cruel Fate Extempore. On Passing a Lady�s Carriage Lines Written on a Window, at the King�s Arms Tavern, Dumfries The Captain�s Lady Inscribed on a Tavern Window On Maria Dancing Address to the Unco Guid, Or the Rigidly Righteous Verses on the Destruction of the Woods near Drumlanrig 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 Sent to a Gentleman whom He had Offended But Lately Seen The Following Poem was Written to a Gentleman who had Sent him a Newspaper, and Offered to Continue it Free of Expense Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic O Lay Thy Loof in Mine, Lass Lines Inscribed on a Platter She�s Fair and Fause Prologue for Mr. Sutherland�s Benefit-Night, Dumfries My Nannie O Bonnie Lesley Epigram on Captain Francis Grose, the Celebrated Antiquary The Election. Second Ballad The Tither Morn There Came a Piper out o� Fife Lines under the Picture of Miss Burns 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 Adam Armour�s Prayer Thanksgiving for Victory On Glenriddell�s Fox Breaking His Chain Does Haughty Gaul Poor Mailie�s Elegy Here Stewarts Once In Triumph Reigned On Lord Galloway (�No Stewart art thou, Galloway...�) Auld Rob Morris To the Rev. John M�Math Elegy on the Year 1788 Another Epigram On a Country Laird Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair On Pastoral Poetry Ye Sons of Old Killie. A Masonic Song Come Boat Me O�er to Charlie Epistle from Esopus to Maria On Miss J. Scott, of Ayr Wae Is My Heart The Lovely Lass of Inverness Logan Braes The Kirk�s Alarm Fragmentary Verses. 3. �He looks as sign-board Lions do�� There Was a Lass, and She Was Fair Scroggam The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, The Author�s Only Pet Yowe Prologue, Spoken by Mr. Woods, on His Benefit-Night, Monday, April 16. 1787 To Mr. Syme, with a Present of a Dozen of Porter To Captain Riddel, Glenriddel Extempore in the Court of Session The Toast On the Death of a Lap-dog: Named Echo The Tarbolton Lasses (�In Tarbolton ken, there are proper young men��) Fragmentary Verses. 1. �His face with smile eternal drest�� The Fête Champêtre To a Lady who Was Looking up the Text during Sermon Young Jockey Inscription on a Goblet Addressed to a Lady Whom the Author Feared He Had Offended The Highland Widow�s Lament To Dr. Blacklock Grace before Meat On Johnson�s Opinion of Hampden No Churchman am I Jenny M�Craw, She Has Ta�en to the Heather Tragic Fragment Another (�Lord, we thank an� thee adore�) On Mr. W. Cruikshank of the High School, Edinburgh Rantin', Rovin' Robin Fragmentary Verses. 2. �A head pure, sinless quite, of brain or soul...� To Terraughty, on His Birthday The Tailor Fell Thro� the Bed... Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux Remorse Epistle to Major Logan O Gie My Love Brose, Brose Captain Grose Epitaph on a Celebrated Ruling Elder Verses Written under the Portrait of Fergusson The Recovery of Miss Jessy Lewars Tibbie Dunbar Elegy on Capt. Matthew Henderson Sketch To Dr. Maxwell, on Miss Jessy Staig�s Recovery Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn To Robert Graham, Esq. of Fintry, on Receiving a Favour Sir John Cope Trode the North Right Far Epistle to Colonel de Peyster Epitaph on John Bushby, Writer, Dumfries �Open the Door to Me, Oh!� Lines Written Extempore in a Lady's Pocket-Book [Miss Kennedy, Sister-in-Law of Gavin Gamilton] Letter to James Tennant of Glenconner Epitaph on Miss Jessy Lewars On Himself (�Here comes Burns...�) Epitaph on William Nicol, of the High School, Edinburgh �Contented wi� Little�� The Solemn League and Covenant Lines Written and Presented to Mrs. Kemble, on Seeing her in the Character of Yarico in the Dumfies Theatre, 1794 The Tarbolton Lasses (�If �e gae up to yon hill-tap��) The Farewell. To the Brethren of St. James�s Lodge, Tarbolton Awa, Whigs Sketch Inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox Another (�O Lord, since we have feasted thus�) Additional Stanzas to a Song Written by Clarinda Address to the Shade of Thomson, on Crowning His Bust at Ednam, Roxburgh-Shire, with Bays Sonnet on the Death of Robert Riddel, Esq. of Glenriddel Epistle to John Rankine Impromptu (�How daur ye ca� me howlet-face...�) Epitaph on a Wag in Mauchline 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 To Miss Cruikshank Monody on a Lady Famed for her Caprice The Tailor To Mr. John Kennedy To John M�Murdo, Esq. Then Know this Truth, Ye Sons of Men! On Robert Riddell Lines Written on a Tumbler Epistle to Mr. M'Adam, of Craigen-Gillan �It was a� for Our Rightfu� King�� Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq Prologue, Spoken at the Theatre, Dumfries, on New Year�s Day Evening [1790] Had I the Wyte Third Epistle to J. Lapraik Address, Spoken by Miss Fontenelle, on Her Benefit-night, December 4, 1793, at the Theatre, Dumfries Lines on an Interview with Lord Daer Lying at a Reverend Friend�s House One Night The Dean of Faculty On the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair To Miss Logan, with Beattie�s Poems, for a New Year�s Gift The Carle of Kellyburn Braes Polly Stewart On the Birth of a Posthumous Child, Born in Peculiar Circumstances of Family Distress The Last Braw Bridal That I Was at Epistle to Robert Graham of Fintry On Maria (�Praise Woman still,� his lordship roars�) Epitaph on Walter Riddell Whare Hae Ye Been? I�ll Aye Ca� in by Yon Town Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq On the Author Being Threatened with His Resentment To*** (�Sir, Yours this moment I unseal��) Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper, Mauchline The Deuk�s Dang O�er My Daddies When Guildford Good Our Pilot Stood Strathallan�s Lament On a Swearing Coxcomb To Miss Ferrier, Enclosing Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair Grace after Meat O Can Ye Labour Lea, Young Man Extempore to Mr. Syme, on Refusing to Dine with Him, after Having Been Promised the First of Company, and the First of Cookery Fragment of an Ode to the Memory of Prince Charles Edward Stuart There�s a Youth in This City Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry (Late crippl�d of an arm...) Epigram Written at Inverary John Bushby�s Lamentation. Third Ballad 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 Poem, Addressed to Mr. Mitchell, Collector of Excise, Dumfries Tam the Chapman On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq. On James Gracie Dean of Guild for Dumfries On Miss Jessy Lewars Epitaph on Gabriel Richardson I Met a Lass, a Bonnie Lass On Mr. M�Murdo, Chamberlain to the Duke of Queensberry On a Request of Chloris Lines on Being Told that the Above Verses Would Affect his Prospects On Edmund Burke by an Opponent and a Friend to Warren Hastings 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 The Heather Was Blooming Fragment �Now health forsakes that angel face�� �There�ll Never be Peace till Jamie Comes Hame�� To Mr. Mackenzie, Surgeon, Mauchline Lines Written at Loudon Manse Extemporaneous Effusion, on being Appointed to the Excise The Death of John M�Leod, Esq To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, Recommending A Boy Lines Sent to Sir John Whiteford, of Whiteford, Bart Epitaph on a Person Nicknamed �The Marquis,� Who Desired Burns to Write One on Him Verses Addressed to J. Rankine 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 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 On Chloris Being Ill Kenmure�s on and awa Epitaph on Robert Muir Sae Fair Her Hair Death and Doctor Hornbook Ah, Chloris Evan Banks The Joyful Widower O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair Bonnie Ann O, Once I Lov�d a Bonnie Lass The Weary Pund O� tow Young Highland Rover The Banks of Nith (THE THAMES flows proudly to the sea) Verses to a Young Lady, Miss Graham of Fintry, with a Present of Songs The Highland Lassie Peg-A-Ramsey My Heart Was Ance The Bonnie Wee Thing I Dream�d I Lay Where Flowers Were Springing Tam Samson�s Elegy There�s News, Lasses O, Were I on Parnassus� Hill! Gala Water Robin Shure in Hairst The Rigs O� Barley Verses Intended to be Written Below a Noble Earl�s Picture Blythe Was She Simmer�s a Pleasant Time Young Peggy O Steer Her Up Here�s His Health in Water! One Night as I did Wander My Wife�s a Winsome Wee Thing The Bonnie Lass of Albany I See a Form, I See a Face Whan I Sleep I Dream Stay My Charmer The Rantin� Dog the Daddie O�t Canst Thou Leave Me Thus? Her Daddie Forbad How Lang and Dreary Fairest Maid on Devon Banks Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald Mark Yonder Pomp Come, Let Me Take Thee O Saw Ye My Dear Sae Flaxen Were The Carles of Dysart Elegy On Stella Could Aught of Song A Prayer, under the Pressure of Violent Anguish I�m Owre Young to Marry Yet Stanzas on the Same Occasion Montgomerie�s Peggy It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonnie Face Caledonia The Ploughman Address to General Dumourier Cock Up Your Beaver O That I Had Ne�er Been Married Bonnie Peg Lassie Wi� the Lint-white Locks Adown Winding Nith When First I Came to Stewart Kyle The Humble Petition of Bruar Water Weary Fa� You, Duncan Gray Whistle Owre the Lave O�t Peggy�s Charms Their Groves O� sweet Myrtle Farewell, Thou Stream Young Jamie, Pride of A� the Plain Nithsdale�s Welcome Hame Why, Why Tell Thy Lover? Address to Beelzebub The Lass of Ecclefechan Behold the Hour The Ordination To a Young Lady, Miss Jessy Lewars, Dumfries, with Books which the Bard Presented her Amang the Trees Craigieburn Wood Out Over The Forth Sleep�st Thou, or Wak�st Thou Sae Far Awa By Allan Stream Lovely Davies On Cessnock Banks Lady Mary Ann Charming Month of May O Whare Bid Ye Get Frae the Friends and Land I Love Now Spring Has Clad Raving Winds around Her Blowing Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns The First Psalm The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm The Flowery Banks of Cree Where Are the Joys The Posies Forlorn, my Love Wilt Thou Be My Dearie? Hee Balou Goode�en to You, Kimmer Wee Willie Gray Lines Written in Friars-Carse Hermitage Epistle to John Lapraix, An Old Scottish Bard Bannocks o� Barley O Wha is She that Lo�es Me? Blithe Hae I Been on Yon Hill To the Same My Chloris The Chevalier�s Lament Castle Gordon Verses Written under Violent Grief Katharine Jaffray When First I Saw Eppie M�Nab Bessy and Her Spinnin� Wheel The Cooper O� Cuddle Farewell to Ballochmyle I Gaed a Waefu' Gate Yestreen On a Bank of Flowers Lady Onlie O, Wat Ye Wha�s In Yon Town? Phillis the Fair As Down the Burn They Took Their Way The Day Returns O Bonnie Was Yon Rosy Brier Sweet Fa�s the Eve Theniel Menzies� Bonnie Mary The Cardin� O�t All Poems 112742 Views Last Poems To Russian version


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