Introduction

CONTENTS

Song-Handsome Nell.

1773-1779.

Song-O Tibbie, I hae seen the day

Song-I dream'd I lay.

Song-In the Character of a Ruined Farmer

Tragic Fragment-All villain as I am

The Tarbolton Lasses

Ah, woe is me, my Mother dear

Song-Montgomerie's Peggy

The Ploughman's Life.

Winter: A Dirge

1781.

A Prayer under the Pressure of Violent Anguish

Paraphrase of the First Psalm .

The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm versified

A Prayer in the Prospect of Death

Stanzas, on the same Occasion

Fickle Fortune: A Fragment

1782.

Song-Raging Fortune: A Fragment.

I'll go and be a Sodger

Song-No Churchman am I

My Father was a Farmer: A Ballad

John Barleycorn: A Ballad

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Song O Leave Novels !

My Girl she's Airy: A Fragment

The Belles of Mauchline L

Ballad on the American War

Reply to an Announcement by J.

Epistle to John Rankine

Rankine

A Poet's Welcome to his Love-Begotten Daughter

The Mauchline Lady: A Fragment

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Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic

Epitaph on a Henpecked Squire

Epigram on the said Occasion

Another

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On Tam the Chapman

Epitaph on John Rankine

Lines on the Author's Death

Man was made to Mourn: A Dirge

The Twa Herds; or, The Holy Tulyie

Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet

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1785.

Holy Willie's Prayer

Epitaph on Holy Willie

Death and Dr Hornbook

Epistle to J. Lapraik

Fragment of Song-"My Jean!"

Second Epistle to J. Lapraik

Epistle to William Simson w

One Night as I did Wander

Song-Rantin, Rovin Robin

Epistle to John Goldie, in Kilmarnock

The Holy Fair .

Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux

The Auld Farmer's New-Year-Morning Salutation to his

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To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, recommending a Boy

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Versified Reply to an Invitation

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Song-Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary?

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Versified Note to Dr Mackenzie, Mauchline

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The Farewell to the Brethren of St James's Lodge, Tarbolton

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On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies L

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Song-Farewell to Eliza

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A Bard's Epitaph

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Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq.

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Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq.

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Epitaph on "Wee Johnie "

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The Lass o' Ballochmyle

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Motto prefixed to the Author's first Publication

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Lines to Mr John Kennedy

Lines to an Old Sweetheart

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Lines written on a Bank-note

Stanzas on Naething

The Calf

Nature's Law: A Poem

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Reply to a Trimming Epistle, received from a Tailor

Fragment of Song-The Night was Still

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Address to the Toothache

Lines on Meeting with Lord Daer

Masonic Song Ye Sons of Old Killie.

Tam Samson's Elegy

Epistle to Major Logan

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Fragment on Sensibility

A Winter Night

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Song-Yon Wild Mossy Mountains

Address to Edinburgh

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Address to a Haggis

Prologue, spoken by Mr Woods at Edinburgh

Song-The Bonie Moor-hen

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