THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

ROBERT BURNS,

EDITED WITH NOTES

BY CHARLES KENT,

BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

IN THREE VOLUMES.-VOL. I.

NEW YORK:

JOHN B. ALDEN, PUBLISHER.

1884.

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B73
1894

The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm

Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet

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

Auld Mare Maggie

A Winter Night

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The Poet's Welcome to his Illegitimate Child

Epistle to John Rankine, enclosing some Poems

Death and Doctor Hornbook

The Twa Herds; or, The Holy Tulzie

Holy Willie's Prayer

Epitaph on Holy Willie

The Holy Fair.

Epistle to John Lapraik

Second Epistle to John Lapraik

To William Simpson, Ochiltree

Third Epistle to John Lapraik

Epistle to the Rev. John M⭑Math

Epistle to Mr. M'Adam, of Craigengillan

The Jolly Beggars, a Cantata

To a Mouse

Letter to James Tennant of Glenconner

On the Birth of a Posthumous Child

Epistle to James Smith

The Ordination

POEMS-Continued.

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Scotch Drink

116

The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer to the Scotch

Representatives in the House of Commons

The Cotter's Saturday Night

121

127

137

142

150

152

Epistle to John Goudie, Kilmarnock, on the Publication

of his Essays

177

Answer to a Poetical Epistle from a Tailor

179

Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous

Epistle to Gavin Hamilton, Esq., recommending a Boy 191

Epistle to a Young Friend

Verses left in the Room where the Poet Slept one Night

Tam Samson's Elegy

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On Willie Chalmers

Gift, January 1, 1787

The American War, a Fragment.

The Dean of Faculty, a New Ballad

Lines under the Portrait of Fergusson

Lines Written on a Bank-Note

On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies

To an Old Sweetheart after her Marriage

The Calf

The Brigs of Ayr

Lines on Meeting with Lord Daer

Epistle to Major William Logan

Address to Edinburgh

To Miss Logan, with Beattie's Poems as a New-Year's

215

216

217

218

220

223

234

236

239

241

243

244

246

248

POEMS-Continued.

Sketch of a Character

To Mrs. Scott of Wauchope.

Monday, April 16, 1787

Epistle to William Creech.

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248

249

Prologue, Spoken by Mr. Woods on his Benefit Night,

On Scaring some Water-Fowl in Loch-Turit

Lines Written with a Pencil over the Chimney-Piece in

the Parlor of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth

251

253

256

257

The Humble Petition of Bruar Water, to the Noble Duke

of Athole

261

Written with a pencil, standing by the Fall of Fyers,

near Loch-Ness .

264

Poetical Address to Mr. William Tytler

265

Elegy on the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq., of Arniston 267

To a Haggis

269

Verses on Reading in a Newspaper the Death of John

M'Leod, Esq.

271

To Clarinda .

272

To Clarinda, with a Present of a Pair of Drinking-Glasses 273

To Clarinda.

274

To Clarinda

274

Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair

Written in Friars-Carse Hermitage, on Nith-side

To Captain Riddel, of Glenriddel

275

278

281

Epistle to Hugh Parker

282

First Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry

A Mother's Lament for the Death of her Son

Elegy on the Year 1788

284

288

289

Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald of Auchin-

cruive

Fragment, Inscribed to the Right Hon. Charles James

Fox

292

On seeing a Wounded Hare limp by me, which a Fellow

On an Evening View of the Ruins of Lincluden Abbey

The Ruined Maid's Complaint

308

310

The Laddies by the Banks of Nith

311