The Poetical Works of Robert Burns

THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

ROBERT BURNS.

WITH A SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE,

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOLUME II.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY.

NEW YORK: BLAKEMAN AND MASON.

CINCINNATI: RICKEY AND CARROLL.

M.DCCC.LXIII.

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:

STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON

CONTENTS

THE SECOND VOLUME.

OF

The Italic letters indicate the publication in which the

several compositions respectively appeared: see note prefixed

to the Contents of Volume I.

The Holy Fair

On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies

A Bard's Epitaph

Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq.

Farewell to the Brethren of St. James's Lodge, Tor-

bolton

On a Procession of the St. James's Lodge

The Sons of Old Killie

SONG

The Bonnie Lass o' Ballochmyle

Lines written on a Bank-note

Written on a Blank Leaf of his Poems

Verses written under Violent Grief

The Calf.

Willie Chalmers

Tam Samson's Elegy

To Mr. M'Adam of Craigengillan .

Verses written at Mr. Lawrie's

SONG The Gloomy Night is Gathering Fast

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Lines on Meeting with Basil, Lord Daer

Epistle to Major Logan

Expostulation on a Rebuke administered by Mrs. Lawrie

Address to Edinburgh

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Ode on the Chevalier's Birthday

To Miss Logan, with Beattie's Poems

Bonny Doon

SONG

The Gudewife of Wauchope-House to Burns
Burns to the Gudewife of Wauchope-House
William Smellie

Rattlin', Roarin' Willie

Inscription for the Grave of Fergusson

Verses under the Portrait of Fergusson

Verses intended to be Written below a noble Earl's

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SONG

SONG - The Bonny Lass of Albany

On Scaring some Water-fowl in Loch Turit
SONG Blithe was She

The Rose-bud .

To Miss Cruikshank, a very Young Lady

SONG - Where braving Angry Winter's Storms

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Picture

Fragment The American War ("When Guildford

good")

To a Haggis

Extempore in the Court of Session

Prologue at Mr. Woods's Benefit.

Verses to Creech (“Willie's Awa’”)

Epigram, on Incivility at Inverary

Epigram, on Kindness shown in the Highlands

Verses on the Death of John M'Leod, Esq.

On the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair

To Miss Ferrier

Verses in the Inn at Kenmore

The Birks of Aberfeldy.

Humble Petition of Bruar Water

SONG

Verses at Fall of Fyers

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Address to Mr. William Tytler

SONG - On a Young Lady residing on the Banks of

the Devon, etc.

Elegy on the Death of President Dundas

A Farewell to Clarinda

Contributions to the Second Volume of Johnson's

Museum

Whistle and I'll come to you, my Lad

Macpherson's Farewell

Stay, my Charmer

Strathallan's Lament

The Young Highland Rover

Raving Winds around her Blowing

Musing on the Roaring Ocean

Bonny Peggy Alison

To Clarinda, with a pair of Drinking-glasses

The Chevalier's Lament

Epistle to Hugh Parker

SONG I love my Jean

SONG - Oh, were I on Parnassus' Hill

Verses in Friars' Carse Hermitage

First Epistle to Mr. Graham of Fintry

Mrs. Fergusson's Lament for the Death of her Son

The Lazy Mist

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SONG

SONG - Auld Lang Syne

I ha'e a Wife o' my ain

SONG - My Bonny Mary.

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Lines in Friars' Carse Hermitage (extended copy). c 163

Elegy on the Year 1788

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A Sketch Satirical Verses on Creech

168

Extempore to Captain Riddel, on returning a News-

paper

Ode on Mrs. Oswald.

To John Taylor

Sketch-Inscribed to Charles James Fox

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