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THE
POETICAL WORKS
OF
ROBERT BURNS
EDITED, WITH A CRITICAL MEMOIR,
BY
WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSETTI.
ILLUSTRATED BY
JOHN MOYR SMITH.
BIBLIJIHER
OCT 80
BODLEIANA
LONDON:
WARD, LOCK, & CO., WARWICK HOUSE.
DORSET BUILDINGS, SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C.
280.
90. j. 680 j.683.
A Prayer, under the Pressure of Violent Anguish
The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, the Author's only Pet Yowe
Oh why the Deuce should I Repine?
The Belles of Mauchline
A Prayer in the Prospect of Death
Stanzas on the same occasion
The First Psalm
The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm
Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux.
Mauchline Belles
Death and Dr. Hornbook
The Twa Herds; or, The Holy Tulzie
Holy Willie's Prayer
Epitaph on Holy Willie
To a Mouse, on turning up her Nest with the Plough, November 1785
Halloween
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Remorse
Answer to a Poetical Epistle sent to the Author by a Tailor
The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer to the Scotch Representatives in
the House of Commons
The Auld Farmer's New-Year Morning Salutation to his Auld Mare
Maggie, on giving her the accustomed Rip of Corn to Hansel in
the New-Year
The Twa Dogs
To a Louse, on seeing one on a Lady's Bonnet at Church
Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous
The Inventory, in answer to a Mandate by the Surveyor of Taxes
To a Mountain Daisy, on turning one down with the Plough in April
1786
Lament, occasioned by the Unfortunate Issue of a Friend's Amour
Despondency
Verses on a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies
A Bard's Epitaph
A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq.
Invitation to a Medical Gentleman to attend a Masonic Anniversary
Meeting
The Farewell
Lines written on a Bank-Note
Verses to an Old Sweetheart after her Marriage
Verses written under Violent Grief
The Calf
Willie Chalmers
Tam Samson's Elegy
A Prayer left by the Author at a Reverend Friend's House in the Room
where he slept
119
To Mrs. C, on receiving a Work of Hannah More's.
129
To Miss Logan, with Beattie's Poems as a New-Year's Gift, Jan. 1, 1787
Verses intended to be written below a noble Earl's Picture
130
To a Haggis .
131
Prologue spoken by Mr. Woods on his Benefit Night, Monday, April
Verses on Reading in a Newspaper the Death of John M'Leod, Esq.
Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair
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