Poems and Songs of Robert Burns | Page 6

On A Country Laird
(Cardoness)
Epigram on the Same Laird's Country Seat
Epigram on
Dr. Babinton's Looks
Epigram On A Suicide
Epigram On A
Swearing Coxcomb
Epigram On An Innkeeper Nicknamed (The
Marquis)
Epigram On Andrew Turner
Song - Pretty Peg
Esteem
For Chloris
Song - Saw Ye My Dear, My Philly
Song - How Lang
And Dreary Is The Night
Song - Inconstancy In Love
The Lover's
Morning Salute To His Mistress
Song - The Winter Of Life
Song -
Behold, My Love, How Green The Groves
Song - The Charming
Month Of May
Song - Lassie Wi' The Lint-White Locks
Dialogue
song-Philly And Willy
Song - Contented Wi' Little And Cantie Wi'
Mair
Song - Farewell Thou Stream
Song - Canst Thou Leave Me
Thus, My Katie
Song - My Nanie's Awa
Song - The Tear-Drop -
Wae is my heart
Song - For The Sake O' Somebody
1795
Song - A Man's A Man For A' That
The Solemn League And
Covenant
Lines to John Syme with a Dozen of Porter.
Inscription
On Mr. Syme's Crystal Goblet
Apology To Mr. Syme For Not Dining
with him
Epitaph For Mr. Gabriel Richardson
Epigram On Mr.
James Gracie
Song - Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay
Inscription At Friars'
Carse Hermitage
Song - Fragment - There Was A Bonie Lass
Song
- Fragment - Wee Willie Gray
Song - O Aye My Wife She Dang Me

Song - Gude Ale Keeps The Heart Aboon

Song - O Steer Her Up
An' Haud Her Gaun
Song - The Lass O' Ecclefechan
Song - O Let
Me In Thes Ae Night
Song - I'll Aye Ca' In By Yon Town
Ballads
on Mr. Heron's Election- Ballad First
Ballads on Mr. Heron's
Election- Ballad Second
Ballads on Mr. Heron's Election- Ballad
Third
Inscription For An Altar Of Independence
Song - The Cardin
O't, The Spinnin O't
Song - The Cooper O' Cuddy
Song - The Lass

That Made The Bed To Me
Song - Had I The Wyte? She Bade Me

Song - Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?
Song - Address To The
Woodlark
Song.- On Chloris Being Ill
Song - How Cruel Are The
Parents
Song - Yonder Pomp Of Costly Fashion
Song - 'Twas Na
Her Bonie Blue E'e
Song - Their Groves O'Sweet Myrtle
Song -
Forlorn, My Love, No Comfort Near
Song - Fragment,-Why, Why
Tell The Lover
Song - The Braw Wooer
Song - This Is No My Ain
Lassie
Song - O Bonie Was Yon Rosy Brier
Song - Song Inscribed
To Alexander Cunningham
Song - O That's The Lassie O' My Heart
Inscription to Chloris
Song - Fragment.-The Wren's Nest
Song -
News, Lassies, News
Song - Crowdie Ever Mair
Song - Mally's
Meek, Mally's Sweet
Song - Jockey's Taen The Parting Kiss
Verses
To Collector Mitchell
1796
The Dean Of Faculty
Epistle To Colonel De Peyster
Song - A Lass
Wi' A Tocher
Song - The Trogger.
Complimentary Versicles To
Jessie Lewars
1. The Toast
2. The Menagerie
3. Jessie's illness

4. On Her Recovery
Song - O Lay Thy Loof In Mine, Lass
Song -
A Health To Ane I Loe Dear
Song - O Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast

Inscription To Miss Jessy Lewars
Song - Fairest Maid On Devon
Banks
Glossary
Etext of Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns
by Robert Burns
Preface
Robert Burns was born near Ayr, Scotland, 25th of January, 1759. He
was the son of William Burnes, or Burness, at the time of the poet's
birth a nurseryman on the banks of the Doon in Ayrshire. His father,
though always extremely poor, attempted to give his children a fair
education, and Robert, who was the eldest, went to school for three
years in a neighboring village, and later, for shorter periods, to three

other schools in the vicinity. But it was to his father and to his own
reading that he owed the more important part of his education; and by
the time that he had reached manhood he had a good knowledge of
English, a reading knowledge of French, and a fairly wide acquaintance
with the masterpieces of English literature from the time of
Shakespeare to his own day. In 1766 William Burness rented on
borrowed money the farm of Mount Oliphant, and in taking his share in
the effort to make this undertaking succeed, the future poet seems to
have seriously overstrained his physique. In 1771 the family move to
Lochlea, and Burns went to the neighboring town of Irvine to learn
flax-dressing. The only result of this experiment, however, was the
formation of an acquaintance with a dissipated sailor, whom he
afterward blamed as the prompter of his first licentious adventures. His
father died in 1784, and with his brother Gilbert the poet rented the
farm of Mossgiel; but this venture was as unsuccessful as the others.
He had meantime formed an irregular intimacy with Jean Armour, for
which he was censured by the Kirk-session. As a result of his farming
misfortunes, and the attempts of his father-in-law to overthrow his
irregular marriage with Jean, he resolved to emigrate; and in order to
raise money for the passage he published (Kilmarnock, 1786) a volume
of the poems which he had been composing from time to time for some
years. This volume