John M’Math
Epistle to William Simson
Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq.
Epitaph for James Smith
Epitaph for Mr. Gabriel Richardson, Brewer
Epitaph for Mr. W. Cruickshank
Epitaph for Mr. Walter Riddell
Epitaph for Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster
Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq.
Epitaph for William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh
Epitaph on “Wee Johnnie”
Epitaph on a Henpecked Squire
Epitaph on a Lap-dog
Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic
Epitaph on a noted coxcomb
Epitaph on Captain Lascelles
Epitaph on Holy Willie
Epitaph on James Grieve
Epitaph on John Busby, Esq., Tinwald Downs
Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper
Epitaph on John Rankine
Epitaph on my Ever Honoured Father
Epitaph on the same
Epitaph on William Hood, Senior
Epitaph on William Muir
Epitaph on Wm. Graham, Esq., of Mossknowe
Esteem for Chloris
Extemporaneous Effusion on being appointed to an Excise Division
Extempore in the Court of Session
Extempore on some commemorations of Thomson
Extempore Reply to an Invitation
Fairest Maid on Devon’s Banks (Song)
Farewell thou stream that winding flows (Song)
Farewell to Ballochmyle (Song)
Farewell to Eliza (Song)
Farewell to the Banks of Ayr (Song)
Farewell to the Highlands (Song)
Fickle Fortune: A Fragment
For a’ that (Song)
For the sake o’ Somebody (Song)
Forlorn, my love, no comfort here (Song)
Frae the friends and land I love (Song)
Fragment on Sensibility
Go on, Sweet Bird, and Soothe my Care (Song)
Grace before and after Meat
Green Grow the Rashes (Song)
Gudewife, count the lawin (Song)
Guid ale keeps the heart aboon (Song)
Had I a cave (Song)
Had I the wyte, she bade me (Song)
Halloween
Handsome Nell (Song)
Her Flwoing Locks (Fragment of a Song)
Here’s his Health in Water
Here’s to thy health, my bonie lass (Song)
Hey, the Dusty Miller (Song)
Highland Harry back again (Song)
Highland Mary (Song)
Holy Willie’s Prayer
How cruel are the parents (Song)
How lang and dreary is the night (Song)
How Long and Dreary is the Night (Song)
I do confess thou art sae fair (Song)
I dream’d I lay (Song)
I Gaed a Waefu’ Gate Yestreen (Song)
I hae a Wife o’ my Ain (Song)
I hae been at Crookieden (Song)
I Love my Love in Secret (Song)
I Murder hate (Song)
I Reign in Jeanie’s Bosom (Song)
I’ll aye ca’ in by yon town (Song)
I’ll go and be a Sodger
I’ll meet thee on the Lea Rig (Song)
I’m O’er Young to Marry yet (Song)
Impromptu Lines to Captain Riddell
Impromptu on Carron Iron Works
Impromptu on Dumourier’s Desertion of the French Republican Army
Impromptu on Mrs. Riddell’s Birthday
In the Character of a Ruined Farmer (Song)
Inconstancy in love (Song)
Indeed will I, quo’ Findlay (Song)
Inscribed on a Work of Hannah More’s
Inscription at Friars’ Carse Hermitage
Inscription for an Alter of Independence
Inscription for the Headstone of Fergusson the Poet
inscription on Mr. Syme’s crystal goblet
Inscription to Chloris
Inscription to Jessie Lewars
Inscription to Miss Graham of Fintry
It is na, Jean, thy Bonie Face (Song)
It was a’ for our rightfu’ King (Song)
Jamie, Come Try Me (Song)
Jockie’s taen the parting Kiss (Song)
John Anderson, My Jo (Song)
John Barleycorn: A Ballad
Johnie lad, Cock up your Beaver (Fragment of a Song)
Kellyburn Braes (Song)
Kenmure’s on and awa, Willie (Song)
Kissing my Katie (Song)
Lady Mary Ann (Song)
Lady Onlie, Honest Luckie (Song)
Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn
Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots
Lassie wi’ the Lint-white Locks (Song)
Leezie Lindsay (Fragment of a Song)
Lines Inscribed in a Lady’s Pocket Almanack
Lines Inscribed under Fergusson’s Portrait
Lines of John M’Murdo, Esq.
Lines on Fergusson, the Poet
Lines on Meeting with Lord Daer
Lines on the Author’s Death
Lines on the Fall of Fyers
Lines to a Gentleman who sent a Newspaper
Lines to an Old Sweetheart
Lines to John M’Murdo of Drumlanrig
Lines to John Syme, Esq., with a dozen of Porter
Lines to Mr. John Kennedy
Lines to Sir John Whitefoord, Bart
Lines written on a Bank-note
Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns
Logan Braes (Song)
Lord Gregory: A Ballad
Love for love (Fragment of a Song)
Love in the Guise of Friendship (Song)
Lovely Polly Stewart (Song)
Lovely young Jessie (Song)
M’Pherson’s Farewell (Song)
Mally’s meek, Mally’s sweet (Song)
Man was made to Mourn: A Dirge
Mary Morison (Song)
Masonic Song — Ye Sons of Old Killie
Meg o’ the Mill (Another Version) (Song)
Meg o’ the Mill (Song)
Monody on a Lady, famed for her Caprice
Montgomerie’s Peggy (Song)
Motto prefixed to the Author’s first Publication
Mr. William Smellie: A Sketch
My Bonie Bell (Song)
My Bonie Mary (Song)
My Collier Laddie (Song)
My Eppie Adair (Song)
My Eppie Macnab (Song)
My Father was a Farmer: A Ballad
My Girl she’s Airy: A Fragment
My Highland Lassie, O
My Hoggie (Song)
My Jean! (Fragment of a Song)
My Lord a-Hunting he is gane (Song)
My Love she’s but a Lassie yet (Song)
My Nanie, O! (Song)
My Nanie’s awa (Song)
My Native Land sae far awa (Song)
My Peggy’s Charms (Song)
My Spouse Nancy (Song)
My Tocher’s the Jewel (Song)
My Wife’s a winsome wee thing (Song)
Nature’s Law: A Poem
News, lassies, news (Song)
Nithdale’s Welcome Hame (Song)
No Churchman am I (Song)
No cold approach (Fragment of a Song)
Note to Mr. Renton of Lamerton
Now Spring has clad the grove in green (Song)
O aye my wife she dang me (Song)
O bonie was yon rosy Brier (Song)
O can ye Labour Lea? (Song)
O for ane an’ twenty, Tam (Song)
O lay thy loof in mine, lass (Song)
O Leave Novels! (Song)
O let me in this ae night (Song)
O May, thy Morn (Song)
O that’s the lassie o’ my heart (Song)
O Tibbie, I hae seen the day (Song)
O wat ye wha’s in yon town (Song)
O were I on Parnassus Hill (Song)
O were my love you lilac fair (Song)
O wert thou in the cauld blast (Song)
Ode for General Washington’s Birthday
Ode on the Departed Regency Bill
Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald of Auchencruive
Of a’ the Airts the Wind can Blaw (Song)
On a Bank of Flowers (Song)
On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies
On Chloris being ill (Song)
On Chloris requesting a sprig of blossom’d thorn
On Elphinstone’s Translation of Martial’s Epigrams
On Glenriddell’s Fox breaking his chain: A Fragment
On Scaring some Water-Fowl in Lock Turit
On seeing Mrs. Kemble in Yarico
On Tam the Chapman
On the Birth of a Posthumous Child
On the Death of John M’Leod, Esq.
On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq., of Arniston
On the late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations
On the Seas and far away (Song)
One Night as I did Wander
Open the door to me, oh (Song)
Out over the Forth (Song)
Paraphrase of the First Psalm
Pegasus at Wanlockhead
Phillis the Fair (Song)
Phillis the Queen o’ the fair (Song)
Poem on Pastoral Poetry
Poem on Sensibility
Poor Mailie’s Elegy
Poortith cauld and restless love (Song)
Prayer — O Thou Dread Power
Pretty Peg, my dearie (Song)
Prologue spoken at the Theatre of Dumfries
Prologue, spoken by Mr. Woods at Edinburgh
Raging Fortune: A Fragment (Song)
Rantin, Rovin Robin (Song)
Rattlin, Roarin Willie (Song)
Raving Winds Around her Blowing (Song)
Remorse: A Fragment
Remorseful Apology
Reply to a Trimming Epistle, received from a Tailor
Reply to an Announcement by J. Rankine
Reply to the Threat of a Censorious Critic
Rhyming Reply to a Note from Captain Riddell
Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn (Song)
Robin Shure in Hairst (Song)
Sappho Redivivus: A Fragment
Saw ye Bonie Lesley (Song)
Saw you my dear, my Philly (Song)
Scotch Drink
Scots Prologue for Mr. Sutherland
Scroggam, my dearie (Song)
Second Epistle to Davie
Second Epistle to J. Lapraik
Second Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry
She says she loes me best of a’ (Song)
She’s Fair and Fause (Song)
Sic a Wife as Willie had (Song)
Sketch — New Year’s Day, 1790
Sketch in Verse, inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox
Sonnet on the Author’s Birthday
Sonnet on the Death of Robert Riddell
Sonnet to R. Graham, Esq., on Receiving a Favour
Stanzas on Naething
Stanzas, on the same Occasion
Stay my Charmer (Song)
Steer her up and haud her gaun (Song)
Strathallan’s Lament (Song)
Such a parcel of Rogues in a Nation (Song)
Suppressed Stanzas of “The Vision”
Sweet Afton (Song)
Sweet Tibbie Dunbar (Song)
Sylvander to Clarinda
Talk of him that’s Far Awa (Song)
Tam Glen (Song)
Tam o’ Shanter: A Tale
Tam Samson’s Elegy
The Auld Farmer’s New-Year-Morning Salutation to his Auld Mare, Maggie
The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer
The Banks o’ Doon (First Version) (Song)
The Banks o’ Doon (Second Version) (Song)
The Banks o’ Doon (Third Version) (Song)
The Banks of Nith (Song)
The Banks of the Devon (Song)
The Bannocks o’ Bear Meal (Song)
The Bard at Inverary
The Battle of Sherramuir (Song)
The Belles of Mauchline
The Birks of Aberfeldy (Song)
The Bonie Lad that’s Far Awa (Song)
The Bonie Lass of Albany (Song)
The Bonie Moor-hen (Song)
The Bonie Wee Thing (Song)
The Bookworms
The Braes o’ Killiecrankie (Song)
The Braw Wooer (Song)
The Brigs of Ayr
The Calf
The Captain’s Lady (Song)
The Captive Ribband (Song)
The Cardin o’t, the Spinning o’t (Song)
The charming month of May (Song)
The Charms of Lovely Davies (Song)
The Chevalier’s Lament (Song)
The Cooper o’ Cuddy (Song)
The Cotter’s Saturday Night
The Country Lass (Song)
The Day Returns (Song)
The Dean of Faculty: A new Ballad
The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie
The Deil’s awa wi’ the Exciseman (Song)
The Deuks dang o’er my Daddie (Song)
The Dumfries Volunteers (Song)
The Epitaph on Captain Matthew Henderson
The Fall of the Leaf (Song)
The Farewell
The Farewell to the Brethren of St. James’s Lodge, Tarbolton
The Fête Champêtre
The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm versified
The Five Carlins: An Election Ballad
The Flowery banks of Cree (Song)
The Gallant Weaver (Song)
The Gardener wi’ his Paidle (Song)
The Gowden Locks of Anna (Song)
The Henpecked Husband
The Highland Balou (Song)
The Highland Widow’s Lament
The Holy Fair
The Humble Petition of Bruar Water
The Inventory
The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata
The Kirk of Scotland’s Alarm: A Ballad
The Lad they ca’ Jumpin John (Song)
The Laddie’s dear sel’ (Song)
The Lament
The Lass o’ Ballochmyle
The Lass o’ Ecclefechan (Song)
The Lass of Cessnock Banks (Song)
The lass that made the bed to me (Song)
The last time I cam o’er the Moor (Song)
The Libeller’s Self-reproof
The Lovely Lass o’ Inverness (Song)
The Lover’s Morning Salute to his Mistress
The Mauchline Lady: A Fragment
The Minstel at Lincluden
The Night was Still (Fragment of a Song)
The Ordination
The Ploughman’s Life
The Poet’s Progress
The Posie (Song)
The Rantin Dog, the Daddie o’t
The Rights of Women — Spoken by Miss Fontenelle
The Rigs o’ Barley (Song)
The Ronalds of the Bennals
The Slave’s Lament (Song)
The Soldier’s Return: A Ballad
The Solemn League and Covenant
The Song of Death
The Tarbolton Lasses
The Tear-drop— “Wae is my heart” (Song)
The Twa Dogs
The Twa Herds; or, The Holy Tulyie
The Vision
The weary Pund o’ Tow (Song)
The Whistle: A Ballad
The Winter it is Past (Song)
The Winter of Life (Song)
The Wounded Hare
The Wren’s Nest (Fragment of a Song)
The Young Highland Rover (Song)
Their groves o’ sweet myrtle (Song)
Theniel Menzies’ Bonie Mary (Song)
There was a Bonie Lass (Fragment of a Song)
There’ll never be Peace till Jamie comes hame (Song)
Thine am I, my faithful Fair (Song)
Third Epistle to J. Lapraik
This is no my ain lassie (Song)
Thou Fair Eliza (Song)
Thou Gloomy December (Song)
Thou hast left me ever, jamie (Song)
To a Louse
To a Mountain Daisy
To a Mouse
To Alex. Cunningham, Esq., Writer, Edinburgh
To Daunton Me (Song)
To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, recommending a Boy
To John Kennedy, Dumfries House
To Mary in Heaven (Song)
To Miss Ferrier, enclosing Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair
To Miss Logan, with Beattie’s Poems
To Mr. M’Adam, of Craigen-Gillan
To Ruin
To the beautiful Miss Eliza J —— n, on her principles of Liberty and Eqality
To the Weaver’s gin ye go (Song)
Tragic Fragment — All villain as I am
Twas na her bonie blue e’e (Song)
Up in the Morning Early (Song)
Verses inscribed under a Noble Earl’s Picture
Verses on a Parting Kiss
Verses on Captain Grose
Verses on Castle Gordon
Verses on Friars’ Carse Hermitage (First Version)
Verses on the destruction of the Woods near Drumlanrig
Verses to Clarinda, with Drinking Glasses
Verses to Collector Mitchell
Verses to Miss Cruickshank
Verses Written with a Pencil at the Inn at Kenmore
Versicles on Sign-Posts
Versified Note to Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchline
Versified Reply to an Invitation
Wandering Willie (Revised Version) (Song)
Wandering Willie (Song)
Wee Willie Gray (Fragment of a Song)
What can a Young Lassie do wi’ an Auld Man? (Song)
When she cam ben she bobbed (Song)
Where are the Joys I have met (Song)
Whistle and I’ll come to you (Song)
Whistle o’er the lave o’t (Song)
Why tell the lover (Fragment of a Song)
Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary? (Song)
Willie brew’d a Peck o’ Maut (Song)
Willie Chalmers (Song)
Wilt thou be my Dearie (Song)
Winter: A Dirge
Written by Somebody on the Window of an Inn at Stirling
Written in Friars’ Carse Hermitage (Second Version)
Ye Jacobites by Name (Song)
Yon Wild Mossy Mountains (Song)
Yonder pomp of costly fashion (Song)
You’re welcome, Willie Stewart (Song)
Young Jamie, pride of a’ the plain (Song)
Young Jockie was the Blythest Lad (Song)
Young Peggy Blooms (Song)
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A’, all.
A-back, behind, away.
Abiegh, aloof, off.
Ablins, v.
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