Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns

Celebrated Scottish poet's timeless verses exploring love, nature, politics and human experience through songs and poems that evoke emotions and spark imagination. Classic works showcasing Burns' wit, humor and passion for the beauty of everyday life, culture and social commentary.

• Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns
• Preface
• 1771 - 1779
• Song—handsome Nell1
• Song—o Tibbie, I Hae Seen The Day
• Song—i Dream’d I Lay
• Song—in The Character Of A Ruined Farmer
• Tragic Fragment
• Tarbolton Lasses, The
• Montgomerie’s Peggy
• Ploughman’s Life, The
• 1780
• Ronalds Of The Bennals, The
• Song—here’s To Thy Health
• Lass Of Cessnock Banks, The1
• Song—bonie Peggy Alison
• Song—mary Morison
• 1781
• Winter: A Dirge
• Prayer, Under The Pressure Of Violent Anguish
• Paraphrase Of The First Psalm
• First Six Verses Of The Ninetieth Psalm Versified, The
• Prayer, In The Prospect Of Death
• Stanzas, On The Same Occasion
• 1782
• Fickle Fortune: A Fragment
• Raging Fortune—fragment Of Song
• Impromptu—“i’ll Go And Be A Sodger”
• Song—“no Churchman Am I”
• A Stanza Added In A Mason Lodge
• My Father Was A Farmer
• John Barleycorn: A Ballad
• 1783
• Death And Dying Words Of Poor Mailie, The Author’s Only Pet Yowe., The
• Poor Mailie’s Elegy
• Song—the Rigs O’ Barley
• Song Composed In August
• Song
• Song—green Grow The Rashes
• Song—wha Is That At My Bower-door
• 1784
• Remorse: A Fragment
• Epitaph On Wm. Hood, Senr., In Tarbolton
• Epitaph On James Grieve, Laird Of Boghead, Tarbolton
• Epitaph On My Own Friend And My Father’s Friend, Wm. Muir In Tarbolton Mill
• Epitaph On My Ever Honoured Father
• Ballad On The American War
• Reply To An Announcement By J. Rankine On His Writing To The Poet,
• Epistle To John Rankine
• A Poet’s Welcome To His Love-begotten Daughter1
• Song—o Leave Novels1
• Fragment—the Mauchline Lady
• Fragment—my Girl She’s Airy
• The Belles Of Mauchline
• Epitaph On A Noisy Polemic
• Epitaph On A Henpecked Country Squire
• Epigram On The Said Occasion
• Another
• On Tam The Chapman
• Epitaph On John Rankine
• Lines On The Author’s Death
• Man Was Made To Mourn: A Dirge
• The Twa Herds; Or, The Holy Tulyie
• 1785
• Epistle To Davie, A Brother Poet
• Holy Willie’s Prayer
• Epitaph On Holy Willie
• Death And Doctor Hornbook
• Epistle To J. Lapraik, An Old Scottish Bard
• Second Epistle To J. Lapraik
• Epistle To William Simson
• Postcript
• One Night As I Did Wander
• Tho’ Cruel Fate Should Bid Us Part
• Song—rantin’, Rovin’ Robin1
• Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux1
• Epistle To John Goldie, In Kilmarnock
• The Holy Fair1
• Third Epistle To J. Lapraik
• Epistle To The Rev. John M’math
• Second Epistle To Davie
• Song—young Peggy Blooms
• Song—farewell To Ballochmyle
• Fragment—her Flowing Locks
• Halloween1
• To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough, November, 1785
• Epitaph On John Dove, Innkeeper
• Epitaph For James Smith
• Adam Armour’s Prayer
• The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata1
• Song—for A’ That1
• Song—merry Hae I Been Teethin A Heckle
• The Cotter’s Saturday Night
• Address To The Deil
• Scotch Drink
• 1786
• The Auld Farmer’s New-year-morning Salutation To His Auld Mare, Maggie
• The Twa Dogs1
• The Author’s Earnest Cry And Prayer
• The Ordination
• Epistle To James Smith
• The Vision
• Suppressed Stanza’s Of “The Vision”
• Address To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly Righteous
• The Inventory1
• To John Kennedy, Dumfries House
• To Mr. M’adam, Of Craigen-gillan
• To A Louse, On Seeing One On A Lady’s Bonnet, At Church
• Inscribed On A Work Of Hannah More’s
• Song, Composed In Spring
• To A Mountain Daisy,
• To Ruin
• The Lament
• Despondency: An Ode
• To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline,
• Versified Reply To An Invitation
• Song—will Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary?
• Song—my Highland Lassie, O
• Epistle To A Young Friend
• Address Of Beelzebub
• A Dream
• A Dedication
• Versified Note To Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchline
• The Farewell To The Brethren Of St. James’ Lodge, Tarbolton.
• On A Scotch Bard, Gone To The West Indies
• Song—farewell To Eliza
• A Bard’s Epitaph
• Epitaph On “Wee Johnie”
• The Lass O’ Ballochmyle
• Lines To An Old Sweetheart
• Motto Prefixed To The Author’s First Publication
• Lines To Mr. John Kennedy
• Lines Written On A Banknote
• Stanzas On Naething
• The Farewell
• Thomson’s Edward And Eleanora.
• The Calf
• Nature’s Law—a Poem
• Song—willie Chalmers
• Reply To A Trimming Epistle Received From A Tailor
• The Brigs Of Ayr
• Fragment Of Song
• Epigram On Rough Roads
• Prayer—o Thou Dread Power
• Farewell Song To The Banks Of Ayr
• Address To The Toothache
• Lines On Meeting With Lord Daer1
• Masonic Song
• Tam Samson’s Elegy
• The Epitaph
• Per Contra
• Epistle To Major Logan
• Fragment On Sensibility
• A Winter Night
• Song—yon Wild Mossy Mountains
• Address To Edinburgh
• Address To A Haggis
• 1787
• To Miss Logan, With Beattie’s Poems, For A New-year’s Gift, Jan. 1, 1787.
• Mr. William Smellie—a Sketch
• Song—bonie Dundee
• Extempore In The Court Of Session
• Inscription For The Headstone Of Fergusson The Poet1
• Epistle To Mrs. Scott
• Verses Intended To Be Written Below A Noble Earl’s Picture1
• Prologue
• The Bonie Moor-hen
• Song—my Lord A-hunting
• Epigram At Roslin Inn
• Epigram Addressed To An Artist
• The Book-worms
• On Elphinstone’s Translation Of Martial’s Epigrams
• Song—a Bottle And Friend
• Epitaph For William Nicol, Of The High School, Edinburgh
• Epitaph For Mr. William Michie
• Address To Wm. Tytler, Esq., Of Woodhouselee
• Epigram To Miss Ainslie In Church
• Burlesque Lament For The Absence Of William Creech, Publisher
• Note To Mr. Renton Of Lamerton
• Elegy On “Stella”
• The Bard At Inverary
• Epigram To Miss Jean Scott
• On The Death Of John M’leod, Esq,
• Elegy On The Death Of Sir James Hunter Blair
• Impromptu On Carron Iron Works
• To Miss Ferrier
• Written By Somebody On The Window
• The Poet’s Reply To The Threat Of A Censorious Critic
• The Libeller’s Self-reproof1
• Verses Written With A Pencil
• Song—the Birks Of Aberfeldy
• The Humble Petition Of Bruar Water
• Lines On The Fall Of Fyers Near Loch-ness.
• Epigram On Parting With A Kind Host In The Highlands
• Strathallan’s Lament1
• Castle Gordon
• Song—lady Onlie, Honest Lucky
• Theniel Menzies’ Bonie Mary
• The Bonie Lass Of Albany1
• On Scaring Some Water-fowl In Loch-turit
• Blythe Was She1
• A Rose-bud By My Early Walk
• Epitaph For Mr. W. Cruikshank1
• Song—the Banks Of The Devon
• Braving Angry Winter’s Storms
• Song—my Peggy’s Charms
• The Young Highland Rover
• Birthday Ode For 31st December, 17871
• On The Death Of Robert Dundas, Esq., Of Arniston,
• Sylvander To Clarinda1
• 1788
• Love In The Guise Of Friendship
• Go On, Sweet Bird, And Sooth My Care
• Clarinda, Mistress Of My Soul
• I’m O’er Young To Marry Yet
• To The Weavers Gin Ye Go
• M’pherson’s Farewell
• Stay My Charmer
• Song—my Hoggie
• Raving Winds Around Her Blowing
• Up In The Morning Early
• Hey, The Dusty Miller
• Duncan Davison
• The Lad They Ca’jumpin John
• Talk Of Him That’s Far Awa
• To Daunton Me
• The Winter It Is Past
• The Bonie Lad That’s Far Awa
• Verses To Clarinda
• The Chevalier’s Lament
• Epistle To Hugh Parker
• Of A’ The Airts The Wind Can Blaw1
• Song—i Hae A Wife O’ My Ain
• Lines Written In Friars’-carse Hermitage
• To Alex. Cunningham, Esq., Writer
• Song.—anna, Thy Charms
• The Fete Champetre
• Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintry
• Song.—the Day Returns
• Song.—o, Were I On Parnassus Hill
• A Mother’s Lament
• The Fall Of The Leaf
• I Reign In Jeanie’s Bosom
• Auld Lang Syne
• My Bonie Mary
• The Parting Kiss
• Written In Friar’s-carse Hermitage
• The Poet’s Progress
• Elegy On The Year 1788
• The Henpecked Husband
• Versicles On Sign-posts
• 1789
• Robin Shure In Hairst
• Ode, Sacred To The Memory Of Mrs. Oswald Of Auchencruive
• Pegasus At Wanlockhead
• Sappho Redivivus—a Fragment
• Song—she’s Fair And Fause
• Impromptu Lines To Captain Riddell
• Lines To John M’murdo, Esq. Of Drumlanrig
• Rhyming Reply To A Note From Captain Riddell
• Caledonia—a Ballad
• To Miss Cruickshank
• Beware O’ Bonie Ann
• Ode On The Departed Regency Bill
• Epistle To James Tennant Of Glenconner
• A New Psalm For The Chapel Of Kilmarnock
• Sketch In Verse
• The Wounded Hare
• Delia, An Ode
• The Gard’ner Wi’ His Paidle
• On A Bank Of Flowers
• Young Jockie Was The Blythest Lad
• The Banks Of Nith
• Jamie, Come Try Me
• I Love My Love In Secret
• Sweet Tibbie Dunbar
• The Captain’s Lady
• John Anderson, My Jo
• My Love, She’s But A Lassie Yet
• Song—tam Glen
• Carle, An The King Come
• The Laddie’s Dear Sel’
• Whistle O’er The Lave O’t
• My Eppie Adair
• On The Late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations Thro’ Scotland
• Epigram On Francis Grose The Antiquary
• The Kirk Of Scotland’s Alarm
• Presentation Stanzas To Correspondents
• Sonnet On Receiving A Favour
• Extemporaneous Effusion
• Song—willie Brew’d A Peck O’ Maut1
• Ca’ The Yowes To The Knowes
• I Gaed A Waefu’ Gate Yestreen
• Highland Harry Back Again
• The Battle Of Sherramuir
• The Braes O’ Killiecrankie
• Awa’ Whigs, Awa’
• A Waukrife Minnie
• The Captive Ribband
• My Heart’s In The Highlands
• The Whistle—a Ballad
• To Mary In Heaven
• Epistle To Dr. Blacklock
• The Five Carlins
• Election Ballad For Westerha’
• Prologue Spoken At The Theatre Of Dumfries
• 1790
• Sketch—new Year’s Day, 1790
• Scots’ Prologue For Mr. Sutherland
• Lines To A Gentleman,
• Elegy On Willie Nicol’s Mare
• The Gowden Locks Of Anna
• Postscript
• Song—i Murder Hate
• Gudewife, Count The Lawin
• Election Ballad
• Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson
• The Epitaph
• Verses On Captain Grose
• Tam O’ Shanter
• On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child
• Elegy On The Late Miss Burnet Of Monboddo
• 1791
• Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring
• There’ll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame
• Song—out Over The Forth
• The Banks O’ Doon—first Version
• The Banks O’ Doon—second Version
• The Banks O’ Doon—third Version
• Lament For James, Earl Of Glencairn
• Lines Sent To Sir John Whiteford, Bart
• Craigieburn Wood
• Epigram On Miss Davies
• The Charms Of Lovely Davies
• What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi’ An Auld Man
• The Posie
• On Glenriddell’s Fox Breaking His Chain
• Poem On Pastoral Poetry
• Verses On The Destruction Of The Woods Near Drumlanrig
• The Gallant Weaver
• Epigram At Brownhill Inn1
• Lovely Polly Stewart
• Fragment,—damon And Sylvia
• Johnie Lad, Cock Up Your Beaver
• My Eppie Macnab
• Altho’ He Has Left Me
• My Tocher’s The Jewel
• O For Ane An’ Twenty, Tam
• Thou Fair Eliza
• My Bonie Bell
• Sweet Afton
• Address To The Shade Of Thomson
• Nithsdale’s Welcome Hame
• Frae The Friends And Land I Love
• Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation
• Ye Jacobites By Name
• I Hae Been At Crookieden
• O Kenmure’s On And Awa, Willie
• Epistle To John Maxwell, Esq., Of Terraughty
• Second Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintry
• The Song Of Death
• Poem On Sensibility
• The Toadeater
• Divine Service In The Kirk Of Lamington
• The Keekin’-glass
• A Grace Before Dinner, Extempore
• A Grace After Dinner, Extempore
• O May, Thy Morn
• Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever
• Behold The Hour, The Boat, Arrive
• Thou Gloomy December
• My Native Land Sae Far Awa
• 1792
• I Do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair
• Lines On Fergusson, The Poet
• The Weary Pund O’ Tow
• When She Cam’ Ben She Bobbed
• Scroggam, My Dearie
• My Collier Laddie
• Sic A Wife As Willie Had
• Lady Mary Ann
• Kellyburn Braes
• The Slave’s Lament
• O Can Ye Labour Lea?
• The Deuks Dang O’er My Daddie
• The Deil’s Awa Wi’ The Exciseman
• The Country Lass
• Bessy And Her Spinnin’ Wheel
• Love For Love
• Saw Ye Bonie Lesley
• Fragment Of Song
• I’ll Meet Thee On The Lea Rig
• My Wife’s A Winsome Wee Thing
• Highland Mary
• Auld Rob Morris
• The Rights Of Woman
• Epigram On Seeing Miss Fontenelle In A Favourite Character
• Extempore On Some Commemorations Of Thomson
• Duncan Gray
• Here’s A Health To Them That’s Awa
• A Tippling Ballad
• 1793
• Poortith Cauld And Restless Love
• On Politics
• Braw Lads O’ Galla Water
• Sonnet Written On The Author’s Birthday,
• Wandering Willie—first Version
• Wandering Willie—revised Version
• Lord Gregory
• Open The Door To Me, Oh
• Lovely Young Jessie
• Meg O’ The Mill
• Meg O’ The Mill—another Version
• The Soldier’s Return
• Versicles, A.d. 1793
• The True Loyal Natives
• On Commissary Goldie’s Brains
• Lines Inscribed In A Lady’s Pocket Almanac
• Thanksgiving For A National Victory
• Lines On The Commemoration Of Rodney’s Victory
• The Raptures Of Folly
• Kirk And State Excisemen
• Extempore Reply To An Invitation
• Grace After Meat
• Grace Before And After Meat
• Impromptu On General Dumourier’s Desertion From The French Republican Army
• The Last Time I Came O’er The Moor
• Logan Braes
• Blythe Hae I Been On Yon Hill
• O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair
• Bonie Jean—a Ballad
• Lines On John M’murdo, Esq.
• Epitaph On A Lap-dog
• Epigrams Against The Earl Of Galloway
• Epigram On The Laird Of Laggan
• Song—phillis The Fair
• Song—had I A Cave
• Song—by Allan Stream
• Whistle, And I’ll Come To You, My Lad
• Phillis The Queen O’ The Fair
• Come, Let Me Take Thee To My Breast
• Dainty Davie
• Robert Bruce’s March To Bannockburn
• Behold The Hour, The Boat Arrive
• Down The Burn, Davie
• Thou Hast Left Me Ever, Jamie
• Where Are The Joys I Have Met?
• Deluded Swain, The Pleasure
• Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair
• On Mrs. Riddell’s Birthday
• My Spouse Nancy
• Address
• Complimentary Epigram On Maria Riddell
• 1794
• Remorseful Apology
• Wilt Thou Be My Dearie?
• A Fiddler In The North
• The Minstrel At Lincluden
• A Vision
• A Red, Red Rose
• Young Jamie, Pride Of A’ The Plain
• The Flowery Banks Of Cree
• Monody
• The Epitaph
• Pinned To Mrs. Walter Riddell’s Carriage
• Epitaph For Mr. Walter Riddell
• Epistle From Esopus To Maria
• Epitaph On A Noted Coxcomb
• On Capt. Lascelles
• On Wm. Graham, Esq., Of Mossknowe
• On John Bushby, Esq., Tinwald Downs
• Sonnet On The Death Of Robert Riddell
• The Lovely Lass O’ Inverness
• Charlie, He’s My Darling
• Bannocks O’ Bear Meal
• The Highland Balou
• The Highland Widow’s Lament
• It Was A’ For Our Rightfu’ King
• Ode For General Washington’s Birthday
• Inscription To Miss Graham Of Fintry
• On The Seas And Far Away
• Ca’ The Yowes To The Knowes—second Version
• She Says She Loes Me Best Of A’
• To Dr. Maxwell
• To The Beautiful Miss Eliza J—n
• On Chloris
• On Seeing Mrs. Kemble In Yarico
• Epigram On A Country Laird,
• On Being Shewn A Beautiful Country Seat
• On Hearing It Asserted Falsehood
• On A Suicide
• On A Swearing Coxcomb
• On An Innkeeper Nicknamed “The Marquis”
• On Andrew Turner
• Pretty Peg
• Esteem For Chloris
• Saw Ye My Dear, My Philly
• How Lang And Dreary Is The Night
• Inconstancy In Love
• The Lover’s Morning Salute To His Mistress
• The Winter Of Life
• Behold, My Love, How Green The Groves
• The Charming Month Of May
• Lassie Wi’ The Lint-white Locks
• Dialogue Song—philly And Willy
• Contented Wi’ Little And Cantie Wi’ Mair
• Farewell Thou Stream
• Canst Thou Leave Me Thus, My Katie
• My Nanie’s Awa
• The Tear-drop
• For The Sake O’ Somebody
• 1795
• A Man’s A Man For A’ That
• Craigieburn Wood
• Versicles Of 1795
• The Solemn League And Covenant
• Lines Sent With A Present Of A Dozen Of Porter.
• Inscription On A Goblet
• Apology For Declining An Invitation To Dine
• Epitaph For Mr. Gabriel Richardson
• Epigram On Mr. James Gracie
• Bonie Peg-a-ramsay
• Inscription At Friars’ Carse Hermitage
• There Was A Bonie Lass
• Wee Willie Gray
• O Aye My Wife She Dang Me
• Gude Ale Keeps The Heart Aboon
• O Steer Her Up An’ Haud Her Gaun
• The Lass O’ Ecclefechan
• O Let Me In Thes Ae Night
• Her Answer
• I’ll Aye Ca’ In By Yon Town
• O Wat Ye Wha’s In Yon Town
• Ballads On Mr. Heron’s Election, 1795
• Inscription For An Altar Of Independence
• The Cardin O’t, The Spinnin O’t
• The Cooper O’ Cuddy
• The Lass That Made The Bed To Me
• Had I The Wyte? She Bade Me
• Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?
• Address To The Woodlark
• Song.—on Chloris Being Ill
• How Cruel Are The Parents
• Mark Yonder Pomp Of Costly Fashion
• ’Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E’e
• Their Groves O’sweet Myrtle
• Forlorn, My Love, No Comfort Near
• Fragment,—why, Why Tell The Lover
• The Braw Wooer
• This Is No My Ain Lassie
• O Bonie Was Yon Rosy Brier
• Song Inscribed To Alexander Cunningham
• O That’s The Lassie O’ My Heart
• Inscription
• Fragment.—leezie Lindsay
• Fragment.—the Wren’s Nest
• News, Lassies, News
• Crowdie Ever Mair
• Mally’s Meek, Mally’s Sweet
• Jockey’s Taen The Parting Kiss
• Verses To Collector Mitchell
• Postscript
• 1796
• The Dean Of Faculty
• Epistle To Colonel De Peyster
• A Lass Wi’ A Tocher
• Heron Election Ballad, No. Iv.
• Complimentary Versicles To Jessie Lewars
• O Lay Thy Loof In Mine, Lass
• A Health To Ane I Loe Dear
• O Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast
• Inscription To Miss Jessy Lewars
• Fairest Maid On Devon Banks
• Glossary