The Poetical Works of Robert Burns: With Notes, Glossary, Index of First Lines and Chronological List

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Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1917 - 635 pages
 

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Contents

The Ordination
75
Address to the Unco Guid
84
Tam Samsons Elegy
92
Scotch Drink
98
The Auld Farmers NewYear Morning Salutation to his Auld
106
To a Mountain Daisy
113
To Ruin
115
Lament of Mary Queen of Scots
122
On the late Capt Groses Peregrinations
129
Address to the Toothache
135
The Kirks Alarm
142
Despondency
149
Epistle to Davie a Brother Poet
156
To the Same John Lapraik
168
Letter to John Goudie
174
To James Smith
180
To Gavin Hamilton recommending a
186
Answer to the Guidwife of Wauchope
194
Epistle to Robert Graham of Fintry
208
Epistle from Esopus to Maria
210
The First Psalm
216
The Inventory
224
The Calf
230
Written with a Pencil at Kenmore Taymouth
236
Prologue for New Years Day
242
Elegy on the Year 1788
248
Elegy on the late Miss Burnet of Monboddo
254
Sonnet on the Death of Robert Riddel
259
Written on a Blank Leaf of his Poems for Chloris
268
To a Lady with a Pair of Drinkingglasses
274
Tragic Fragment
280
A Farewell
286
Written on a Blank Leaf of Hannah Mores Works
292
Lines written on a Banknote
298
Lines supposed to have been written by Burns
300
Grace after Meat
306
The Deils awa wi the Exciseman
366
Will ye go to the Indies my Mary
372
Raving Winds around her blowing
378
Where are the Joys
384
The Sodgers Return
390
My Father was a Farmer
396
The Lass that made the Bed to me
397
When Guildford good our Pilot stood
405
The ElectionSecond Ballad
412
The Fête Champêtre
418
Young Highland Rover
424
The Highland Lassie
430
The Banks of Nith
436
Lassie wi the Lintwhite Locks
442
Wilt thou be my Dearie?
443
Wha is that at my Bower Door?
449
Montgomeries Peggy
455
The Dean of Faculty
461
The Tarbolton Lasses No II
467
Bonnie
473
Lady Onlie
479
The Slaves LamentIt was in sweet Senegal
485
The Ploughman
500
The Rantin Dog the Daddie
516
Captain Grose Ken ye ought
525
Louis what reck I by thee?
530
Handsome NellO once I lovd a Bonnie Lass
537
A New Psalm for the Chapel of Kilmarnock
543
On Glenriddels Fox breaking his Chain
550
PAGE
555
GLOSSARY
595
473
615
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
617
On seeing the beautiful Seat of Lord Galloway
629
To Dr Blacklock
633

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Bibliographic information

TitleThe Poetical Works of Robert Burns: With Notes, Glossary, Index of First Lines and Chronological List
Oxford edition
AuthorRobert Burns
EditorJames Logie Robertson
PublisherHenry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1917
Original fromIndiana University
Digitized25 Feb 2019
Length635 pages
  
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