Contents

Introduction

O Once I Lov’d

Mary Morison

It Was Upon a Lammas Night

Song Composed in August

John Barleycorn. A Ballad

Poor Mailie’s Elegy

My Father Was a Farmer

Green Grow the Rashes. A Fragment

Holy Willie’s Prayer

A Poet’s Welcome to His Love-Begotten Daughter

The Fornicator. A New Song

On Burns’ Horse Being Impounded

Man Was Made to Mourn. A Dirge

The Holy Fair

To a Mouse

To a Louse

The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer

Scotch Drink

Address to the Deil

Extempore to Gavin Hamilton. Stanzas on Naething

To a Mountain Daisy

Epistle to a Young Friend. May – 1786

Lines Written on a Bank-Note

Address of Beelzebub

A Bard’s Epitaph

To a Haggis

My Peggy’s Face

O’er the Water to Charlie

Rattlin, Roarin Willie

On a Schoolmaster

Tam Glen

Auld Lang Syne

Elegy on the Year 1788

Afton Water

To a Gentleman Who Had Sent Him a Newspaper

Lassie Lie Near Me

My Love She’s But a Lassie Yet

Farewell to the Highlands

John Anderson My Jo

Tam o’ Shanter. A Tale

The Banks o’ Doon

Ye Jacobites By Name

Fareweel to a’ Our Scottish Fame

Ae Fond Kiss

I Hae a Wife o’ My Ain

Logan Water

Scots Wha Hae

A Red, Red Rose

Sae Flaxen Were Her Ringlets

Ode to Spring

Is There for Honest Poverty

Kirkcudbright Grace

Charlie He’s My Darling

Glossary

Index of First Lines