Burns by Burns, Robert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction Folk-Tales for an Enlightened Age

Death and Doctor Hornbook To a Mouse The Twa Dogs Halloween Address to the Deil To a Louse Address of Beelzebub Tam o’ Shanter

Religious Sentiment and Satire

A Prayer, in the Prospect of Death Holy Willie’s Prayer The Holy Fair The Cotter’s Saturday Night Prayer – O Thou Dread Power Epigram to Miss Ainslie in Church

Contemporary Politics

Ballad on the American War A Dream The Fête Champetre Ode on the Departed Regency Bill The Rights of Woman Why Shouldna Poor Folk Mowe Scots Wha Hae Ode for General Washington’s Birthday A Man’s a Man for a’ That Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?

Love and Sex

The Rigs o Barley Mary Morison Green Grow the Rashes, O A Poet’s Welcome to His Love-Begotten Daughter The Fornicator The Jolly Beggars – a Cantata The Lass o Ballochmyle Libel Summons Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes Auld Lang Syne Yestreen I Had a Pint o Wine Ae Fond Kiss Highland Mary A Red Red Rose O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast Comin Thro the Rye Wha’ll Mow Me Now? O Saw Ye My Maggie

Scottish Cultural History

Scotch Drink Address to a Haggis Lines on Fergusson, the Poet The Bonie Moor-Hen Johnie Cope My Heart’s in the Highlands Awa, Whigs, Awa The White Cockade Scots Prologue for Mrs. Sutherland’s Benefit Night, spoken at the Theatre Dumfries Lament of Mary Queen of Scots on the Approach of Spring There’ll Never be Peace till Jamie Comes Hame Ye Jacobites by Name Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation

Occasional and Biographical Verse

I’ll Go and be a Sodger My Father was a Farmer The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, the Author’s Only Pet Yowe Epitaph on My Honoured Father Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet Epistle to J. Lapraik The Auld Farmer’s New-Year Morning Salutation to His Auld Mare, Maggie Lines Written on a Bank-Note The Farewell Reply to a Trimming Epistle Received from a Taylor

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