Poems and Songs of Robert Burns | Page 6

Charming Month Of May?Song - Lassie Wi' The Lint-White Locks?Dialogue song-Philly And Willy?Song - Contented Wi' Little And Cantie Wi' Mair?Song - Farewell Thou Stream?Song - Canst Thou Leave Me Thus, My Katie?Song - My Nanie's Awa?Song - The Tear-Drop - Wae is my heart?Song - For The Sake O' Somebody
1795
Song - A Man's A Man For A' That?The Solemn League And Covenant?Lines to John Syme with a Dozen of Porter.?Inscription On Mr. Syme's Crystal Goblet?Apology To Mr. Syme For Not Dining with him?Epitaph For Mr. Gabriel Richardson?Epigram On Mr. James Gracie?Song - Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay?Inscription At Friars' Carse Hermitage?Song - Fragment - There Was A Bonie Lass?Song - Fragment - Wee Willie Gray?Song - O Aye My Wife She Dang Me?Song - Gude Ale Keeps The Heart Aboon?Song - O Steer Her Up An' Haud Her Gaun?Song - The Lass O' Ecclefechan?Song - O Let Me In Thes Ae Night?Song - I'll Aye Ca' In By Yon Town?Ballads on Mr. Heron's Election- Ballad First?Ballads on Mr. Heron's Election- Ballad Second?Ballads on Mr. Heron's Election- Ballad Third?Inscription For An Altar Of Independence?Song - The Cardin O't, The Spinnin O't?Song - The Cooper O' Cuddy?Song - The Lass That Made The Bed To Me?Song - Had I The Wyte? She Bade Me?Song - Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat??Song - Address To The Woodlark?Song.- On Chloris Being Ill?Song - How Cruel Are The Parents?Song - Yonder Pomp Of Costly Fashion?Song - 'Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E'e?Song - Their Groves O'Sweet Myrtle?Song - Forlorn, My Love, No Comfort Near?Song - Fragment,-Why, Why Tell The Lover?Song - The Braw Wooer?Song - This Is No My Ain Lassie?Song - O Bonie Was Yon Rosy Brier?Song - Song Inscribed To Alexander Cunningham?Song - O That's The Lassie O' My Heart
Inscription to Chloris?Song - Fragment.-The Wren's Nest?Song - News, Lassies, News?Song - Crowdie Ever Mair?Song - Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet?Song - Jockey's Taen The Parting Kiss?Verses To Collector Mitchell
1796
The Dean Of Faculty?Epistle To Colonel De Peyster?Song - A Lass Wi' A Tocher?Song - The Trogger.?Complimentary Versicles To Jessie Lewars?1. The Toast?2. The Menagerie?3. Jessie's illness?4. On Her Recovery?Song - O Lay Thy Loof In Mine, Lass?Song - A Health To Ane I Loe Dear?Song - O Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast?Inscription To Miss Jessy Lewars?Song - Fairest Maid On Devon Banks?Glossary
Etext of Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns?by Robert Burns
Preface
Robert Burns was born near Ayr, Scotland, 25th of January, 1759. He was the son of William Burnes, or Burness, at the time of the poet's birth a nurseryman on the banks of the Doon in Ayrshire. His father, though always extremely poor, attempted to give his children a fair education, and Robert, who was the eldest, went to school for three years in a neighboring village, and later, for shorter periods, to three other schools in the vicinity. But it was to his father and to his own reading that he owed the more important part of his education; and by the time that he had reached manhood he had a good knowledge of English, a reading knowledge of French, and a fairly wide acquaintance with the masterpieces of English literature from the time of Shakespeare to his own day. In 1766 William Burness rented on borrowed money the farm of Mount Oliphant, and in taking his share in the effort to make this undertaking succeed, the future poet seems to have seriously overstrained his physique. In 1771 the family move to Lochlea, and Burns went to the neighboring town of Irvine to learn flax-dressing. The only result of this experiment, however, was the formation of an acquaintance with a dissipated sailor, whom he afterward blamed as the prompter of his first licentious adventures. His father died in 1784, and with his brother Gilbert the poet rented the farm of Mossgiel; but this venture was as unsuccessful as the others. He had meantime formed an irregular intimacy with Jean Armour, for which he was censured by the Kirk-session. As a result of his farming misfortunes, and the attempts of his father-in-law to overthrow his irregular marriage with Jean, he resolved to emigrate; and in order to raise money for the passage he published (Kilmarnock, 1786) a volume of the poems which he had been composing from time to time for some years. This volume was unexpectedly successful, so that, instead of sailing for the West Indies, he went up to Edinburgh, and during that winter he was the chief literary celebrity of the season. An enlarged edition of his poems was published there in 1787, and the money derived from this enabled him to aid his brother in Mossgiel, and to take and stock for himself the farm of Ellisland in Dumfriesshire. His fame as poet had reconciled the Armours to the connection, and having now