The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer to the Scotch

Representatives in the House of Commons

20

Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous
Tam Samson's Elegy

The Auld Farmer's New Year Morning's Saluta-

tion to his Auld Mare Maggie

149

An Elegy

A Prayer in the Prospect of Death

Stanzas on the same occasion

Verses left at a Friend's House

To Miss L

with Beattie's Poems for a New-year's Gift 215

On a Scotch Bard gone to the West Indies

To a Haggis

A Dedication to G***** H*******, Esq.

229

To a Louse, on seeing one on a Lady's Bonnet at Church 236

Address to Edinburgh

239

Epistle to J. L*****k, an Old Scottish Bard

Epistle to J. R******, inclosing some Poems

John Barleycorn. A Ballad

A Fragment, When Guilford good our pilot stood

Written in Friars Carse Hermitage, on Nithside

Ode to the Memory of Mrs

Elegy on Captain M▬▬▬ H-

of

287

Lament for James Earl of Glencairn

Lament of Mary Queen of Scots

To R***** G***** of F******, Esq.

Lines sent to Sir John Whiteford with the foregoing

On seeing a wounded hare a fellow had shot at

Address to the Shade of Thomson

Epitaph on a celelebrated Ruling Elder

on a Noisy Polemic

on Wee Johnnie

for the Author's Father

for R. A. Esq.

for G. H. Esq.

A Bard's Epitaph

On Captain Grose's Peregrinations

317

3

AN

ACCOUNT

OF THE

LIFE AND CHARACTER

OF

ROBERT BURNS,

WITH

MISCELLANEOUS REMARKS

ON

HIS WRITINGS.

ACCOUNT

OF

THE LIFE AND CHARACTER

OF

ROBERT BURNS.

THE attention of biographers is naturally engaged by celebrity of two kinds altogether different. One is derived from the station, the other from the personal qualities, of its possessor. He who succeeds to the former may be a character undeserving of notice; but he who earns the latter, must be distinguished by extraordinary measures either of talent or of virtue. Both are proper subjects of history, though on different grounds. The lives of princes are recorded, chiefly to fix the date and connection of interesting phenomena with which they were contemporary; but the man of genius is himself the phenomenon by which all the interest is created. The names