The Twa Dogs,..
The Brigs of Ayr,
The Vision, ..
The Cotter's Saturday Night,....
Verses written in Friar's-Carse Herinitage, on Nith-
Side,....
A Prayer, under the Pressure of violent Anguish,...
A Prayer, in the Prospect of Death,..
Stanzas, on the same Occasion,
Verses left by the Author at a Reverend Friend's
Housc, in the Room where he slept, ..
A Grace before Dinner,....
The First Psalm, .....
The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalın, .
Epistle to a Young Friend, ..
PATHETIC, ELEGIAC, AND DESCRIPTIVE
Pago
Man was made to Mourn,.
98
A Winter Night,
101
Winter,
105
Despondency,
106
To Ruin,....
108
Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots, on the Approach of
Spring, ...
109
The Lament, occasioned by the unfortunate Issue of a
Friend's Amour,...
112
Lament of a Mother for the Death of her Son,
115
Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn,....
116
Lines sent to Sir John Whiteford, of Whiteford, Bart.,
with the foregoing Poem,.
119
Strathallan's Lament, .
119
The Chevalier's Lament,
120
The Author's Farewell to his Native Country,. 121
Farewell to Ayrshire,
122
The Farewell to the Brethren of St. James's Lodge,
Tarbolton,
123
Farewell to Eliza, .
125
Highland Mary,...
126
To Mary in IIeaven, ..
127
Elegy, on the late Miss Burnet, of Monbodảo,. ..... 128
Verses, on reading, in a Newspaper, the Death of
John M'Leod, Esq., Brother to a Young Lady,
a particular Friend of the Author,..
129
Sonnet, on the Death of Robert Riddel, Esq., of Glen
Riddel, April, 1794,.....
131
Verses, on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair,...... 131
Address to the Shade of Thomson, on crowning his
Bust, at Ednam, Boxburghshire, with Bays,... 133
Epitaph for the Author's Father,..
134
Page
For R. A., Esq.,
135
On a Friend,..
135
A Bard's Epitaph,
135
Verses, on the Birth of a Posthumous Child, born in
peculiar Circumstances of family Distress, 137
Lines, on scaring some Water-Fowl, in Loch-Turit, a
wild Scene among the Hills of Oughtertyre,. .. 138
Sonnet written on the 25th of January, 1793, the
Birth-day of the Author, on hearing a Thrush,
in a Morning Walk,..
139
On Sensibility,
• 140
To a Mouse, on turning her up in her Nest, with the
Plough, November, 1785,......
141
To a Mountain Daisy, on turning one down with the
Plough, in April, 1786,.
143
The humble Petition of Bruar-Water, to the noble
Duke of Athole,....
Verses, on seeing a wounded Hare limp by me, which
a Fellow had just shot at, ..
148
Lines written with a Pencil, over the Chimney-piece,
in the Parlor of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth, 149
Lines written with a Pencil, standing by the Fall of
Fyers, near Loch-Ness,.
150
Pago
To Miss — with Beattie's Poems, as a New-Year's
Gift, January 1, 1787,......
153
Verses to a Young Lady, with a Present of Songs, .... 153
Verses written on the blank Leaf of a Copy of his
Poems, presented to a Lady, whom he had
often celebrated under the Name of Chloris, ... 154
To a Young Lady, Miss Jessy - Dumfries, with
Books which the Bard presented her, ......... 155
Verses written on the blank Leaf of a Copy of his
Poems, presented to an old Sweetheart, then
married,
156
To J. S****
156
Epistle to Davie, a brother Poet,.
162
To the Same,
168
Epistle to J. Lapraik,
170
To the Same,
174
To W. S*****n,
Epistle to J. R.******, enclosing some Poems,. 185
To Dr. Blacklock,
188
To Colonel De Peyster, ...
190
Letter to J-ST- -t Gl-nc-r,.
To Mr. Mitchell,
194
To the Guidwife of Wauchope-House, in Answer to
an Epistle she had sent the Author, ..... 196
To J. Ranken, on his writing to the Author that a
Giri was with Child by him,.
198
Address to an Illegitimate Child,..
199
Tc a Tailor, in Answer to an Epistle which he had
sent the Author,.
... 200
To Mr. William Tytler, with a Portrait of the
Author,
203
Epistle to R. Graham, Esq., of Fintra,
204
To the Same,...
207
To the Same, on receiving a Favor,
210
To a Gentleman whom the Author had offended..... 211
Page
To a Gentleman who had sent him a Newspaper, and
offered to continue it free of Expense,
212
Sketch, to Mrs. Dunlop, on a New-Year's Day,...... 213
The Auld Farmer's New-Year Morning Salutation to
his Auld Mare, Maggie, ......
215
The Death and dying Words of Poor Mailie, the Au-
thor's only pet Yowe,
219
Poor Mailie's Elegy,
221
Tam O'Shanter,..
224
Halloween, .
232
The Jolly Beggars,..
243
Death and Dr. Hornbook,.
257
A Dream, ....
264
Scotch Drink,
269
The Author's earnest Cry and Prayer to the Scotch
Representatives in the House of Commons,.... 274
Address to the Deil,..
281
On the late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations through
Scotland, collecting the Antiquities of that
Kingdom, ..
285
Lines written in a Wrapper, enclosing a Letter to
Captain Grose, .....
288
Epigram, on Captain Grose,.
Lines, on an Interview with Lord Daer,..
290
The Inventory,.....
291
To a Louse, on seeing one on a Lady's Bonnet, at
Church,
Address to the Tooth-Ache, .
296
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