Romantic

Robert Burns

1759–1796

Poems (555)

1. Holy Willie’s Prayer
2. To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785
3. The Cotter’s Saturday Night
4. To a Louse, on Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet, at Church
5. Auld Lang Syne
6. Tam O’ Shanter: A Tale
7. A Red, Red Rose
8. Handsome Nell
9. O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The Day
10. I Dream’d I Lay
11. In The Character Of A Ruined Farmer
12. Tragic Fragment
13. The Tarbolton Lasses
14. Ah, Woe Is Me, My Mother Dear
15. Montgomerie’s Peggy
16. The Ploughman’s Life
17. The Ronalds Of The Bennals
18. Here’s To Thy Health
19. The Lass Of Cessnock Banks
20. Bonie Peggy Alison
21. Mary Morison
22. Winter: A Dirge
23. Prayer, Under The Pressure Of Violent Anguish
24. Paraphrase Of The First Psalm
25. The First Six Verses Of The Ninetieth Psalm Versified
26. Prayer, In The Prospect Of Death
27. Stanzas, On The Same Occasion
28. Fickle Fortune: A Fragment
29. Raging Fortune—Fragment Of Song
30. Impromptu—“I’ll Go And Be A Sodger”
31. “No Churchman Am I”
32. A Stanza Added In A Mason Lodge
33. My Father Was A Farmer
34. John Barleycorn: A Ballad
35. The Death And Dying Words Of Poor Mailie, The Author’s Only Pet Yowe
36. Poor Mailie’s Elegy
37. The Rigs O’ Barley
38. Song Composed In August
39. My Nanie, O
40. Green Grow The Rashes
41. Wha Is That At My Bower-Door
42. Remorse: A Fragment
43. Epitaph On Wm. Hood, Senr., In Tarbolton
44. Epitaph On James Grieve, Laird Of Boghead, Tarbolton
45. Epitaph On My Own Friend And My Father’s Friend, Wm. Muir In Tarbolton Mill
46. Epitaph On My Ever Honoured Father
47. Ballad On The American War
48. Reply To An Announcement By J. Rankine On His Writing To The Poet, That A Girl In That Part Of The Country Was With A Child To Him
49. Epistle To John Rankine
50. A Poet’s Welcome To His Love-Begotten Daughter
51. O Leave Novels
52. Fragment—The Mauchline Lady
53. Fragment—My Girl She’s Airy
54. The Belles Of Mauchline
55. Epitaph On A Noisy Polemic
56. Epitaph On A Henpecked Country Squire
57. Epigram On The Said Occasion
58. Another On The Said Occasion
59. On Tam The Chapman
60. Epitaph On John Rankine
61. Lines On The Author’s Death
62. Man Was Made To Mourn: A Dirge
63. The Twa Herds; Or, The Holy Tulyie
64. Epistle To Davie, A Brother Poet
65. Epitaph On Holy Willie
66. Death and Doctor Hornbook
67. Epistle To J. Lapraik, An Old Scottish Bard
68. Second Epistle To J. Lapraik
69. Epistle To William Simson
70. One Night As I Did Wander
71. Tho’ Cruel Fate Should Bid Us Part
72. Rantin’, Rovin’ Robin
73. Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux
74. Epistle To John Goldie, In Kilmarnock
75. The Holy Fair
76. Third Epistle To J. Lapraik
77. Epistle To The Rev. John M’math
78. Second Epistle to Davie
79. Young Peggy Blooms
80. Farewell To Ballochmyle
81. Fragment—Her Flowing Locks
82. Halloween
83. Epitaph On John Dove, Innkeeper
84. Epitaph For James Smith
85. Adam Armour’s Prayer
86. The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata
87. For A’ That
88. Merry Hae I Been Teethin A Heckle
89. Address To The Deil
90. Scotch Drink
91. The Auld Farmer’s New-Year-Morning Salutation To His Auld Mare, Maggie
92. The Twa Dogs
93. The Author’s Earnest Cry And Prayer
94. The Ordination
95. Epistle To James Smith
96. The Vision
97. Suppressed Stanza’s Of “The Vision”
98. Address To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly Righteous
99. The Inventory
100. To John Kennedy, Dumfries House
101. To Mr. M’Adam, Of Craigen-Gillan
102. Inscribed On A Work Of Hannah More’s
103. Song, Composed In Spring
104. To A Mountain Daisy
105. To Ruin
106. The Lament
107. Despondency: An Ode
108. To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline
109. Versified Reply To An Invitation
110. Will Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary?
111. My Highland Lassie, O
112. Epistle To A Young Friend
113. Address Of Beelzebub
114. A Dream
115. A Dedication
116. Versified Note To Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchline
117. The Farewell To the Brethren of St. James’ Lodge, Tarbolton
118. On A Scotch Bard, Gone To The West Indies
119. Farewell To Eliza
120. A Bard’s Epitaph
121. Epitaph On “Wee Johnie”
122. The Lass O’ Ballochmyle
123. Lines To An Old Sweetheart
124. Motto Prefixed To The Author’s First Publication
125. Lines To Mr. John Kennedy
126. Lines Written On A Banknote
127. Stanzas On Naething
128. The Farewell
129. The Calf
130. Nature’s Law—A Poem
131. Willie Chalmers
132. Reply To A Trimming Epistle Received From A Tailor
133. The Brigs Of Ayr
134. Fragment Of Song
135. Epigram On Rough Roads
136. Prayer—O Thou Dread Power
137. Farewell Song To The Banks Of Ayr
138. Address To The Toothache
139. Lines On Meeting With Lord Daer
140. Masonic Song
141. Tam Samson’s Elegy
142. Epistle To Major Logan
143. Fragment On Sensibility
144. A Winter Night
145. Yon Wild Mossy Mountains
146. Address To Edinburgh
147. Address To A Haggis
148. To Miss Logan, With Beattie’s Poems, For A New-Year’s Gift, Jan. 1, 1787
149. Mr. William Smellie—A Sketch
150. Rattlin’, Roarin’ Willie
151. Bonie Dundee
152. Extempore In The Court Of Session
153. Inscription For The Headstone Of Fergusson The Poet
154. Epistle To Mrs. Scott
155. Verses Intended To Be Written Below A Noble Earl’s Picture
156. Prologue
157. The Bonie Moor-Hen
158. My Lord A-Hunting
159. Epigram At Roslin Inn
160. Epigram Addressed To An Artist
161. The Book-Worms
162. On Elphinstone’s Translation Of Martial’s Epigrams
163. A Bottle And Friend
164. Lines Written Under The Picture Of The Celebrated Miss Burns
165. Epitaph For William Nicol, Of The High School, Edinburgh
166. Epitaph For Mr. William Michie
167. Hey, Ca’ Thro’
168. Address To Wm. Tytler, Esq., Of Woodhouselee
169. Epigram To Miss Ainslie In Church
170. Burlesque Lament For The Absence Of William Creech, Publisher
171. Note To Mr. Renton Of Lamerton
172. Elegy On “Stella”
173. The Bard At Inverary
174. Epigram To Miss Jean Scott
175. On The Death Of John M’Leod, Esq
176. Elegy On The Death Of Sir James Hunter Blair
177. Impromptu On Carron Iron Works
178. To Miss Ferrier
179. Written By Somebody On The Window Of An Inn At Stirling
180. The Poet’s Reply To The Threat Of A Censorious Critic
181. The Libeller’s Self-Reproof
182. Verses Written With A Pencil
183. The Birks Of Aberfeldy
184. The Humble Petition Of Bruar Water
185. Lines On The Fall Of Fyers Near Loch-Ness
186. Epigram On Parting With A Kind Host In The Highlands
187. Strathallan’s Lament
188. Castle Gordon
189. Lady Onlie, Honest Lucky
190. Theniel Menzies’ Bonie Mary
191. The Bonie Lass Of Albany
192. On Scaring Some Water-Fowl In Loch-Turit
193. Blythe Was She
194. A Rose-Bud By My Early Walk
195. Epitaph For Mr. W. Cruikshank
196. The Banks Of The Devon
197. Braving Angry Winter’s Storms
198. My Peggy’s Charms
199. The Young Highland Rover
200. Birthday Ode For 31st December, 1787
201. On The Death Of Robert Dundas, Esq., Of Arniston
202. Sylvander To Clarinda
203. Love In The Guise Of Friendship
204. Go On, Sweet Bird, And Sooth My Care
205. Clarinda, Mistress Of My Soul
206. I’m O’er Young To Marry Yet
207. To The Weavers Gin Ye Go
208. M’Pherson’s Farewell
209. Stay My Charmer
210. My Hoggie
211. Raving Winds Around Her Blowing
212. Up In The Morning Early
213. How Long And Dreary Is The Night
214. Hey, The Dusty Miller
215. Duncan Davison
216. The Lad They Ca’Jumpin John
217. Talk Of Him That’s Far Awa
218. To Daunton Me
219. The Winter It Is Past
220. The Bonie Lad That’s Far Awa
221. Verses To Clarinda
222. The Chevalier’s Lament
223. Epistle To Hugh Parker
224. Of A’ The Airts The Wind Can Blaw
225. I Hae a Wife O’ My Ain
226. Lines Written In Friars’-Carse Hermitage
227. To Alex. Cunningham, ESQ., Writer
228. Anna, Thy Charms
229. The Fete Champetre
230. Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintry
231. The Day Returns
232. O, Were I On Parnassus Hill
233. A Mother’s Lament
234. The Fall Of The Leaf
235. I Reign In Jeanie’s Bosom
236. It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonie Face
237. My Bonie Mary
238. The Parting Kiss
239. Written In Friar’s-Carse Hermitage
240. The Poet’s Progress
241. Elegy On The Year 1788
242. The Henpecked Husband
243. Versicles On Sign-Posts
244. Robin Shure In Hairst
245. Ode, Sacred To The Memory Of Mrs. Oswald Of Auchencruive
246. Pegasus At Wanlockhead
247. Sappho Redivivus—A Fragment
248. She’s Fair And Fause
249. Impromptu Lines To Captain Riddell
250. Lines To John M’Murdo, Esq. Of Drumlanrig
251. Rhyming Reply To A Note From Captain Riddell
252. Caledonia—A Ballad
253. To Miss Cruickshank
254. Beware O’ Bonie Ann
255. Ode On The Departed Regency Bill
256. Epistle To James Tennant Of Glenconner
257. A New Psalm For The Chapel Of Kilmarnock
258. Sketch In Verse
259. The Wounded Hare
260. Delia, An Ode
261. The Gard’ner Wi’ His Paidle
262. On A Bank Of Flowers
263. Young Jockie Was The Blythest Lad
264. The Banks Of Nith
265. Jamie, Come Try Me
266. I Love My Love In Secret
267. Sweet Tibbie Dunbar
268. The Captain’s Lady
269. John Anderson, My Jo
270. My Love, She’s But A Lassie Yet
271. Tam Glen
272. Carle, An The King Come
273. The Laddie’s Dear Sel’
274. Whistle O’er The Lave O’t
275. My Eppie Adair
276. On The Late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations Thro’ Scotland
277. Epigram On Francis Grose The Antiquary
278. The Kirk Of Scotland’s Alarm
279. Presentation Stanzas To Correspondents
280. Sonnet On Receiving A Favour
281. Extemporaneous Effusion
282. Willie Brew’d A Peck O’ Maut
283. Ca’ The Yowes To The Knowes
284. I Gaed A Waefu’ Gate Yestreen
285. Highland Harry Back Again
286. The Battle Of Sherramuir
287. The Braes O’ Killiecrankie
288. Awa’ Whigs, Awa’
289. A Waukrife Minnie
290. The Captive Ribband
291. My Heart’s In The Highlands
292. The Whistle—A Ballad
293. To Mary In Heaven
294. Epistle To Dr. Blacklock
295. The Five Carlins
296. Election Ballad For Westerha’
297. Prologue Spoken At The Theatre Of Dumfries
298. Sketch—New Year’s Day [1790]
299. Scots’ Prologue For Mr. Sutherland
300. Lines To A Gentleman
301. Elegy On Willie Nicol’s Mare
302. The Gowden Locks Of Anna
303. I Murder Hate
304. Gudewife, Count The Lawin
305. Election Ballad
306. Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson
307. Verses On Captain Grose
308. On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child
309. Elegy On The Late Miss Burnet Of Monboddo
310. Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring
311. There’ll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame
312. Out Over The Forth
313. The Banks O’ Doon—First Version
314. The Banks O’ Doon—Second Version
315. The Banks O’ Doon—Third Version
316. Lament For James, Earl Of Glencairn
317. Lines Sent To Sir John Whiteford, Bart
318. Craigieburn Wood
319. The Bonie Wee Thing
320. Epigram On Miss Davies
321. The Charms Of Lovely Davies
322. What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi’ An Auld Man
323. The Posie
324. On Glenriddell’s Fox Breaking His Chain
325. Poem On Pastoral Poetry
326. Verses On The Destruction Of The Woods Near Drumlanrig
327. The Gallant Weaver
328. Epigram At Brownhill Inn
329. Lovely Polly Stewart
330. Fragment,—Damon And Sylvia
331. Johnie Lad, Cock Up Your Beaver
332. My Eppie Macnab
333. Altho’ He Has Left Me
334. My Tocher’s The Jewel
335. O For Ane An’ Twenty, Tam
336. Thou Fair Eliza
337. My Bonie Bell
338. Sweet Afton
339. Address To The Shade Of Thomson
340. Nithsdale’s Welcome Hame
341. Frae The Friends And Land I Love
342. Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation
343. Ye Jacobites By Name
344. I Hae Been At Crookieden
345. O Kenmure’s On And Awa, Willie
346. Epistle To John Maxwell, ESQ., Of Terraughty
347. Second Epistle To Robert Graham, ESQ., Of Fintry
348. The Song Of Death
349. Poem On Sensibility
350. The Toadeater
351. Divine Service In The Kirk Of Lamington
352. The Keekin’-Glass
353. A Grace Before Dinner, Extempore
354. A Grace After Dinner, Extempore
355. O May, Thy Morn
356. Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever
357. Behold The Hour, The Boat, Arrive
358. Thou Gloomy December
359. My Native Land Sae Far Awa
360. I do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair
361. Lines On Fergusson, The Poet
362. The Weary Pund O’ Tow
363. When She Cam’ Ben She Bobbed
364. Scroggam, My Dearie
365. My Collier Laddie
366. Sic A Wife As Willie Had
367. Lady Mary Ann
368. Kellyburn Braes
369. The Slave’s Lament
370. O Can Ye Labour Lea?
371. The Deuks Dang O’er My Daddie
372. The Deil’s Awa Wi’ The Exciseman
373. The Country Lass
374. Bessy And Her Spinnin’ Wheel
375. Love For Love
376. Saw Ye Bonie Lesley
377. Fragment Of Song
378. I’ll Meet Thee On The Lea Rig
379. My Wife’s A Winsome Wee Thing
380. Highland Mary
381. Auld Rob Morris
382. The Rights Of Woman
383. Epigram On Seeing Miss Fontenelle In A Favourite Character
384. Extempore On Some Commemorations Of Thomson
385. Duncan Gray
386. Here’s A Health To Them That’s Awa
387. A Tippling Ballad
388. Poortith Cauld And Restless Love
389. On Politics
390. Braw Lads O’ Galla Water
391. Sonnet Written On The Author’s Birthday
392. Wandering Willie—First Version
393. Wandering Willie—Revised Version
394. Lord Gregory
395. Open The Door To Me, Oh
396. Lovely Young Jessie
397. Meg O’ The Mill
398. Meg O’ The Mill—Another Version
399. The Soldier’s Return
400. The True Loyal Natives
401. On Commissary Goldie’s Brains
402. Lines Inscribed In A Lady’s Pocket Almanac
403. Thanksgiving For A National Victory
404. Lines On The Commemoration Of Rodney’s Victory
405. The Raptures Of Folly
406. Kirk and State Excisemen
407. Extempore Reply To An Invitation
408. Grace After Meat
409. Grace Before And After Meat
410. Impromptu On General Dumourier’s Desertion From The French Republican Army
411. The Last Time I Came O’er The Moor
412. Logan Braes
413. Blythe Hae I been On Yon Hill
414. O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair
415. Bonie Jean—A Ballad
416. Lines On John M’Murdo, ESQ
417. Epitaph On A Lap-Dog
418. Epigrams Against The Earl Of Galloway
419. Epigram On The Laird Of Laggan
420. Phillis The Fair
421. Had I A Cave
422. By Allan Stream
423. Whistle, And I’ll Come To You, My Lad
424. Phillis The Queen O’ The Fair
425. Come, Let Me Take Thee To My Breast
426. Dainty Davie
427. Robert Bruce’s March To Bannockburn
428. Behold The Hour, The Boat Arrive
429. Down The Burn, Davie
430. Thou Hast Left Me Ever, Jamie
431. Where Are The Joys I have Met?
432. Deluded Swain, The Pleasure
433. Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair
434. On Mrs. Riddell’s Birthday
435. My Spouse Nancy
436. Address
437. Complimentary Epigram On Maria Riddell
438. Remorseful Apology
439. Wilt Thou Be My Dearie?
440. A Fiddler In The North
441. The Minstrel At Lincluden
442. A Vision
443. Young Jamie, Pride Of A’ The Plain
444. The Flowery Banks Of Cree
445. Monody
446. Pinned To Mrs. Walter Riddell’s Carriage
447. Epitaph For Mr. Walter Riddell
448. Epistle From Esopus To Maria
449. Epitaph On A Noted Coxcomb
450. On Capt. Lascelles
451. On Wm. Graham, Esq., Of Mossknowe
452. On John Bushby, Esq., Tinwald Downs
453. Sonnet On The Death Of Robert Riddell
454. The Lovely Lass O’ Inverness
455. Charlie, He’s My Darling
456. Bannocks O’ Bear Meal
457. The Highland Balou
458. The Highland Widow’s Lament
459. It Was A’ For Our Rightfu’ King
460. Ode For General Washington’s Birthday
461. Inscription To Miss Graham Of Fintry
462. On The Seas And Far Away
463. Ca’ The Yowes To The Knowes—Second Version
464. She Says She Loes Me Best Of A’
465. To Dr. Maxwell
466. To The Beautiful Miss Eliza J—N
467. On Chloris
468. On Seeing Mrs. Kemble In Yarico
469. Epigram On A Country Laird, Not Quite So Wise As Solomon
470. On Being Shewn A Beautiful Country Seat
471. On Hearing It Asserted Falsehood Is Expressed In The Rev. Dr. Babington’s Very Looks
472. On A Suicide
473. On A Swearing Coxcomb
474. On An Innkeeper Nicknamed “The Marquis”
475. On Andrew Turner
476. Pretty Peg
477. Esteem For Chloris
478. Saw Ye My Dear, My Philly
479. How Lang And Dreary Is The Night
480. Inconstancy In Love
481. The Lover’s Morning Salute To His Mistress
482. The Winter Of Life
483. Behold, My Love, How Green The Groves
484. The Charming Month Of May
485. Lassie Wi’ The Lint-White Locks
486. Dialogue song—Philly And Willy
487. Contented Wi’ Little And Cantie Wi’ Mair
488. Farewell Thou Stream
489. Canst Thou Leave Me Thus, My Katie
490. My Nanie’s Awa
491. The Tear-Drop
492. For The Sake O’ Somebody
493. A Man’s A Man For A’ That
494. Craigieburn Wood
495. The Solemn League And Covenant
496. Lines sent with a Present of a Dozen of Porter
497. Inscription On A Goblet
498. Apology For Declining An Invitation To Dine
499. Epitaph For Mr. Gabriel Richardson
500. Epigram On Mr. James Gracie
501. Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay
502. Inscription At Friars’ Carse Hermitage
503. There Was A Bonie Lass
504. Wee Willie Gray
505. O Aye My Wife She Dang Me
506. Gude Ale Keeps The Heart Aboon
507. O Steer Her Up An’ Haud Her Gaun
508. The Lass O’ Ecclefechan
509. O Let Me In Thes Ae Night
510. Her Answer
511. I’ll Aye Ca’ In By Yon Town
512. O Wat Ye Wha’s In Yon Town
513. Ballads on Mr. Heron’s Election, 1795
514. Inscription For An Altar Of Independence
515. The Cardin O’t, The Spinnin O’t
516. The Cooper O’ Cuddy
517. The Lass That Made The Bed To Me
518. Had I The Wyte? She Bade Me
519. Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?
520. Address To The Woodlark
521. On Chloris Being Ill
522. How Cruel Are The Parents
523. Mark Yonder Pomp Of Costly Fashion
524. ’Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E’e
525. Their Groves O’Sweet Myrtle
526. Forlorn, My Love, No Comfort Near
527. Fragment,—Why, Why Tell The Lover
528. The Braw Wooer
529. This Is No My Ain Lassie
530. O Bonie Was Yon Rosy Brier
531. Song Inscribed To Alexander Cunningham
532. O That’s The Lassie O’ My Heart
533. Inscription
534. Fragment.—Leezie Lindsay
535. Fragment.—The Wren’s Nest
536. News, Lassies, News
537. Crowdie Ever Mair
538. Mally’s Meek, Mally’s Sweet
539. Jockey’s Taen The Parting Kiss
540. Verses To Collector Mitchell
541. The Dean Of Faculty
542. Epistle To Colonel De Peyster
543. A Lass Wi’ A Tocher
544. Heron Election Ballad, No. IV
545. Complimentary Versicles To Jessie Lewars
546. O Lay Thy Loof In Mine, Lass
547. A Health To Ane I Loe Dear
548. O Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast
549. Inscription To Miss Jessy Lewars
550. Fairest Maid On Devon Banks
551. The Poet's Choice
552. On Grizzel Grim
553. Epitaph on W---
554. Last May a Braw Wooer
555. Comin’ Through the Rye

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