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CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
BOOK IV.
HUMOROUS, SATIRICAL, EPIGRAMMATICAL,
AND MISCELLANEOUS..
Page.
Pam o'Shanter
11
Halloween.
20
The Jolly Beggars
32
Death and Dr. Hornbook.
44
A Dream
51,
Scotch Drink
56
The Author's earnest Cry and Prayer
60
Address to the Deil.
67
On the late Captain Grose's Peregrinations
through Scotland, collecting the Antiquities
of that Kingdom Lines, written in"a Wrapper, enclosing a Let-
ter to Captain Grose . Epigram on Captain Grosé
teous.
112
Lines on an Interview with Lord Daer
76
The Inventory
77
To a Louse, on seeing one on a Lady's Bonnet
at Church
80
Address
to the Toothache
82
To a Haggis
83
The Holy Fair
The Ordination
93
Address to the unco Guid, or the rigidly Righ-
98
The twa Herds
100
The Calf .
104
Holy Willie's Prayer
105
Epitaph on Holy Willie
108
The Kirk's Alarm
109
Letter to John Goudie, Kilmarnoek
A Dedication, to Gavin Hamilton, Esq. 114
Lines addressed to Mr. John Ranken
118
Lines, written by Burns, while on his Death-
bed to the same
119
Extempore on the late Mr. William Smellie 119
-to Mr. S**e, on refusing to dine with
him, after having been promised the first of
Company, and the first of Cookery
120
---to Mr. S**e, with a Present of a Do-
zen of Porter.
121
-written in answer to a Card from an
Intimate of the Author, inviting him to spend
an hour at a Tavern
-written in a Lady's Pocket-Book. 121
Lines on Miss J. Scott, of Ayr.
122
-on being asked, why God had made Miss
Davis so little, and Mrs.*** so large
--written under the Picture of the celebrated
Miss Purns
.
ron
Lines written and presented to Mrs. Kemble, on
seeing her in the Character of Yarico 123
-written on Windows of the Globe Tavern,
Dumfries
123
-written
on a window, at the King's Arms
Tavern, Dumfries
124
A Verse, presented by the Author to the Mas-
ter of a House, at a place in the Highlands,
where he had been hospitably entertained . 125
Epigram on the Neglect of an Ion-keeper. 125
-on Elphinstone's Translation of Mar-
tial's Epigrams
126
Verses written on a Window of the Inn at Car-
Epitaph on a celebrated ruling Elder
on a noisy Polemic
127
-on wee Johnny.
-for G. H. Esq.-.
on a Wag in Mauchline.
on John Dove, Inn-keeper, Mauchline 128
on Walter S.
128
on a heppecked Country Squire 129
Epigram on said Occasion
129
Another
On the Death of a Lap-dog, named Echo. 130
Impromptu on Mrs.
's Birth-day
130
Monody on a Lady famed for her Caprice. 131
The Epitaph
132
Ode, sacred to the Memory of Mrs. of 132
The henpecked Husband
133
Elegy on the Year 1788
134
Tam Sampson's Elegy
136
The Epitaph.
139
Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson .
140
143
On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies.
146
On Pastoral Poetry
Prologue, spoken at the Theatre, Eliisland, on
New-Year's Day Evening
148
-spoken by Mr. Woods, on his Benefit
Night
150
The Rights of Woman, an occasional Address
spoken by Miss Fontenelle, on her Benefit
151
Address, spoken by Miss Fontenelle, on her
Benefit-Night, at the Theatre Dumfries
153
Fragment, inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J.
Fox
154
Inscription for an Altar to Independence 156
Address to Edinburgh
157
BOOK V.
SONGS AND BALLADS.
A Vision
161
Bannockburn. Bruce's Address to his Army 163
Song of Deatli
164
Imitation of an old Jacobite Song
165
The lovely Lass of Inverness
166
The absent Warrior.--"O Logan, sweetly didst
thou glide".
The Warrior's Return. When wild waa's
deadly blast was blawn"
168
The Intreaty.-"Let me in this ae night" 173
The Answer..."O tell na me o' wind and rain" 174
167
185
The forlorn Lover.-"Forlorn, my love, no
comfort near"
175
The dreary Night
176
Poortith cauld
177
Clarinda
178
Isabella.--" Raving winds around her blowing' 179
Wandering Willie
179
The parting Kiss
180
The roaring Ocean
181
Fair Eliza.--" Turn again thou fair Eliza" 182
Eliza.--" Farewell thou stream that winding
flows"
183
Departure of Nancy
184
My Nannie's awa
Gloomy December
186
The Braes o' Ballochmyle
187
Lord Gregory
171 Open the door to me, oh!
172
Banks o' Doon
188
Cragie-burn
189
The cheerless Soul... Again rejoicing nature
sees"
190
The Disconsolate Lover...". Now spring has
clad the groves in green”
191
Mary Morrison
193
Fair Jenny.--" Where are the joys I have met
in the morning'
194
Address to the Woodlark
195
Fragment in Whitherspoon's Collection of
Scots Songs
196
Address to a Lady
197
The auld Man
198
John Anderson my jo
Auld lang syne
199
Hopeless Love.--" Blithe hae I been on yon
hill”
200