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The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer to the Scotch Representatives in
the House of Commons.
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To a Mouse..
To a Posthumous Child, born in peculiar circumstances of distress
To a Mountain Daisy..
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Lines on scaring some Water-Fowl in Loch Turit.
Sonnet, written January 25, 1793, the birth-day of the Author..
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Verses on seeing a wounded hare limp by me, which a fellow had just
shot at
The Auld Farmer's New-Year morning salutation to his Auld Mare
Maggie.
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The Brigs of Ayr
168
Lines written with a pencil, standing by the Fall of Fyers, near Loch-
Ness
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Inscription for an altar to Independence..
Lines written with a pencil, over the chimney-piece, in the parlor of an
inn at Kenmore, Taymouth....
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On Pastoral Poetry
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On the late Captain Grose's Peregrinations through Scotland
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Verses written at Selkirk
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Liberty.-A Fragment
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The Vowels.-A Tale
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Sketch
Scots Prologue, for Mr. Sutherland's benefit-night, Dumfries..
Fragment, inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox
Prologue, spoken at the Theatre, Ellisland, on New-year Day Evening. 187
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Prologue, spoken by Mr. Woods, on his benefit-night
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Tragic Fragment
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Remorse.-A Fragment
190
Ode on the Birth-day of Prince Charles Edward..
191
Address, spoken by Miss Fontenelle
The Rights of Woman
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Verses written under the Portrait of Fergusson, the Poet.
194
The Henpecked Husband..
Lines on an Interview with Lord Daer.
A Prayer, left in a room of a Reverend Friend's house, where the Author
slept...
Verses written in Friar's Carse Hermitage on Nith-side
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The Lament, occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a Friend's amour.. 211
Lament, written when the Author was about to leave his native country 213
The Inventory: in answer to a mandate by Mr. Aiken, surveyor of
taxes..
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To J-s T-t. Gl-nc-r.
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To Gavin Hamilton, Esq..
To a Gentleman who had sent him a Newspaper, and offered to continue
it free of expense
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To the same.
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To Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintra.
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To the same..
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To the same, on receiving a favor..
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To an old Sweetheart, after her marriage with a present of a copy of his
Poems
280
To Miss Logan, with Beattie's Poems, as a New-year's Gift
To a Young Lady, Miss Jessy Lewars, Dumfries, with a present of Books 281
To a Young Lady, with a present of Songs.
281
To a Young Lady, with a present of a pair of Drinking-glasses
To Miss Cruickshanks, with a present of a Book
282
To a Lady, whom the Author had often celebrated under the name of
Chloris..
2S3
Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous
297
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The Twa Herds..
299
On the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair
On reading in a Newspaper the Death of John M Leod, Esq..
Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson..
- Epitaph
Tam Samson's Elegy.
The Epitaph.
On a Scottish Bard, gone to the West Indies..
Elegy on the year 1788.
Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux.
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Elegy on the Death of Peg Nicholson.
EPIGRAMS, ETC.
On Elphinstone's translation of Martial's Epigrams...
Extempore, written in a Lady's Pocket-Book.
Verses written on the Windows of the Globe Tavern, Dumfries.
Epigram on Captain Grose..
Extempore. in answer to an invitation to spend an hour at a Tavern..
Epigram, on his treatment at Inverary.
A verse presented to the Master of a House in the Highlands
The Toast, written on a glass tumbler, and presented to Miss Jessy Le-
Wars
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32S
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Lines written on a pane of glass in the Inn at Moffat..
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Lines written under the picture of the celebrated Miss Burns..
Lines presented to Mrs. Kemble
Lines written on a window at the King's Arms Tavern, Dumfries.
Verses written on a window of the Inn at Carron
333
To Dr. Maxwell...
Epigram on a Henpecked Country Squire
334
Another..
A Toast, on the Anniversary of Rodney's Victory.
Impromptu on Mrs. R-
The Loyal Natives' Verses..
Burns's Reply to the Loyal Natives
Extemporaneous Effusion on being appointed to the Excise
On seeing the beautiful seat of Lord G
On the same..
's Birth-day.
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To the same, on the Author being threatened with his resentment
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Extempore, in the Court of Session, on Lord A-te and Mr. Er-ne... 337
On hearing that there was falsehood in the Rev. Dr. B-'s very looks... 337
Extempore, on the late Mr. William Smellie...
Extempore, to Mr. Syme, on refusing to dine with him..
To Mr. S-e, with a present of a dozen of porter..
Lines addressed to Mr. John Rankine .
Lines written by Burns while on his death-bed.
MISCELLANEOUS PIECES LATELY COLLECTED.
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The Farewell..
Willie Chalmers
Epistle to Major Logan.
On the death of Robert Dundas, Esq...
Written in Friars-Carse Hermitage, on the banks of the Nith (from the
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Epistle to Robert Graham, of Fintray
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Address of Beelzebub to the President of the Highland Society.
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To John Taylor.....
593
Epistle from Esopus to Maria..
On seeing Miss Fontenelle in a favorite character
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To a Kiss....
601
Verses written under violent Grief, whilst he contemplated sailing to
Jamaica
Impromptu on Willie Stewart
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Written on a Pane of Glass on the occasion of a National Thanksgiving