WORKS

OF

ROBERT BURNS;

WITH

HIS LIFE,

BY

ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.

"HIGH CHIEF of Scottish Song
That could'st alternately impart
Wisdom and rapture in thy page,
And brand each vice with satire strong;
Whose lines are mottoes of the heart,

Whose truths electrify the sage."

CAMPBELL

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

JAMES COCHRANE AND CO.

11, WATERLOO PLACE.

1834.

[Those Pieces thus marked, appear for the first time in an
edition of Burns' Works.]

ADDRESS TO EDINBURGH.

LINES ON MEETING LORD DAER

*EPISTLE TO MAJOR LOGAN

THE BRIGS OF AYR........

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WRITTEN IN A COPY OF HIS POEMS....

*ON THE DEATH OF DUNDAS OF ARNISTON

ON THE DEATH OF JOHN M'LEOD.......

TO MISS LOGAN, WITH BEATTIE'S POEMS

THE AMERICAN WAR; A FRAGMENT.

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37

40

42

44

4.5

46

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51

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62

THE DEAN OF FACULTY; A NEW BALLAD........
TO A LADY, WITH A PAIR OF DRINKING-GLASSES....
CLARINDA...................

WRITTEN UNDER THE PORTRAIT OF FERGUSSON
SKETCH OF A CHARACTER

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To MRS. SCOTT, OF WAUCHOPE

EPISTLE TO WILLIAM CREECH.....

HUMBLE PETITION OF BRUAR WATER.

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ON SCARING WATER-FOWL IN LOCH TURIT...........

WRITTEN IN AN INN AT KENMORE, TAYMOUTH

WRITTEN AT THE FALL OF FYERS.....

To Wм. TYTLER, OF WOODHOUSELEE...

*ON FRIARS'-CARSE HERMITAGE (first copy)................ 73

ON FRIARS'-CARSE HERMITAGE (second copy).

TO CAPTAIN RIDDEL, ON RETURNING A NEWSPAPER 80

A MOTHER'S LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF HER SON..

EPISTLE TO GRAHAM, OF FINTRAY..

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82

83

ON THE DEATH OF SIR JAMES HUNTER BLAIR...

*EPISTLE TO HUGH PARKER ...........................................

ELEGY ON THE YEAR 1788...................................................................

ADDRESS TO THE TOOTH-ACHE............................................

ODE TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. OSWALD................

FRAGMENT, INSCRIBED TO CHARLES FOX.........

ON A WOUNDED HARE....

TO DR. BLACKLOCK.........................

DELIA, AN ODE

PROLOGUE SPOKEN AT THE DUMFRIES THEATRE...... 115

SCOTS PROLOGUE FOR MR. SUTHERLAND'S BENEFIT 118

SKETCH.-NEW YEAR'S DAY......

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