BY

ROBERT BURNS:

WITH

AN ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE,

And Miscellaneous

REMARKS ON HIS WRITING S.

Containing also

MANY POEMS AND LETTERS,

Not printed in

DOCTOR CURRIE'S EDITION.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

“ 'Neath the green tuxt, dear Nature's Child;'

Sublime, pathetic, artless, wisi,
Of all thy quips and cranks despoird,

Cold dost fagy-lie!..
And many a Youth and Maiden mild,

Shall o'er thee sigh !”

RUSHTON.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR THE TRUSTEES OF THE LATE JAMES MORISON,

BY JOIN MOIR, ROYAL BANK CLOSE.

CONTENTS.

VOL. II.

Tam o' Shanter. A Tale

Verses addressed to Miss Cruickshanks
On the Death of John M‘Leod, Esq.
The Hàmble Petition of Bruar Water
On scaring some Water Fowl on Loch-Turit
Written at the Inn at Taymouth

at the Fall of Fyers

On the Birth of a Posthumous Child

The Whistle. A Ballad.

Second Epistle of Davie, a Brother. Poet

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SONGS.

Song 1. “ It was upon a Lammas night”

Song 2.“ Now westlin winds and slaughtring guns" 46

Song 3.

Behind

yon hills where Stinchar flows”. 49

Song 4. “ Green grow the rashes O"

52

Song 5.“ Again rejoicing Nature sees"

54

Song 6. “ The gloomy night, is gathering jast 57

Song 7. “ From thee, Eliza, Eraust go".

59

Song 9. “The Farewel to the Brethren of St James's

Lodge, Tarbolton".

60

Song 10. “ No Churchman am I for to ret! and tć write" 62

Song 11, “Anna, thy charms my bosom fire"

65

Song 12. “ Here awa', there awa', wandering Willie” 66

Song 13. “ Braw, braw lads on Yarrow braes”

Song 14. “There's auld Rob Morris,” &c.

69

Song 15. “Oh, open the door, some pity to shero" 71

Song 16. “ When wild War's deadly blast was blawn” 72

Song 17. “O stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay” . 76

Song 18. “ Here is the glen, and here the bower”)

Song 19, “ The day returns, my bosom burns"

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Song 20.

66 O were I

on Parnassus' hills

79

Song 21. “How lang and dreary is the night" 81

Song 22. “ Bonny lassie, will ye go, will ye go,” &c. 83

Song 23. “ Stay, my charmer, can you leave me" 85

Song 24. “ Thickest night o'erhang my dwelling” 86

Song 25. “Loud blaw the frosty breezes"

88

Song 26.“ Raving winds around me blowing” 90

Song 27. “ Musing on the roaring ocean”

92

Song 28. “Blythe, blythe, and merry was she" 94

Song 29. “A rose-bud by my early walk”

96

Song 30. When braving angry winter's storm” 98

Song 31. “O Tibbie, I ha'e seen the day"

100

Song 32. “ Clarinda, mistress of my soul ”

103

Song 33. “ The lazy mist hangs from the brow of the hill”105

Song 34. “ Of a'the airts the wind can blaw"

107

Song 35. “ The Catrine woods were yellow seen” 109

Song 36. O Willie brew'd a peck o' maut"

111

Song 37. “ I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen"

113

Song 38. “ The Thames flows proudly to the sea'' 115

Song 39. “ John Anderson my jo, John”

117

Song. 40: ".Dy heart is a-breaking, deur tittie" 121

Song 10^melle ihirko:my love o' my beauty” 124

Song 42°?? Gane is the day, and mirk's the night' 126

Song 49..? Wira com a young lassie, what shall a

young låssie"

128

Song 44:*** Bonude zee:thing, cannie wee thing” 130

Song 45. “ An för are and twentie, Tam”

131

Song 46. “ O leeze me on my spinnin wheel” V 133

Song 47. “ In summer, when the hay was mawn" 135

Song 48. “Turn again, thou fair Eliza ”

138

Song 49.

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